‘Love Island’ review: CBS offers tedious addition to reality dating tide, adapting hit UK series
CNNCNN — Seriously, “Love Island,” five nights a week of this – a “Bachelor in Paradise”/”Big Brother” love child? Yet CBS is testing that theory with “Love Island,” an unscripted series that made its debut Tuesday. “Love Island” arrives as programs with similar conceits have essentially started recycling, from Fox’s “Paradise Hotel,” to USA reviving one-time Fox sensation “Temptation Island” – a show built around whether committed couples can survive when having a menu of available singles to help rub suntan lotion on their backs. "Love Island" Timothy Kuratek/CBS Entertainment Executive producer David Eilenberg has described “Love Island” by saying that there’s “nothing quite like it,” which exhibits more of a gift for marketing than accuracy.