'The Kardashians meets I’m Alan Partridge’

Keith Lemon may be fictional – but that doesn’t mean he can’t star in his own reality TV show.

ITV2 is to launch a series with the comedy character described as ‘a cross between Keeping Up With The Kardashians and I’m Alan Partridge’.

The show – which has the working title Lemon La Vida Loca – will follow Leigh Francis’s creation throughout a ‘hugely eventful year’ as he hosts his first ITV1 Saturday evening show and stars in his first film.

Lemon’s producer, Dan Baldwin of Talkback, called Francis a ‘comedy genuis’ and said Keith Lemon’s Lemonaid had proved a huge hit on the mainstream channel.

‘Taking Keith, who’s seen as rude and crude, and putting him on Saturday teatime is a bold step,’ he told Broadcast magazine. ‘But we’ve got more than three million viewers – Harry Hill didn’t get that until series four or five,

The character has previously featured in the reality show Keith Lemon’s Very Brilliant World Tour, which went pretty much unnoticed when it aired in 2008 – but that was before the huge success of Celebrity Juice.

Published: 17 May 2012