Drawers Off to return on Channel 4

14 December 2021

December 14th, 2021 – Drawers Off, the Broadcast Award-nominated Channel 4 Daytime show produced by MultiStory Media North, part of ITV Studios, and Motion Content Group, has been recommissioned for a second series.

Host Jenny Éclair will return with wit, warmth, artistic wisdom and time checks, as a brand new tranche of amateur artists pit their life drawing skills against each other in a bid to win the weekly cash prize.  

Literally, stripped across the week from Monday to Friday once again, this time around the artists will be drawing professional life models, enabling them to fully concentrate on producing portraits centered on the challenging, provocative, visually impactful and, of course, nude poses the models will create.

At the end of each episode, each artist’s portrait will be displayed in the gallery and judged by their fellow competitors who will score their rivals’ work out of 10, with the highest-scoring piece going into the winner’s gallery. At the end of the week, the artists will vote for their favourite of the five artworks in the gallery, with the winning artist taking home the prize.

Jo Street, Channel 4’s Head of Daytime and Features and Head of Hub, Glasgow, said: “Drawers Off is a perfect example of the sort of bold and mischievous ideas we want for C4 daytime. Bringing together a diverse bunch of passionate people to be their talented, fabulous selves is exactly the vibe we want for afternoons on Channel 4. Bring on the bare bits and brilliant paintings.”

Ceri Aston, Creative Director, MultiStory Media North, said: “We’re delighted to be dropping our drawers once again with the series that literally puts the ‘strip’ into ‘stripped across the week’.  We’ll be turning up the heat (as well as the heating) in series two and can’t wait to get started in the New Year.”

Martin Oxley, Head of Formats and Entertainment UK, Motion Content Group, adds: “There was a genuine sense of loss when we put our brushes in the pot at the end of Series One of Drawers Off, so we couldn’t be more delighted to get back in the art studio with Jenny to see the masterworks our new artists will pull together.”

Drawers Off is a 20 x 30’ series. It is commissioned for Channel 4 by Jo Street, Head of Daytime and Features, and Head of Hub, Glasgow. The executive producer for MultiStory Media North is Ceri Aston and Martin Oxley for Motion Content Group.

Drawers Off is among a growing number of new factual entertainment formats to be launched by Multistory Media North recently, including BBC One fashion makeover show You Are What You Wear and The Dubai Hustle currently in production for BBC3. These join Multistory North's weekly current affairs behemoth Tonight, now in its 22nd year.

Global distribution for Drawers Off is handled by ITV Studios.

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About MultiStory Media

MultiStory Media is an award-winning label producing programmes for numerous broadcasters across a broad range of genres, from entertainment to factual, current affairs to politics. With bases in London, Manchester and Cardiff, its shows include Come Dine With Me, All Star Musicals; 63 Up, Peston, The Martin Lewis Money Show, Models: Street to Catwalk and Paul O Grady’s For the Love of Dogs. MultiStory Media is part of ITV Studios.

About Motion Content Group: 

Motion Content Group funds, develops, produces and distributes both original and third-party premium content to create value and opportunities for its partners and advertisers.  Working with the world’s leading talent, producers and distributors Motion aims to support the editorial, creative and commercial requirements of over 200 networks and platforms.  Headquartered in London and Los Angeles, Motion currently operates in over 30 countries worldwide and has a broad range of award-winning programming distributed globally.  

Motion Content Group is part of GroupM, the world’s leading full-service media investment management operation, a WPP company.  

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