Join E4 for a summer staycation

21 July 2016

Over the next eight weeks E4 will celebrate the glorious balmy British summer with a bucket and spade full of jazz hands, tattoos on tour, and our favourite Made in Chelsea stars sunning it up in the South of France.

If this was not enough E4 is also offering viewers the chance to find a celebrity soul mate and head out on a date with one of six stars seeking true love. In Celebs Go Dating Joey Essex, Charlotte Crosby, Stephanie Pratt, Tyger Drew-Honey, Paisley Billings and Jack Jones will be expertly matched up with ordinary people, going on a series of dates each night for three weeks in the hope of finding true love.

Joining our dating celebrities will be fabulous favourites and some cool new offerings such as a brand new comedy series Wasted – which is about a gang of emotionally immature twentysomethings with carefree lives spending too much time together in one West Country village.

And Made in Chelsea returns with Made in Chelsea: South of France - a series about a gang of emotionally immature twentysomethings with carefree lives spending too much time together. Based in the exclusive resort of Cannes, London’s most glamorous gang will be spending the sunny months taking in the Riviera’s hot spots in style.

Stage School also shimmies onto our screens this summer, in which we follow the lives of the students and teachers at the prestigious D&B Academy of Performing Arts in Kent.

For more easily curable issues The Body Fixers help people with extreme, shocking and downright hilarious beauty and style fails can come to have their problems fixed by a team of top young professionals from the world of hair, health & beauty.

This year in addition to winning Broadcast Digital Channel of the Year, E4 share for 2016 to date stands at 2.00%, up +6% year-on-year and higher than this point in any previous year. E4 has also grown its prime time audience share by +4%. And it continues to attract a higher share of 16-34s than any other digital channel as well as BBC2 and Channel 5.

 

 

SUMMER ON E4

Celebs Go Dating

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After failing to find love in their celebrity circles lovelorn Charlotte Crosby, Joey Essex, Stephanie Pratt, Tyger Drew-Honey, You Tube’s Jack Jones, and Tattoo Fixers’ Paisley Billings will be matched and date ordinary people in the hope that they will have more success in matters of the heart.

E4 viewers who take a shine to our celebrities can apply now to take part but will only get selected for a date night if the expert’s think they have a real chance of being compatible. Dating agency owner Eden Blackman and matchmaker Nadia Essex will be looking to pair our single celebrities with prospective partners. The ultimate goal is that these talented bachelors and bachelorettes find a true love- at the end of the three weeks.

Cameras will capture all the action making sure that any outrageous flirting, awkward silences, lover’s tiffs and first kisses are caught on camera for viewers to see. There will be pre, during and post-date analysis which will be followed from start to finish – from making sure outfits are on point, last minute blind date nerves, through to postdate reactions and revelations.

 

Wasted

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Combine a gang of four twenty-something wasters, one West Country village and the ex-Lord of Winterfell and you’ve got Wasted. E4’s hilarious new comedy series, (6x30’), from triple BAFTA Award winning writing team James Lamont and Jon Foster (Cuckoo, Paddington, Amazing World of Gumball.) Lovable fantasy fanatic Morpheus, (Danny Kirrane- Trollied), manages a bong shop, (Stoned Henge) with his neurotic sister Sarah (Rose Reynolds-The World’s End). His secret crush is their mate Alison (Gwyneth Keyworth- Game of Thrones), the quirky girl who runs a tattoo business out the back of the shop, and his cocky best friend Kent (Dylan Edwards-The Job Lot) sleeps on the sofa, rent free. Together they’ve been living in each other’s pockets since school and aren’t moving anywhere fast. But Morpheus is a dreamer, and his dreams take the form of his hero Sean Bean (Game of Thrones), who appears in full medieval garb, as Morpheus' personal spirit guide, to help him navigate the rough seas of wasting your twenties…

 

Made in Chelsea: South of France

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Based in the exclusive resort of Cannes, London’s most glamorous gang will be spending the sunny months taking in the Riviera’s hot spots in style. Exploring the beaches, social life and of course meeting up with the like-minded locals, MIC: South of France promises the usual drama, love and laughter. And there’s a surprise in store….. Everyone’s favourite gold mining entrepreneur, Francis Boulle, is returning for some fun in the sun. Known for his quirky charm and unique expertise, Francis will be taking a break from exploring for gold deep in the west African jungle for a bit of drama in Cannes, as he joins the cast on their summer adventure.

 

Stage School

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To be agreed.

E4 is set to follow the lives of the students and teachers at the prestigious D&B Academy of Performing Arts in Kent. With break-out singing and dance routines performed by the talented pupils this structured reality series will feature the ups and downs of those trying to make it in the world of show business. Following all of the bitching, back stabbing and romances the series will see emotions reach boiling point as the pupils battle it out at auditions and compete to make their dreams of fame and fortune a reality.

 

 

Crazyhead

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From ‘Misfits’ creator Howard Overman and full of dark humour and unexpected twists, this new comedy drama series follows the angst and exorcisms of an unlikely duo of demon hunters, played by Cara Theobold (‘Downton Abbey’) and Susan Wokoma (‘Chewing Gum’). When people die most go quietly into the night, but some have unfinished business: scores to settle, blood to spill, axes to plant in people's heads... Most of the time these tormented souls walk freely amongst us, unseen by all but a special few - Amy (Theobold) is one of those few. Thankfully Amy isn't alone. Enter Raquel (Wokoma). Armed with Wikipedia and a baton she bought on e-bay, Raquel's a self-made demon hunter with a whole lot of baggage and an impressive lack of social skills. An unlikely friendship is born as Amy and Raquel attempt to navigate their way through the choppy waters of their early twenties whilst simultaneously kicking the ass of some seriously gnarly demons. What could possibly go wrong?

 

Tattoo Fixers on Holiday

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Tattooists Jay, Sketch, Alice and receptionist Paisley set up their pop-up shop in the sunny Mediterranean for the summer season. With summer holidays proving to be the source of so many legendary tattoo disasters, the team will be on hand to fix the most absurd and outrageous tattoo fails to ensure holidaymakers leave their annual stay in the sun with etchings to be proud of, rather than inkings of shame.

 

Coach Trip: Road to Ibiza

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Coach Trip will be wheeling its way onto E4 for a brand new peak-time series in July. International tour guide and Coach Trip legend Brendan Sheerin will be taking a new batch of fun-loving Brits to some of Europe’s hottest spots for a sizzling summer holiday of a lifetime.

This new series will see seven pairs of eager young travellers board the coach for a sun-soaked international adventure, as they set off on the Road to Ibiza.   Every day they’ll take part in exhilarating activities as well as checking out the local nightlife and each other. But at the end of each day, the pairs will vote face to face to decide who they no longer wish to travel with. The couple who receives the most votes will receive a yellow card; two yellow cards will see them take home a red card and bid ‘Adios!’ to the coach to make way for a new pair. Those remaining on the coach at the end of the 30-day tour will be in with a shot of winning a luxury stay in the trip’s final glamorous, sun-drenched, party destination – Ibiza!

With plenty of explosive voting twists and turns along the way Brendan will be put to the test like never before as he takes charge of this young, lively, party-mad crowd, trying to keep them in check as they embark on an incredible itinerary around the Mediterranean taking in some of its most iconic resorts as well as a few undiscovered gems.

 

Chewing Gum

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Michaela Coel (The Aliens) winner of the BAFTA Award for Best Female Performance in a Comedy Programme, the BAFTA TV Craft Award for Breakthrough Talent and the RTS Award for Breakthrough and Comedy Performance, returns as Tracey Gordon. At the end of the first series Tracey’s Ludo-loving sister Cynthia’s (Susan Wokoma) wedding day ended in disaster, and we saw Tracey and Connor (Robert Lonsdale) leaving the Pensbourne Estate, walking into the sunset, dressed only in their pants …. Filming is underway on the second series of the multi award-winning comedy that once again invites E4 viewers into Tracey Gordon’s surreal, vibrant and outrageous life.

 

Rush Hour

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A re-imagining of the hit New Line Cinema feature film franchise, Rush Hour is a high-stakes, action-packed buddy-cop drama about a maverick LAPD detective (Justin Hires, 21 Jump Street) and a by-the-book detective from Hong Kong (Jon Foo, House of Fury) who knock heads when they are forced to work together. When Detective Lee (Foo) travels to Los Angeles to investigate the theft of Chinese artefacts, he’s paired up with the irreverent and brash Detective Carter (Hires), a young cop who prefers to work alone. But despite culture clashes and flared tempers, Carter and Lee prove that sometimes an unlikely pairing makes the best partnership…

 

The Body Fixers

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Welcome to the one stop shop where people with extreme, shocking and downright hilarious beauty and style fails can come to have their problems fixed by a team of top young professionals from the world of hair, health & beauty. Whether correcting a dodgy dye job, catastrophic contouring or a treacherous trout pout, the Body Fixer team will transform their botched bods and not only fix their problem, but also give them a total restyle.

 

Bizarre ER

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A 10-part series of Bizarre ER will air on E4 later this year. The series will be casting an irreverent look of the funniest and strangest things to rock up in some of Britain’s biggest and busiest A&E departments.

The new series will follow some of the most extreme and unusual casualties arriving at four hospitals across the UK: Dudley, Basingstoke, Warwick and Newport, Isle of Wight. The series will follow every step of the patients’ story - from their unfortunate moment they arrive at A&E to the sympathy, surgery, stitches and suppressed laughter.

 

Containment    

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From The Vampire Diaries executive producer Julie Plec and based on the original Belgian series Cordon, created by Carl Joos, Containment (13 x 60’) explores what happens when a mysterious and deadly epidemic breaks out in Atlanta. A vast urban quarantine is quickly enforced, forcing those stuck on the inside to fight for their lives while local and federal officials desperately search for a cure. Trying to keep the peace on the streets is police officer Lex Carnahan (David Gysai, Interstellar), who has quickly risen through the ranks of the Atlanta PD. But Lex’s job becomes even harder when he learns that his longtime girlfriend, Jana (Christina Moses, Starship: Apocalypse), and his best friend and fellow officer Jake (Chris Wood, The Vampire Diaries), are trapped within the cordoned area.

 

Scream Queens S2  

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Season Two of Scream Queens graduates from the college campus and into an all-new location, as a terrifyingly funny murder mystery will begin once again. This time, the show will be set in a hospital, where some of the most fascinating and bizarre medical cases are under observation.