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| Genre | Reality Reaction |
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| Opening theme | "Perfect World" and "Brand New Day" by Kodaline |
| Template:Pluralize from text of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original languageTemplate:Pluralize from text | English |
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| Network | Channel 4 |
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Gogglebox is a British reality television series created by Stephen Lambert, Tania Alexander and Tim Harcourt, and broadcast on Channel 4. The series documents families and groups of friends around the United Kingdom who are filmed for their observations and reactions to the previous week's television from their own homes. The first series launched on 7 March 2013, with the twenty-sixth series airing from 5 September 2025. The show was narrated by Caroline Aherne from its launch until April 2016, shortly before her death, after which Craig Cash took over.
The show has won numerous awards. In 2014 and 2022, it won a BAFTA in the Reality & Constructed Factual category.[2] From 2015 to 2018, in 2021, 2022 and 2023, it won a National Television Award.[3] The success of Gogglebox spawned three spin-off series, including a version featuring children (Gogglesprogs), a version featuring 16- to 24-year-olds as they watch online content (Vlogglebox) and a version featuring celebrities (Celebrity Gogglebox).
History
The show was created by Stephen Lambert, Tania Alexander, and Tim Harcourt. Lambert is a media executive who had previously launched the Channel 4 television shows Wife Swap, Faking It, Undercover Boss, and The Secret Millionaire. Alexander was Director of Factual Entertainment at Lambert's independent production company Studio Lambert, who said the idea was for Gogglebox to be a mix of the ITV comedy show Harry Hill's TV Burp, which looked back at the previous week's television, and the BBC sitcom The Royle Family, which centres on a television-fixated family, but with real, ordinary people.[4] Harcourt, a Creative Director for Studio Lambert, had the original idea for Gogglebox while watching the 2011 London riots,[5][6] and along with Alexander, devised the format for the show. They wondered what people talked about while watching the news, and came up with the idea of cutting between people watching the same TV shows.[7][8] Farah Golant, the boss of All3Media, said: "But the show isn't really about TV. The show is about people's lives, their relationships, their living rooms and the way children and parents talk about TV [...] That's quite priceless. It captures a cultural response to something that's happening in the world."[1]
The concept of Gogglebox was criticised before the show aired; Alexander recalled people thinking Channel 4 had run out of ideas, but credited the network's head of factual David Glover as the one who recognised the show's potential and subsequently ordered Alexander to produce a proof of concept tape.[9] The show's team set about casting, and it was during this period they signed on Leon and June Bernicoff. Alexander described the original reel as "a little rough around the edges, gosh it was actually really rough", and thought the script was "God awful" which was read by a narrator whose tone of voice was incompatible. Despite this, Glover felt strongly towards the concept and gave the green-light for a mini-series.[9] The first series consisted of four episodes, the first of which aired on 7 March 2013.[4] The show was a success, and a second series of 13 episodes began in September 2013.[4]
In November 2020, Alexander left Gogglebox after seven years to pursue a fresh challenge. She was replaced by Studio Lambert's deputy creative director, Mike Cotton, alongside Gogglebox executive producer Leon Campbell.
Production
The people cast on Gogglebox were found by the show, and the producers do not advertise for participants. Lambert said this approach is key to the show's success as it results in more likeable people and the audience can get to know the cast over time. From the beginning, Alexander did not want to feature people who wanted to be on television, and sought individuals "that had the ability to make us laugh very naturally and that's quite hard."[10] One of the methods used to find participants is termed "street casting", whereby the show's team looked in everyday public places; Leon and June were found in a bridge club, and Stephen and Chris were found in a hair salon. In later series, members of the show's production team visited random houses and held up a card that contained something, such as a picture of the British Prime Minister or a Daily Mail headline, and noted how quick the person responded and any funny, interesting, or insightful comments they had. The show has also found participants through recommendations, which was how the Siddiqui family and couple Giles and Mary were found.[10]
The programme is filmed in the viewers' homes using two small remotely controlled cameras, known as "hot heads", operated by a small team elsewhere in the home that set up a temporary production control room. This team consists of a producer/director, gallery operator, assistant, audio engineer, researcher for live logging, and a runner.[11][12] Each episode of Gogglebox is made in two days, and Alexander said that people who assumed the show is cheap or easy to make makes her "blood boil".[4] Filming starts on Friday and continues through the week, but most of the first four days are spent assessing the filmed material. Four-person crews circulate between the households two or three evenings each week, and the cast watch the same programmes as each other, which can amount to as much as six hours of television.
Alexander said that the biggest problem encountered during the filming stage is the cast forgetting that they are meant to be commenting and having to be given "gentle prompts".[4] She added that "the craft happens over the last couple of days before it goes out on the Friday", which usually begins on a Tuesday afternoon or the Wednesday, with the production team working through the night to produce an initial cut. Lambert said the skill involved is "throwing away 99.9% of what people say".[10] The team reviews the first edit on a Thursday afternoon, after which further cuts or tweaks are made before the narration is recorded and the episode is delivered for broadcast.[10]
Cast
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This is a list of cast members currently appearing in the programme. List of Gogglebox cast members
Episodes
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Awards and nominations
| Award | Year | Result |
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| BAFTA TV Award for "Reality & Constructed Factual Programme" | 2014 | Won |
| BAFTA TV Award for "Radio Times Audience Award" | 2014 | Nominated |
| Royal Television Society Award for "Popular Factual and Features" | 2014 | Won |
| Broadcasting Press Guild for "Best Factual Entertainment Programme"[13] | 2014 | Won |
| National Television Award for "Factual Programme" | 2015 | Won |
| TV Choice Award for "Factual Entertainment Show" | 2015 | Won |
| National Television Award for "Factual Programme" | 2016 | Won |
| BAFTA TV Award for "Reality & Constructed Factual Programme" | 2016 | Nominated |
| TV Choice Award for "Lifestyle Show" | 2016 | Won |
| Radio 1's Teen Award for "TV Show" | 2016 | Won |
| National Television Award for "Factual Entertainment" | 2017 | Won |
| Diversity in Media Awards for "TV Programme of the Year" | 2017 | Won |
| National Television Award for "Factual Entertainment" | 2018 | Won |
| National Television Award for "Factual Entertainment" | 2019 | Nominated |
| National Television Award for "Factual Entertainment" | 2020 | Nominated |
| I Talk Telly Awards for "Best Factual Entertainment Programme | 2020 | Won |
| BAFTA TV Award for "Must-See Moment" | 2021 | Nominated |
| TV Choice Award for "Best Entertainment Show" | 2021 | Won |
| National Television Award for "Factual Programme" | 2021 | Won |
| BAFTA TV Award for "Reality & Constructed Factual Programme" | 2022 | Won |
| National Television Award for "Factual Programme" | 2022 | Won |
| National Television Award for "The Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award" | 2023 | Won[14] |
Spin-off series
A version of the show featuring children, titled Gogglesprogs, launched as a Christmas special on Christmas Day 2015, and was followed by a full-length series that began airing on 17 June 2016.[15] In 2017, a spin-off show titled Vlogglebox aired on E4, which featured reactions from 16 to 24-year-olds as they watch online content on their smartphones, laptops or tablets.[16] In 2019, it was announced that a celebrity version had been ordered; Celebrity Gogglebox began airing in 2019. It was later renewed for a second series, which aired in 2020, a third series that aired in 2021, and a fourth series in 2022.
In August 2022, it was announced that a Welsh-language version of the show, called Gogglebocs Cymru, would be produced for S4C, after Channel 4 had agreed to release exclusivity of its rights to the show in the UK. S4C issued a competitive tender for the production rights on the same day, with the show scheduled to debut in autumn 2022 as part of the channel's 40th anniversary.
International versions
Gogglebox around the world
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| Country | Name | Channel | Date aired | Series |
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| File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia | Gogglebox Australia | Lifestyle (Pay TV, 2015–24) Network 10 (Free-to-air, 2015–) |
11 February 2015 – present |
Series 1, 2015 |
| File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium | Vu à la télé | RTL-TVI | 19 October 2014 – present |
Series 1, 2014 |
| Hallo televisie! | Eén | 6 January 2015 – 1 January 2016 |
Series 1, 2015 | |
| File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic | TBC | |||
| File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland | Sohvaperunat | Yle TV2 | 27 February 2015 – present |
Series 1, 2015 |
| File:Flag of France.svg France | Vu à la télé | M6 | 18 October 2014 – 20 December 2014 |
Series 1, 2014 |
| File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany | Wohnzimmerhelden | Sat.1 | 16 December 2014 – 23 December 2014 |
Series 1, 2014 |
| Sofa Star | RTL Television | 1 January 2015 – 30 January 2015 |
Series 1, 2015 | |
| File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary | Kanapéhuszárok | RTL | 24 November 2023 – 22 December 2023 |
Series 1, 2023 |
| File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland | Gogglebox Ireland | TV3/Virgin Media One | 22 September 2016 – present |
Series 1, 2016 Series 9, 2023 Series 10, 2024 |
| File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel | Tadliku (תדליקו) | Channel 2 | 12–20 June 2014 |
Series 1, 2014 |
| File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | Gogglebox Italia | Italia 1 | 23 October 2016 – 4 June 2017 |
Series 1, 2016 |
| File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan | Gogglebox Japan (ゴグルボックス)[17][18] | NHK | 24 March 2016 | Pilot, 2016 |
| File:Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia | Dīvāna eksperti | TV3 | 11 March 2022 – 27 May 2022 | Series 1, 2022 |
| File:Flag of Mongolia.svg Mongolia | Ardin Buidan (Ардын буйдан) | Mongol HD TV ORI TV (2018–) |
27 March 2016 – present |
Series 1, 2016 |
| File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand | Gogglebox NZ[19] | Three | 19 September 2018 – 7 November 2018 | Series 1, 2018 |
| File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway | Sofa | NRK | 23 October 2014 – 17 March 2017 |
Series 1, 2014 |
| Sofa (celebrity version) | TV 2 | 21 January 2021 – present |
Series 1, 2021 | |
| File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland | Gogglebox. Przed telewizorem[a] | TTV | 6 September 2014 – present | Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
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| File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia | Divan (Диван) | STS | 30 March 2017 – 18 May 2017 | Series 1, 2017 |
| File:Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia | Bognedaj, da bi crknu televisor | Planet TV | September 2014 – 19 June 2016 |
Series 1, 2014 |
| File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa | Gogglebox South Africa | Sony Channel | 3 March 2016 – 5 May 2016 | Series 1, 2016 |
| File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea | Jakjunghago Bonbangsasu (작정하고 본방사수) | KBS 2TV | 8 January 2015 – 2 February 2015 | Series 1, 2015 |
| File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain | Aquí mando yo | Antena 3 | 15 April 2016 | Series 1, 2016 |
| File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine | What's on TV? (Що по телеку?) | ICTV | 16 October 2015 – 27 November 2015 | Series 1, 2015 |
| File:Flag of the United States.svg United States File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada |
The People's Couch | Bravo | 10 March 2014 – 26 May 2016 |
Series 1, 2014 |
| File:Flag of the United States.svg United States | Celebrity Watch Party | Fox | 7 May 2020 – 23 July 2020 | Series 1, 2020 |
| File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Wales | Gogglebocs Cymru | S4C/BBC iPlayer | 2 November 2022 |
Series 1, 2022 |
Australian version
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". An Australian edition of the programme debuted on 11 February 2015. It is a co-production between pay TV provider Foxtel and commercial Network Ten. It airs on Foxtel's Lifestyle Channel first and is repeated 24 hours later on Ten.[20] The programme started its second season on 30 September 2015,[21] and its third season in 2016. It is currently in its 21st season as of April 2025.[22]
American and Canadian versions
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Canadian (Bell Media),[23] and American broadcasters. The American and Canadian versions, both called The People's Couch, premiered on Bravo on 10 March 2014 (although a three-episode pilot run was aired in October 2013) and Bravo (Canadian TV channel) in July 2014.[1][24][25]
A celebrity version, called Celebrity Watch Party, premiered on Fox on 7 May 2020.[26]
Irish version
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". An Irish edition of the programme debuted on 22 September 2016, a co-production between Kite Entertainment (Dublin) and Studio Lambert (London). By 2023, nine series had been broadcast.
Polish version
Polish version called Gogglebox. Przed telewizorem premiered on TTV on 6 September 2014.[27]
Russian version
A Russian version called Диван (translated as "The Couch") premiered on CTC on 30 March 2017. Only one season aired, consisting of 8 episodes.
Finnish version
The Finnish version called Sohvaperunat (translated as "Couch potatoes") premiered in February 2015 on YLE TV1.
Welsh version
S4C and Studio Lambert aired Gogglebocs Cymru on 2 November 2022, as part of the channel's 40th anniversary celebrations. The show is narrated by Welsh comedian Tudur Owen.[28]
The series was renewed for a second series slated to air on 18 October 2023. It has also been nominated for a BAFTA Cymru award.
See also
Explanatory notes
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- ^ In the beginning, when the first series was broadcast, the show had a shorter title: Gogglebox.
References
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External links
- Gogglebox on Channel 4
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