Time Crashers
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| Genre | Entertainment |
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| Template:Pluralize from text of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Running time | 47 minutes (excluding adverts) |
| Production Template:Pluralize from text | Wall to Wall Media and GroupM Entertainment |
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| Network | Channel 4 |
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Time Crashers is a British entertainment television programme co-produced by Wall to Wall Media and GroupM Entertainment for Channel 4.[1] The programme's format sees ten celebrities transported to different historical settings where they experience the life of the 'lower' classes and are set tasks relating to that era. It is presented by Tony Robinson and historian Cassie Newland.[2][1]
The first series premiered on Channel 4 on 23 August 2015. The series contained six episodes that were broadcast on consecutive Sundays at 8pm for six weeks.[3]
Production
The production of the first series of Time Crashers was announced by Channel 4 in August 2014. It was initially described being a week-long celebrity game show with an ultimate winner crowned at the end of the series.[4] By August 2015, Channel 4 described the programme's genre as "entertainment" and the competitive game show element was dropped. Instead, each episode would feature historical "tasks" for the celebrities to fulfil.[1]
In production, the Channel 4 factual commissioning department worked alongside the entertainment team to make sure the programme was historically accurate.[1]
Participants
The following individuals were the participants in the premier run of the show:[5]
- Keith Allen
- Kirstie Alley
- Fern Britton
- Charlie Condou
- Meg Mathews
- Jermaine Jenas
- Louise Minchin
- Chris Ramsey
- Greg Rutherford
- Zoe Smith
Episodes
Each episode focuses on a different period in British history.[6]
Series 1
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Reception
The first episode of Time Crashers attracted 1.33 million viewers on the Channel 4 HD and SD channels. The second episode attracted 730,000 viewers, and each subsequent episode attracted fewer than 790,000 viewers.[7]
Julia Raeside of The Guardian positively reviewed the first episode and described it as "simple entertainment perfection". She also praised the casting as "outstanding [...] These are proper people all and quite the mix."[8] Amy Burns of The Independent also gave a positive review of the first episode, calling the programme's format "truly engaging".[2]
Michael Hogan of The Telegraph gave the first episode two out of five stars, saying the programme "wasn’t educational, nor entertaining, and felt stitched together for novelty value".[9]
Time Crashers was featured in Series 6 Episode 1 of the Channel 4 reality show Gogglebox.[10]
References
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- ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Time Crashers". Channel 4. 13 August 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Burns, Amy (23 August 2015). "Time Crashers, Channel 4, review: Mix of role-play and reality TV is an engaging format". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Time Crashers". Tvmaze.com. 27 September 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Eames, Tom (5 August 2014). "Celebrities to become Time Crashers in new Channel 4 game show". Digital Spy. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mead, Charles (23 August 2015). "Time Crashers, Channel 4: meet the celebrities". Radiotimes.com. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Time Crashers". Wall to Wall Media. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Weekly top 30 programmes on TV sets (July 1998 – Sept 2018)". BARB. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Raeside, Julia (24 August 2015). "Time Crashers review: a great cast gets down and dirty in Olde England". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hogan, Michael (23 August 2015). "Time Crashers, episode one, Channel 4, review: 'a panto version of Wolf Hall'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Gogglebox". Channel 4. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
