Gogglebox
Gogglebox is a British television reality series that premiered on Channel 4 on 7 March 2013. The programme features a number of families and groups of friends from different places around the United Kingdom who react to television programmes from their own homes. Gogglebox was narrated from its launch on 7 March 2013 until 8 April 2016 by Caroline Aherne. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2014, which led to her death on 2 July 2016. Craig Cash regularly filled in for Aherne when she was unavailable and took over the role as narrator permanently on 15 April 2016. The series won a BAFTA award in 2014 and a National Television Award in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.
A version of the series featuring children, titled Gogglesprogs, launched as a Christmas special on Christmas Day 2015, and was followed by a full-length series which began airing on 17 June 2016. In 2017, a spin-off series 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. In 2019, it was announced that a celebrity version had been ordered; Celebrity Gogglebox began airing in 2019, and it was later renewed for a second series which aired in 2020. In July 2020, it was announced that the sixteenth series of Gogglebox is set to begin airing on 11 September 2020.
Production
The programme is a production of Studio Lambert, a company run by British media executive Stephen Lambert, who was behind other Channel 4 programmes such as Faking It, Wife Swap, Undercover Boss and The Secret Millionaire. Director of Factual Entertainment for Studio Lambert Tania Alexander, the executive producer and person responsible for the TV series, said the original idea was for the programme to be a "mix of Harry Hill and The Royle Family" but with real people.The Creative Director for Studio Lambert Tim Harcourt had the original idea for the programme while watching the London riots, and along with Alexander devised the format for the show. They wondered what people were talking about while watching the news and came up with the idea of cutting between people watching the same TV programmes.
Farah Ramzan Golant, the boss of All3Media, said: "Everyone loves watching TV and talking about TV. 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. It's near real-time because you're watching what happened in the seven days before. That's quite priceless. It captures a cultural response to something that's happening in the world. Gogglebox shows TV in people's living rooms is alive and well and thriving. It is asserting the indispensable role of TV in the fabric of people's lives."
Filming
The programme is filmed in the viewers' homes, by two small HD remote-control cameras known as "hot heads", operated by a small team elsewhere in the home that have set up a temporary production control room; the team consists of a producer/director, gallery operator, assistant, audio engineer, researcher and a runner.Cast
This is a list of cast members currently appearing in the programme.| Cast members | Series | Year |
| Stephen Webb | 1– | 2013– |
| Siddiqui family | 1– | 2013– |
| Michael family | 1–4, 6– | 2013–2014, 2015– |
| Linda and Peter McGarry | 2–3, 7– | 2013–2014, 2016– |
| Malone family | 4– | 2014– |
| Jenny and Lee | 4– | 2014– |
| Giles Wood and Mary Killen | 5– | 2015– |
| Ellie and Izzi Warner | 6– | 2015– |
| Dave and Shirley | 6– | 2015– |
| Plummer family | 7– | 2016– |
| Mary and Marina | 8– | 2016– |
| Amira and Iqra | 10– | 2017– |
| Alison, George and Helena | 10– | 2017– |
| Pete and Sophie Sandiford | 10– | 2017– |
| Marcus, Mica, Sachelle and Shuggy | 11– | 2018– |
| John and Beryl | 12– | 2018– |
| Abbie and Georgia | 12– | 2018– |
| Daniel Lustig-Webb | 13– | 2019– |
| Paige and Sally | 13– | 2019– |
| Sue and Steve | 14– | 2019– |
| Anne and Ken | 15– | 2020– |
Other appearances
As well as appearing on Gogglebox, some of the cast members have competed in other reality series, including Celebrity Big Brother, I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, The Jump and Celebrity Masterchef- Celebrity Big Brother
- *George Gilbey – Series 14 – Fourth
- *Sandi Bogle – Series 20 – Ninth
- The Jump
- *Dominic Parker – Series 2 – Fifteenth
- I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
- *Scarlett Moffatt – Series 16 – Winner
- Celebs on the Farm
- *Sandi Bogle – Series 1 – Seventh
Episodes
Awards and nominations
International versions
Australian version
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. The programme started its second season on 30 September 2015, and its third season in 2016. It had shown 8 episodes of the 4th season as of December 2016.American and Canadian versions
Canadian, and American broadcasters. The American and Canadian versions, both called The People's Couch, premiered on Bravo on 10 March 2014 and Bravo in July 2014.A celebrity version, called Celebrity Watch Party, premiered on Fox 7 May 2020.
''Gogglebox'' around the world
| Country | Name | Channel | Date aired | Series |
| ' | Gogglebox Australia | Lifestyle Network 10 | 11 February 2015 – present | Series 1, 2015 Series 2, 2015 Series 3, 2016 Series 4, 2016 Series 5, 2017 Series 6, 2017 Series 7, 2018 Series 8, 2018 Series 9, 2019 Series 10, 2019 Series 11, 2020 |
| ' | Vu à la télé | RTL-TVI | 19 October 2014 – present | Series 1, 2014 Series 2, 2015 Series 3, 2015 Series 4, 2016 Series 5, 2016 Series 6, 2017 Series 7, 2017 |
| ' | ' | 6 January 2015 – 1 January 2016 | Series 1, 2015 Series 2, 2016 | |
| ' | Sohvaperunat | Yle TV2 | 27 February 2015 – present | Series 1, 2015 Series 2, 2016 Series 3, 2017 Series 4, 2017 Series 5, 2018 Series 6, 2018 Series 7, 2019 Series 8, 2019 Series 9, 2020 |
| ' | Vu à la télé | M6 | 18 October 2014 – 20 December 2014 | Series 1, 2014 |
| ' | Wohnzimmerhelden | Sat.1 | 16 December 2014 – 23 December 2014 | Series 1, 2014 |
| ' | ' | 1 January 2015 – 30 January 2015 | Series 1, 2015 | |
| ' | Gogglebox Ireland | TV3/Virgin Media One | 22 September 2016 – present | Series 1, 2016 Series 2, 2017 Series 3, 2017 Series 4, 2018: |
| ' | Tadliku | Channel 2 | 12–20 June 2014 | Series 1, 2014 |
| ' | Gogglebox Italia | Italia 1 | 23 October 2016 – present | Series 1, 2016 Series 2, 2017 |
| ' | Gogglebox NZ | Three | 19 September 2018 – present | Series 1, 2018 Series 2, 2019 |
| ' | Sofa | NRK | 23 October 2014 – present | Series 1, 2014 Series 2, 2015 Series 3, 2016 Series 4, 2017 |
| ' | Gogglebox. Przed telewizorem | TTV | 6 September 2014 – present | Series 1, 2014 Series 2, 2015 Series 3, 2015 Series 4, 2016 Series 5, 2016 Series 6, 2017 Series 7, 2017 Series 8, 2018 Series 9, 2018 Series 10, 2019 Series 11, 2019 Series 12, 2020 |
| ' | Bognedaj, da bi crknu televisor | Planet TV | September 2014 – 19 June 2016 | Series 1, 2014 Series 2, 2015 Series 3, 2015 Series 4, 2016 |
| ' | Gogglebox South Africa | Sony Channel | 3 March 2016 – 5 May 2016 | Series 1, 2016 |
| ' | Aquí mando yo | Antena 3 | 15 April 2016 | Series 1, 2016 |
| The People's Couch | Bravo | 10 March 2014 – 26 May 2016 | Series 1, 2014 Series 2, 2014 Series 3, 2015 Series 4, 2016 | |
| Celebrity Watch Party | Fox | 7 May 2020 – present | Series 1, 2020 |