Exclusive: Channel 4 is experimenting with featuring celebrity pranks on the line that appeared on its YouTube channel.
Tapped out prank stars It's a super-charged version of the format that originated on Channel 4.0, with rapper ArrDee, comedian Fatiha El-Ghouri and JLS singer Aston Merrygold preparing to take on intense challenges as a studio audience watches.
The move marks the first time Channel 4's YouTube format has been switched to linear and the pilot is likely to air around Christmas.
in tapped out, Hosted by Nella Rose and featuring the likes of Love Island Starring Chloe Burrows, celebrities are pushed to their limits with challenging prank challenges featuring chaotic twists. The longer they can last before deciding to “go”, the better they will perform, as the popular competitor who endures the most time in the increasingly awkward tasks thrown at them will be crowned champion. The loser will face final loss.
The first episode of Tapped out On YouTube, he has 1.5 million views on Channel 4.0, which has 600,000 subscribers, which was launched in 2022.
Channel 4's Simran Shah and Evie Buckley called Tapped out “One of the loudest and bravest shows on Channel 4.0, watched by millions across YouTube and our social platforms.” They added: “It's very exciting to take all the wildest ingredients of this series to create an unexpected all-star version for Channel 4.”
Channel 4.0 includes a major part of googlebox The network's digital strategy, including other offerings Worst in its class, worst in the world and 20 thousand toys. COO Jonathan Allan recently said that Channel 4 “thinks of YouTube as a distribution channel, like Sky or Virgin Media, and we think it's incremental to linear and streaming.” This news comes in the week that Netflix greenlighted the second season of the live-action series The Sidemen insideYouTube is becoming more and more viewed as a breeding ground for formats.
Tapped out prank stars Produced by Wall of Entertainment with GroupM Motion Entertainment as co-producers. Wall of Entertainment's Tafara Makuba, Percelle Ascott, Joivan Wade, and Christopher Barbour are the executive producers of the show, with Ben Hardy as director. Martin Oxley, Head of Formats & Entertainment (UK), is Executive Producer of GroupM Motion Entertainment. It was commissioned for Channel 4 by Simran Shah, Commissioning Editor for Reality and Entertainment, and Evie Buckley, Digital Commissioning Editor and Head of Channel 4.0.
The program was funded by Channel 4 and GroupM Motion Entertainment's Diversified Indies Fund. The Diverse Indies Fund was established to support small and medium-sized, ethnically diverse, independent production companies to produce new projects. The fund is overseen by Vivien Moloko, Channel 4's Senior Commissioning Editor, with Deb Segal, Head of Creative Diversity at GroupM Motion Entertainment.
