December 2015

Full series of Gogglesprogs ordered for summer 2016

Channel 4 has commissioned Studio Lambert to produce six episodes of Gogglesprogs, the Gogglebox style show featuring children aged 6-12 years old.

Gogglesprogs observes youngsters as they give their opinions on a variety of TV programmes, from the news to popular primetime shows. The series was ordered ahead of the broadcast of the previously announced special edition of Gogglesprogs which will be shown on Channel 4 on Christmas Day at 8pm.

December 2015

Tattoo Fixers returns to E4 on 22nd December

The Tattoo Fixers are back once again to revamp the nation’s most embarrassing, offensive, and sometimes downright awful body art in a second series on E4 that starts at 9pm on 22 December.

Further reading here

December 2015

Four in a Bed – 400 episodes and going strong

Filming has just completed on the 400th episode of the UK version of Four in a Bed.  This next series starts on Channel 4 in February 2016 and the channel has ordered another 50 episodes of for delivery later in 2016.

December 2015

Undercover Boss premieres season 7 on 20th December

CBS has announced the seventh season of Undercover Boss will premiere with a one-hour episode on Sunday, December 20 at 8:30PM ET/PT.

After two more broadcasts of Undercover Boss air on Sunday, December 27 from 8-9PM ET/PT and then Sunday, January 3 from 8:30-9:30PM, the series will switch to Friday nights.

December 2015

Gogglesprogs on Christmas Day at 8pm

Channel 4 has scheduled Gogglesprogs, the new version of Gogglebox featuring children aged 6-12, on Christmas Day at 8pm.

November 2015

Gogglebox wins at the Grierson Awards

Gogglebox took home the prize for Most Entertaining Series at this year’s Grierson Awards.

Grayson Perry, who presented the award, praised the series for being: “a love song to the simple pleasure of spending quality time with the people you love.”

November 2015

Jillian Michaels docusoap ordered

Fitness guru Jillian Michaels opens up her life and home to the cameras in Just Jillian – an 8 x 60 min reality series for E!

While we’ve all watched Jillian for many years on TV, this docu-series will take viewers beyond the fitness phenom’s professional life and give us an inside look at Jillian’s personal life.

Just Jillian will follow the mom-of-two as she tries to balance her family life and her business empire.

Further reading here

November 2015

Pitch Slapped to launch in January

Studio Lambert USA’s 8 x 60 mins acapella singing format begins on Lifetime in January 2016.

Premiering at 10 PM January 5, the series follows two crosstown-rival New Jersey teams that get to work with the world’s best coaches and face off in weekly clashes, crescendo-building up to a champion sing-off.

Vocal powerhouse Deke Sharon (Pitch Perfect) and his team, Stay Tuned from Cherry Hill, will face off against The Voices from Allendale, led by performance coach Diana Preisler (Blue Jupiter).

Further reading here

November 2015

Doctor in the House launches on BBC One

Studio Lambert’s BBC One series kicks off in November.

The prime time format sees GP Dr Rangan Chatterjee spend a month with a different family in each episode getting to grips with their health. He is getting to the root causes of their chronic ailments and trying to turn around their bad health habits.

Further reading here

October 2015

The Fear starts airing on BBC Three

New Studio Lambert format The Fear starts on 19 October.

It is a search for the scariest amateur horror film in the UK and the judges are the audience seated in a special cinema who watch all 28 films to vote for the top three. There is a mix of films from zombies, animation, comedy horror to psychological horror.

Host Matthew Giffen controls the whole show from the projector room and takes us through the whole competition with wit, charm and just a small dose of creepiness.

September 2015

Tattoo Fixers head for the sun

E4 has ordered a brand new series featuring the stars of Tattoo Fixers.

The gang will jet off for the summer to set up shop in a popular holiday destination. Throughout the season they’ll be fixing the worst drunken holiday inkings and making sure that the tourists of 2016 come home with permanent mementos they can be proud of.

September 2015

Studio Lambert grows its scripted team

Sara Murray has joined the Studio Lambert drama team as an executive producer.  She will work with Sue Hogg on the development of new drama series.

Sara was previously the television drama development producer at Cowboy Films.  She was the associate producer of the Channel 4 returning series Top Boy.

Prior to that she worked at Channel 4 as the drama development editor, across series, mini series and singles, including Misfits, Red Riding, Fallout and The Devil’s Whore.

Before moving into drama development, she script edited a number of drama series and serials, including Whistleblowers (ITV), Dr Zhivago (ITV), Totally Frank (C4) and EastEnders (BBC One).

September 2015

The People’s Couch returns for third season

The couches are coming back.

The People’s Couch has been renewed by Bravo for a third season of eight hour long episodes.

Returning for the third season are: sisters and roommates Amanda and Kenya; best friends Blake, Scott and Emerson; sisters Cathy and Destiney; the Egber family; best friends and writing partners Julie and Brandy; the Resnick family; retired neighbors and friends Teddi, Ayn and Sue; and the Zeno family.

August 2015

Tattoo Fixers returns for second series

Channel 4 Formats have commissioned Studio Lambert to produce a second series of E4’s hit series, Tattoo Fixers.

Tattoo Fixers’ first series attracted an average consolidated audience of 797k viewers and a 4.7% share of audience per episode on E4, rising to 1.6 million viewers an episode when adding the Channel 4 repeat. The E4 premiere episodes have drawn an impressive 11.6% share of 16-34 year old viewers, more than double the channel’s slot average.

Speaking on the commission, Head of Formats for Channel 4, Dom Bird said ‘Tattoo Fixers has been a huge success story for E4. What’s more, it’s clear there’s no shortage of terrible tattoos that need fixing out there and we are excited to create more extraordinary transformations to delight our viewers’.

Further reading here

July 2015

Travel Guides starts on ITV

Travel Guides will start airing on ITV from 3rd August. The new series sends five ordinary British households to review some of the worlds most popular tourist destinations, from an all-inclusive in Tenerife to a five star hotel in Dubai, to see what they can really offer an average Brit.

Each week the same households travel to a different destination and experience identical holidays. Narrator Johnny Vegas guides us through the location, while the households give honest and frank reviews about everything on offer – from the accommodation to the food to the activities.

July 2015

Undercover Boss receives Primetime Emmy Award nomination for sixth year running

For the sixth year running, Undercover Boss has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

It is nominated in the category of Best Structured Reality Program.

Undercover Boss has been nominated every year since launching in 2010 and won in both 2012 and 2013.

June 2015

Tattoo Fixers – 9 part series starts transmitting on E4 on 23rd June

Three talented tattoo artists transform extreme inking disasters into walking works of art as clients with regrettable tattoos visit their pop-up parlour for a badly needed body art consultation.

Further reading here

May 2015

Undercover Boss is picked up for a 7th season of 13 episodes for CBS

March 2015

Gogglebox wins BPG and TRIC awards for second year running

Gogglebox won Best Entertainment Programme at the Television and Radio Industry Club awards and Best Factual Entertainment Programme at the Broadcasting Press Guild awards for the second year running.

February 2015

Susan Hogg joins Studio Lambert as Head of Drama

Susan Hogg, senior drama executive producer in BBC Production, is to join Studio Lambert as head of drama and president, scripted programming.  Hogg has been at the BBC for the last fourteen years and has overseen a wide range of popular and award-winning drama series.

Hogg’s appointment comes just two weeks after Studio Lambert chief executive, Stephen Lambert, announced he had signed a new five-year deal with All3Media that provided the funding to launch a drama department at Studio Lambert.

Further reading here

January 2015

Gogglebox wins Most Popular Factual Entertainment Programme at National Television Awards

Sandy and Sandra picked up the award on 21st January.