Lip Sync Battle UK
| Lip Sync Battle UK | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Reality competition |
| Based on | Lip Sync Battle |
| Presented by | Mel B Professor Green |
| Opening theme | "20th Century Boy" performed by T. Rex |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 15 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Production location | BBC Elstree Centre[1] |
| Running time | 30 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company | Whizz Kid Entertainment (eOne) |
| Original release | |
| Network | Channel 5 |
| Release | 8 January 2016 – 7 April 2018 |
Lip Sync Battle UK is a British musical reality competition television series based on the American version of the same name. It premiered on Channel 5 on 8 January 2016.[2][3] It is hosted by Mel B and Professor Green. The concept was introduced on the American chat show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, in which celebrities battle each other with lip sync performances. It has been used as a recurring segment on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon before being developed as a separate show.[4]
Production
[edit]Whizz Kid Entertainment, producers of the series, announced that the first series would consist of eight episodes.[5] However, upon broadcast, only six episodes were shown, with two episodes, Daisy Lowe vs Matt Richardson and Chris Ramsey vs Aston Merrygold, remaining unaired. On 7 November 2016 Channel 5 confirmed that a second series, comprising six episodes, plus an additional Christmas Special, had been ordered and would broadcast from January 2017.
Despite this, only four episodes aired, with episodes Robert Webb vs Sally Phillips and Joey Essex vs Louie Spence going unaired. In March 2018, the third run of episodes was broadcast by Channel 5; however, despite some listings referring to them as a third series, the four-episode run consisted of the four unaired episodes from the first two series.
Series overview
[edit]| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | Series average (millions) | ||
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| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| 1 | 8 | 8 January 2016 | 20 May 2016 | 1.83 | |
| CS | 1 | 20 December 2016 | TBA | ||
| 2 | 6 | 6 January 2017 | 7 April 2018 | TBA | |
Episodes
[edit]- Winners are listed in bold
Series 1 (2016)
[edit]Christmas Special (2016)
[edit]| No. overall | No. in series | Contestants | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [6] | |||
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| 8 | – | Shane Richie vs. Jessie Wallace | 20 December 2016 | 0.69 | |||
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Series 2 (2017–2018)
[edit]| No. overall | No. in series | Contestants | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [6] | |||
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| 9 | 1 | Craig Revel Horwood vs. Danny Dyer | 6 January 2017 | 1.75 | |||
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| 10 | 2 | Alexander Armstrong vs. Jimmy Carr | 13 January 2017 | 1.61 | |||
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| 11 | 3 | Ben Fogle vs. Katie Price | 20 January 2017 | 1.52 | |||
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| 12 | 4 | Peter Andre vs. Gino D'Acampo | 27 January 2017 | 1.61 | |||
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| 13 | 5 | Robert Webb vs. Sally Phillips | 17 March 2018 | TBC | |||
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| 14 | 6 | Joey Essex vs. Louie Spence | 7 April 2018 | TBC | |||
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References
[edit]- ^ "Lip Sync Battle UK". BBC Studioworks. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
- ^ Hollan, Luke (15 January 2016). "Lip Sync Battle with Mel B and Pro Green: 'It's not exactly like the American show'". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- ^ "Lip Sync Battle UK will be 'just as good' as US version". BBC. 8 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- ^ Rose, Lacey (8 May 2015). "How NBC Passed on Jimmy Fallon's 'Lip Sync Battle' and Gave Spike a Hit Show". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ^ Entertainment, Whizz Kid (8 May 2015). "Lip Sync Battle UK". Archived from the original on 30 March 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ^ a b c "Top 30 Programmes". BARB. Retrieved 17 January 2016.