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The Undateables

August 2023

  • Carlos and Aelinor in Down for Love.

    ‘I don’t like people feeling sorry for us’: inside the world of TV’s disabled dating shows

    Disability-specific romance series are on the rise, including new Netflix series Down for Love. But are they more harmful than helpful? Insiders talk backlashes, ableism and why ‘we all deserve that special someone’

January 2018

  • Emilia Fox as Nikki Alexander in Silent Witness.

    TV tonight
    Monday’s best TV: The Undateables; How to Lose Weight Well; Silent Witness

    The heartwarming dating show returns for its eighth series; fad diets are debunked; plus pathologist Nikki Alexander is back after her Mexican burial

August 2014

  • Liam Humphreys

    Media interview
    Liam Humphreys: ‘Sex in Class is going to be the most marvellous culture clash’

    John Plunkett: Channel 4’s head of factual entertainment on breaking Steve Redgrave and being kept awake by The Undateables

July 2013

  • Liz Warner

    Media interview
    Betty's Liz Warner: 'It's good to be provocative'

    John Plunkett: The controversy and challenges of making The Undateables and the impact of Channel 4's 'difficult patch' on indies

May 2013

  • Raymond Johnson

    The Undateables turned me into a celebrity

    Raymond Johnson says appearing on Channel 4 show helped challenge opinions of disability, but there is still a long way to go

March 2013

  • The Undateables

    Channel 4 reaffirms commitment to disability programming

    Channel 4's chief creative officer announces return of The Undateables, I'm Spazticus and The Last Leg. By John Plunkett

February 2013

  • Danny Baker's Great Album Showdown

    Danny Baker's Great Album Showdown turns up half a million viewers

    BBC4 vinyl LP-based chatshow had 467,000 viewers, a 2% share, while C4's The Undateables attracted more than 3 million. By John Plunkett

May 2012

  • Contestants from The Undateables

    The Undateables to return for second series on Channel 4

    Controversial show attracted average audience of more than three million, despite claims it encouraged stereotyping. By Mark Sweney

April 2012

  • The Undateables

    The Undateables: Channel 4's ad campaign is cleared by watchdog

    TV show adverts prompted 21 complaints that they offended disabled people and encouraged bullying and stereotyping. By Mark Sweney
  • Richard The Undateables

    TV review
    TV review: The Undateables; Horizon: The Hunt for Artificial Intelligence

    The Undateables was kindly, thoughtful and full of inadvertent comedy

    • Are disabled people really 'undateable'?

      Sharon Brennan

    • TV tonight
      TV highlights 03/04/2012

    • TV and radio blog
      The Undateables? Disability rights, but Channel 4 wrongs

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