| Coach Trip | |
|---|---|
 Current Coach Trip title card | |
| Also known as | Coach Trip: Road to... |
| Genre | Reality |
| Starring | Brendan Sheerin |
| Narrated by | Andy Love David Quantick Dave Vitty Jackie Clune Clara Amfo |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 18 (Regular) 7 (Celebrity) 1 (Christmas) 1 (Ghost) |
| No. of episodes | 640 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30–60 minutes |
| Production company | 12 Yard |
| Original release | |
| Network | Channel 4 (2005–2015) E4 (2016–2022) |
| Release | 7 March 2005 – 21 January 2022 |
| Related | |
| Brendan's Magical Mystery Tour Brendan's Love Cruise | |
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Coach Trip is a British reality game show that began airing on Channel 4 on 7 March 2005. The show's premise sees four to seven pairs of tourists undertaking a coach tour principally of continental Europe between twenty and fifty days, whilst accompanied in every episode by tour guide Brendan Sheerin. A vote takes place every evening in which each couple votes for the pair they least enjoy travelling with, and the pair with the most votes receives either a yellow or red card. The show went on hiatus on 30 June 2006, and returned after a three-year break, from 25 May 2009 to 9 March 2012. In early 2013, the show went on hiatus again and was replaced by two new shows, Brendan's Magical Mystery Tour and Brendan's Love Cruise. However, in September 2013, Channel 4 announced that they had renewed Coach Trip for another series in 2014.[1] On 9 April 2014, a further four series were announced following the success of the ninth series in early 2014.[2]
The fourteenth series was the first of the relaunched Coach Trip: Road to... series, and aired on E4 from 25 July 2016 to 2 September 2016 entitled Coach Trip: Road to Ibiza, the fifteenth series aired from 16 January 2017 to 24 February 2017 with the title Coach Trip: Road to Marbs. The sixteenth series aired from 24 July 2017 to 15 September 2017 with the title Coach Trip: Road to Zante.[3][4] The series was renewed for its seventeenth series in July 2017.[5] This was titled Coach Trip: Road to Tenerife and aired from 8 January 2018 to 2 March 2018.[6] The eighteenth series began airing on 28 January 2019 with the title Coach Trip: Road to Barcelona, reverting to 30 episodes, it ended on 8 March 2019. In February 2023, Channel 4 said the future of Coach Trip was uncertain.[7]
The show's spin-off Celebrity Coach Trip launched in November 2010, and featured celebrity pairs embarking on the trip. The celebrity series' have been marginally shorter and have run between ten and fifteen days. Seven editions of Celebrity Coach Trip have aired in total, with the latest series concluding on 21 January 2022. Christmas and Halloween versions of the series' have also aired, with Christmas Coach Trip and Celebrity Ghost Trip in 2011 and 2021 respectively.[8]
- ^ "Channel 4 sends Brendan on another Coach Trip". Channel 4 Press. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
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- ^ "Twitter". mobile.twitter.com. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ^ "E4's Coach Trip secures multi-series recommission". Channel 4.
- ^ "News | Channel 4". www.channel4.com. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
- ^ "Coach Trip: Road to Barcelona – S17". Radio Times. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
- ^ "Celebrity Coach Trip's Linda and Lesley crowned 'deserving' winners in final". Daily Mirror. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2024.