Coach Trip

For the latest series see Coach Trip (series 13)

Coach Trip is a reality game show originally broadcast on Channel 4 from 7 March 2005 to 30 June 2006. The programme returned after a three-year break, from 25 May 2009 to 9 March 2012. In early 2013, the show went into hiatus again and was replaced by 2 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 which has now aired. On 9 April 2014, a further four series were announced following the success of the ninth series in early 2014.

The show's format consists of four to seven teams of two undertaking a coach tour principally of continental Europe (but with individual series including sojourns into North Africa and Western Asia) and has been sold to other countries.

The tours have usually lasted 20, 30 or 50 days (celebrity series tours have lasted 10 days and Christmas series tours have lasted 15 days), with passengers remaining on the tour only until they are ejected by their companions on one day, to be replaced by a new couple the following day(s).

Coach Trip (series 7)

Coach Trip 7 was the seventh series of Coach Trip in the United Kingdom. It was filmed from May until June 2011 (after the UK anti-austerity protests began) and aired from 29 August to 7 October 2011. The length of this series was the same as the previous non-celebrity series but with weekends excluded. The tour began in the UK, before moving to France, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic plus for the first time ever Poland and Slovakia. Tour guide Brendan Sheerin, coach driver Paul Donald, narrator Dave Vitty and the coach with registration number MT09 MTT all returned for this series, which was aired on Channel 4 with the airing time reverted to 5:00pm, a similar start to series 1 and a similar end to series 3.

Broadcasts

Series 7 began airing on weekdays from Monday 29 August at an original time of 5:00pm. Behind the camera the series also saw Joe Evans step on board as the Series Producer, reuniting him with Brendan and the coach after a 7-year break, having been the original Associate Producer on series 1.

Coach Trip (series 3)

Coach Trip 3 was the third series of Coach Trip in the United Kingdom, that was filmed between September and October 2008 (before MFI, Woolworths and Zavvi became defunct) and began showing in May 2009. The show's format after a break of 3 years remained unchanged from the previous series but the idents were new along with the timeslot: seven couples travelling around Europe on a coach like series 1 for 30 days attempting vote off the least popular couples with visits to Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg for the first time. Tour guide Brendan Sheerin and coach driver Paul Donald both returned for this series, which aired on Channel 4 with a similar end to series 2. David Quantick was the narrator and MT04 MTT was the registration number plate for the first and only time.

Broadcasts

After Wogan's Perfect Recall debuted along with ITV1's Divided, Channel 4 announced that Coach Trip would return to the channel in May 2009 after a 3 year absence. Before ITV1's The Chase debuted with The Fuse and before Golden Balls on ITV1 came to an end, The series of was broadcast on weekdays at 5pm for 6 weeks, beginning on 29 May 2009. An omnibus was originally shown each weekend but was cancelled part of the way through.