Channel 4’s digital-first documentary strand Untold is back with a new season that promises to “dive deep into some of the most pressing, provocative, and underreported issues shaping modern life”. The new documentaries will be available to stream first on Channel 4’s digital platforms weekly from June 4.
Highlights from the new season include Chloe Burrows: 28 Dates Later (w/t), in which former Love Islander Chloe Burrows (pictured) investigates why young people are ditching dating apps and ask if in-person dating is the key to forming long lasting romantic connections. This is produced by Flicker Productions.
Also in the new slate is The Secrets of TikTok Shop (w/t). Here Mariam Musa presents “the ultimate guide to the booming — and sometimes baffling — world of TikTok Shop. From beauty to toilet roll, Untold lays bare how the app is reshaping online retail, and reveals the staggering sums some are making”. (produced by Firecrest Films).
Other Untold productions include Confessions of a Prison Officer (Dare Pictures) and Hunting My Sextortion Scammer, which explores sexual blackmail (Full Fat TV).
Janine Thomas, commissioning editor for Untold, said: “Untold continues to be a fearless voice for young audiences, tackling taboo topics, lifting the lid on hidden subcultures, and giving voice to those who are often unheard. This season of ambitious documentaries promises to inform, provoke and spark vital conversation.”
In a separate development, Channel 4 is following trainspotting and engineering social media star, Francis Bourgeois, as he realises his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut – Francis Bourgeois Rocket Man (w/t). This two part series, made by Shine TV (A Banijay UK company) and developed in association with Untold Studios, will see Bourgeois “boldly set out to go where no other social media star has been”.
Bourgeois said: “People know that I’m obsessed with trains. But rockets and space travel was a very early infatuation. Now, as the Artemis Programme plans to return people to the moon and beyond, I’m going to face the question that has fizzed around my head since childhood – could I become an astronaut?”
