The Undateables

Tonight's TV Pick: Jools, Fame Report, The Undateables

The Huffington Post UK | Brogan Driscoll | Posted 17.04.2012 | UK Entertainment

Later Live with Jools Holland – BBC2, 10.30pm Jools’ guest list never disappoints. But the first episode of his 40th series is looking exceptiona...

Comedian Slams Channel 4's 'The Undateables'

The Huffington Post UK | Sarah Dean | Posted 03.04.2012 | UK Entertainment

Comedian Lee Ridley has slammed Channel 4's latest controversial documentary The Undateables, which follows a group of people with different disabilit...

Will the 'Crip' Factor Make the Undateables Unwatchable?

Lee Ridley | Posted 02.06.2012 | UK Entertainment
Lee Ridley

Tuesday (3 April) sees the start of a new series on Channel 4 called The Undateables or as I like to call it Would You Shag A Crip? It follows disabled people as they look for love. There's nothing like a good freak show to improve the ratings. The advertising around this programme has been deliberately controversial. A series of billboards for The Undateables with pictures of six of the participants has the tagline "love is blind, disfigured, autistic." Channel 4 would undoubtedly say that this was to help encourage debate and things but I doubt a teenage disabled person would cope very well with being told they were undateable.