Joanne McNally lands E4 sex travelogue
Joanne McNally is piloting a sex positive travelogue for E4 with her My Therapist Ghosted Me podcast co-host Vogue Williams.
With the working title Sex Drive, the hour-long taster sees the Irish pair travelling around Ibiza, exploring what women really want out of sex and discovering and overcoming their own inhibitions on the topic. They will visit San Antonio's O Beach and a women's circle in the countryside on a mission to explore their sexuality.
News of the project was first revealed by McNally on social media last month.
She and model-turned-presenter Williams also disclosed that the show would be about "sex and wellness" on their podcast, which attracts around 2.5 million listeners a month and has hugely boosted McNally's stand-up career. The comic is currently interspersing the UK dates of her Prosecco Express tour with 60 nights at Dublin's prestigious, 1000-seater Vicar St theatre.
The travelogue, which is made by Rumpus Media (Joe Lycett's Got Your Back, Joel & Nish Vs The World), was commissioned for E4 by Channel 4's head of youth and digital Karl Warner and is being lined up for a series order, trade magazine Broadcast reports.
McNally, who guested on Channel 4's The Big Fat Quiz Of Everything last year, is currently writing her debut book, a collection of essays on topics such as sex, dating, heartbreak, friendship, body image and ageing, to be published by Penguin next autumn.
Earlier this month, she talked about her struggle with an eating disorder in an interview with Annie Macmanus, telling the DJ on her Changes podcast that: "I was in denial about it and I was functioning with it [while working in PR in her late twenties]. I was like, everyone pukes up the odd meal ... And the job was quite stressful, because I'm not good at managing stress, I get quite overwhelmed. And so that was my way of dealing with it. And then I just got worse and worse and worse.
"I got into stand-up in 2017 and I was still in treatment when I started. So I had to quit my job and became a patient in a day programme."