Rosie Jones to star in multiple new Channel 4 shows
- Trip Hazard: My Great British Adventure is to return for Series 2, with episodes now an hour long
- Digital series Rosie Jones: Dine Hard will see the comedian mixing comedy, chat and cooking
- The comedian will also present a documentary exploring society's attitudes towards disabled people
Channel 4 has announced three new commissions revolving around Rosie Jones.
The network has confirmed a second series of her travel-based show Trip Hazard, plus a documentary, and cooking-based web series featuring the comedian.
Rosie Jones says: "It gives me immense pleasure to be heading up not one, not two, but THREE Channel 4 shows! How lucky am I?! In my opinion, Channel 4 has always been the pioneer channel when it comes to championing and celebrating diversity, and showcasing different, important stories. All three of these shows do just that. Oh, do I have a brilliantly busy year ahead!"
Trip Hazard: My Great British Adventure
Trip Hazard is to return for a 'supersized' second series. Five hour-long episodes of the format are to be filmed, with "Rosie joined by more celebrity friends to explore the unlikeliest of destinations around the UK, experiencing the unusual, quirky and bonkers activities on offer in each location."
Channel 4 says: "With longer episodes and more chance to explore, Rosie and her famous companions have more time to create mischief, get stuck in with the locals and go head to head in a contest for a big finale to each episode."
Disability documentary
In a one-off, as yet untitled, documentary, Jones will explore society's attitudes towards disabled people.
The producers explain: "Rosie regularly receives shocking abuse on social media and she will use this as a starting point to investigate how widespread the problem is, looking particularly at the specifics of the language used towards disabled people to build a picture of the nature of society's attitudes towards them.
"Rosie will meet other people targeted for abuse about being disabled as well as those campaigning for change. Approaching the documentary with her inimitable humour and love for life, Rosie will also rope in her friends from the world of comedy to help raise awareness of the problem."
Dine Hard
Jones has also been signed up to host Dine Hard, a comedy, chat and cooking five-part digital series.
The show's synopsis explains: "Cooking may not come naturally to Rosie but manipulating her famous friends certainly does and she might ask a favour or three before she's finished the starter. Expect great chat, mediocre food and (hopefully) very few culinary-related trips to A&E."
Commissioner Thomas Pullen comments: "The representation of disability in cooking and chat show formats hasn't come as far as in some other genres, so with Rosie Jones: Dine Hard, we wanted to take a big stride forward and throw Rosie in at the deep end, asking her to do both those things at once - cooking and chat - and in true Rosie style, she has risen to that challenge. But this is about way more than just on-screen representation, we wanted to make this a really inclusive production with over a third of our on and off-screen team made up of disabled talent."
Phil Harris, head of Entertainment and Events at Channel 4, says: "Rosie Jones is a brilliant talent and we absolutely love working with her. We're over the moon viewers will get to see more of the Rosie they love in Trip Hazard, as well as a different side to her in the documentary which looks at a massively important issue that is incredibly close to Rosie's heart."