Shipmates narrator: Who is the voiceover on the Channel 4 show?
Channel 4 Shipmates voice-overShipmates started on Channel 4 tonight – but who is the narrator of the new reality series?
Airing Fridays on Channel 4, Shipmates is a brand new reality show.
Over five episodes two wild groups of friends board one of the most luxurious cruise ships in the world for a glamorous competition.
Who is the Shipmates voice-over?
Joining them – at least in voice – is narrator Stephen Mangan.
The actor and comic has a list of credits on stage and screen, including Green Wing, I’m Alan Partridge, Episodes and The Postman Pat Movie, where he voiced Postman Pat himself.
He also recently provided the voice-over for Shipmates’ sister Channel 4 series Married At First Sight.
What is Shipmates?
In Shipmates, two groups of friends go head to head in ‘the ultimate popularity contest’.
For five days they join 1500 party animals stopping off at the Med’s biggest party destinations of Cannes, Ibiza, Palma and Barcelona. The aim is to convince the other party-goers to vote for them in a week-long popularity contest.
At the end, the group that gets the most votes will win a luxury holiday to beautiful Bali.
In the first episode tonight, as one team edges ahead, cracks in friendship groups begin to show, and when team tactics turn to flirting, one ex-flame is left all at sea. Stormy waters lie ahead…
Shipmates airs at 11:05PM on Channel 4 from Friday, July 5.
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