Gok Wan leads C4 spring/summer season

How to Look Good Naked presenter Gok Wan is to front a weekly studio-based fashion show for Channel 4 as part of its spring/summer season.

In each edition of the show, developed under the working title Gok's Clothes Show, the host will show the audience how to adopt the latest fashion trend on both a small and a big budget.

Gok will lead a team flying the flag for the high street, taking on a designer-led team in a battle to win the audience's vote on which clothes they would wear.

The show will also offer glimpse into celebrities' wardrobes – including the chance to win a famous item of clothing - and goes behind the scenes in the world of haute couture, fashion parties and catwalk shows.

C4 features commissioning editor Walter Iuzzolino ordered the series from Endemol subisidiary Cheetah Television as part of C4's spring/summer season, unveiled today. Maverick's How to Look Good Naked will also return.

Meanwhile, Silver River Productions will explore the social impact of television in a six-part series. How TV Changed Britain will use shows from Z-Cars to Cracker to examine police-public relations and will also reflect on the role of teenagers in soaps and programmes dedicated to the national obsession with homes.

Other new shows include four documentaries about love and sex in Victorian England, commissioned under the umbrella of a Victorian Passions season.

In Blast Films' Victorian Sex Tourist, Hollywood star Rupert Everett travels from Bombay to Egypt in the footsteps of Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton, who brought the Kama Sutra and The Arabian Nights to the UK.

Dickens' Double Life, from Robert Bolton Productions, will explore the hidden story of Charles Dickens' adulterous passion for a woman 22 years his junior.

Granada is making Upstairs Downstairs Love, which reveals the true story of a gentleman and his servant lover who broke Puritanical codes by embracing master-slave role-playing, ritual and fashion.

The season also includes the previously announced Victoria's Men from Blakeway 3BM.

A season on gun and knife crime, centred around the drama Fallout, will also feature.

Source: Broadcast Now