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Where can I watch nudity on TV now that Game of Thrones is nearly over? Channel 4 has the answer
Season six of Game of Thrones only has three more episodes to go and viewers across the UK are starting to worry about exactly where they’re going to have to tune in to see naked people on television.
Obviously, there’s BBC2’s historical raunch-fest Versailles, which is still only at the beginning of its 10-part run – but what if you’re a passionate Brexiter, interested only in exclusively British nudity?
Then never fear: an entire season of naked TV is heading to Channel 4 this summer. And just to make things even more exciting? The stitchless stars in question won’t be gym-honed, unfeasibly attractive actors and actresses – they’ll be real Brits.
Forthcoming documentary The Great British Skinny Dip will focus on British Naturism, and its campaign to encourage timid swimmers across the UK to take the naked plunge this September. Yes, it sounds a bit chilly – but at least Channel 4 are doing their bit to promote getting active.
Another new show called Naked Attraction, meanwhile, will see love-hungry singletons pick out a prospective partner from a naked line-up. (And they say Tinder is killing romance…)
The series, which was first announced in January, will be hosted by Anna Richardson and will reportedly feature Matthew Whelan, who is Britain’s most tattooed man.
“It’s like Blind Date but with a serious twist,” Whelan told The Mirror earlier this year. “It is all about the science of attraction. I am really looking forward to stripping for the show.”
A press release for the series read: "Whilst we are socially conditioned not to judge people on their looks, could reversing the dating process and judging someone purely on their naked form actually offer us the best chance of finding a suitable mate?"
Finally, we’ve also got a show called Stripped to look forward to – a new reality series in which households will be “stripped” of all their possessions, including clothing, and permitted to ask for just one item back a day.
Based on an original concept from a Danish series, it was first announced in the Autumn of 2015.
“The average British household owns £3500 worth of unused clutter, the average user picks up their phone 1500 times, we use our phone the equivalent of one full day a week, a woman will own 1116 tops, 620 dresses, 558 trousers/jeans a lifetime,” read a Channel 4 press release. “What happens when we take it all away?”
“What happens when we are literally stripped of all our possessions – do the things we own improve our lives or does the drive to consume simply serve to make us feel confined and less happy?”
The one good thing about all of these forthcoming shows is that they’ll almost certainly offer equal opportunities nudity.
Game of Thrones, in contrast, has recently come under fire for focusing too much on eroticised female nudity, while generally steering clear of full frontal male exposure.