The series was produced by Chris Evans through his company UMTV, and was presented by Vernon Kay.
Evans only occasionally appeared on screen, usually as the driver of the golf buggy used to ferry the winning contestants off-set at the end of the show.
The celeb would gather the audience's apparent majority opinion and present this as an answer to Kay.
The winner of the final challenge would get to select one of the contenders of the opposite sex to join them for a week in the Boys and Girls apartment in London, where they would be awarded the £100,000 prize money to spend on purchases meeting conditions laid down during the week (e.g. "Spend £30,000 on items that spell out V-E-R-N-O-N-K-A-Y").
Boys and Girls Friday was broadcast in a Friday mid-evening 30-minute slot and was principally a 'fly on the wall' format (introduced and narrated by Anderson) in which cameras would follow each week's winners during their week in the apartment as they undertook their shopping challenges.
Edited highlights from this programme would be shown when the contestants returned to the studio the following day for the endgame.
It was also the first in a string of flops for UMTV, with many of the firm's subsequent programmes (such as The Terry and Gaby Show and OFI Sunday) failing to match the success of earlier Chris Evans projects such as Don't Forget Your Toothbrush and TFI Friday.