Coach Trip is a British reality game show that began airing on Channel 4 on 7 March 2005.
The sixteenth series aired from 24 July 2017 to 15 September 2017 with the title Coach Trip: Road to Zante.
[6] The eighteenth series began airing on 28 January 2019 with the title Coach Trip: Road to Barcelona, reverting to 30 episodes, it ended on 8 March 2019.
Seven editions of Celebrity Coach Trip have aired in total, with the latest series concluding on 21 January 2022.
[13] Brendan later said in June 2013, during a telephone interview to Paul about his 2 new shows, that "Coach Trip has been rested at the moment – it's not the end of the programme, but we decided that we’d experiment with two new formats".
[14] On 4 September 2013, Channel 4 announced there would be another series of Coach Trip consisting of 30 episodes, each 30 minutes long.
[16] The show's format consists of four to seven teams of two undertaking a coach tour principally of continental Europe (but with individual series including sojourns into North Africa and Western Asia) and has been sold to other countries.
Chris Groombridge was the driver for the only time, Brendan Sheerin was the tour guide, Andy Love was narrator and the registration was T100 MTT.
Brendan returned as the tour guide, the narrator was once again Andy Love and the registration number plate once again was T100 MTT.
Filming started in September 2008 and lasted until October 2008, the series began airing on 25 May 2009 and concluded on 3 July 2009.
Filming started on 7 September 2009 and lasted until 27 October 2009, the series began airing on 15 February 2010 and concluded on 23 April 2010.
Tour guide Brendan Sheerin, coach driver Paul Donald and narrator David Quantick all returned for this series, which aired on Channel 4.
Filming started in May 2010 and lasted until June 2010, the series began airing on 30 August 2010 and concluded on 8 October 2010.
The series involves seven couples traveling on a one-month tour centering on Northern European countries for the first time, with visits to Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
Tour guide Brendan Sheerin, coach driver Paul Donald and the MT09 MTT registration all returned for this series, which airs on Channel 4.
Filming started in July 2010 and lasted until August 2010, the series began airing on 14 February 2011 and concluded on 25 March 2011.
The European tour began in the UK, before moving to France, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic plus for the first time ever, Poland and Slovakia.
The Mediterranean tour centring towards Western Asia began in the UK, before moving to Germany, Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, and for the first time Macedonia.
Filming started in September 2013 and lasted until October 2013, the series began airing on 27 January 2014 and concluded on 8 March 2014.
[16][22] It began airing on 16 January 2017, consisting of 30 episodes, this time round with title Coach Trip: Road to Marbs.
[16] The seventeenth series has the title Coach Trip: Road to Tenerife and aired from 8 January 2018 to 2 March 2018.
[24] The series reverted to 30 episodes, aired from 28 January 2019 to 8 March 2019 and has the title Coach Trip: Road to Barcelona.
Tour guide Brendan Sheerin, narrator David Vitty, coach driver Paul Donald and the MT09 MTT registration all returned for this series, which aired on Channel 4.
This coach trip had a journey around the Mediterranean, with the starting location and pick up point in South Paris, France, and the first destination was Monaco.
This coach trip had another journey around the Mediterranean, with the starting location and pick up point in Trieste, Italy, and the first destination was Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The tourists arrived back in Great Britain via Kirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen and the filming took place from 28 November to 12 December 2011.
On 24 June 2013, a replacement show called Brendan's Magical Mystery Tour began on Channel 4.
[34] The series was filmed from September 2012 (visiting Barcelona, Jamaica, Cancún in Mexico and Istanbul) and aired in the 5:00 pm slot, narrated by Tupele Dorgu.
On 13 September 2012, Sheerin announced in an interview that he had signed a deal to host a new dating show for Channel 4, titled 'Brendan's Love Boat'.
[36] The series, renamed Brendan's Love Cruise, began on 2 December on More4 in the 9:20 am slot, narrated by Maria McErlane.