Start your engines, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is coming to 大象传媒 Three
大象传媒 Three and World of Wonder announced today that a UK version of the award-winning global hit RuPaul’s Drag Race is coming to the channel in 2019.
It is a dream come true to extend our royal family to the United Kingdom with our partners at 大象传媒 Three.
In the first UK adaptation of the show, RuPaul will be on the lookout to crown one of the UK’s top drag artists the ‘Queen of Great Britain’. But, it will take more than just a wig and pair of heels to win as ten contestants take part in weekly challenges and face off against each other to keep themselves in the competition.
RuPaul says: “It is a dream come true to extend our royal family to the United Kingdom with our partners at 大象传媒 Three. I am beyond excited to celebrate the massive charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent of the Queen’s queens. And before anyone asks, yes, we would be thrilled to have Meghan Markle join us, as we are already preparing a ‘Royal-Mother-To-Be’ runway challenge.”
Contestants will compete in individual or team challenges that test a specific drag queen skill before taking on the Maxi Challenge, the headline moment of each show where they may be required to perform, model in a photo shoot, prepare a runway look for a themed challenge before having to face the judges, with one contestant each week eliminated and asked to “Sashay Away”.
Damian Kavanagh, Controller 大象传媒 Three, says: “Needless to say, we’re delighted that 大象传媒 Three will be the home of a new UK version of Drag Race. It is one of the biggest entertainment titles in the world and anticipation levels for a UK version have been at feverish levels. With heart, humour and the un-imitable RuPaul, Drag Race is going to take 大象传媒 Three to a whole new level.”
Kate Phillips, Controller, Entertainment Commissioning, says: “I’ve been a huge fan of this funny, frank and fierce format for a long time. I also know there is a wealth of very talented and very competitive drag artists in the UK and I can’t wait for them to sashay onto the 大象传媒!”
Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, World of Wonder Co-Founders and Executive Producers, say: “World of Wonder Productions began in the UK, and the many Queens of England have always been an inspiration, so bringing RuPaul’s Drag Race to 大象传媒 Three is a very special home coming”.
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is an 8x60' World of Wonder production for 大象传媒 Three. It was commissioned by Damian Kavanagh, Controller 大象传媒 Three and Kate Phillips, Controller, 大象传媒 Entertainment. The Executive Producers are RuPaul Charles, Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Tom Campbell, Sally Miles and Bruce McCoy, and the 大象传媒 Commissioning Editor is Ruby Kuraishe.
A global phenomenon, the RuPaul's Drag Race franchise is available in 193 countries through network partners and World of Wonder's streaming service WOW Presents Plus. The series was nominated in the US for a record-breaking 12 Emmys in 2018, with wins including Outstanding Reality-Competition Program and Outstanding Host for a Reality-Competition Program.
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