Bodyshockers

History

In spring 2013, Katie Piper was announced as involved in two new Channel 4 projects produced by Remarkable Television, an Endemol-owned production outfit. One was a live fashion series with Gok Wan, Gok Live: Stripping for Summer, which aired in early summer 2013. The other was a Piper-fronted documentary then titled Undo Me, intended to examine cosmetic and surgical procedures and advise those seeking to restore a natural look after regretted treatments.

Initially planned as six programmes for late 2013, the series was reduced to four episodes and retitled Bodyshockers, airing weekly on Thursday nights from 30 January 2014; each episode also carried a sub-title, though two editions shared the title My Tattoo Hell. Production began in autumn 2014 for a January 2015 transmission.

The second series adopted the sub-title Nips, Tucks and Tattoos for all episodes, though individual titles remained on the Channel 4 website; it aired on Monday nights from 5 January 2015, later moving to Wednesdays. In February 2015, a third series was ordered. Past episodes have been rerun on Channel 4, 4seven and E4.

Episode guide

Individual episode titles listed are those from the Channel 4 website; on-screen, all episodes carried the sub-title Nips, Tucks and Tattoos. A third series of eight episodes was produced in 2015 for transmission from early 2016, introducing a new titlecard but no onscreen episode titles. Seven episodes aired weekly on Wednesday nights in January and February 2016, with an eighth held back and broadcast as a standalone in June, several weeks after Piper's new format Never Seen a Doctor had completed its initial three-part run.