Girls Aloud: Off The Record
| Girls Aloud: Off The Record | |
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| Starring |
Sarah Harding Nicola Roberts Nadine Coyle Cheryl Cole Kimberley Walsh |
| Opening theme | "Models" |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Monkey Kingdom Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | E4 |
| Original release | 11 April – 16 May 2006 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
Popstars: The Rivals Girls Aloud: Home Truths The Passions of Girls Aloud The Girls Aloud Party |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Girls Aloud: Off the Record is a six-part series recorded by Girls Aloud for E4 that started on 11 April 2006 at 10:30pm. The show was produced by E4 and Monkey Kingdom Productions for Channel Four Television Corporation.
The series follows Girls Aloud in the buildup to their 2006 Chemistry arena tour, from appearing on TV shows to filming the "Whole Lotta History" video in Paris, promoting in Australia and New Zealand, doing promotional appearances in Ibiza and Greece, and going on an ambassadorial trip to China. The series also follows a selection of Girls Aloud's fans, including two Australian fans who spent all their money on tickets to Girls Aloud's Wembley show. The girls' personal lives were featured too - Ashley Cole appears in the first episode.
Girls Aloud: Off the Record was repeated on Channel 4 as of 3 September 2006. A DVD of the series was released on 28 August 2006. It was originally planned to be released on 16 July (as stated on Amazon.co.uk and HMV.co.uk), but was delayed to September, as stated on the Girls Aloud official site.
In February 2006, it was announced that Girls Aloud were already in the process of filming a reality show. A Channel 4 spokesman said, "The series will reveal what it is like to be at the heart of a chart-topping group. It will also show the girls as they try to escape professional pressures and unwind with loved ones." The programme was part of a partnership between Channel Four Television Corporation and Universal Music, created by E4 and Monkey Kingdom Productions for Channel Four. The series was produced by Vicky Crawley, while David Granger and Will Macdonald served as executive producers.
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Writing or The Observer, Paul Morley slated the show. He wrote, "the fraudulently titled Off the Record is just one long, gushing promotional push for the group, an attempt to prolong their fragile careers for just a few more months by pretending to analyse the exciting, stressful reality of being a girl in a group such as Girls Aloud attempting to transcend their manufactured roots. Sort of a smutty comedy, sort of a tragedy, sort of a gossipy, fake-provocative documentary, sort of a heavily censored electronic press kit, there's little sleaze, insight or emotional disintegration." As of 2012, Girls Aloud have since released a further three albums, and won a Brit Award.
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