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Chris McCausland lands Channel 4 travel show

Friday 8th July 2022, 10:32am by Jay Richardson

• Chris McCausland is making a travel show entitled The Wonders Of The World That I Can't See for Channel 4
• The blind stand-up and fearful flyer will be joined by other celebrities on his globe-trotting adventures
• He says: "I hate flying, don't function in the heat, and can't eat anything weird. If I'm honest, I just wanted to do Gogglebox "

Chris McCausland has landed a television travelogue.

Despite his hatred of flying, McCausland is making a series entitled The Wonders Of The World That I Can't See for Channel 4 , in which the blind comic and celebrity companions visit a series of landmarks across various countries.

Produced and directed by Jim Hickey ( Joel & Nish vs The World , Hate Thy Neighbour ) for Open Mike Productions ( Live At The Apollo , The Last Leg ), filming takes place in the break before McCausland's Speaky Blinder tour resumes in September.

Channel 4 explains: "In each episode, reluctant traveller Chris will be joined by a different special celebrity guest as his travelling companion. As well as providing a humorous 'audio description' of their surroundings for him, the celebrity companions will do their best to prove to Chris that there's much more to visiting these places than just what they look like, by engaging their other senses. Will they manage to convince him that it was worth getting off his couch after all?"

Guests and destinations for the four hour-long episodes have yet to emerge.

McCausland jokes: "I hate flying, don't function in the heat, and can't eat anything weird. If I'm honest, I just wanted to do Gogglebox . But thanks to Channel 4 and Open Mike for having more faith in me than I do."

"Being on a plane, I've never been comfortable with it" McCausland told actor Cressida Bonas on her Fear Itself podcast in 2020 .

"Firstly, I can't see my surroundings. And so, you get turbulence, in my head, the cabin crew, the stewards are slapping their hands on their faces with open mouths, silent screaming about the impending terror and doom that we're about to encounter. When really they're just serving gin and tonics ... I don't know whether we're about to drop out of the sky."

McCausland also told Bonas that he hates sea swimming, because "I'm not a strong swimmer" and "I can't see which direction the shore's in!"

The Wonders Of The World That I Can't See is the latest high-profile factual commission to feature a comedian exploring a blind person's experience, following blind stand-up Jamie MacDonald 's BBC Two documentary Blind Ambition last year, in which he and director Jamie O'Leary interviewed creatives who had lost their eyesight, and Sara Pascoe 's 2019 BBC Two film Travelling Blind , in which the sighted stand-up went to Turkey with blind travel expert and entrepreneur Amar Latif .

McCausland, who is blind because of retinitis pigmentosa, has seen his career take off in the last two years, with his 100-plus date tour booked on the back of a routine at the Royal Variety Performance and his third Live At The Apollo set airing last year. He has also made multiple appearances on panel shows like Have I Got News For You , Would I Lie To You? and QI .

Phil Harris , Head of Entertainment and Live Events at Channel 4 , says: "I'm excited to build on Chris's scene stealing appearances on The Last Leg and 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown with this new adventure. We're proud to be the home of his first entertainment series and look forward to growing his presence on Channel 4 ."

Executive producer Andrew Beint comments: " Open Mike Productions are delighted to be given the opportunity to work with the brilliant Chris McCausland on this extraordinary and quintessentially Channel 4 travelogue series."

Commissioning editor Steve Handley concludes: "Chris is an outstanding talent and I'm thrilled he's going on a romp across the globe for us. It promises to be both hilarious and heartfelt - proving that there is so much more to experience beyond what a famous place looks like."

Last week, Broadcast magazine revealed that Chris McCausland is piloting a BBC game show called What's In The Box? , in which contestants have to guess the contents of a box without being able to see inside it. He also recently hosted a Radio 4 panel show pilot that he devised himself, You Heard It Here First , in which comedians have to "live in an audio-only world, deciphering brainteaser sound cues for points and pride whilst trying not to muck about too much along the way".

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New four-part travelogue series from Open Mike Productions for Channel 4 starring Chris McCausland

Channel 4 have commissioned Open Mike Productions, the award-winning production company behind ‘Live At The Apollo’ and ‘The Last Leg’, to produce a brand new comedy travelogue series starring comedian Chris McCausland.

The Wonders of the World I Can't See ( w/t ) is a 4x60 series that takes Chris across the globe to explore some of the world’s most iconic, unforgettable world landmarks, but in a new and unique way that discovers things the ordinary traveller might miss.

In each episode, reluctant traveller Chris will be joined by a different special celebrity guest as his travelling companion. As well as providing a humorous ‘audio description’ of their surroundings for him, the celebrity companions will do their best to prove to Chris that there’s much more to visiting these places than just what they look like, by engaging their other senses. Will they manage to convince him that it was worth getting off his couch after all?

Chris McCausland said: "I hate flying, don't function in the heat, and can't eat anything weird. If I'm honest, I just wanted to do Gogglebox. But thanks to Channel 4 and Open Mike for having more faith in me than I do."

Phil Harris, Head of Entertainment and Live Events at Channel 4: “I’m excited to build on Chris’s scene stealing appearances on The Last Leg and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown with this new adventure. We’re proud to be the home of his first entertainment series and look forward to growing his presence on Channel 4.”

Andrew Beint for Open Mike Productions said: “ Open Mike Productions are delighted to be given the opportunity to work with the brilliant Chris McCausland on this extraordinary and quintessentially Channel 4 travelogue series.”

Steve Handley, Commissioning Editor for Entertainment at Channel 4 said: “ Chris is an outstanding talent and I’m thrilled he’s going on a romp across the globe for us. It promises to be both hilarious and heartfelt – proving that there is so much more to experience beyond what a famous place looks like.”

The show was commissioned for Channel 4 by Head of Entertainment and Live Events, Phil Harris and Commissioning Editor for Entertainment, Steve Handley. Jim Hickey is the series producer / director and the executive producers for Open Mike are Andrew Beint and Andy Thistlewood.

Locations and comedians taking part in The Wonders of the World I Can't See ( w/t ) will be announced in due course.

Chris McCausland biography:

Chris has been performing stand-up since 2003 and is now a regular face on our TV screens. He has appeared on Live at the Apollo three times including an episode in 2021. He has made multiple appearances on  flagship comedy shows including; ‘The Last Leg’, ‘Have I Got News for You’, ‘Would I Lie to You?’, ‘8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown’, ‘QI’, and ‘Blankety Blank’. In 2021 Chris made his debut on the highly prestigious ‘The Royal Variety Performance’ to high acclaim. Chris is currently in the midst of a 130 date national tour with his stand-up show "Speaky Blinder" that will culminate at the Shepherds Bush Empire in May 2023.

Chris is blind and lost his sight gradually due to a genetic condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa.

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CHANNEL 4 COMEDY TRAVELOGUE WITH COMEDIAN CHRIS McCAUSLAND

Channel 4 have commissioned Open Mike Productions to produce a brand new comedy travelogue series starring comedian Chris McCausland.

The Wonders of the World I Can't See (w/t) is a 4x60 series that takes Chris across the globe to explore some of the world’s most iconic, unforgettable world landmarks, but in a new and unique way that discovers things the ordinary traveller might miss.

In each episode, reluctant traveller Chris will be joined by a different special celebrity guest as his travelling companion.

As well as providing a humorous ‘audio description’ of their surroundings for him, the celebrity companions will do their best to prove to Chris that there’s much more to visiting these places than just what they look like, by engaging their other senses.

Chris McCausland said: "I hate flying, don't function in the heat, and can't eat anything weird. If I'm honest, I just wanted to do Gogglebox. But thanks to Channel 4 and Open Mike for having more faith in me than I do."

Phil Harris, Head of Entertainment and Live Events at Channel 4: “I’m excited to build on Chris’s scene stealing appearances on The Last Leg and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown with this new adventure. We’re proud to be the home of his first entertainment series and look forward to growing his presence on Channel 4.”

Andrew Beint for Open Mike Productions said: “Open Mike Productions are delighted to be given the opportunity to work with the brilliant Chris McCausland on this extraordinary and quintessentially Channel 4 travelogue series.”

Steve Handley, Commissioning Editor for Entertainment at Channel 4 said: “Chris is an outstanding talent and I’m thrilled he’s going on a romp across the globe for us. It promises to be both hilarious and heartfelt – proving that there is so much more to experience beyond what a famous place looks like.”

Locations and comedians taking part in The Wonders of the World I Can't See (w/t) will be announced in due course.

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Chris McCausland: ‘A miracle to cure my blindness completely? I’d consider that’

The comedian talks about challenging perceptions, being turned down by mi5 and shaking up the celebrity travelogue genre with his new channel 4 show.

To call Chris McCausland a reluctant traveller is a little like suggesting, these days, that Russell Brand is a divisive figure. As the stand-up comedian will tell you himself, there are few people you could encounter less willing to go on holiday than him.

Odd, then, that Channel 4 has given the 45-year-old his own travel show, The Wonders of the World I Can’t See .

“I’m not a big traveller, no,” he concedes. “There’s just so much that I don’t like about it. I’m a terrible flyer , I’m not good in the heat, and I can’t help but think: what’s the point? What’s the point going all that way to stand in front of the thing that everyone is looking at, but that I can’t see?”

McCausland is blind. He lost his sight completely by the age of 22, due to a hereditary condition called retinitis pigmentosa. “My grandmother had it, and my mum,” he says. “Basically, I’d been going blind very slowly since I was born, and so didn’t even really notice it happening – like,” he adds, “the frog in the pan of boiling water.”

There are many blind people who do choose to travel, of course, and who rely upon their other senses to fill in the blanks. Not McCausland.

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“They say that when you lose your sight, your hearing gets better. It doesn’t. But you do pay more attention to it. So when you’re sat at a beach resort, and you’re hot, and you can’t see what’s around you, then you just end up concentrating on how hot you actually are. I suffer more for it.

“What’s the point,” he says, “of going to somewhere like the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, and have someone describe it to you, when you can just stay at home and have them describe it from a postcard?”

It’s perhaps for this reason, then – McCausland’s deep reluctance – that makes The Wonders of the World I Can’t See such oddly compelling viewing. Television has done wanderlust to death, and Channel 4 has already had its own grumpy man travel show, Travel Man with Richard Ayoade. But McCausland takes that up a notch by being the ultimate reluctant holidaymaker. He goes to Rome, to Athens, Niagara Falls and Jordan, and on each trip takes with him a comedy foil – Liza Tarbuck, Guz Kahn, Tom Allen and Harry Hill – not merely for the company, but also to ensure that he doesn’t trip over any Greek pillars or Italian cobblestones. There’s a thorough method to McCausland’s crankiness – he looks tired a lot of the time, and turns bright pink in the sun – and so what comes over loud and clear is how any potential for adventure is consumed within his frustration.

Talking on the phone from his home in south-west London, he says that he hopes the show is at least funny. It is. “But it’s not all roses, either,” he points out. “There’s episodes where the wonders we visit are actually the most underwhelming part of the trip.”

It’s his frustration, however, that rises mostly to the top. In Greece with Harry Hill, he shrugs at the Acropolis, and then eats a bad fish stew cooked by two Greek fishermen who, he notes, “were very unimpressed by me”. At one point in Niagara, Liza Tarbuck calls him a “grumpy Scouse git”.

He does concede that the overall experience was an interesting one, “and I do love making TV shows”, but it hasn’t left him any better disposed towards the prospects of summer holidays with his wife and nine-year-old daughter. “I get very bored in my own mind when I don’t have much to do, and so they tend to go off on holiday together, or with friends,” he says. “I stay at home, and work. I like to work.”

Chris McCausland has been hard at work, as a stand-up comic, for two decades now. A native of Liverpool, he travelled south to London at the turn of the 21st-century to study software engineering at university, and never went back. “My eyesight was starting to get very bad at uni, and the technology back then wasn’t what it is now, so I had to get off that particular career path.”

For the newly blind, there were not many realistic Plan Bs. “I did apply to become a spy, though.” This is presumably the start of an oft-repeated joke, but no. By all accounts it’s true. “It is! I applied to MI5, and got down to the final 30 out of 3000 applicants. They were really excited at first, and said that this was new territory for them, but in the end they turned me down purely because of my eyesight.” He laughs. “Fair enough, I suppose.”

A fan of Jack Dee, Lee Evans and Eddie Izzard, he decided to give comedy a go, “because I had nothing to lose”. McCausland was funny, and his not being able to see was something he could turn – at least notionally – to his advantage. Google suggests he might be the world’s only professional blind comedian.

“But I did want to challenge perceptions,” he insists. “I was never going to go on stage and do 20 minutes of blind jokes.” Like most comedians of his age who aren’t Frankie Boyle – and prone, as Boyle is, instinctively to shock and forever push at polite boundaries – he’s far more likely to joke about being a middle-aged parent, and being easily tired. “I think that, back when I started, I was quite uncomfortable with who I was, embarrassed even. I wanted to be cool, you know? And I wasn’t.”

But he was immensely likeable, and quick-witted, and has since become a mainstay on comedy panel shows like Would I Lie to You? and Have I Got News for You? He recently took part in the Channel 4 show Scared of the Dark , in which celebrities were plunged into darkness in order to better appreciate the daily challenges faced by those that can’t see. In this situation, McCausland was at a distinct advantage.

The new travel show, meanwhile, focuses on his secondary strength: curmudgeon. The trip he admits to enjoying most is Niagara Falls, the only Wonder you don’t need to see to experience. But even here there’s a caveat.

“With that one, I was the saddest, I think, because I wasn’t able to see it. Don’t get me wrong,” he adds quickly, “I’m much more accepting of who I am these days – I’ve stopped having tantrums every time I spill drinks or bang my head on the door frame – and if someone said they could insert a chip into my retina that would give me back 10 per cent of my sight I’d just think, what’s the point? But a miracle to cure my blindness completely?”

There’s a pause on the phone line, as he mulls this over. “Yeah, I’d consider that,” he says.

The Wonders of the World I Can’t See is on Channel 4 now. McCausland is touring the UK in early 2024

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Channel 4 have commissioned Open Mike Productions, the award-winning production company behind ‘Live At The Apollo’ and ‘The Last Leg’, to produce a brand new comedy travelogue series starring comedian Chris McCausland.  

‘THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD THAT I CAN’T SEE’ will take Chris across the globe to explore some of the world’s most iconic, unforgettable world landmarks, but in a new and unique way that discovers things the ordinary traveller might miss.  

In each episode, reluctant traveller Chris will be joined by a different special celebrity guest as his travelling companion. As well as providing a humorous ‘audio description’ of their surroundings for him, the celebrity companions will do their best to prove to Chris that there’s much more to visiting these places than just what they look like, by engaging their other senses. Will they manage to convince him that it was worth getting off his couch after all?

Chris McCausland said: "I hate flying, don't function in the heat, and can't eat anything weird. If I'm honest, I just wanted to do Gogglebox. But thanks to Channel 4 and Open Mike for having more faith in me than I do."

Phil Harris, Head of Entertainment and Live Events at Channel 4: “I’m excited to build on Chris’s scene stealing appearances on The Last Leg and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown with this new adventure. We’re proud to be the home of his first entertainment series and look forward to growing his presence on Channel 4.”  

Andrew Beint for Open Mike Productions said: “ Open Mike Productions are delighted to be given the opportunity to work with the brilliant Chris McCausland on this extraordinary and quintessentially Channel 4 travelogue series.”

Steve Handley, Commissioning Editor for Entertainment at Channel 4 said: “ Chris is an outstanding talent and I’m thrilled he’s going on a romp across the globe for us. It promises to be both hilarious and heartfelt – proving that there is so much more to experience beyond what a famous place looks like.”  

The show was commissioned for Channel 4 by Head of Entertainment and Live Events, Phil Harris and Commissioning Editor for Entertainment, Steve Handley. Jim Hickey is the series producer / director and the executive producers for Open Mike are Andrew Beint and Andy Thistlewood.

Chris has been performing stand-up since 2003 and is now a regular face on our TV screens. He has appeared on Live at the Apollo three times including an episode in 2021. He has made multiple appearances on   flagship comedy shows   including; ‘The Last Leg’, ‘Have I Got News for You’, ‘Would I Lie to You?’, ‘8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown’, ‘QI’, and ‘Blankety Blank’.

In 2021 Chris made his debut on the highly prestigious ‘The Royal Variety Performance’ to high acclaim.

Chris is currently in the midst of a 130 date national tour with his stand-up show "Speaky Blinder" that will culminate at the Shepherds Bush Empire in May 2023.

Chris is blind and lost his sight gradually due to a genetic condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa.

Locations and comedians taking part in  THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD THAT I CAN’T SEE  will be announced in due course.  

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Chris McCausland has a new show on ITV1

Comedian Chris McCausland has his own ITV1 show which has been inspirationally called The Chris McCausland Show . It must have taken the makers ages to come up with that title!

The 47-year-old star has been a regular on panel shows such as QI and Would I Lie to You? and he also turned up in an episode of Not Going Out . His early morning show is part of a new ITV weekend line-up which also includes Jimmy and Shivi’s Farmhouse Breakfast , which sees farmer Jimmy Doherty team up with chef Shivi Ramoutar. 

Teasing Chris's show, ITV says: "This 11-episode series will feature a brilliant line-up of celebrity guests and will be packed with humour, insights and inevitable shenanigans. Chris will immerse his guests in his audio world with interactive games that will have viewers of all ages laughing and playing along at home. And to top it all off, he'll have live acoustic performances that will be the soundtrack of your weekend."

The Chris McCausland Show release date

The Chris McCausland Show starts on ITV1 on Saturday June 29 at 8.25 am. The first episode runs for an hour.

Who are the guests?

Chris is joined on the first edition by comedy actor Paul Whitehouse and actress and writer Donna Preston.

More about Chris

Chris originally worked as a web developer before losing his sight and starting a stand-up career during his 20s. Asked about how the blind community has reacted to his success in an interview with The Guardian , he replied: "It's all been very positive. My attitude has always been to represent by not banging you over the head. I think the best way to represent a disability is to make people forget about it whenever possible. It’s always part of you. 

"People are interested, you let them in and laugh about it. But if you can do a show where, say, 80% of it isn’t about being blind, that makes it more impactful and funnier when you do talk about it. I believe in representation within the mainstream. Integration rather than segregation. Don't have a sketch show with five disabled comedians. Take those five disabled comedians and put them in five different shows. That's the more powerful way.”

What else is Chris working on?

Chris is starring with Lee Mack in a Christmas special for Sky called Bad Tidings . The pair play warring neighbours who become unlikely heroes when they save their street from burglars. It is written by Chris and Ghosts stars, Laurence Rickard and Martha Howe-Douglas. Chris said: "Talk about a back of an envelope idea that has got out of hand, we are now making a Christmas comedy film and it's going to be awesome. I can't wait to get up to some hilarious mayhem with Lee and bring some festive spirit into people's living rooms this Christmas!"

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The Wonders of the World I Can't See

Chris McCausland is to make a travel series for Channel 4, provisionally titled The Wonders Of The World I Can't See

In the four-part series, the comic, who is blind, visits major world landmarks with a celebrity guest. Each travelling companion will provide the stand-up with a humorous 'audio description' of their surroundings and try to prove there's more to visiting these places than just what they look like.

'Will they manage to convince him that it was worth getting off his couch after all?,' Channel 4 say.

McCausland said: 'I hate flying, don't function in the heat, and can't eat anything weird. If I'm honest, I just wanted to do Gogglebox. But thanks to Channel 4 for having more faith in me than I do.'

Locations and guests are yet to be announced, but Phil Harris, head of entertainment and live events at Channel 4: 'I'm excited to build on Chris's scene stealing appearances on The Last Leg and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown with this new adventure.

'We're proud to be the home of his first entertainment series and look forward to growing his presence on Channel 4.'

Commissioning editor Steve Handley added: 'Chris is an outstanding talent and I'm thrilled he's going on a romp across the globe for us. It promises to be both hilarious and heartfelt - proving that there is so much more to experience beyond what a famous place looks like.'

The commission, from programme-makers Open Mike Productions, comes as McCausland pilots a BBC TV show called What's In The Box? and a Radio 4 panel show based around sounds, called You Heard It Here First.

McCausland, who lost his sight gradually due to a genetic condition called retinitis pigmentosa, is currently on a 130-date national tour with his stand-up show Speaky Blinder.

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Made by: Open Mike Productions Series producer/director: Jim Hickey Commissioned for Channel 4 by: Head of entertainment and live events, Phil Harris and commissioning editor for entertainment Executive producers: Andrew Beint and Andy Thistlewood.

Published: 8 Jul 2022

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