Channel 4 has ordered a fourth series of Twofour’s fixed-rig classroom format Educating…

Educating The East End

After travelling to Walthamstow for its third outing, Educating the East End, C4 head of factual and deputy chief creative officer Ralph Lee hinted in an interview with The Guardian that the next run could be located outside of the capital.  

“Maybe for a national audience London isn’t as attractive,” said Lee.

Educating The East End drew to a close last Thursday with an overnight audience of 1.3m (6%) and has registered a consolidated series audience of 2.2m (8.9%) after seven of its eight episodes.

The second series, Educating Yorkshire, entertained 3m (14%) across its eight-part run in 2013.

Earlier this month, Twofour revealed it had agreed a deal with Chinese broadcaster Hunan TV to develop a local version of the format. The format was previously sold to Dutch broadcaster BNN in October who remade it as De School.

C4 is also considering whether to bring back Sex Box, Clearstory’s Mariella Frostrup-fronted one-off doc which aired in the UK in October before securing a US re-make with WEtv.

 “Views internally are very split about it,” said Lee. “The Americans made it and they were less hung up about it, with the host constantly cracking jokes. Maybe what we discovered is that people really don’t want to talk about sex in this country.”

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