Reality series · Channel 4
Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing reads strongest on Bingeability, Cliffhanger Intensity and Emotional Weight.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The story
What it's about
Jonathan Ross hosts this reality challenge in which nine pairs of strangers with different beliefs, lifestyles, opinions and habits are handcuffed together for as long as they can stand it. The pairs must navigate eating, dressing and even sleeping just inches apart as they are sent on a road trip across the UK - with the ones who last the longest in the running for £100,000. From a bar tender and a millionaire to an alpha male and a proud feminist, which couple will be the first to take the cuffs off?
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Andrew DevlinProducer
- David GloverExecutive Producer
- Georgina KiedrowskiProducer
- Sabeh BaliProducer
- Tom ClarkeExecutive Producer
- Joshua WangProducer
Direction
- Andrew DevlinDirector
- Georgina KiedrowskiDirector
- Sabeh BaliDirector
- Joshua WangDirector
- Jemma CoxDirector
Cinematography
- Justin FrahmDirector of Photography
- Richard IngDirector of Photography
Music
- Nick HarveyOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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