Banged Up on Channel 4: cast, what it's about, and what time it starts

Channel 4's documentary Banged Up is returning for a second series, where six well-known faces have chosen to serve time alongside ex-convicts at HMP Shrewsbury.

Here is everything you need to know about what the show is about, the celebrities putting themselves forward for the gritty experience, when and where you can watch the real-life drama unfold.

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There are a few instant recognisable faces, including former EastEnders star Sid Owen, former Conservative MP Neil Parish, comedian Tom Rosenthal. Gogglebox star Marcus Luther and journalist Peter Hitchens also form part of the line-up.

Another cast member will be Hrvy, who Strictly Come Dancing fans will recall was a runner up on the BBC show back in 2020. He opened up about his experienced filming the prison set show. He told the Daily Star: "I go to a prison, and I live in a prison environment for like eight days, it’s the maddest thing that I have ever done in my life.

"It was like Love Island, Big Brother style cameras and filming, but in a prison. It was 24 hours a day filming, the weird thing was it was a social experiment documentary but it has that reality TV format with the cameras and I am not used to any of that stuff, I have never done anything like that, so it was weird to have cameras on me 24/7. But I was in a cell, and I mean we are talking like one toilet in a cell, and I was sharing a cell with convicted contract killers, this is mad stuff."

The celebrities will surrender their freedoms to spend over a week behind bars, where they will be shown what life is like