Educating Joey Essex

Educating Joey Essex is a British television programme which began airing on ITV2 on 16 March 2014. The show features former The Only Way Is Essex star Joey Essex travelling the world to learn things, and is narrated by Phillip Schofield. The show title is a similarity to the 2011 Channel 4 reality show Educating Essex.

Educating Joey Essex
Genre	Reality
Starring	Joey Essex
Narrated by	Phillip Schofield
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	14
Production
Running time	60 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production company	Lime Pictures
Original release
Network	ITV2
Release	16 March 2014 (2014-03-16) – 22 December 2016 (2016-12-22)
Related
The Only Way Is Essex

The first programme aired in March 2014 and was originally planned to be a one-off special. On 5 June 2014, a full series was announced.^[1]

In 2016 it was announced that Educating Joey Essex would return for a second series filming started in April.^[2][3] Series 2 premiered 12 June 2016.

Essex announced whilst on ITV This Morning on 28 June 2017 that he would like to do another series of Educating Joey Essex or a one-off special. Joey also said that there needs to be a reason to do another episode or series and at the moment there isn't but the series is still on his mind for a return.^[4]

Series overview

Series	Episodes		Originally released
			First released	Last released
1	7		16 March 2014 (2014-03-16)	5 May 2015 (2015-05-05)
2	7		12 June 2016 (2016-06-12)	22 December 2016

Series One

#	Series total	Date aired	Title	Note(s)
1	1	16 March 2014[5]	Africa
2	2	22 June 2014[6]	Football Fever[7]	'World Cup' special[8]
3	3	2 September 2014[9]	Space Cadet[10]
4	4	31 October 2014	Reem Halloween[11]
5	5	10 December 2014	Winter Essex-pedition[12]
6	6	10 February 2015	Supermodel Student[13]
7	7	5 May 2015	General Election, What Are You Saying?[14][15]

Series Two

#	Series total	Date aired	Title	Note(s)
1	8	12 June 2016	Reem Queen at 90
2	9	19 June 2016	What EU Saying?[16]
3	10	25 August 2016	GCSE special[17]	Under the show name "Re-Educating Joey Essex"
4	11	1 November 2016	The American Reem
5	12	2 November 2016
6	13	3 November 2016
7	14	22 December 2016	"What You Sleighing"	Christmas special

Notes

• There is also going to be a US election special, starring Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.^[18]

• For episode 3 in series 2, filming also took place on 25 August 2016 before transmission later that day where Joey Essex receives his GCSE results.

• Episode 4,5, and 6 was a three parter.

Releases

Three episodes of series one have been made available on Amazon Instant Video UK^[19]