Passion Distribution and Double Act partner up on Virgin Island

London 8th October 2024 – Passion Distribution today announces it has acquired worldwide rights to the new, must-watch format Virgin Island, commissioned by Channel 4 in the UK. Created and produced by acclaimed UK Indie Double Act, this exciting new format will be officially launched at MIPCOM later this month.
Virgin Island is a 6 x 60' warm, thought-provoking and hugely entertaining reality ob-doc series capturing a social experiment featuring 12 virgins, who all experience intimacy anxiety, as they follow a bespoke programme of treatments, created by the world’s leading sexologists, on a luxury island retreat.
In an increasingly hypersexualised society, the age that young people are losing their virginity is on the rise globally, due in part due to the easy access to porn, increasing feelings of loneliness and isolation and body image anxiety. This ground-breaking, world-first social experiment explores these issues with a group of courageous young people who undertake a variety of individual, group and somatic (hands on) therapies to help them to try and overcome their insecurities and intimacy fears.
Filmed over five weeks on a luxury island location, contributors were hosted by leading Somatic sex coaches Celeste Hirschman and Danielle Harel, surrogate partners Kat and Andre, sexological bodyworkers Aisha, Thomas and Joy, as well as mental health professionals, Abby & Gareth.
Emmanuelle Namiech CEO Passion Distribution commented: “Virgin Island is genuinely an exciting new, taboo-shaking, relatable social experiment - it offers a fascinating insight into young people’s lives today - their relationship with sex, intimacy and relationships and how these issues have been affected by the world that we live in, in the age of social media. Passion Distribution is proud to bring another exceptionally noisy yet inclusive and purposeful format to market.”
Rob Davis, Co-Founder of Double Act, added “On the surface, Virgin Island might seem like the most sensationalist reality TV show yet, but instead, it’s a heart-warming, life changing and refreshingly authentic format that has struck a deep chord amongst young people”.