{"id":520779,"date":"2026-04-09T04:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/520779\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T04:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:12:18","slug":"one-born-every-minute-confirms-emotional-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/520779\/","title":{"rendered":"One Born Every Minute confirms “emotional” reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s official: One Born Every Minute is returning to UK TV with brand new episodes, eight years after its cancellation<\/a>. The BAFTA-winning show has been commissioned for 12 new installments, which will air on E4.<\/p>\n

Described in official materials<\/a> as a “ground-breaking fixed-rig observational documentary series” that captures “raw, emotional, and sometimes unpredictable moments experienced by expectant families and the medical teams who support them”, the show initially launched in 2010 before being retired in 2018.<\/p>\n

Now, viewers will once again be taken behind the scenes of contemporary maternity care when new episodes are filmed later in 2026.<\/p>\n

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Vivienne Molokwu, Senior Commissioning Editor for Reality & Entertainment and the Commissioning Lead for E4, said in a statement: \u201cNearly 10 years on, we feel very privileged to once again follow the journey that parents embark on as they welcome their babies to the world. <\/p>\n

“We know the roller coaster of emotions that this period brings is something that will really resonate with the E4 audience, and we cannot wait for our viewers to see how the digital age has reshaped how families navigate this stage of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will Rowson, Co-Creative Director at production company Dragonfly TV, added: “There\u2019s such affection for One Born Every Minute, and we\u2019re thrilled to return to it. <\/p>\n

“In the years it\u2019s been away so much around pregnancy and maternity care has changed, making this an exciting moment to reimagine the show for an E4 audience.”<\/p>\n

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In its original run, One Born Every Minute picked up Best Factual Series at the BAFTAs and spawned multiple international adaptations, including in France, the USA, Sweden and Australia.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the box, Channel 4 has also confirmed the future of its ongoing smash hit Taskmaster<\/a>, which returns for its new series later this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show has won a new deal that will see six more cycles being aired, plus more editions of the spin-offs New Year Treat and Champion of Champions.<\/p>\n

Alex Horne quipped: \u201cI\u2019m pleased and quite stressed that I\u2019ve got to come up with a lot more tasks for a lot more comedians but the thought of three more years in Greg\u2019s deep embrace is soothing my little head.”<\/p>\n

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Shaun is an Evening News Editor at Digital Spy, with over a decade of experience reporting on all things pop culture. He has written for outlets including Metro<\/a>, Attitude<\/a>, Huffington Post, The Mirror<\/a>, Yahoo!, Pink News and Express Online<\/a>; specialising in TV, movies, soaps, music and LGBTQ+ issues. He is also a BAFTA Rocliffe-winning scriptwriter, having written episodes of the soap Hollyoaks, the official Steps musical Here & Now<\/a> and multiple Offie Award-nominated plays. He studied English Literature and Drama at the University of East Anglia, and will happily talk at length about Desperate Housewives to anyone who’ll listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s official: One Born Every Minute is returning to UK TV with brand new episodes, eight years after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[147950,379,181169,381,96,1156,181168,149157,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-520779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-4d267d0b-3d94-46ff-8595-1e8b583d1b1d","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-ground-breaking-channel-4-hit-confirms-emotional-reboot","tag-subsection-reality-tv","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}