The Great Escapers: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Ever wished you could go on holiday with the cast of Coronation Street, I'm A Celebrity…, The Chase or Loose Women? Well now you can, sort of…

The Great Escapers is a brand-new prime time series, which will take some of the nation's best known ITV faces and send them off on their very first holiday together. We know they've worked alongside each other for many years, but can they now holiday together? Let's see as they pack their bags, jet off to the sunshine and check in to their hotel. 

The Great Escapers will show the celebrities as we've never seen them before.

In each episode, three stars will compete to give their colleagues the best holiday experience they can. But will one star's dream day out prove to be another's worst nightmare?

Jet2holidays will have a friendly overseas customer helper on hand throughout the experience to help guide each celebrity with their activity choices. Will the celeb choose what they personally like or try to guess what their travel companions would prefer?

At the end of the trip, the three celebrities will vote for who put together the most memorable day and one of them will be crowned The Greatest Escaper.

Series details

• Title: The Great Escapers
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Genres: Travel
• Premiere date: 2025-11-23
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: ITV1
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 85252

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2025-11-23; final listed air date 2025-12-14; episode order: 4.

Source and licence

Adapted from The Great Escapers on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.