Babestation

Babestation
Format	Televised sex line, soft porn, unscripted
Starring	Various
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Production
Running time	24 hours
Broadcast
Original channel	Babestation (Sky ch 906)(Freeview ch 96 (01:00–0600))(Freesat ch 870), Babestation 2 (Freeview ch 193 (04:00–05:00)), Get Lucky TV (Sky ch 910) previously Game Network UK, You TV, Game Network Italia
Original run	3 December 2002 – Present

Babestation is a British soft porn TV sex line aired since 2002. The first and most well-known show of its kind in the UK, it allows viewers to communicate live with female presenters via a premium-rate telephone number or text messaging. It is broadcast daily, and since 2006 has had a dedicated channel on Sky.

History

Babestation began in late 2002, as a post-watershed two-hour programme (11pm-1am) on computer game channel Game Network UK. Babestation featured two women taking calls (unheard by the TV audience) whilst the rest of the screen was filled by viewers' text messages and one presenter, who improvised and reacted to the messages. The presenter might alternate between the three women throughout the show.

The programme proved profitable to the channel and Babestation's makers. In time, Babestation was given bigger time-slots, becoming a three- and then four-hour-long show (11pm-3am), increasing the number of presenters to four or five per night, and improving the technology (the director could now put women on 'full-screen', having only been able to show them on one-sixth of it before, and hand-held cameras were introduced, replacing the poorer-quality static remote-controlled ones used originally). Babestation was also sometimes broadcast on Italian feed of Game Network.

This, along with Game Network's waning commitment to 'video gaming' programmes (as Psychic Interactive was also given a large amount of airtime), caused Game Network to cease to exist in the UK; on 20 February 2006, the channel's name changed to 'Babestation', and on 28 February this channel was moved by Sky to the new "Adult" section of channels, it is also available on Freeview under the Adult Section.

A new type of show

Babestation was a unique style of TV programme in Britain. Despite not being popular, and having low production values, Babestation produced many clones that can all be seen as originating from its format; see televised sex line.

These programmes all differ slightly in format and explicitness – Babestation does not show genitals or sex toys, or contain very strong language; since 2004 camera phone technology has been used to allow viewers to send in pictures of themselves; and the show has always featured adverts for similar services in its commercial breaks. But the idea is the same – live, unscripted conversation, advertising a premium rate number to phone the girls, which makes it a profitable business.

Charlie Brooker in The Guardian newspaper accused both presenters and viewers of being "thick" and referred to viewers "begging them to blow kisses and jiggle about a bit".

Cast

The women have almost complete freedom to say what they want.^{[citation needed]} Presenters rotate nightly, often doing between one and four shifts in a seven-day week, and, for various reasons, they don't often remain in this line of employment in the long term. Babestation cast includes:

• Aimee Luis
• Allanah Li
• Amanda Rendall
• Amber James
• Ava Blue
• Camilla Jane
• Charlie C
• Cherri Hart
• Dani O'Neal
• Danni King
• Daryl Morgan
• Ella Jolie
• Georgie Darby
• Geri
• Gracie Lewis
• Hannah Claydon
• Jo Laurence
• Kandi Kay
• Kara
• Khloe
• Lolly Badcock
• Louise Porter
• Megan Coxx
• Megan Moore
• Michelle Moist
• Nel
• Nicole Knight
• Paige Tyler
• Preeti Young
• Priya Young
• Ree Petra
• Sarah Matty
• Sasha
• Siobhan Hughes
• Tammy Taylor
• Taylor
• Tiffany Chambers
• Tommie Jo
• Vanessa Walker

& More

Masti Chat

Masti Chat is a weekly block on Babestation which allows British Asians to connect with these British Asian Girls,it is on from 1PM till 9PM from Monday to Sunday.A night show is broadcast on Babestation2 every so often.The full model list is:

• Aneesha
• Anita
• Ayesha
• Aziza
• Jazz
• Kiran
• Mariam
• Priyanka
• Ria
• Sahara
• Sanam
• Shanti
• Sitara
• Tanya
• Tara
• Yasmin

Dirty Wives

Dirty Wives is a block on Babestation2,Sky channel 909 that is on once or twice a week in the night hours. This programme features some of the babe channels best mature girls(40+). The girls that feature are:

• Alana
• Candi Cutie
• Champagne
• Dani Amour
• Eva may
• Nikki Lord
• Sasperella
• Shenna

Similar and sister programmes

See also: Televised sex line

• Babecast (a.k.a. BabeCast XXX) has been broadcast since 2003 on Friendly TV, and is owned by the same company as Babestation: it is sometimes filmed in the same studio, and presenters rotate between the two programmes. Friendly TV was originally in the 100-200 channel numbers on Sky, but on 28 February 2006 it moved to ch. 908 (now 907), in the Adult section of channels (like Babestation).

• Babestation 2 is broadcast on ch. 909, Get Lucky TV, initially a phone-in quiz/gambling channel, although the channel's name now carries the more sexual meaning of "get lucky" because of its content. Babestation 2 features one or two Babestation presenters; now, instead of dividing up the screen of Babestation, its makers can put women on the extra channel.

• Meet the Babes was a half-hour documentary broadcast on Sumo TV (ch. 146) in 2006. This featured interviews with Babestation babes, and was repeated endlessly (along with Live XXX TV/Sex Station's Porn Star Diaries) in a three-hour nightly segment.

• Party People is broadcast daily between 11am and 8pm on Get Lucky TV (ch. 909).

• Lads Lounge (ch. 906) is a daytime format of Babestation

See also

• Televised sex line
• Game Network
• Friendly TV

External links

• Babestation's Official Website
• Babestation' 'Babes Web Sites'
• babestation' 'extreme review'
• Babestation at IMDB.com