Chicken Shop Date

The format of Chicken Shop Date involves Amelia Dimoldenberg meeting a celebrity guest at a local chicken shop for a date. A humorous element is the setting of the chicken shop, a brightly lit fast food shop that is generally not considered a romantic setting. Dimoldenberg has revealed that each episode takes around forty minutes to film, but finished episodes last no longer than eight minutes. "Only the funniest, flirtiest moments survive, spliced together with strategically deployed B-roll of food prep and the chicken shop's staff at work." Questions asked are often chaotic, awkward, and playful, as well as questions such as "snog, marry, avoid?". Dimoldenberg flirts with her guests, often alternating between flattery and teasing insults. == Production ==

Chicken Shop Date is shot in fried-chicken restaurants around London. Each episode costs around six thousand dollars to produce. As of March 2025, Dimoldenberg employed a creative producer, a social media manager, and a personal assistant. Since “Chicken Shop Date” is released roughly once a month, she selects her guests carefully, stating "It has to feel like an organic fit. I need to genuinely be a fan of them and their work. If I fancy them, that's a bonus. It is a dating show, after all." Dimoldenberg usually films for thirty to forty minutes. In the show's early years, final episodes were trimmed to three or four minutes, but they now often extend up to twelve. Dimoldenberg's onscreen persona is largely shaped during the editing process, which she oversees. The character's standoffishness and awkwardness are accentuated through jump cuts and extended shots of her expressive, often quizzical facial expressions. == History ==

Chicken Shop Date originally began as a column written by a then 17-year-old Dimoldenberg for her local under-21s youth magazine. Beginning by interviewing 'friends of friends', she decided to frame the chats as dates 'because that might be a fun way to interview people'. The location of a chicken shop was chosen as "somewhere you wouldn't expect to be taken on a first date". This was with the rapper Ghetts and was the first Chicken Shop Date video uploaded to YouTube. It attracted just over one thousand views in the first two weeks. == List of episodes ==

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 == Reception ==

Jason Zinoman of The New York Times described Dimoldenberg as "flamboyantly unimpressed", and that "over the past decade, she has consistently produced entertainingly charged conversations." == Accolades ==