Alex Geikie, 20, is a softly-spoken Oxford-educated boy from the English shires. Training with kickboxing champion Tony Agastini, he has four weeks to transform himself into a convincing hardman before being sent to work as a doorman at London's Hippodrome Club.

Alex the Animal

Northern girl Lisa has four weeks to learn how to walk, talk and eat like the upper classes before attending a society function.

Shop Girl to It Girl (Lady Lisa)

22-year-old classical cellist Sian Evans has four weeks to transform herself into a club DJ before working the crowd at prestigious nightspot The Cross.

Cellist to DJ

With the help of experienced car dealer Dominic Littlewood, West Country vicar the Reverend Nigel Done learns all about the used-car trade before being let loose on a busy Essex forecourt.

Vicar to Car Dealer

Painter and decorator Paul O'Hare has four weeks to pass himself off as a modern abstract artist.

Painter and Decorator to Conceptual Artist

Burger-van proprietor Ed Devlin attempts to pass himself off as a professional chef.

Burgerman to Chef

Farmer's son Gavin learns the basics of hairdressing from legendary stylist Trevor Sorbie.

Sheep Shearer to Hairdresser

Ballet dancer Kaspar Cornish is taught how to fake it as a professional wrestler.

Ballet Dancer to Wrestler

Nightclub dancer Shelley learns to fake it as a showjumper under the tutelage of Tim Stockdale and Marianne Trevor-Roper.

Showgirl to Showjumper

A one-off follow-up programme revisiting previous fakers to find out how appearing on the programme changed their lives.

Faking It Changed My Life

Naval petty officer Spence Bowdler is transformed into a drag queen.

Naval Officer to Drag Queen

Fire Service operator Lynn Hurst is taught how to direct a live breakfast TV show.

Emergency Control Operator to TV Studio Director

City lawyer George Lubega, dubbed "soul man in reverse" by his friends for his complete lack of rhythm, style and musical ability, has a crash course in rapping and street culture before being thrown into an MCing competition.

Lawyer to Garage MC

Black-belt kickboxer and self-professed tomboy Jo Weatherill has four weeks to transform herself into a glamorous ballroom dancer.

Kickboxer to Ballroom Dancer

Isurance risk asessor Matt Davies has four weeks to learn the basics of stuntmanship.

Insurance Salesman to Stuntman

Stuart Matheson leaves the comfort of his desk job in the computer industry to learn how to surf.

Web Designer to Surfer

Hospital radiographer David Keith is plunged into the glamourous world of fashion photography. Not only does he have to learn how to work the camera, he also has to learn to deal with models and technicians before facing a cover-shoot challenge.

Radiographer to Fashion Photographer

Computer games tester Phil Deane takes to the racetrack for real, with the help of Johnny Herbert and David Coulthard.

Games Tester to Racing Driver

Lucy Craig is used to a life on the ocean wave, but can this ferry stewardess manage to fake it in the world of yacht racing?

Ferry Stewardess to Yachtswoman

Chris Sweeney is the lead singer of a punk band, The Dead Pets. How will he fare when called upon to conduct a symphony orchestra?

Punk Rocker to Orchestra Conductor

A look back at the 2002 series of Faking It, following up on some remarkable developments in the lives of the participants.

Faking It Changed My Life (II)

Malcolm 'Woody' Woodcock, a bicycle courier from Manchester, has just four weeks in which to pass himself off as a polo player.

Bicycle Courier to Polo Player

Twenty-year-old Christian choirgirl Laura-Jane Foley leaves behind her straight-laced Cambridge university life for London to be transformed into a rock chick.

Choir Girl to Rock Chick

Bachelor Rob Archer is a high-flying management consultant in London, but he swaps that role for one of an expert dog trainer - in just four weeks!

Management Consultant to Dog Trainer

Twenty-nine-year-old working mum Jatinder Sumal puts her real life on hold and swaps bringing up children and working in the family newsagent for a crash course in TV reporting.

Newsagent to Showbiz Reporter

Former professional chess player Maximillion Devereaux trades his chessboard and rural idyll for the football pitch as he attempts to fake it as a football manager in a month.

Chess Player to Football Manager

Jessica Wright is a 25-year-old clog dancer from Cornwall, but in a few weeks she will be performing with R&B singer Jamelia in front of thousands, live at Earls Court.

Clog Dancer to Backing Dancer

Twenty-year-old country boy James Sawyer has four weeks to shed the tweeds, move into an urban jungle and convince us that he's a streetwise graffiti artist.

History of Art Student to Graffiti Artist

Twenty-four-year-old factory worker Mick Wigham leaves the grittiness of the production line for the glamour of the catwalk as he tries to fake it as a fashion designer.

Factory Worker to Fashion Designer

Management consultant Rob Archer (31) attempts to impress as in the most difficult dog-training discipline - performing to music. But not only does Rob have no experience of the discipline, neither has the dog.

Jatinder Sumal (29) normally works in her family's newsagents shop, but with just four weeks preparation can she fake it as a showbiz interviewer on breakfast television?

Maximillian Devereaux is already a chess champ, but in four weeks' time he'll be instructing Chalfont Wasps Football Club from the side of the pitch. Does he have what it takes to fake it as a football manager?

Chess Champ to Football Manager

Faker Sharon Pallister transforms from cleaner to burlesque performer.  Featuring Wayne Sleep, Miss Immodesty Blaize and Dita von Teese.

Cleaner to Burlesque Performer

A vicar swaps his parish for a job at Nevada's largest car dealership.

Bibles to Bling Bling

Lectures to Lap Dances

Welder Todd Farrand has four weeks to learn how to fake it as a model, even though his mentors reckon he's too old, too tall and too heavy.

Hard Work to Hard Body

Nursery school teacher Stephanie Jones has four weeks to learn the tricks of the bodyguard trade.

The Three Rs to Protecting Stars

Dry Clean to Style Queen

On The Range to La-La Land

Super Shy to Superfly

Briefcase to Body Slam

Organic farmer Grace Coffman is transported from Nebraska to New York to pose as a posh socialite.

Simple Life To Social Life

Beverley Hills real estate is a long way from Kim Constans' normal life as a wilderness guide. A top mother-and-daughter real estate team have four weks to transform her into a ""lady of the listings"".

Snow Hills To Beverly Hills

Cubicle-dwelling computer nerd Meaganne is taught how to be an exercise instructor, but after four weeks' training, can she convince a panel of professionals that her workout is the future of fitness?

Computer Geek To Fitness Freak

Lifesaver To Heartbreaker

The T4 Specials 1 Clog Dancer To RnB Dancer

History of Art undergraduate and lover of fine art, James Sawyer leaves his Suffolk home and is taken to the city to be transformed into a graffiti artist, with the assistance of David Samuel, famous graffiti artist.

The T4 Specials 2 Art Student to Graffiti Artist

The T4 Specials 3 Factory Worker to Fashion Designer

Physicist to Magician

Faking It was a television programme originating on Channel 4 which has spawned various international remakes, including a United States version which began in 2003 on the TLC network. Devised by Stephen Lambert of RDF Media, the programme's original concept was "a modern-day Pygmalion", referring to the George Bernard Shaw play in which flower girl Eliza Doolittle is trained to appear like an aristocrat.The series ended on Boxing day 2006 with faker Sharon Pallister transforming from cleaner to burlesque performer and featured Wayne Sleep, Miss Immodesty Blaize and Dita von Teese

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Season 1

Alex the Animal

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/2000

Shop Girl to It Girl (Lady Lisa)

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/2000