Amelia Dimoldenberg takes Chicken Shop Date final series to cinemas for one night
The farewell series plays as a 100-minute film on 24 November 2026, three days before the last episode reaches YouTube. Selected cinemas in the UK, Ireland and Paris will show it with YouTube's Cine Club.
Amelia Dimoldenberg will take the final series of Chicken Shop Date to cinemas for one night on 24 November 2026, three days before the last episode reaches YouTube on 27 November. The plan was reported on 27 October 2026.
The film joins all six episodes of the final series into one programme, with new material made for the big screen and the unreleased final episode. Picturehouses lists a running time of 100 minutes and says it also follows her decision to end the show. Guests in the series include Jorja Smith, Role Model and Noel Gallagher.
The screenings are a collaboration with YouTube's Cine Club. London venues are Picturehouse Central, Curzon Soho and Vue Westfield. The list also includes the Duke of York's Picturehouse in Brighton, Vue sites in Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, Birmingham and Dublin, and mk2 Bibliothèque in Paris. Picturehouses also lists Harbour Lights in Southampton. An invitation-only premiere with a Q&A is set for London on 16 November.
Dimoldenberg said in September 2026 that the show would end after 12 years and more than 100 episodes.
I feel like it's now time to move on from this adventure and onto a new one.
Amelia Dimoldenberg, on Instagram
Cinemas as a launch window
Cine Club comes from France, where the mk2 cinema chain runs it in partnership with YouTube. It began in February 2024 with a live show at mk2 Bibliothèque, broadcast to partner cinemas. In September 2025 the first episode of the YouTuber Michou's series Terminal was previewed in almost 500 cinemas, two days before it reached YouTube.
The largest example of the idea came a year earlier. Inoxtag's documentary Kaizen, distributed by mk2, sold 350,000 tickets on its premiere day in September 2024 across about 1,000 screenings in 350 theatres, then went free on YouTube, where it reached 24 million views in four days.
Dimoldenberg's production company, Dimz Inc., runs a creative skills programme with Adobe, and she is developing a scripted series for the BBC.
What it means for acts
A short cinema window before a free upload gives fans a reason to pay for something they could watch days later, because the ticket buys the occasion. Creators finishing a series should ask whether it can be recut as a single film with extra material, rather than simply projected. Comedians and podcasters with a strong video archive can pitch the same idea to independent cinemas, which are taking part here alongside a national chain.
