Category: Panel Shows
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John Lloyd’s Newsround
Here’s an interesting curio. The pilot for Have I Got News For You, described by Paul Merton as ‘a disaster’, was called John Lloyd’s Newsround. As you can see, Lloyd was the host, but pretty much everything else was in place. This clip doesn’t feel that much different to me than the first series. The…
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Room 101 Overseas
We’ve looked at all sorts of international versions of familiar British shows on this site, and it’s always fun to see something we know so well with a different look or in a different voice. But we rarely see the same thing with the same show itself. Room 101 has had a number of different…
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Comedy Connections – Shooting Stars
Dear BBC, Why oh why oh why can’t you release a complete collection of Shooting Stars on DVD? Yours,Me Clearance and rights issues I expect. So, instead, here’s most, but not all, of the Comedy Connections episode about the show.
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Taskmaster Overseas
We’ve already had a brief look at the New Zealand version of Taskmaster. But there are many international versions of the show, including one made for Comedy Central in the US. As you can see, Alex Horne is still in attendance, here alongside Reggie Watts as the Taskmaster. In Belgium, it’s called Het Grootste Licht,…
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The Bubble
Weird what shows stick with you, long after they appeared on TV briefly, and then vanished without a trace. Sometimes they’re ephemeral works of genius, sometimes they’re just terrible, and sometimes, they’re simply fine. There’s a place for perfectly good shows, and The Bubble probably deserved more of a run than a series of six…
