Category: Panel Shows

  • Julia Morris On Room 101 (Australia)
    Julia Morris On Room 101 (Australia)

    I love it when several of my interests collide. Here’s one of my most favourite comedians, Julia Morris, on the Australian version of Room 101. And it’s the best version of the format, one on one with the host. Room 101 ran on SBS in 2015 for ten episodes over the summer. As you can…

  • Whose Line Is It Anywhere?
    Whose Line Is It Anywhere?

    In 1988 Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson created the improv game show Whose Line Is It Anyway? It was a Hat Trick production for Channel Four, and aired for eleven years. But it originally began life as a Radio 4 show. Towards the end of its UK run, the show crossed the Atlantic, taking with…

  • Bobbing For Lies And Overseas Variations
    Bobbing For Lies And Overseas Variations

    Probably the best thing about Would I Lie To You? is Bob Mortimer. A close second is how well wound up he gets David Mitchell. But I didn’t just bring you here to tell you what you already know. No. We’re here to look at some of the international versions of the show. The New…

  • Bit Of Shooting Stars
    Bit Of Shooting Stars

    The more I think about it, the more annoyed I am that there’s still not been a full release of Shooting Stars. I say this every time I mention the show, and every time I want it more. For example, I had forgotten that Angelos and George were on the show together. These challenges were…

  • Shaun Micallef’s Organ
    Shaun Micallef’s Organ

    Marvel won’t you, at Shaun Micallef’s massive, magnificent, and totally not imaginary organ. And here’s Shaun’s reaction to watching The Matrix Reloaded.

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  • Nineteen 90s Shows
    Nineteen 90s Shows

    I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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