This edition of the show that plays out like a pub quiz was a special with questions about many famous facts from the world of television (sitcoms, kids TV, game shows, soap operas, reality TV, documentary, period drama, talent shows, the news, science fiction), a surprisingly factual and as usual funny show to watch and have fun with. Hosted by Jimmy Carr, with celebrity panellists in three teams: Russell Howard and Babatunde Aleshe (Babagoruss), Jamie and Natasia Demetriou (Channel Four), and Judi Love and Daisy May Cooper (Dyslexic Ladies of the Night). This quiz focused on all sorts of telly facts and information from memorable moments, villains, drama, kids TV, music, science, water cooler, and catchphrases to answer about. These questions are asked as they are, with video and sound clips, with pictures (including Say What You See), and by celebrity and mystery guests on screen or in the studio, so it really does feel like a proper quiz that you can take part in. Television stuff that was questioned and joked about, and mentioned (or pictured) included: Test Card F (the Test Card Girl), Sir Trevor McDonald, The Traitors, Luther; Murder, She Wrote, Poirot, The A-Team, Top Gear, Scooby-Doo, Danny Dyer and Charlie Brooks in EastEnders, David Dickinson in Bargain Hunt, Blue Peter (the blue badges), The Apprentice, Star Trek, Sir David Attenborough, Sesame Street, Peppa Pig, SpongeBob SquarePants, William Hartnell and Ncuti Gatwa in Doctor Who, Baywatch, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Big Brother with Davina McCall, The Vicar of Dibley, Neighbours with the wedding of Scott and Charlene, Absolutely Fabulous, Bridgerton, Thunderbirds, RuPaul's Drag Race, Ant & Dec, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Sunday Brunch, The Wire, Desmond's, Four in a Bed, the 1986 EastEnders Christmas special is the Most Watched show in British history with 30 million viewers, Love Island launched in 2015, in 2003 Cilla Black quit Blind Date live on air, Paul Burrell in the Hell Holes Bushtucker Trial on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, The Great British Bake Off 2014 with contestant Ian Watters suffering a melted Baked Alaska and binning it dubbed "Bingate", Celebrity Big Brother 2016 with Angie Bowie saying "David's Dead" to Tiffany Pollard and the confusion as she and the other housemates were mistaken into believing housemate David Gest was dead, the 2003 Derek Okarah live episode where he was possessed by the spirit of Dick Turpin saying "Mary loves Dick", Mr. Bean, Naked Attraction, Emmerdale, Happy Valley, "Nasty" Nick Bateman in Big Brother 2000, Major Charles Ingram cheating to win the jackpot on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and accomplice Tekwyn Whittock coughing for correct answers and blew his nose to signify wrong answers, evil laughs (Villanelle in Killing Eve, Skeletor in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Nelson in The Simpsons), improbably murders in Midsomer Murders (a woman electrocuted by a microphone, a man killed by flying wine bottle launched from a catapult, Martine McCutcheon bludgeoned by a wheel of cheese), Waking the Dead (an episode with Babatunde), Dynasty star Dame Joan Collins saying "the first time we did it, the ratings went through the roof. So, from then on, we had to do it every season" when talking about catfights, The X Factor, in 2010 EastEnders celebrated 25 years with a live episode, David Hasselhoff in Knight Rider, Game of Thrones star Pedro Pascal asked fans to stop putting their thumbs in his eyes (like his character's death) in selfie photos after getting an eye infection, Downton Abbey with Lord Grantham's stomach ulcer bursting and he vomited blood, Mr. Darcy's wet shirt from Pride & Prejudice (1995) on display in America, Breaking Bad and the real owners of the White family home having to build a six-foot high wall to stop people throwing pizza on the roof, Peter and Jane arguing in Come Dine with Me, Kem talking about houmous in Love Island, Gemma Collins complaining about hair straighteners in Celebrity Big Brother, University Challenge, 1969 Blue Peter with Lulu the elephant pooping in the studio, The Krankies, in 1965 the BBC tried to ban Sooty having a girlfriend because they thought it was a too rude, CBeebies Bedtime Stories with Tom Hardy, Harry Styles and Rege-Jean Page reading children's books, the real names of Postman Pat (Patrick Clifton), Fireman Sam (Samuel Peyton-Jones), and the Fat Controller (Sir Topham Hat) in Thomas the Tank Engine , the accessories of the Teletubbies (Tinky Winky had a red handbag, Dipsy had a black and white top hat, Lala had a big orange ball, and Po had a pink and blue scooter), Fleabag, Crazy Town, The Shoe People, Screech in Saved by the Bell, Deal or No Deal (the banker calls Jimmy and there are six boxes in the studio containing points or penalties for the teams), Crimewatch, Pop Idol won by Will Young and Simon Cowell becoming a star, 2005-2014 X Factor acts had seven Christmas Number Ones, Bob the Builder went to Christmas Number One, MTV launched in 1981 broadcasting The Real World creating a new genre of reality TV, George Galloway pretending to be a cat in Celebrity Big Brother, Kinga masturbating with a wine bottle in Big Brother, Matt Hancock eating an anus in I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, Taylor Swift duetting with Lisa Kudrow onstage singing "Smelly Cat" from Friends, TV theme tunes played backwards (The Flintstones, Coronation Street, Succession), Nadine Coyle disqualified from Popstars Ireland for lying about her age, "It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones and the Carlton Dance in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Masked Singer, Power Rangers, Squid Game, Cybermen from Doctor Who, television went from black and white to colour in 1967, medical reality series Embarrassing Bodies launched in 2007, the monsters in Stranger Things (Vecna, Demogorgon, and the Mind Flayer - all based on the Dungeons & Dragons creatures), Benedict Cumberbatch narrating BBC Two natural history documentary South Pacific and saying "pengwings" instead of penguins which caused ridicule, TV pick up (Phil Mitchell's shooting in EastEnders, the first Pop Idol final, the 1990 World Cup semi-final all caused power surges for the National Grid when, all popular TV events and viewers boiling kettles at the same time), Doctor Who vehicle TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space), Frank Butcher (Mike Reid) naked in EastEnders, Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) in Line of Duty, Ygritte (Rose Leslie) in Game of Thrones, Channel 4 launched in 1982 with Countdown, Netflix launched in 2007, Only Fools and Horses launched in 1981, 90s sitcom Friends and it cost $2 million to get the cast back together, the sign in Fawlty Towers changed to "Flowery Tw*ts", "Farty Towels" and "Fatty Owls" in a running joke, TOWIE (The Only Way Is Essex) and the phrase "No Carbs Before Marbs", Nigella Lawson pronouncing "microwave" as "meecro-wavay" in a jokey way that made viewers laugh, over-the-top crying faces becoming memes on social media (James Van Der Beek in Dawson's Creek, Ian Beale in EastEnders, Rylan Clark on The X Factor, and Kim Kardashian in Keeping Up with the Kardashians), and Catchphrase with catchphrases to win 10 bonus points per correct answer ("Eat my shorts" - The Simpsons, "One I made earlier", and "Soggy bottom" - Bake Off). Other celebrity and special mystery guests in the show included the children of Mitchell Brook Primary School in Neasden who watched and describe classic TV shows, Charles Dance who quotes reality TV moments, Natalie Cassidy, Stephen Fry, Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary (on This Morning), Ainsley Harriot, Nadiya Hussain (winner of Bake Off 2015), Mr. Blobby, puppets Sooty, Sweep, Soo, and Richard Cadell, talent show contestants (Honey G, the Cheeky Girls, and Chico Slimani), The Vivienne (winner of RuPaul's Drag Race UK), and voiceover artists Jon Briggs (The Weakest Link), Marcus Bentley (Big Brother) and India Fisher (Masterchef). The jokes and the questions are what make this show so much fun, they always choose the right celebrity panellists, and it works as a funny way to reminisce on sporting things you remember, a great comedy quiz show. Very good!
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
2024
Comedy / Game-Show
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
2024
Comedy / Game-Show
Director
Top cast
Natasia Demetriou as Self - Contestant
Babatunde Aleshe as Self - Guest
Charles Dance as Self
Stephen Fry as Self
Tech specs
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB 830.45 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
25 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 13
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