8 out of 10 Cats (2005)

Original title

8 Out of 10 Cats

Genre

panel game, comedy television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

23 seasons, 241 episodes

Rated

15

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 54 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A panel show where comedians answer questions based on survey data and polls. The teams compete to guess the most popular opinions on various topics.

comedicplayfulfast-pacedwittylightheartedcompetitiveirreverentchummy

What happens

8 Out of 10 Cats (stylised as 8 out of 10 CATS) is a British comedy panel show that aired from 3 June 2005 to 17 January 2021. It was first broadcast on Channel 4 from 2005 to 2015, then More4 from 2016 to 2017, and finally E4 from 2017 to 2021. The show was hosted by Jimmy Carr and featured regular team captains Sean Lock, Dave Spikey, Jason Manford, Jon Richardson, Rob Beckett, Aisling Bea and Katherine Ryan. The show was based on statistics and opinion polls and draws on polls produced by a variety of organisations and new polls commissioned for the programme, carried out by The Harris Poll. The title was derived from an old popular misquoting of a well-known advertising tagline for Whiskas cat food, which claimed that "8 out of 10 owners (later advertisements adding "who expressed a preference") said their cats prefer it". (The misquoting may be due to the fact that Whiskas actually trademarked the phrase "8 out of 10 cats prefer Whiskas", even though it was never used that way in the advertisements.) Past episodes air across the Channel 4 network of channels, including More4 and E4 Extra, and past episodes are also repeated on U&Dave and Comedy Central. As presently, an announcement from Channel 4 about the show commissioning a new series has not been announced yet. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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