Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive (2006)

Genre

comedy television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 12 episodes

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Rob Brydon plays a nasty fictional version of himself hosting a fake panel show that steals ideas from real British comedy shows. The series follows the behind the scenes chaos of making this deliberately awful game show.

satiricalfast-pacedmockumentary stylewryabsurdmetacringe comedyirreverent

What happens

Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive is a British television show, first aired on BBC Three in July 2006. Devised by Paul Duddridge, it concerns the making of a comedy panel game show called Annually Retentive, themed around historical events, and hosted by Welsh comedian Rob Brydon. The show is deliberately parodic, as Brydon plays a hyper-realised (and exaggeratedly nasty) version of himself, while the game show blatantly steals ideas from other, similar shows such as Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Mock the Week and QI. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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