John Bishop's Britain (2010)

Genre

comedy television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 13 episodes

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Comedian John Bishop hosts a TV show built around a different topic each episode. He performs stand-up, acts in sketches, and chats with celebrity guests and regular people about their own funny stories connected to the topic.

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What happens

John Bishop's Britain is a British television programme presented by comedian John Bishop. Each programme has a theme, for example food. It features stand-up, sketches and real-life stories from celebrity guests and members of the public on that particular topic. There have been two series filmed to date. A 2011 Christmas special was filmed and broadcast around the Christmas period of that year. The show is filmed in front of an audience, where the audience are shown the interviews via video link as part of the filming. The sketches are not shown to the audience at the time of filming but Bishop's narration of the sketch is included in the filming. In the sketches, Bishop is portrayed by model Tommy Maxwell. TV host Rylan Clark-Neal rose to fame from this show. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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