Genius With Dave Gorman - BBC2 Panel Show - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)
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Simon Nicholls, Ali Bryer Carron, Armando Iannucci and Paul Schlesinger
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A TV version of the panel show in which Dave Gorman and celebrity guests take a range of ideas from the public, in the hope they will find something they can class as 'Genius'.
Series 1 featured one-guest an episode, Series 2 uses double the number of guests. Ideas include sat-nav shoes, standardised Chinese takeaway menus and "best before" dates on clothes.
If you think you have a genius idea, you can email it to genius@bbc.co.uk or send it in to the Genius website.
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Tagline
The show all about your ideas.
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- Genius
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Title music composed by Grandmaster Gareth and performed by Misty's Big Adventure. Incidental music is by Osymyso.
Website links
- Official Website
The official website for the series. Includes a form via which you can submit your genius idea. - Dave Gorman's Homepage
The website belonging to the host and star of Genius. - Gormano
Dave Gorman's blog, containing the latest Genius news. - Oppo-site
The website of Tony and Stuart who suggested the science of opposites in episode 2 (with Frank Skinner). Via their website they are trying to get an opposite for every noun in the English Language. - @bbcgenius
- IMDb
- Wikipedia
Broadcast details
First broadcast
Friday 20th March 2009 at 10pm on BBC Two
Most recent repeats
- Friday 4th November 2011 at 2:30am on U&Dave - Series 1, Episode 4
- Friday 7th October 2011 at 2:20am on U&Dave - Series 1, Episode 4
- Saturday 1st October 2011 at 2:40pm on U&Dave - Series 1, Episode 5