Room 101 - BBC1 Chat Show - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

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Room 101. Paul Merton. Copyright: Hat Trick Productions

Genre

Chat Show

Broadcast

1994 - 2007

Channels

BBC 1, BBC 2

Episodes

88 (11 series)

Stars

Nick Hancock and Paul Merton

Writers

Mark Burton, John O'Farrell, Paul Merton, Lissa Evans, John Irwin, Rob Colley, Ged Parsons, Dave Cohen and more

Directors

John F.D. Northover, Phil Chilvers and Geraldine Dowd

Producers

Dan Patterson, Richard Wilson, Chris Curley, Lissa Evans, Toby Stevens, Victoria Payne, Paul McGettigan, Denise O'Donoghue and more

Companies

Supposing you could get rid of your worst nightmares, what would they be? Each week, a different celebrity guest has their chance to cast the things they hate most into Room 101 - the most horrible and frightening place in the world, as created by George Orwell in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The series was hosted until 1997 by Nick Hancock, and then Paul Merton hosted it from 1999 until the final episode in 2007.

A revised format with a panel of celebrities, rather than a single guest, launched in 2012 with Frank Skinner as host: Room 101.

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Additional details

Production

Studio

Camera set-up

Multi-camera

Picture

Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Monday 4th July 1994 on BBC Two

Most recent repeats

View all 34 repeats

Recording details