The Celebrity Voicemail Show. Kayvan Novak. Copyright: BBC
The Celebrity Voicemail Show

The Celebrity Voicemail Show

  • TV sketch show
  • BBC Three
  • 2017
  • 1 pilot

Kayvan Novak recreates voicemail messages left for a celebrity. Also features Richard Pepple.

The Celebrity Voicemail Show. Kayvan Novak. Copyright: BBC

Key details

Genre
Sketch Show
Broadcast
2017
Channel
BBC Three
Episodes
1 Pilot
Creator
Kayvan Novak
Stars
Kayvan Novak and Richard Pepple
Writer
Kayvan Novak
Directors
Kayvan Novak and Ed Tracy
Producers
Matt Stronge, Chris Sussman, Andy Bennions and Emily Shapland
Company

Kayvan Novak has adapte his critically acclaimed Radio 4 comedy, The Celebrity Voicemail Show, for BBC Three.

This show imagines what it would be like to listen to the voicemails left on a celebrity's answerphone. Over the course of each episode the viewer sees a number of characters leaving messages for that episode's celebrity and a narrative is constructed. Often what's happening in the background is as important as the message itself.

In the pilot episode Kayvan imagines the answerphone messages that might have been left for George Lucas midway through his hectic, and often shambolic, first phase of shooting on Star Wars in the Tunisian desert.

From Alec Guinness's agent quibbling over a percentage of the unfinished film's gross profits, to an inept special effects technician struggling to find a sound suitable for 'the electric swords'. This episode provides a hilarious and informative alternate viewpoint on an audacious project that flirted with complete disaster, yet managed to achieve success beyond its young director's wildest dreams.

Additional details

Part of

BBC Comedy Pilots 2017

BBC Comedy Slices 2017

Production
Location
Camera set-up
Single camera
Picture
Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Monday 11th December 2017 at 10am on BBC Three
Episode length
18 minutes
All previous repeats
  • Friday 2nd February 2018 at 11:55pm on BBC1

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