For Facts Sake. Brendan O'Carroll
For Facts Sake

For Facts Sake

  • TV panel show
  • BBC One
  • 2018
  • 6 episodes (1 series)

Mrs Brown's Boys star Brendan O'Carroll hosts a panel show quiz. Also features Danny O'Carroll, Paddy Houlihan, Jennifer Gibney, Fiona O'Carroll and Pat Shields

For Facts Sake. Image shows from L to R: Pat Shields, Fiona O'Carroll, Paddy Houlihan, Brendan O'Carroll, Danny O'Carroll, Jennifer Gibney

Key details

Genre
Panel Show
Broadcast
2018
Channel
BBC One
Episodes
6 (1 series)
Stars
Brendan O'Carroll, Danny O'Carroll, Paddy Houlihan, Jennifer Gibney, Fiona O'Carroll and Pat Shields
Director
John L Spencer
Producers
Gareth Woods, Ed Daggett, Breid McLoone, Dan Baldwin and Andy Price
Companies

Brendan O'Carroll hosts the panel show all about ordinary people and their extraordinary facts, where members of the audience are invited down to play the game. With team captains from Mrs Brown's Boys and celebrity experts.

Was Elvis a drug enforcement agent for President Nixon? Is Russia bigger than Pluto? Mrs Brown's Boys creator and star Brendan O'Carroll has all the answers.

Two teams will compete in a series of entertaining rounds and games that uncover some amazing truths about the world we live in. Each team will be captained by a rotating cast of Mrs Brown's Boys regulars, with the rest of the panel made up of members of the audience, invited down to join the game. Expect laughs galore as the teams try to outfox each other with their fascinating facts and eye for true trivia.

Additional details

Also known as
  • Tell Me Something I Don't Know (Working title)
Production
Studio
Camera set-up
Multi-camera
Picture
Colour

Website links

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Monday 15th October 2018 at 9:30pm on BBC One
All previous repeats
  • Monday 5th November 2018 at 11:10pm on BBC1 Wales - Episode 4
  • Monday 22nd October 2018 at 10:40pm on BBC1 Wales - Episode 2
  • Monday 15th October 2018 at 10:40pm on BBC1 Wales - Episode 1

Recording details

  • BBC Pacific Quay