Insert Name Here Series 2, Episode 2 - Alex

TV panel show
BBC Two
2016 - 2019
28 episodes (4 series)

Panel show about names, hosted by Sue Perkins with team captains Richard Osman and Josh Widdicombe. Stars Sue Perkins, Josh Widdicombe, Richard Osman, Kate Williams and Suzannah Lipscomb

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Series 2, Episode 2 - Alex

Insert Name Here. Image shows from L to R: Kate Williams, Danny Baker, Josh Widdicombe, Gabby Logan, Sue Perkins, Richard Osman, Adil Ray

Host Sue Perkins and captains Richard Osman and Josh Widdicombe are joined by Danny Baker, Gabby Logan, Adil Ray and Kate Williams to compete to earn the right to decide the greatest ever bearer of the name Alex.

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Broadcast details

Date: Monday 9^th January 2017
Time: 10pm
Channel: BBC Two
Length: 30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date	Time	Channel
Wednesday 20th November 2019	8:20pm	Dave
Thursday 21st November 2019	1:20am	Dave
Wednesday 29th April 2020	8:20pm	Dave
Thursday 30th April 2020	2:30am	Dave
Tuesday 13th July 2021	3:30am	Dave
Sunday 25th July 2021	2:45am	Dave
Saturday 14th August 2021	2:50am	Dave
Friday 3rd September 2021	2:45am	Dave

Cast & crew

Cast
Sue Perkins	Host / Presenter
Josh Widdicombe	Team Captain
Richard Osman	Team Captain
Kate Williams	Regular Panellist

Guest cast
Danny Baker	Guest
Adil Ray	Guest
Gabby Logan	Guest

Writing team
Paul Powell	Writer (Additional Material)
Dan Gaster	Writer (Additional Material)

Production team
Geraldine Dowd	Director
Breid McLoone	Producer
Paul McGettigan	Executive Producer
Michael Mannes	Executive Producer
Will Ing	Executive Producer
Danny Carr	Edit Producer
Michael Marden	Editor
Chris Webster	Production Designer
Rachel Thomas Davies	Costume Designer
Roger Williams	Lighting Designer
Will Slater	Composer
Alan Tyler	Commissioning Editor

Video

Alex Ferguson on the hard shoulder

The panel joke about an excuse Alex Ferguson made in court.

Featuring: Josh Widdicombe, Richard Osman, Sue Perkins, Kate Williams, Danny Baker, Adil Ray & Gabby Logan.

Press

The conceit with which this Sue Perkins-hosted panel show hopes to distinguish itself from all the other panel shows is that every episode is dedicated to riffs on a designated name. Tonight: Alex. The ambition is clearly of landing somewhere between QI and Have I Got News For You - and it features people you have seen on either/both, or would expect to. Not disagreeable, but this edition would have been much improved by just letting guest Danny Baker tell some stories.

Andrew Mueller, The Guardian, 9th January 2017

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