
Never Mind The Buzzcocks
- TV panel show
- Sky Max / BBC Two
- 1996 - 2024
- 310 episodes (32 series)
Panel game based on the world of rock and pop music, featuring comedians and musicians. Stars Mark Lamarr, Simon Amstell, Rhod Gilbert, Greg Davies, Phill Jupitus and more.
- Due to return for Series 33
- Series 30, Episode 8 repeated Thursday 10th July at 11pm on Sky Max
Episode menu
Series 23, Episode 11

Notes
At the end of the show, Noel's team have 11 points and Phill's team have 10 points.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 9th December 2009
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Phill Jupitus | Team Captain |
Noel Fielding | Team Captain |
Frankie Boyle | Host / Presenter |
Richard Herring | Guest |
James Charters (as DJ Ironik) | Guest |
Jon McClure | Guest |
Carol Vorderman | Guest |
Maria Lawson | Self |
Brian Shearer | Self |
Fraser Steele | Writer (Additional Material) |
Shaun Pye | Writer (Additional Material) |
Kevin Day | Writer (Additional Material) |
Martin Trenaman | Writer (Additional Material) |
Aiden Spackman | Writer (Additional Material) |
Lloyd Langford | Writer (Additional Material) |
Dan Swimer | Writer (Additional Material) |
Adam Copeland | Script Editor |
Ian Lorimer | Director |
Stu Mather | Producer |
Jim Pullin | Executive Producer |
Stuart Magowan | Editor |
Jon Blow | Editor |
Matt Roberts | Editor |
Cath Pater-Lancucki | Production Designer |
Ravinder Takher | Production Designer |
Videos
Frankie Boyle's Epic Win Over Carol Vorderman
Frankie Boyle asks Carol Vorderman a pressing question.
Featuring: Noel Fielding & Phill Jupitus.
Noel shows off his cape
Noel Fielding has a cape and DJ Ironik has a watch.
Featuring: Noel Fielding & Phill Jupitus.
Press
Currently, the Wednesday night TV schedule is the most boring in the UK, unless you watch Spooks. I've never been so grateful to see pop music panel show Never Mind The Buzzocks (BBC2, 10pm) as I was yesterday evening, with Frankie Boyle as the week's guest host. Is it just me, or has the guest-host format worked wonders for Buzzcocks? I was expecting Have I Got News For You-style tedium (where they insist on making everything look amateur and distracting by keeping in outtakes of the host fluffing their lines, etc), but Buzzcocks has avoided all that redundant inanity.
It helps that Buzzcocks can afford to be uncontrolled and slightly meandering under the guiding hand of guests (with various levels of presenting skill), because that's always been part of its makeup, whereas HIGNFY was a razor-sharp satirical quiz in Angus Deayton's day, but has since devolved into a light entertainment panel show. Anyway, I thought Frankie Boyle did a surprisingly good job of keeping Buzzcocks focused (or was it good editing?) and he came across as more human than the acerbic quip-machine from Mock The Week. And guest Richard Herring's "career bounce" just goes to show that celebs in danger of being forgotten about should try co-hosting a ribald podcast instead of munch insects in the Australian jungle.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 10th December 2009