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Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Image shows from L to R: Noel Fielding, Greg Davies, Daisy May Cooper, Jamali Maddix
Never Mind The Buzzcocks

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.

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Series 23, Episode 11

Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Frankie Boyle. Copyright: TalkbackThames / BBC
Host Frankie Boyle is joined by guests including former Countdown co-host Carol Vorderman, British rap star DJ Ironik, Jon McClure of Reverend and the Makers, and comedian Richard Herring.

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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

Cast
Phill Jupitus Team Captain
Noel Fielding Team Captain
Guest cast
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
Writing team
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
Production team
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

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

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