Some other comedies also have this name.
- Genre
- Chat Show
- Broadcast
- 1994 - 2007
- Channels
- BBC One, BBC Two
- Episodes
- 88 (11 series)
- Starring
- Nick Hancock and Paul Merton
- Directors
- John F.D. Northover, Phil Chilvers and Geraldine Dowd
- Producers
- Lissa Evans, Toby Stevens, Victoria Payne and Paul McGettigan
Supposing you could get rid of your worst nightmares, what would they be? Each week, a different celebrity guest has their chance to cast the things they hate most into Room 101 - the most horrible and frightening place in the world, as created by George Orwell in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The series was hosted until 1997 by Nick Hancock, and then Paul Merton hosted it from 1999 until the final episode in 2007.
A revised format with a panel of celebrities, rather than a single guest, launched in 2012 with Frank Skinner as host: Room 101.
- Production companies
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Monday 4th July 1994 on BBC Two
- Last new broadcast
- Friday 9th February 2007 on BBC Two
- Last repeat
- Sunday 22nd April 2018 at 2:35am on BBC4
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