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Silence Is Golden. Dermot O'Leary. Credit: UKTV
Silence Is Golden

Silence Is Golden

  • TV comedy
  • U&Dave
  • 2025
  • 6 episodes (1 series)

Comedy game show in which the studio audience could win £250,000 if they can only keep silent. Stars Dermot O'Leary, Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh, Fatiha El-Ghorri and Joanne Brent

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Silence Is Golden. Image shows left to right: Fatiha El-Ghorri, Seann Walsh, Katherine Ryan. Credit: UKTV

Key details

Genre
Comedy
Broadcast
2025
Channel
U&Dave
Episodes
6 (1 series)
Creator
Richard Bacon
Stars
Dermot O'Leary, Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh, Fatiha El-Ghorri and Joanne Brent
Writer
Marc Haynes
Director
Toby Baker
Producers
Tim Dean, Jake Bhardwaj, Lisa Kirk, Richard Bacon, Mark Sidaway, Jason Dawson, Mark Iddon, Hannah Duncombe and more
Company

Silence Is Golden, presented by Dermot O'Leary, is the show where a studio audience is given £250,000 but there's a green room of entertainers headed up by Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh and Fatiha El-Ghorri attempting to bring the prize pot down.

Every single noise any audience member makes loses them all money.

Each episode begins with the studio audience getting £250,000 to share between them. All they need to do to keep it...is not make a sound.

With every audience member miked up, all hell breaks loose as a green room of 30 acts, led by three returning comedian captains, headed up by Katherine Ryan, wage war on the audience, with every sound forced out of them bringing the total prize money down.

It's entertainers vs audience - they're not on the same side. If the entertainers get the prize pot to zero, they get to give the money to charity.

Catch-up

Additional details

Production setting
Studio
Camera set-up
Multi-camera
Picture
Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Monday 5th May 2025 at 9pm on U&Dave
All previous repeats
  • Thursday 22nd May 2025 at 11:00pm on U&Dave - Episode 3
  • Thursday 15th May 2025 at 11:00pm on U&Dave - Episode 2
  • Thursday 8th May 2025 at 11:00pm on U&Dave - Episode 1

Recording details

  • Riverside Studios

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