Sorry, I Didn't Know
- TV panel show
- ITV1 / ITV2
- 2016 - 2023
- 20 episodes (4 series)
Panel show about black history. Stars Jimmy Akingbola, Chizzy Akudolu, Eddie Kadi and Judi Love.
- Series 4, Episode 1 repeated at 11:45pm on ITV1
Press clippings
'Sorry, I Didn't Know' to return for Series 4
Sorry, I Didn't Know, the ITV1 panel show focused on black history, is to return for a fourth series.
British Comedy Guide, 21st June 2023RTS award nominations revealed
Shortlists for the 2023 RTS Programme Awards have been announced, with Am I Being Unreasonable? picking up four nominations.
British Comedy Guide, 7th March 2023I Talk Telly Awards nominations revealed
Nominations have been announced for the 2022 awards of television news and blog site I Talk Telly.
British Comedy Guide, 13th November 2022Sorry, I Didn't Know: 'This show is decorating black history with humour'
Sorry, I Didn't Know team captain Eddie Kadi and executive producer Fraser Ayres on the panel show providing an education in black history.
Adrian Lobb, The Big Issue, 18th October 2022Sorry, I Didn't Know returning for third series on ITV
Sorry, I Didn't Know has been commissioned for third series on ITV, with Jimmy Akingbola returning as host.
British Comedy Guide, 21st May 2022Panel show 'Sorry, I Didn't Know' to return to ITV
Sorry, I Didn't Know, the ITV panel show hosted by Jimmy Akingbola, is to return in October for a second series.
British Comedy Guide, 10th June 2021Jimmy Akingbola on Sorry, I Didn't Know
"Every broadcaster said it was not right for its audience."
Hanna Flint, i Newspaper, 5th October 2020Jimmy Akingbola complains of 'black' label used on TV
Jimmy Akingbola says he was told Sorry, I Didn't Know, which focuses on black history, would not appeal to audiences.
Lanre Bakare, The Guardian, 28th September 2020Black panel show Sorry I Didn't Know returns for series
ITV has ordered a four-part series of Sorry I Didn't Know, a panel show about black history, piloted in 2016.
British Comedy Guide, 27th August 2020We're in familiar panel show territory here. But, shock of shocks, there's a gender balance and an ethnic mix - comic Toby Williams is the token white guy and never allowed to forget it. The questions are at the smart end of the spectrum, asking questions of black history, and that makes it informative too since most the pioneers mentioned never made the school curriculum devised by white folk.
Host Jimmy Akingbola plays it fairly straight, and his thespian background gives him an innate authority, leaving the teams - Chizzy Akudolu, Jo Martin, Jimmy James Jones, Paul Chowdhry, Judi Love as well as Williams - to muck about with the jokes. They deliver as dependably and flippantly as any of the big panel shows, and the subject matter certainly gives it a point of difference.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 1st November 2016