We Need Answers. Image shows from L to R: Mark Watson, Tim Key, Alex Horne. Copyright: BBC
We Need Answers

We Need Answers

  • TV panel show
  • BBC Four
  • 2009 - 2010
  • 16 episodes (2 series)

Mark Watson, Tim Key and Alex Horne lead a comic quiz show where the questions come from a txt messaging answering service. Stars Mark Watson, Tim Key and Alex Horne.

Press clippings Page 3

If a certain radio show hadn't already grabbed the soubriquet of "the antidote to panel games", this show may have laid a claim to the title. Mark Watson presents a second series of the show in which two celebrities are faced posers originally sent in to a text-message answer service.

Scott Matthewman, The Stage, 30th November 2009

No More Women

Here's the first No More Women, a series of videos we've made for BBC Comedy online alongside our new quiz show We Need Answers.

Alex Horne, BBC Comedy, 30th November 2009

We get answers from the stars of We Need Answers

Tim Key, Mark Watson and Alex Horne from TV's silliest quiz face the sheer randomness of Wikipedia.

Will Dean, The Guardian, 28th November 2009

Back when this ramshackle quiz was a bonkers night out at the Edinburgh Festival, the site of deadpan comic Tim Key (nearly) falling off his track-rolling quizmaster chair routinely had us in stitches. Now, said quiz, which asks ludicrous questions then asks text-messaging service AQA to answer them, has made the jump to TV. Mark Watson is the host and tonight's baffled guests are Julia Bradbury and Red Dwarf's Robert Llewellyn.

Sharon Lougher, Metro, 26th May 2009

This was a hit show at the Edinburgh Fringe and transferred well to TV. The Shooting Stars spirit of surreal madness with a cheap set, silly jingles, daft captions and nonsensical questions was fun, but having three comics all trying to muscle in on the laughs, made it a little disorganised.

The Custard TV, 13th February 2009

We Need Answers Edinburgh Interview

One of the newer comedy collectives consists of core members Mark Watson, Alex Horne and Tim Key. The three friends have been working together on projects since 2001 and last year premiered the Fringe's first interactive quiz show.

David Hepburn, The Void Comedy, 17th August 2008

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