Would I Lie to You? (2)

Revision as of 10:07, 9 August 2007

Synopsis

Essentially, a straightforward true-or-false quiz but done in the banter-heavy Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over style. In the first and last rounds, the questions take the form of facts and anecdotes provided by the guests themselves, while in between there are a number of other variations: celebrity "quotations", TV-related "facts" (heralded by shoehorned-in clips) and one game wherein a person is brought out from backstage and each panellist on a team claims to know them in one capacity or another. Typical Comedy Panel Game editing, i.e. the scores make no sense.

Mack, Deayton, Mitchell.

The show is airing in the Saturday 10pm slot, which looks suspiciously like a burial (we remember The Murder Game, even if no-one else does), but it has a decent lead-in from Jekyll so might just do alright. It's certainly watchable, but possibly more because the regulars are all good at this sort of thing, rather than the format itself being owt special.

Trivia

Before settling on the final title, the show had previously been announced as Unbelievable and Pants on Fire. Alan Carr was also announced as a team captain before being replaced by Lee Mack.

One of Claudia Winkleman's "true" stories was that she once wrote to Jim'll Fix It asking to meet Abba, but was offered a visit to a stilton factory instead, which she turned down. This was rebuffed in a letter to Radio Times by Fix It producer Roger Ordish, who said that "no-one who wrote in was ever offered an unrelated alternative... [we once] fixed it for someone to see how blue cheese was made, but that was in response to a request to see how blue cheese was made".

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