Show and Telly

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In a one-off Christmas special, pairs of celebrities join Paddy McGuinness to answer questions about the television of 2011. The format allowed for lots of clips of the year's television.
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Beginning with a themed subject round, the pairs of contestants were shown clips from that year's television, and asked a question about events in that area. Further questions followed, including a mystery guest, and liberally peppered with clips. The lowest-scoring pair was eventually eliminated from contention, and the top two played the Planner.
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Here, the pairs picked a show from a choice of five, and answered a question relating to it. The winning team were asked further questions by celebrities appearing on video clip, and were awarded £20,000 for charity.
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''Show and Telly'' was clearly pitched at a general audience, the subject matter was popular drama and entertainment, with [[Countdown]] probably the most obscure show mentioned. As a post-Christmas entertainment, it was more watchable than we expected it to be. It's disposable television, and it's unclear whether the implicit promise of ''Paddy's 2012 Show and Telly'' will be met.
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Revision as of 09:59, 3 January 2012

Contents

Host

Paddy McGuinness

Broadcast

TwoFour Broadcast / Group M Entertainment for ITV1, 29 December 2011

Synopsis

In a one-off Christmas special, pairs of celebrities join Paddy McGuinness to answer questions about the television of 2011.

Beginning with a themed subject round, the pairs of contestants were shown clips from that year's television, and asked a question about events in that area. Further questions followed, including a mystery guest, and liberally peppered with clips. The lowest-scoring pair was eventually eliminated from contention, and the top two played the Planner.

Bring on the connecting wall... oh.

Here, the pairs picked a show from a choice of five, and answered a question relating to it. The winning team were asked further questions by celebrities appearing on video clip, and were awarded £20,000 for charity.

Show and Telly was clearly pitched at a general audience, the subject matter was popular drama and entertainment, with Countdown probably the most obscure show mentioned. As a post-Christmas entertainment, it was more watchable than we expected it to be. It's disposable television, and it's unclear whether the implicit promise of Paddy's 2012 Show and Telly will be met.

Inventor

Developed by Johnny Coller and Matt Pritchard.

Theme music

Marc Sylvan

Trivia

Slightly optimistically, the show was billed on air as Paddy's 2011 Show and Telly.

The contenders were: Michelle Collins and Melanie Sykes from ITV soaps, Anton Du Beke and Russell Grant from that year's Strictly Come Dancing, and Chrissi Rock and Mark Wright of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.

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