All Star Happy Hour

Host

Mo Gilligan

Broadcast

Expectation Entertainment / M Mog Productions for Channel 4, 4 May to 25 May 2020 (4 episodes in 1 series) (but see trivia below)

Synopsis

Cacophonous quarantine games with The Big Narstie Show co-host Mo Gilligan.

Key moments

Serial game show contestant Carolynne Selway appearing surprised at being picked to appear on the programme. You must have some confidence in getting on by now…

Catchphrases

"Explosion for no reason" - which followed Gilligan pressing a button on his control panel to sound one. This could never have aired in 2002.

Inventor

Mo in his flat, with enough screens to take over the world.

Gilligan himself. The series was based on a series of Instagram games Gilligan had played earlier during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Theme music

For a show seeking to establish Mo Gilligan as a standalone star, it must have rankled that the theme tune (for the first episode anyway) was Big Narstie's biggest hit, Craig David's When the Bassline Drops.

The show also credits Zoom for "Title music".

Trivia

One episode encountered technical difficulties believed to be caused by the outside broadcast link into the TV network and had to be replaced by an emergency repeat of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. The show did eventually air half an hour later on Instagram Live. The first episode also had its problems; the episode had also been due to feature Maya Jama, but she had not connected into the programme's network, nor was able to be contacted, leaving Gilligan spending much of the show pleading viewers to contact her throughout the show.

All episodes were promoted as Mo Gilligan's All Star Happy Hour, but shown on screen as All Star Happy Hour with Mo Gilligan.

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