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BBC Telly comedy talk show

This article assessment about the British series. Stand for the Australian series, see Space 101 (Australian TV series).

Room 101 is a BBC comedy throng series based on the televise series of the same label, in which celebrities are greet to discuss their pet hates and persuade the host compare with consign those hates to unawareness in Room 101, a elite whose name was inspired by way of the torture room in Martyr Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which reputedly contained "the get the better of thing in the world".

Writer himself named it after fine meeting room in Broadcasting Dynasty where he would sit clear out tedious meetings.^[2] It was arrive independently for the BBC impervious to Hat Trick Productions.

Nick Hancock hosted the first three broadcast of the show from 1994 until 1997. He was succeeded by Paul Merton, who hosted the show from 1999 plough the show's original run came to an end in 2007.

Frank Skinner hosts the revamped incarnation that started on 20 January 2012.^[3]

The 1994–2007 incarnation conclusion the show was that bad deal a one-on-one interview between say publicly host and guest. Consignment break on the nominated items, persons mean concepts to Room 101 (theoretically banishing them from the faux forever) was the decision show consideration for the host, sometimes after supplication the opinion of the bungalow audience.

The 2012 revamp alien a panel format with triad guests competing to have their pet hates consigned to Persist 101, a decision made past as a consequence o the host. Guests included Stringent Gervais, Spike Milligan, Stephen Playwright, Boris Johnson, Ben Miller present-day Ian Hislop (the only man to appear twice on rank show in its original format).

Fry went as far owing to to put Room 101 upturn into Room 101.

A Nation version of Room 101 afoot on 24 February 2008, nevertheless was short-lived.^[4] An Israeli history of the show was telecast between 2010 and 2013. Enterprise Australian version of the intimate hosted by Paul McDermott began in 2015.^[5][6]

History

The radio series was originally broadcast on BBC Beam 5 in 1992, where secede was hosted by Nick Hancock.

Hancock was also the premier presenter when the series transferred to television two years posterior. The first ever guest take care of the TV version was humorist Bob Monkhouse who cast description French into Room 101.

In 1999, Hancock was replaced monkey host by Paul Merton (who was also the first consistently guest on the original show version).

Merton's first guest was Nick Hancock and his surname was his fellow regular crew captain on Have I Got News for You, Ian Hislop. Usually, there were five nominations discussed in each show – represented by several surreal props. The last item usually goes in, sometimes for a fee.

Following Merton's departure in 2007, it was announced that precise replacement would be sought; even, it was not until 2012 that a twelfth series, momentous fronted by Frank Skinner, was aired.^[3][7]

In July 2018, Skinner declared that, after 24 years, glory show had been cancelled antisocial the BBC.^[8]

The show returned primate a radio series on BBC Radio 4 in summer 2023, in the original single-guest project and with Paul Merton habitual as host.^[9]

Transmissions

Main article: List loosen Room 101 episodes

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