10 O'Clock Live

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10 O'Clock Live
10 O'Clock Live titlescreen.jpg
Genre Current affairs
Comedy
Satire
Presented by Charlie Brooker
Jimmy Carr
Lauren Laverne
David Mitchell
Opening theme "Bernie" by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 3
No. of episodes 33 (list of episodes)
Production
Production location(s) Pinewood Studios
Running time Series 1: 65 minutes (inc. adverts)
Series 2-3: 55 minutes[1] (inc. adverts)
Production company(s) Zeppotron
Distributor Endemol UK
Release
Original network Channel 4
Picture format 1080i (HDTV) 16:9
Original release 20 January 2011 (2011-01-20) –
12 June 2013 (2013-06-12)
Chronology
Related shows Channel 4's Alternative Election Night
External links
[{{#property:P856}} Website]

10 O'Clock Live was a British comedy/news television programme presented by Charlie Brooker, Jimmy Carr, Lauren Laverne and David Mitchell.[2]

The programme was commissioned following the success of Channel 4's Alternative Election Night, fronted by the same four presenters, in May 2010.[3] The first series appeared in 2011,[4] with two subsequent series broadcast in 2012 and 2013.[1][5] In October 2014 it was confirmed the show will not be continuing.[6]

The song "Bernie" by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion was used for the show's theme.

Interactivity

The show has official Facebook and Twitter pages, to enable viewer interactivity whilst live on air. Polls were run via the Facebook page and comments received via both pages and read out by the presenters.[7]

Format

Much of the show relies on the talents and characteristics of its hosts to form each segment.

First series

The show was introduced by the four hosts positioned, seated or standing, around an island table. In an order that changed with each show, they would each introduce themselves by name, with the last host to speak also introducing the show ("It's 10 o'clock, we're live on Channel 4, this is 10 O'Clock Live..."). The hosts would then sit down at another table and open the show on an introductory discussion and set-up to the planned topics for the week's show. This was always followed by Jimmy Carr explaining the news of the week in the form of one-liner jokes, then by Charlie Brooker examining the way in which an event, story or media-figure has been covered in the news, focusing his satire on the way the event was covered to the public. He did the same again later on, normally on a different subject (for example, if he covered a political story earlier on, he will examine coverage of a celebrity later). David Mitchell always had three sections: a panel-discussion with guests (such as journalists, activists, and MPs) discussing an issue; an interview with a more well-known or higher-ranking political figure, which he aimed to conduct as seriously as possible, but was able to satirize what the interviewee says unlike more serious political interviewers; and a "Listen to Mitchell" section, in the style of his panel-show rants and David Mitchell's Soapbox podcast series. Carr also had two more sections to himself in the style of one-liner stand-up, but usually while satirically playing a character or figure from the news, (such as George Osborne during the week of the 2011 United Kingdom budget). Lauren Laverne tended to introduce pre-recorded sketches and material, and chair the discussions amongst the four hosts.

Second and third series

The shows from the second and third series have had a slightly shorter running time than those in the first. As such, a few items have been subsequently dropped: the self-introduction of each host by name (after the credits the camera cut straight to the table where the four were seated for the initial discussion, always chaired by Laverne); David Mitchell's one-to-one political interviews were removed, while his "Listen to Mitchell" segment only appeared in one episode; Charlie Brooker's sardonic takes on news stories were reduced from two to one; Lauren Laverne's pre-recorded sketches were replaced with "Lauren Laverne's Occasional Guide to...", in which she delivered a satirical "guide" to various current events, such as the 2012 Republican presidential primaries or the UK government's expenditure for the Cultural Olympiad.

Episodes and guests

Series 1

# Guests Original airdate
1x01 Richard Sharp, Kwasi Kwarteng MP, David Willetts MP, Zoe Gannon, Bjørn Lomborg[8] 20 January 2011 (2011-01-20)
1x02 Alastair Campbell, Tim Harford, Afua Hirsch, Professor Anthony Glees, Rizwaan Sabir[9] 27 January 2011 (2011-01-27)
1x03 Harry Cole, Dr. Lucie Green, Hannah Lownsbrough, Sir Christopher Bland, Caroline Lucas MP[10] 3 February 2011 (2011-02-03)
1x04 Simon Hughes MP, Shaun Bailey, Phillip Blond, Johann Hari[11] 10 February 2011 (2011-02-10)
1x05 Stephen Dubner, Tamsin Omond, Milo Yiannopoulos, Sally Bercow, Steven Norris[12] 17 February 2011 (2011-02-17)
1x06 Bob Crow, Yasmin Khan, Alex Singleton, Dominic Raab[13] 24 February 2011 (2011-02-24)
1x07 Daniel Poulter, Robert Winston, Deborah Mattinson, Medhi Hasan, Shaun Bailey[14] 3 March 2011 (2011-03-03)
1x08 Andy Burnham MP, Shane Greer, Tansy Hoskins, Rory Stewart MP[15] 10 March 2011 (2011-03-10)
1x09 Nigel Farage MEP, Mark Littlewood, James Lowman, Bee Wilson[16] 17 March 2011 (2011-03-17)
1x10 Grant Shapps MP, Yasmin Khan, Maajid Nawaz, Carne Ross[17] 24 March 2011 (2011-03-24)
1x11 Ken Livingstone, Noreena Hertz, Daniel Finkelstein, Laurie Penny[18] 31 March 2011 (2011-03-31)
1x12 John Prescott, Johann Hari, Shane Greer of Total Politics, Jo Rice of Spear Youth charity[19] 7 April 2011 (2011-04-07)
1x13 Richard Sharp, James Max, Max Keiser, Tessa Jowell MP[20] 14 April 2011 (2011-04-14)
1x14 Owen Jones, Peter Oborne, Natalie Haynes, Clive Anderson, Charlotte Harris[21] 21 April 2011 (2011-04-21)
1x15 Sarah Teather MP, Jonathan Powell, Salma Yaqoob, Jesse Armstrong[22] 28 April 2011 (2011-04-28)

Series 2

# Guests Original airdate
2x01 Alastair Campbell and Clarke Carlisle[23] 8 February 2012 (2012-02-08)
2x02 George Galloway and Hugo Rifkind[24] 15 February 2012 (2012-02-15)
2x03 Julia Hartley-Brewer, Owen Jones and Matt Cardle[25] 22 February 2012 (2012-02-22)
2x04 Toby Young and Mehdi Hasan[26] 29 February 2012 (2012-02-29)
2x05 Boy George[27] and Milo Yiannopoulos [28] 7 March 2012 (2012-03-07)
2x06 David Starkey[29] and Natalie Haynes[30] 14 March 2012 (2012-03-14)
2x07 George Pitcher and Evan Harris[31] 21 March 2012 (2012-03-21)
2x08 Amy Lamé, Dr Dawn Harper and Morgan Spurlock[32] 28 March 2012 (2012-03-28)
2x09 George Galloway, Emily Thornberry, Dominic Raab and Tom Brake[33] 4 April 2012 (2012-04-04)
2x10 Julia Hartley-Brewer, Spencer Matthews and Billy Bragg[34] 11 April 2012 (2012-04-11)

Series 3

# Guests Original airdate
3x01 Katie Hopkins, Owen Jones, Theo Paphitis[35] 24 April 2013 (2013-04-24)
3x02 Angelos Epithemiou, Janet Street-Porter, Peter Stringfellow, Shiv Malik[36] 1 May 2013 (2013-05-01)
3x03 John Sergeant, George Galloway, Deborah Mattinson, Kayvan Novak[37] 8 May 2013 (2013-05-08)
3x04 Henning Wehn, Ken Livingstone, Toby Young[38] 15 May 2013 (2013-05-15)
3x05 Amy Lame, Milo Yiannopoulos, Ivan Massow[39] 22 May 2013 (2013-05-22)
3x06 Christine Hamilton, Laurie Penny, Angela Epstein[40] 29 May 2013 (2013-05-29)
3x07 Rich Hall, Zac Goldsmith, Diane Abbott[41] 5 June 2013 (2013-06-05)
3x08 Richard Bacon, David Baddiel, Rupinder Bains[42] 12 June 2013 (2013-06-12)

Viewing figures

BARB as reported by The Guardian, recorded overnight viewing figures demonstrating that the show "launched with 1.373 million viewers and a 7.8% audience share, with about another 100,000 watching an hour later on Channel 4 +1", running against BBC One's popular and well established weekly political debate programme, Question Time which had ratings slightly better than the week before. Channel 4 claimed that the show nevertheless drew a higher share of the 16-34 demographic. The Guardian's reporter also remarked that Newsnight, BBC Two's flagship nightly current affairs programme, suffered its lowest audience of the past year. The BBC programmes overlap the 22:00-23:05 timeslot filled by 10 O'Clock Live.[43]

In the second week, ratings were down to 1.084 million viewers, representing a 6% audience share.[44]

Overnights for the show on 7 April had figures at 610,000 (3.6%) with a further 110,000 (1.2%) one hour later on the timeshifted Channel 4+1.[45]

Reception

In Metro on 11 February 2011, Christopher Hooton wrote that the show had become "a much-improved animal with several stand-out funny moments", but also claimed it had become "as overtly partisan as Fox News".[46]

A number of commentators noted that the first series of show was consistently biased towards a left-wing stance on political issues.[47][48] In The Daily Telegraph Robert Colvile strongly criticised the quality of the humour in the programme, describing it as an "insular, disjointed, murderously unfunny smug-a-thon",[49] while in the same newspaper James Delingpole saw an overt liberal left bias in the programme.[50][51]

Others have criticised the apolitical nature of the programme's comedy. Reviewing the opening episode of the second series on The Huffington Post, Richard Berry argued that the programme failed to live up to its billing as satire, commenting "More often than not, in 10 O'Clock Live politics and current affairs are referenced merely as a backdrop for toilet humour."[52]

References

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