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10 O'Clock Live 
10 O'Clock Live title screenFormat Current affairs
Comedy
SatirePresented by Charlie Brooker
Jimmy Carr
Lauren Laverne
David MitchellOpening theme "Bernie" by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Country of origin United Kingdom Language(s) English No. of series 1 No. of episodes 15 (List of episodes) Production Running time Series 1: 65 minutes (with commercials)
Series 2: 45 minutes[1] (with commercials)Production company(s) Zeppotron Broadcast Original channel Channel 4 Picture format 1080i (HDTV) 16:9 Original run 20 January 2011 – 28 April 2011 Chronology Related shows Channel 4's Alternative Election Night 10 O'Clock Live is a British satirical 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 series ran for 15 weeks.[4] It has been commissioned for a second series of 10 episodes, which is to run at a similar time to the first in 2012, but with a reduced running time of 45 minutes.[1]
The song "Bernie" by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is used for the show's theme.
Contents
Interactivity
The show has official Facebook and Twitter pages, to enable viewer interactivity whilst live on air. Polls are run via the Facebook page, and comments are received via both pages, which are read out by the presenters.[5]
Format
Much of the show relies on the talents and characteristics of its hosts to form each segment.
The show opens on an introductory discussion and set-up to the planned topics for the week's show. This is always followed by Jimmy Carr explaining the news of the week in the form of one-liner jokes. This is then proceeded 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. Charlie Brooker does 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 has 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 aims to conduct as seriously as possible, but 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 has 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 tends to introduce pre-recorded sketches and material, and chair the discussions amongst the four hosts.
Politics
A number of commentators have called the show consistently biased towards a left-wing stance on political issues.[6][7][8]
Episodes and guests
# Guests Original airdate 1x01 Richard Sharp, Kwasi Kwarteng, David Willetts, Zoe Gannon, Bjørn Lomborg[9] 20 January 2011 1x02 Alastair Campbell, Tim Harford, Afua Hirsch, Professor Anthony Glees, Rizwaan Sabir[10] 27 January 2011 1x03 Harry Cole, Dr. Lucie Green, Hannah Lownsbrough, Sir Christopher Bland, Caroline Lucas MP[11] 3 February 2011 1x04 Simon Hughes MP, Shaun Bailey, Phillip Blond, Johann Hari[12] 10 February 2011 1x05 Stephen Dubner, Tamsin Omond, Milo Yiannopoulos, Sally Bercow, Steven Norris[13] 17 February 2011 1x06 Bob Crow, Yasmin Khan, Alex Singleton, Dominic Raab[14] 24 February 2011 1x07 Daniel Poulter, Robert Winston, Deborah Mattinson, Medhi Hasan, Shaun Bailey[15] 3 March 2011 1x08 Andy Burnham MP, Shane Greer, Tansy Hoskins, Rory Stewart MP[16] 10 March 2011 1x09 Nigel Farage MEP, Mark Littlewood, James Lowman, Bee Wilson[17] 17 March 2011 1x10 Grant Shapps MP, Yasmin Khan, Maajid Nawaz, Carne Ross[18] 24 March 2011 1x11 Ken Livingstone, Noreena Hertz, Daniel Finkelstein, Laurie Penny[19] 31 March 2011 1x12 John Prescott, Johann Hari, Shane Greer of Total Politics, Jo Rice of Spear youth charity.[20] 7 April 2011 1x13 Richard Sharp, James Max, Max Keiser, Tessa Jowell MP[21] 14 April 2011 1x14 Owen Jones, Peter Oborne, Natalie Haynes, Clive Anderson, Charlotte Harris[22] 21 April 2011 1x15 Sarah Teather MP, Jonathan Powell, Salma Yaqoob, Jesse Armstrong[23] 28 April 2011 Reception
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 Four 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.[24]
In the second week, ratings were down to 1.084 million viewers, representing a 6% audience share.[25]
Overnights for the show on April 7 had figures at 610,000 (3.6%) with a further 110,000 (1.2%) one hour later on the timeshifted Channel 4+1.[26]
In Metro on February 11, 2011, Christopher Hooton wrote that the show had become "a much-improved animal with several stand-out funny moments" but also thought that it had become "as overtly partisan as Fox News".[27]
References
- ^ a b "10 O'Clock Live to return to Channel 4 | Media | guardian.co.uk". The Guardian. 1 November 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/01/10-oclock-live-channel-4. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
- ^ "10 O'Clock Live". 20 January 2011. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/10-oclock-live.
- ^ "10 O'Clock Live - C4 Satire - British Comedy Guide". 20 January 2011. http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/10_oclock_live.
- ^ Ward, Rachel (20 January 2011). "10 O'Clock Live, Channel 4, preview". The Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8271235/10-OClock-Live-Channel-4-preview.html. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ 10 O'Clock Live info Channel 4, 22 January 2011
- ^ Lawson, Mark (20 January 2011). "10 O'Clock Live – review". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/jan/20/10-o-clock-live-review. Retrieved 16 April 2011. "The four regulars also all seem united in a liberal agenda."
- ^ Hooton, Christopher (11 February 2011). "10 O’Clock Live is becoming a party political broadcast". Metro.co.uk. http://www.metro.co.uk/tv/855238-10-o-clock-live-is-becoming-a-party-political-broadcast. Retrieved 16 April 2011. "Often spouting unequivocally liberal views the team of presenters have completely pinned their colours to the mast. Now I’m no Tory but it would be nice to see a little less blatant bias in the show, but with half the presenting team writing regularly for the Guardian this looks a little unlikely."
- ^ Delingpole, James (18 March 2011). "10 O'Clock Live is shedding viewers. Oh dear". The Daily Telegraph. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100080307/10-oclock-live-is-shedding-viewers-oh-dear/. Retrieved 16 April 2011. "The problem lies with its relentlessly left-liberal politics. [...] Not everyone reads the Guardian or the Independent, you know. (In fact, hardly anyone.)"
- ^ Guests: episode 1
- ^ Guests: episode 2
- ^ Guests: episode 3
- ^ Guests: episode 4
- ^ Guests: episode 5
- ^ Guests: episode 6
- ^ Guests: episode 7
- ^ Guests: episode 8
- ^ Guests: episode 9
- ^ Guests: episodes 10
- ^ Guests: episodes 11
- ^ Guests: episodes 12
- ^ Guests: episodes 13
- ^ Guests: episodes 14
- ^ Guests: episodes 15
- ^ Deans, Jason (21 January 2011). "TV ratings: Question Time trumps 10 O'Clock Live". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/21/question-time-10-oclock-live. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
- ^ Deans, Jason (28 January 2011). "Viewers fail to set their watches for Ten O'Clock Live". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/28/ten-oclock-live-ratings. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
- ^ "UK Overnight Daily TV BARB Ratings – Thursday, April 7, 2011". 8 April 2011. http://television-ratings.info/televisionratings/2011/04/uk-overnight-daily-tv-barb-ratings-thursday-april-7-2011/. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
- ^ Hooton, Christopher (11 February 2011). "10 O’Clock Live is becoming a party political broadcast". http://www.metro.co.uk/tv/855238-10-o-clock-live-is-becoming-a-party-political-broadcast. Retrieved 2001-04-09.
External links
- 10 O'Clock Live at channel4.com
- 10 O'Clock Live at the British Comedy Guide
- 10 O'Clock Live at the Internet Movie Database
- 10 O'Clock Live on Facebook
- 10 O'Clock Live on Twitter
- #10oclocklive Twitter hashtag
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