It's Not Me, It's You (game show)

It's Not Me, It's You
Genre Comedy panel game
Directed by Barbara Wiltshire
Presented by Eamonn Holmes
Starring Kelly Brook
Vicky Pattison
Voices of Christopher Biggins
Composer(s) Dobs Vye
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 1
No. of episodes 8 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Darren Smith
Beren Money
Editor(s) Matt Roberts
Running time 60 minutes (inc. adverts)
Release
Original network Channel 5
Picture format 16:9
Original release 23 June 2016 (2016-06-23) – present

It's Not Me, It's You is a British comedy panel game show presented by Eamonn Holmes, with Kelly Brook and Vicky Pattison as team captains. It has been broadcasting on Channel 5 since 23 June 2016.

Background

It's Not Me, It's You follows a loose theme of dating,[1] and has been described as a more formal Celebrity Juice:[2] Brook had previously covered for Fearne Cotton on Celebrity Juice while she was on maternity leave,[3] and Holmes and Pattison have both appeared on the show.[4][5] In an interview with The Daily Star, Brook noted that

On something like Celebrity Juice, you are there for Keith Lemon to make fun of you, basically. So you’re always on edge because you’re always the butt of the joke, you’re always the one that he is going to come to and make the audience laugh by saying something silly. And you surrender to it and it’s fun and that is what it is. But on our show it’s great because it’s a role reversal. All of a sudden I’ve got a bit more power, a bit more control, I’m team captain and it’s mainly Eamonn that we make fun of! He tries to sometimes but we always get our own back, so…
— [6]

Format

The first round, Deal Breakers, sees the teams trying to predict whether the audience considered something acceptable or unacceptable, such as whether a wacky marriage proposal was a deal-breaker or not;[7] in the fourth episode, the team guessed which one of the three members of the opposing team were responsible for a quote in a round called First Impressions.[8]

The second round is specific to the panelists: In the first and fourth episodes, before the break there was a video which the panelists were shown half of and had to guess the contents of the second half.[7][8] In Episode 1, this was followed by a round called "Shake Your Tail Feather" due to that show's panelists including Anton du Beke and Frankie Bridge and was where they demonstrated a dance which the rest of the panelists have to guess whether the dance originated from a man or from a beast;[7] the fourth episode saw the panelists trying to guess the opposing team's celebrity crushes.[8] The second episode included "Steph & Dom's Love Potions", where two of its panelists tried to identify a concoction's purpose from drinking it, and also included a round called "Bonkbusters", where teams had to identify the longest chain of celebrity romances from a Blockbusters-style grid;[9] the third episode contained "Eye of the Cougar" in honour of Lesley Joseph which saw her trying to match up five occupations with the five men in front of her.[10] The fourth saw panelist Chris Kamara trying to remember his wife's birthday and wedding anniversary.[8] Subsequent episodes were cut down to 30 minutes from 45 minutes, so it is not known what would have been played in those episodes.

Next, "You Complete Me" sees panelists trying to complete a celebrity quote with certain salient words missing.[7] The third episode followed this with a version of Play Your Cards Right where the teams had to guess whether the celebrity had more or less reported infidelities.[10]

The final round of the show, "Love At First Swipe", sees the captains interacting with sixteen men, eight men each, that have been selected by a member of the audience using a Tinder-style game on a giant screen[11] and they have to try to guess which men she picked.[7]

Episodes

The coloured backgrounds denote the result of each of the shows:

     indicates Kelly's team won
     indicates Vicky's team won
     indicates the game ended in a draw
Episode First broadcast Kelly's guests Vicky's guests Scores
1x01 23 June 2016[7] Stephen Bailey and Anton du Beke Frankie Bridge and Katherine Ryan 3–9
1x02 30 June 2016[9] Chris Ramsey and Dom Parker Steph Parker and Martine McCutcheon 24–22
1x03 7 July 2016[10] Matt Richardson and Spencer Matthews Lesley Joseph and Rob Delaney 12–13
1x04 14 July 2016[8] Chris Ramsey and Nina Wadia Katherine Ryan,[n 1] Stacey Solomon and Chris Kamara 23–20
1x05 29 July 2016 Hal Cruttenden and Louis Spence Gemma Collins and Matt Richardson 3-4
1x06 5 August 2016 Martin Kemp and Roisin Murphy Kimberley Walsh and Chris Ramsey 6-4
1x07 12 August 2016 Stephen Bailey and Joey Essex Sally Lindsay and Andrew Maxwell 5-5
1x08 19 August 2016 Carol Vorderman and Al Porter Russell Kane and Ruth Langsford 5-7

Scores

Kelly Vicky
Series wins (0 drawn)
0 0
Show wins (0 drawn)
2 2

Critical reception

Simon Duke of ChronicleLive noted that the show "allowed us to switch off from the serious side of life for 45 minutes and feel as if we were having a slightly intoxicated chat at a mates' house",[12] while Matt Baylis of The Daily Express described it as a "carefully scripted and painstakingly rehearsed set-piece", and concluded his review with the sentence: "There was a script, they were plodding through it, having fun along the way and also being pretty funny."[13]

Notes

  1. ↑ Pattison did not attend the recording of this episode.

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/20/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.