Russell Brand's Got Issues

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Russell Brand's Got Issues
Promotional poster for Russell Brand's Got Issues
Genre	Comedy, Chat show, Sketch Show
Picture format	576i (Widescreen)
Running time	30 mins. (approx)
Starring	Russell Brand
Opening theme	Dirty Pretty Things - "Deadwood"
Country of origin	UK
Original channel	E4
Original run	September 12, 2006–October 17, 2006

Russell Brand's Got Issues was a British TV comedy show hosted by Russell Brand and shown on E4. The show was written by Brand and his longtime collaborator Matt Morgan. Superficially a studio debate, as each episode progressed the subject was often digressed from heavily.

The format of the show changed somewhat after the first couple of episodes with "General Zod's nephew" being dropped, and the clips of people being interviewed on the street becoming clips of Brand trying out a given activity and acting in a skit in relation to that week's topic.

The viewing figures for the first episode were seen as disappointing, being beaten by nearly all of E4's main multi-channel rivals, despite a big publicity and promotional campaign for the show.[1] The programme was due to air on E4's sister-station Channel 4 from November 17, 2006 but this never occured and it appears the show has been axed due to a poor reception and bad ratings in favour of Brand's new chat show The Russell Brand Show.

[edit] Episodes Guide

Episode Number	Theme	Guest Panelists
1	Is Our Lust for Beauty Making Us Ugly Human Beings?	Lily Allen
2	Yobs: Is It Time to Fight Back?	Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Michael Carroll
3	Is Sex Fucking Us Up?	Jonathan Ross
4	The Paranormal	Vanessa Feltz and Tim Westwood
5	The Nature of Celebrity	Alan Cumming
6	Does True Love Exist?	Jessica Stevenson