The Friday Night Project
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| The Friday Night Project | |
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| Genre | Chat show |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Starring | Justin Lee Collins Alan Carr |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original channel | Channel 4 |
| Original run | February 2005– |
| No. of episodes | 27 (as of 25 August 2006) |
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The Friday Night Project is a programme that first aired in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 in February, 2005.
Each week, regular hosts Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr are joined by a celebrity guest host. These guests provide an opening monologue, are interviewed by Alan and Justin, and take questions from the studio audience. They also take part in comedy sketches, hidden camera stunts, and a game show where someone from the audience is selected to win prizes.
One part of the show, called "Who knows the most about the guest host", sees two teams competing to answer trivia questions about that week's guest host. The captain of that team (either Alan or Justin) then runs into their side of the audience, wearing a golden coat with hundreds of £5 notes attached to it. The audience must dive onto them and try to grab the money.
Music each week is provided by a weekly guest house band.
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[edit] Series 1
It was originally presented by comics Jimmy Carr, Rob Rouse, Sharon Horgan and roving reporter Lucy Montgomery with sporadic appearances from Abi Titmuss.
The guest hosts for the series were:
| Episode Number | Guest Host | Musical Guest/Song performed |
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| 1 | Vinnie Jones | Fightstar (Palahniuk's Laughter) |
| 2 | Neil Morrisey | The Bravery (An Honest Mistake) |
| 3 | Kelly Osbourne | The Futureheads (Hounds of Love) |
| 4 | Jordan | Kaiser Chiefs (Oh My God) |
| 5 | Brigitte Nielsen | Moby (Lift Me Up) |
| 6 | Eamonn Holmes | The Others (William) |
| 7 | Boy George | Kinky Rowland (????) |
| 8 | Sadie Frost | The Thrills (The Irish Keep Gate-Crashing) |
[edit] Series 2
The show returned in 2006 with host comedians Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr (who worked together on late night show Flipside), with regular segments from Debra Stephenson.The episode featuring Billie Piper was awarded the 2006 Golden Rose of Montreux for best variety show.
The guest hosts for the series were:
| Episode Number | Guest Host | Musical Guest/Song performed |
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| 1 | Billie Piper | Texas (Sleep) |
| 2 | Lorraine Kelly | Editors (Munich) |
| 3 | Christian Slater | The Kooks (You Don't Love Me) |
| 4 | Denise van Outen | Boy Kill Boy (Back Again) |
| 5 | Michael Barrymore | The Ordinary Boys (Boys Will Be Boys) |
| 6 | Jamie Oliver | Kubb (Grow) |
| 7 | Jessie Wallace | HARD-Fi (Hard to Beat) |
| 8 | Trisha Goddard | The Automatic (Raoul) |
[edit] Series 3
A third series of the show ran from Friday 16th June 2006 for 11 weeks whilst Big Brother was shown during summer 2006. Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr returned as hosts, and the format is exactly the same as the second series. Paul O'Grady was due to host but had to pull out due to a heart attack suffered one week before his episode was to start filming. Cilla Black was also due to host this series, but pulled out at the last minute.
The guest hosts for the series were:
| Episode Number | Guest Host | Musical Guest/Song performed |
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| 1 | Jerry Springer | Orson (Bright Idea) |
| 2 | Patsy Kensit | Placebo (Infra-Red) |
| 3 | Rob Lowe | The Zutons (Valerie) |
| 4 | Mischa Barton | Dirty Pretty Things (Deadwood) |
| 5 | Ian Wright | Feeder (Just A Day) |
| 6 | Jade Goody | Razorlight (In The Morning) |
| 7 | Justin Hawkins | Kasabian (Empire) |
| 8 | Rupert Everett | Primal Scream (Dolls (Sweet Rock and Roll)) |
| 9 | Carol Vorderman | The Automatic (Recover) |
| 10 | Ross Kemp | The Feeling (Never Be Lonely) |
| 11 | Girls Aloud | The Fratellis (Chelsea Dagger) |
[edit] Series 4
The fourth series of The Friday Night Project will air in January 2007 and will run for 8 weeks. A special festive edition looking back at the best bits of The Friday Night Project 2006 will air on Christmas Eve on Channel 4, with the 4th Series due to start a couple of weeks afterwards.
The guest hosts for the series were:
| Episode Number | Guest Host | Musical Guest/Song performed |
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| 1 | David Tennant | |
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[edit] Games and features
[edit] Opening monologue
The host of the show opens it with a dialogue about the weeks news. He/she makes jokes of celebrity mistakes and often talks about Big Brother. They also use this time to introduce the show's guest band.
[edit] Friday Night News
This is the first significant feature. Alan Carr and the guest host sit at the news desk and read some of the weeks news. Then Alan expresses his own funny opinions on each piece and how badly they messed up on the decision. As well as this, Alan's "Topical Barometer" shows whether a piece of news is "going up" or "going down", and often attempts to turn it into a joke. With the "Topical Barometer", Alan usually makes an innuendo about his penis. On the show on the 25th August 2006 Sarah Harding was the "Topical Barometer".
[edit] Who knows the most about the guest host?
In this section, the guest host hosts his/her own quiz. With two teams consisting of Alan and a celebrity and Justin and a celebrity try to answer questions about the guest host. If Alan's team win, then he runs into his side of the audience with "The Coat of Cash" whilst audience members try to get money off of the jacket which is usually £5 notes. The same happens if Justin's team wins.
Guest panelists
Series 1
Bez and Jeff Brazier (Episode One)
Richard Blackwood and Maureen Rees (Episode Two)
Christine Hamilton and Jean Christophe Novelli (Episode Three)
Romeo and Keith Harris (Episode Four)
John McCririck and Pat Sharp (Episode Five)
Charles Ingram and ???? (Episode Six)
Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards and Bella Emberg (Episode Seven)
???? and ???? (Episode Eight)
Series 2
Jade Goody and Bradley McIntosh (Episode One)
Myleene Klass and Phil Tufnell (Episode Two)
Lady Isabella Hervey and Fearne Cotton (Episode Three)
Lisa Scott-Lee and Nadia Almada (Episode Four)
Nancy Sorrell and Samia Smith (Episode Five)
???? and ???? (Episode Six)
Caprice Bourret and Hilda Braid (Episode Seven)
Faria Alam and Pete Burns (Episode Eight)
Series 3
Zoe Lucker and Sam Brodie (Episode One)
Jeremy Edwards and Grace Adams-Short (Episode Two)
Jennifer Ellison and Kirsty Gallacher (Episode Three)
Camille Coduri and Harry Judd (Episode Four)
Sally Lindsay and Lea Walker (Episode Five)
Dominic Wood and Nikki Grahame (Episode Six)
Holly Willoughby and Jayne Kitt (Episode Seven)
Jennie McAlpine and Sarah Beeny (Episode Eight)
Gary Lucy and Susie Verrico (Episode Nine)
Matt Willis and Chantelle Houghton (Episode Ten)
Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace and Glyn Wise (Episode Eleven)
[edit] Celebrity spotting with Debra Stephenson
In earlier editions from the first series Lucy Montgomery toured the streets where the guest presenter grew up in trying to find celebrity lookalikes. For the following series, she was replaced by Debra Stephenson who tours the streets of England (usually filmed in Manchester). She then embarrasses herself by confronting them and asking them to do or say something that the celebrity is famous for. Also, from time to time, she will ask them "Is it true?" about a recent story hitting the headlines. This section is sometimes done by another person that is well-known at the current time, such as Nikki Grahame and Chantelle Houghton when Debra is unavailable due to Coronation Street filming commitments.
[edit] Famous five
This is the finale of the show where the guest host picks someone from the audience which meet certain specifications set by Alan and Justin such as "Who looks the most like a rockstar?" Then the guest host answers 5 different style questions such as guessing who Alan is when he is dressed up and doing an impression and guessing the answer to a question posed by "Stephen Hawking".
[edit] Trivia
- The Friday Night Project is not live, as they record the show at The London Studios on Thursday evening. To seem authentic, the show does multiple recordings of the intro so that they have correctly predicted the evictee/ winner of Big Brother.
- The web and print publishing company The Friday Project alleges that the series stole its name from their site, or at least failed to check in Google first. This has led to The Friday Project creating a spoof site displaying mis-spelt feedback from Friday Night Project viewers and Justin Lee Collins Fans. A common feature of The Friday Thing email newsletter they produce is a selection of some of the most idiotic emails intended for The Friday Night Project.
- There has only been one episode where a solo singer has been the musical guest on the show. That was Moby, in the fifth episode of the first series. In every other episode, bands featured as the musical guests.
- On the episode that aired on the 11th August 2006 (S03, E09) The Automatic became the first, and so far only, band to have appeared twice as the Guest Band.
- The 25th August 2006 episode (S03, E11) was the first to be guest hosted by more than one person - Cheryl Cole, Kimberley Walsh and Sarah Harding from Girls Aloud.
