8 out of 10 Cats

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8 out of 10 Cats
Host Jimmy Carr with Team Captains Dave Spikey & Sean Lock
Genre	Panel Game
Starring	Jimmy Carr Sean Lock Dave Spikey
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	36
Production
Producer(s)	Endemol
Running time	24 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Channel 4
Original run	3 June 2005 –
Links
IMDb profile

8 out of 10 Cats is a comedy panel game made by Zeppotron (a subsidiary of Endemol) for Channel 4. It was first broadcast on Friday 3 June 2005.

The show is based on opinion polls and draws on polls produced by a variety of organisations and new polls commissioned for the programme carried out by company Harris Poll.

The host is Jimmy Carr and the team captains are Sean Lock and Dave Spikey in teams of three. There is a rotating list of comedians and celebrities on each show (Johnny Vegas, Vic Reeves, Frankie Boyle, Emo Philips and even housemates from Big Brother to name a few). The title is derived from a well-known advertising tagline for Whiskas cat food which originally claimed that "8 out of 10 Cats prefer Whiskas" (later changed to "8 out of 10 owners who expressed a preference said that their cats preferred Whiskas").

A fifth series will start in 2007. Each series has featured the same host and team captains.

The show is recorded at BBC Television Centre.

1 Rounds
2 Episode guide
3 Big Brother specials
4 DVDs
5 External links

[edit] Rounds

"What Are You Talking About?" - The polling organisation asked the public what they were talking about during the week. The teams have to try and guess the top five.
"The Poll with the Hole" - A series of answers to polls are given but one piece of information is missing. The teams try and guess what the missing information is.
"Believe It or Not" - The teams are given a statistic and try and guess if it is true or false.
"And the Winner Is..." The teams are given a question from a poll and then they try and guess what came on top of that poll.

The points often do not add up right, but this is mainly because the show has to be edited to fit in its 25/30 minute slot.

[edit] Episode guide

[edit] Series 1

Air date	Episode number	Guest panellists
June 3, 2005	1	Simon Amstell, Mel Giedroyc, Lee Mack and Richard Madeley
June 10, 2005	2	David Walliams, Christian O'Connell, Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Tara Palmer-Tomkinson
June 17, 2005	3	Lee Mack, Claudia Winkleman, Eamonn Holmes and Alan Carr
June 24, 2005	4	Paul Kaye, June Sarpong, Sue Perkins and Peter Serafinowicz
July 1, 2005	5	Scott Capurro, Mel Giedroyc, Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen and Debra Stephenson
July 8, 2005	6	Frankie Boyle, Iain Lee, Rob Rouse and Alan Carr
July 15, 2005	7	Lee Mack, Janet Street-Porter, Patrick McGuinness and Trisha Goddard
July 22, 2005	8	Simon Amstell, Ralf Little, Sarah Beeny and Iain Lee
June 29, 2005	9	Jayne Middlemiss, Johnny Vegas, Scott Capurro and Rob Rouse
August 5, 2005	10	Kate Garraway, Vic Reeves, Alan Carr and Frankie Boyle

[edit] Series 2

Air date	Episode number	Guest panellists
February 10, 2006	1	Zoe Ball, Sally Lindsay, Ben Miller, and Scott Capurro
February 17, 2006	2	Reginald D Hunter, Jade Goody, Patrick McGuinness and Ed Byrne
February 24, 2006	3	Kelly Osbourne, Vic Reeves, Richard Madeley, and Neil Morrissey
March 3, 2006	4	Sally Phillips, Alan Carr, Chris O'Dowd and Meera Syal
March 10, 2006	5	Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Frankie Boyle, Les Dennis and Chantelle Houghton
March 17, 2006	6	Johnny Vegas, Christian Slater, Rob Rouse, and Lauren Laverne.
March 24, 2006	7	Alan Carr, Carol Thatcher, Jessica Stevenson and Ulrika Jonsson

[edit] Series 3

Air date	Episode number	Guest panellists
May 26, 2006	1	Ulrika Jonsson, Ruth Badger, David Baddiel, and Alan Carr
June 2, 2006	2	David Walliams, Debra Stephenson, Frankie Boyle, and Bez
June 9, 2006	3	Peter Serafinowicz, Johnny Vegas, Jayne Middlemiss, and Reginald D Hunter
June 16, 2006	4	Sally Lindsay, Julian Clary, Dave Johns, and Edith Bowman
June 23, 2006	5	Vic Reeves, David Walliams, Louis Walsh, and Krishnan Guru-Murthy
June 30, 2006	6	Jason Manford, Phill Jupitus, Germaine Greer, and Fiona Allen
July 7, 2006	7	Alex Zane, Trisha Goddard, Justin Moorhouse, and Emo Phillips
July 14, 2006	8	Joan Rivers, Vic Reeves, Eamonn Holmes, and Holly Willoughby

[edit] Series 4

Air date	Episode number	Guest panellists
October 20, 2006	1	Rich Hall, Nikki Grahame, Lee Mack and Boy George
October 27, 2006	2	Piers Morgan, Jason Manford, Kirsty Gallacher, and Scott Capurro
November 3, 2006	3	Trisha Goddard, Duncan Bannatyne, Frankie Boyle, and Jonathan Ross
November 10, 2006	4	Sally Lindsay, Louis Walsh, Reginald D Hunter, and Rhys Thomas
November 17, 2006	5	Michael McIntyre, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Johnny Vegas, and Ulrika Jonsson
November 24, 2006	6	Lee Mack, Bill Oddie, Fiona Allen, and Griff Rhys Jones
December 1, 2006	7	Vic Reeves, Jade Goody, Chris Addison, and John Barrowman
December 8, 2006	8	Alex Zane, Joan Rivers, David Gest and Alan Carr
December 15, 2006	Highlights Show

[edit] Big Brother specials

8 out of 10 Cats Big Brother specials are shown before the live final of the current series of Big Brother, in which evicted Big Brother housemates from the current series and well known housemates from previous years are on the panels.

Big Brother 6 Special: Jeremy Edwards, Liza Tarbuck, Derek Laud and Kieron "Science" Harvey. Featuring: Nicholas Bateman, Michelle Bass, Kemal Shahin, Jade Goody, Maxwell Ward and Victor Ebuwa.
Big Brother 7 Special: Dom Joly, Jason Manford, Lea Walker, and Grace Adams-Short. Featuring: Eugene Sully, Nadia Almada, Jayne Kitt, Shahbaz Chauhdry, Mikey Dalton and Jade Goody.

[edit] DVDs

DVD of 8 out of 10 Cats: Claws Out

A collection of the highlights of the past few series as a ninety-minute 8 out of 10 Cats: Claws Out, which also features scenes deleted from the show for being too offensive to broadcast to be released on 22 November 2006.