Man to Man with Dean Learner
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| Man to Man with Dean Learner | |
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 Title card from Man to Man with Dean Learner |
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| Genre | Comedy chat show |
| Creator(s) | Richard Ayoade Matthew Holness |
| Starring | Richard Ayoade Matthew Holness |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Running time | 24. mins |
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| Original channel | Channel 4 |
| Original run | October 20, 2006 – November 24, 2006 |
Man to Man with Dean Learner is a British comedy chat show that was first broadcast on Channel 4 on October 20, 2006. It features comedians Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness.
Originally called Deano's After Dark, the show features Dean Learner (Ayoade) chatting to a range of guests (all played by Ayoade's co-writer, Matthew Holness) including Merriman Weir and Garth Marenghi.
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[edit] Production
Holness and Ayoade spent time testing out material in front of a live audience in December 2005; the show involved Ayoade fixed in the role of smut-peddling presenter Dean Learner and Holness playing various different characters. These included a sci-fi — or "S.F.", as he preferred it — actor with a new biography detailing his extremely close relationship with a director; folk musician (Holness is an adept guitarist) Merriman Weir, who has a penchant for rather dark songs; and another actor, who delivered a chilling (presumably mainly improvised) monologue. Holness' main role was back in the shoes of Garth Marenghi, in an interview between the two leading characters.
Bafta Nominated composer Andrew Hewitt — who scored Darkplace also scored sections of Man to Man.
An amount of the humour stems from Learner's dubious business activities and misogynistic tendencies — with UK model Satu Suominen (as his 'beautiful assistant cum bartender') being the target of many of his jibes.
[edit] Episodes
Episode 1: "Garth Marenghi" - Original Transmission Date: 20th October 2006
Marenghi described a near-death experience in which he was crushed to the size of a midget by a giant version of his own head whilst filming the feature-length Darkplace motion picture, War of the Wasps. He was still recovering at the time of the interview, walking with the aid of a walking stick, but stretched back to an approximation of his former height.
Episode 2: "Steve Pising" - Original Transmission Date: 27th October 2006
Steve Pising is known to his public as multiple former Formula Five Motor Racing World Champion. Hospitalised in the early ‘90s after a horrific accident, which ended his motor racing career and heat-sealed his reproductive organs, this show is Steve's first public appearance in over ten years. Pising has many similarities to British F1 champion Nigel Mansell.
Episode 3: "Glynn Nimron" - Original Transmission Date: 3rd November 2006
Glyn Nimron is a true legend in his field; in this case, episodic futuristic law enforcement television drama series of the mid 1970s. A pioneering half-Hawaiian actor most famous for his role as ‘Bot’ in the classic Sci Fi series Galacticops, Glynn will be celebrating the release of his 3000th film Space Bandits From Pluto and their Pirate Pals later this year (the release date for which is still unconfirmed, but the film carries an R18 certificate and will be released exclusively in specialist retail outlets). Nimron has many similarities to Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy and speaks with a voice reminiscent of George Takei.
Episode 4: "Merriman Weir" - Original Transmission Date: 10th November 2006
Merriman Weir is a legendary folk guitarist famed for classic songs of melancholy and regret. This is Weir’s first television appearance in a 30-year career and follows his much publicised bar-fight with James Blunt at this year’s Big Chill festival. Don’t miss this rare and classic acoustic set (this last instruction has also been forwarded to Merriman).
Episode 5: "Amir Chanan" - Original Transmission Date: 17th November 2006
Amir Chanan is a self-confessed ‘Master of the Psychic Arts’. Rediscovered by a new generation of fans after his classic ‘Mind Fondle’ on Richard and Judy, Amir talks to Dean about conspiracy theories, comfort feeding, mind control for the under fives and his bath-time therapy for the dispossessed. Chanan has many similarities to Israeli psychic Uri Gellar.
Episode 6: "Randolph Caer" - Original Transmission Date: 24th November 2006
The underrated character actor, Randolph Caer grants his first television interview in 28 years following his traumatic ‘live’ mauling by TV’s Lennard Ritter. Celebrated for his groundbreaking performances in films such as Nun Party! and That Duck! 2 (Duck on the Run), Randolph appears exclusively on Man to Man for a birthday celebration special.
Due to the death of Caer, shortly before the programme's transmission, all guests from the previous five episodes (except Merriman Weir) were invited on to pay their respects.
