10 O'Clock Live | |
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10 O'Clock Live title screen |
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Format | Current affairs Comedy Satire |
Presented by | Charlie Brooker Jimmy Carr Lauren Laverne David Mitchell |
Opening theme | "Bernie" by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Language(s) | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 15 (List of episodes) |
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Running time | Series 1: 65 minutes (with commercials) Series 2: 45 minutes[1] (with commercials) |
Production company(s) | Zeppotron |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | Channel 4 |
Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) 16:9 |
Original run | 20 January 2011 | – 28 April 2011
Chronology | |
Related shows | Channel 4's Alternative Election Night |
10 O'Clock Live is a British satirical comedy/news television programme presented by Charlie Brooker, Jimmy Carr, Lauren Laverne and David Mitchell.[2]
The programme was commissioned following the success of Channel 4's Alternative Election Night, fronted by the same four presenters, in May 2010.[3] The series ran for 15 weeks.[4] It has been commissioned for a second series of 10 episodes, which is to run at a similar time to the first in 2012, but with a reduced running time of 45 minutes.[1]
The song "Bernie" by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is used for the show's theme.
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The show has official Facebook and Twitter pages, to enable viewer interactivity whilst live on air. Polls are run via the Facebook page, and comments are received via both pages, which are read out by the presenters.[5]
Much of the show relies on the talents and characteristics of its hosts to form each segment.
The show opens on an introductory discussion and set-up to the planned topics for the week's show. This is always followed by Jimmy Carr explaining the news of the week in the form of one-liner jokes. This is then proceeded by Charlie Brooker examining the way in which an event, story or media-figure has been covered in the news, focusing his satire on the way the event was covered to the public. Charlie Brooker does the same again later on, normally on a different subject (for example, if he covered a political story earlier on, he will examine coverage of a celebrity later). David Mitchell always has three sections: a panel-discussion with guests (such as journalists, activists, and MPs) discussing an issue; an interview with a more well-known or higher-ranking political figure, which he aims to conduct as seriously as possible, but able to satirize what the interviewee says unlike more serious political interviewers; and a "Listen to Mitchell" section, in the style of his panel-show rants and David Mitchell's Soapbox podcast series. Carr also has two more sections to himself in the style of one-liner stand-up, but usually while satirically playing a character or figure from the news, (such as George Osborne during the week of the 2011 United Kingdom budget). Lauren Laverne tends to introduce pre-recorded sketches and material, and chair the discussions amongst the four hosts.
A number of commentators have called the show consistently biased towards a left-wing stance on political issues.[6][7][8]
# | Guests | Original airdate |
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1x01 | Richard Sharp, Kwasi Kwarteng, David Willetts, Zoe Gannon, Bjørn Lomborg[9] | 20 January 2011 |
1x02 | Alastair Campbell, Tim Harford, Afua Hirsch, Professor Anthony Glees, Rizwaan Sabir[10] | 27 January 2011 |
1x03 | Harry Cole, Dr. Lucie Green, Hannah Lownsbrough, Sir Christopher Bland, Caroline Lucas MP[11] | 3 February 2011 |
1x04 | Simon Hughes MP, Shaun Bailey, Phillip Blond, Johann Hari[12] | 10 February 2011 |
1x05 | Stephen Dubner, Tamsin Omond, Milo Yiannopoulos, Sally Bercow, Steven Norris[13] | 17 February 2011 |
1x06 | Bob Crow, Yasmin Khan, Alex Singleton, Dominic Raab[14] | 24 February 2011 |
1x07 | Daniel Poulter, Robert Winston, Deborah Mattinson, Medhi Hasan, Shaun Bailey[15] | 3 March 2011 |
1x08 | Andy Burnham MP, Shane Greer, Tansy Hoskins, Rory Stewart MP[16] | 10 March 2011 |
1x09 | Nigel Farage MEP, Mark Littlewood, James Lowman, Bee Wilson[17] | 17 March 2011 |
1x10 | Grant Shapps MP, Yasmin Khan, Maajid Nawaz, Carne Ross[18] | 24 March 2011 |
1x11 | Ken Livingstone, Noreena Hertz, Daniel Finkelstein, Laurie Penny[19] | 31 March 2011 |
1x12 | John Prescott, Johann Hari, Shane Greer of Total Politics, Jo Rice of Spear youth charity.[20] | 7 April 2011 |
1x13 | Richard Sharp, James Max, Max Keiser, Tessa Jowell MP[21] | 14 April 2011 |
1x14 | Owen Jones, Peter Oborne, Natalie Haynes, Clive Anderson, Charlotte Harris[22] | 21 April 2011 |
1x15 | Sarah Teather MP, Jonathan Powell, Salma Yaqoob, Jesse Armstrong[23] | 28 April 2011 |
BARB as reported by The Guardian, recorded overnight viewing figures demonstrating that the show "launched with 1.373 million viewers and a 7.8% audience share, with about another 100,000 watching an hour later on Channel 4 +1", running against BBC One's popular and well established weekly political debate programme, Question Time which had ratings slightly better than the week before. Channel Four claimed that the show nevertheless drew a higher share of the 16-34 demographic. The Guardian's reporter also remarked that Newsnight, BBC Two's flagship nightly current affairs programme, suffered its lowest audience of the past year. The BBC programmes overlap the 22:00-23:05 timeslot filled by 10 O'Clock Live.[24]
In the second week, ratings were down to 1.084 million viewers, representing a 6% audience share.[25]
Overnights for the show on April 7 had figures at 610,000 (3.6%) with a further 110,000 (1.2%) one hour later on the timeshifted Channel 4+1.[26]
In Metro on February 11, 2011, Christopher Hooton wrote that the show had become "a much-improved animal with several stand-out funny moments" but also thought that it had become "as overtly partisan as Fox News".[27]
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