Hacker Time

Hacker Time
Genre Comedy
Created by CBBC
Presented by Hacker T. Dog
Starring Various celebrities
Neil Sterenberg
Sonali Shah
Voices of

Phil Fletcher

Warwick Brownlow-Pike
Country of origin United Kingdom
No. of seasons 4
No. of episodes 43 (as of 22 August 2014)[1]
Production
Executive producer(s) Annette Williams
Producer(s) Sid Cole
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s) CBBC
Broadcast
Original channel CBBC
Original run 21 September 2011 – present
External links
Website

Hacker Time is a British children's television show on CBBC[2][3] starring Hacker T. Dog with one or more famous celebrities such as Anton du Beke[4] and Dani Harmer.[5] The show follows the same theme of Hacker tricking the celebrity/s into his studio, interviewing them, and then watching sketches and outtakes from other programmes. Each episode is approximately 30 minutes long. The theme song and ending songs are sung by Phil Fletcher who is Hacker T. Dog's puppeteer and voice actor.

The show first aired in September 2011 and was rated #10 in the Weekly Top 10 Programmes for the week of 3–9 October 2011.[3]

The second series of Hacker Time began airing on 6 August 2012 and instead of the guests being tricked onto the show, Hacker sends out Wilf and Herman to kidnap them and get them to come onto the show.

The third series of the show started on 22 July 2013 where Derek books worse guests than Hacker has in mind.

Series 4 was confirmed on CBBC by Hacker. It started on 11 August 2014 at 9.00am and repeated later at 4.30pm. Wilf tells the guests to go into a lift to the Hacker Time Studio, but the guests don't know where they're going.

In December 2014 it was announced that there would be a fifth series of ten episodes.[6]

Guests

There is always one or more celebrities in each episode. Here is a list of them.

Series 1

Series 2

Series 3

Sam and Mark[20]
Susanna Reid[21]
Joe Pasquale[22]
Saira Khan[23]
Robbie Savage[24]
Khalil Madovi and Jason Callender (from 4 O'Clock Club)[25]
Matt Allwright[26]
Fran Scott (from Absolute Genius)[27]
Andrew Whyment[28]
Shannon Flynn (Special Appearance by Alesha Dixon)[29]

Series 4

Bobby Lockwood[30]
Perri Kiely and Jordan Banjo (from Diversity)[31]
Deborah Meaden[32]
Ben Shires (from Officially Amazing)[33]
Martin Lewis[34]
Simon Rimmer[35]
Radzi Chinyanganya and Lindsey Russell (from Blue Peter)[36]
Maisie Smith[37]
Sally Nugent[38]
Ortis Deley[1]

Series 5

Roy O' Brien[39]

TBA

Extras

In all of the episodes there are lots of extras. In series 1, one of the recurring extras are a spoof of Downton Abbey called Downstairs Abbey starring Hacker T. Dog and Dodge T. Dog as maids and Ed Petrie as their master.[40] It stars two maids (Hacker the Dog and Dodge the Dog) who are in love with Lord Percy (Ed Petrie) but to their dismay he is in love with another woman Lady Sarah (Isabel Fay). Whenever Lady Sarah comes to the Abbey, Lord Percy tries to do something nice for her involving the maids and it all goes disastrously wrong. Then Lord Percy asks the maids to clear up after him.

There is also the 'Betterer Arena' in which Hacker attempts to perform better than the celebrity/s at their profession, be it acting or sport and then fails at it - badly. This features Warrick Brownlow-Pike as various different assistants for Hacker.

In Series 2 of Hacker Time instead of Downstairs Abbey there is The Adventures of Sherlock Bones, in which Hacker goes around the land of Teapot solving mysteries and often making silly conclusions at the end of each episode. Each episode of Sherlock Bones is about 2–4 minutes long.

In Series 2 Derek one of Hacker's assistants shows a part of the episode called Derek Time in which he shows 3 clips, and when Hacker says no he threatens to show the viewers at home the photograph.

In Series 3 instead of The Adventures Of Sherlock Bones there is "hard hitting medical docu-drama, Casually where all the doctors and nurses give the wrong treatment and tales of the mild west".[41]

In Series 4 the first 5 episodes featured A knights tale. The last 5 episode contained Areoport a documentary.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "BBC - CBBC - Schedules, Friday 22 August 2014". BBC.
  2. ↑ "CBBC - Hacker Time". BBC. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Weekly Top 10 Programmes (week of 3-9 October 2011)". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB). Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
  4. ↑ "CBBC Programmes - Hacker Time, Anton Du Beke". BBC. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  5. ↑ "CBBC Programmes - Hacker Time, Dani Harmer". BBC. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  6. ↑ "BBC - CBBC Productions celebrates a raft of new in-house commissions - Media centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-04-07.
  7. ↑ "CBBC Programmes - Hacker Time, Danny Anthony & Anjli Mohindra". BBC. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  8. ↑ "CBBC Programmes - Hacker Time, Steve Backshall". BBC. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  9. ↑ "CBBC Programmes - Hacker Time, Carol Kirkwood". BBC. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  10. ↑ "Hacker Time: Season 1 Episode 5 | LocateTV". Retrieved 7 February 2012.
  11. ↑ "CBBC Programmes - Hacker Time, Ore Oduba". BBC. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  12. ↑ "CBBC Programmes - Hacker Time, Pollyanna Woodward". BBC. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  13. ↑ "CBBC Programmes - Hacker Time, JK & Joel". BBC. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  14. ↑ "CBBC Programmes - Hacker Time, Stefan Gates". BBC. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  15. ↑ "CBBC Programmes - Hacker Time, Bill Turnbull and Sian Williams". BBC. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  16. ↑ "CBBC Programmes - Hacker Time, Jedward". BBC. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  17. ↑ "Jedward on CBBC Hacker Time - Jedward Genius". Retrieved 7 February 2012.
  18. ↑ "CBBC Programmes - Hacker Time, Helen Skelton". BBC. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  19. ↑ "CBBC Programmes - Hacker Time, Iain Stirling". BBC. 16 December 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  20. ↑ "Hacker Time Series 3 Episode 1 - 22nd July 2013". Digiguide. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
  21. ↑ "Hacker Time Series 3 Episode 2 - 23rd July 2013". Digiguide. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
  22. ↑ "Hacker Time Series 3 Episode 3 - 24th July 2013". Digiguide. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
  23. ↑ "Hacker Time Series 3 Episode 4 - 25th July 2013". Digiguide. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
  24. ↑ "Hacker Time Series 3 Episode 5 - 26th July 2013". Digiguide. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
  25. ↑ "Hacker Time Series 3 Episode 6 - 29th July 2013". Digiguide. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  26. ↑ "Hacker Time Series 3 Episode 7 - 30th July 2013". Digiguide. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  27. ↑ "Hacker Time Series 3 Episode 8 - 31st July 2013". Digiguide. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  28. ↑ "Hacker Time Series 3 Episode 9 - 1st August 2013". Digiguide. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  29. ↑ "Hacker Time Series 3 Episode 10 - 2nd August 2013". Digiguide. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  30. ↑ "BBC - CBBC - Hacker and Bobby in 'Woofblood'".
  31. ↑ "BBC - CBBC - Schedules, Tuesday 12 August 2014". BBC.
  32. ↑ "BBC - CBBC - Schedules, Wednesday 13 August 2014". BBC.
  33. ↑ "BBC - CBBC - Schedules, Thursday 14 August 2014". BBC.
  34. ↑ "BBC - CBBC - Schedules, Friday 15 August 2014". BBC.
  35. ↑ "BBC - CBBC - Schedules, Monday 18 August 2014". BBC.
  36. ↑ "BBC - CBBC - Schedules, Tuesday 19 August 2014". BBC.
  37. ↑ "BBC - CBBC - Schedules, Wednesday 20 August 2014". BBC.
  38. ↑ "BBC - CBBC - Schedules, Thursday 21 August 2014". BBC.
  39. ↑ JAM Media Animation/Hacker T' Dog's Twitter https://twitter.com/jampips/status/591244359649099777. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  40. ↑ "Hacker Time, 30-11-2011, Tvplaynorge.com". 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
  41. ↑ "Hacker Time - Series 3 Episode 2 (23rd July 2013)". Digiguide. Retrieved 15 July 2013.

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