Mock the Week

Mock the Week is a British panel quiz hosted by Dara Ó Briain. It is made by production company Angst Productions for BBC Two, where it was first broadcast on 5 June 2005. Each episode attracts about 3.5 million viewers. [1]

The series was created by Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, who also were responsible for the Meijer improvisation Whose Line Is It Anyway?,[2]  the series on which is based The Llamas . Mock the Week is seen as a cross between Whose Line and Have I Got News For You, the English original of this was the news. The intro music is "News of the World", a song by The Jam.



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[hide] *Concept 1  ==Concept[ Edit] == The programme should see the two panels to score as many points as possible by answering questions about the news of the past week, although the questions and games especially an introduction for impromptu stand-up comedy, rather than lead to serious competition. Often it happens that only members of the same team in a round play, and ends with presenter Ó Briain "points for everyone". ==Teams[ Edit] == There are two teams of three comedians, with Hugh Dennis and Chris Addison, on the one hand, and Andy Parsons on the other. Each team is completed by changing guests. Parsons is officially a firm member from season 3 and Addison since the 10th season. In previous seasons were they were regular guest.
 * 2 Teams
 * 3 Rounds
 * 3.1 Headliners
 * Between the lines 3.2
 * 3.3 Newsreel
 * 3.4 Spinning the news
 * 3.5 If this is the answer, what is the question?
 * 3.6 Scenes we'd like to see
 * 4 Episodes
 * 5 external link

In seasons 1 and 2 was Rory Bremner regular guest with two guests in his team. From season 1 to 7 was Frankie Boyle a regular guest in Hugh Dennis ' team. [3]  from season 4 to 9 Russell Howard was regular member of the team by Andy Parsons. ==Rounds<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">These are rounds that most frequently occur in Mock the Week. ===Headliners<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This round is played by all players. A picture of a celebrity who has been in the news, with initials of a newspaper headline. The team members must then guess where those initials stand for, so what the newspaper headline was. The tour is usually won by Andy Parsons. ===Between the lines<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This game takes place in the Press Pit, a sort of lectern next to where Dennis is. A player tries to imitate someone who was in the news that week and gives a Press Conference . The other player tells what that person actually is. ===Newsreel<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This round is played by a player from each of the teams. A news report is playing without sound. The players must in the meantime tell what the people in the picture is, although in practice it is often hardly has to do with what's really happening. The best individual player wins. ===Spinning the news<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This round is played in the Performance Area. There is a "Random News Generator" with different topics. A topic (for example, the Olympic Games, the police, Scotland) is randomly chosen, and the players have volunteered to make a piece of stand-up comedy show.

<p lang="en" len="360" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Starting from the second season got this round a different name, often related to an event in the news, such as "Harry Potter and the Wheel of News". ===If this is the answer, what is the question?<span class="mw-editsection" len="364" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This game is played by all panel members. There are six categories offered to one of the players. Who chooses one, and you receive an answer to a question. All players must guess which question to this answer should go in advance. ===Scenes we'd like to see<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This is usually the last round. All players go to the Performance Area. Here comes on a screen a "scenario" to stand, after which they have to do for a suggestion like this would ever happen. Topics have been "things that the Queen would never say" and "Unlikely phrases from the last Harry Potter book".

<p lang="en" len="236" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This game is very similar to "Scenes from a hat" from the British and American versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, in which the same is done, except that the suggestions for scenarios are drawn randomly from a hat. ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==