Was It Something I Said? (TV series)

Was It Something I Said?
Genre Comedy
Directed by Barbara Wiltshire
Presented by David Mitchell
Starring Team captains
Richard Ayoade
Micky Flanagan
Theme music composer Ephraim Greenland
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 1
No. of episodes 8 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s) Arron Ferster
Editor(s) Steve Andrews
Tim Ellison
Location(s) The Maidstone Studios
Running time 30 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production company(s) Maverick Television
That Mitchell & Webb Company
Distributor All3Media
Release
Original network Channel 4
Picture format 16:9
Original release 6 October 2013 (2013-10-06) – 24 November 2013 (2013-11-24)

Was It Something I Said? is a British comedy panel gameshow broadcast on Channel 4, presented by David Mitchell and featuring team captains Richard Ayoade and Micky Flanagan. Celebrity guest narrators appear in each episode and, for the first series, narrators included David Harewood, Phil Daniels, Charles Dance and Mariella Frostrup.[1]

The show was spun off from the Quotables website commissioned by Adam Gee at Channel 4 in collaboration with the Arts Council England in 2011. The programme includes a play-along second screen game based entirely on Twitter.

Rounds

Threesomes

The panel has to guess which of three celebrities said a particular quote read out by the guest narrator. The same celebrity could have more than one quote. At the end of this round, Mitchell asks the home viewers to complete a famous quote via Twitter, and upon return from the commercial break, asks the panel to complete it.

Key Words

The panelists are given only specific key words and must complete the entire quotation. For example, the words "score" and "seven" would lead to Abraham Lincoln's famous opening line from the Gettysburg Address, "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

What Are They Talking About?

A quote is given completely out of context and the panelists have to determine the context of why the quote was said.

Was It Something I Said?

Teams play one at a time and have to determine if the quote was said by either of the opposing team members, David Mitchell, the guest narrator, or a "virtual TV guest" (random celebrity).

Episode guide

The coloured backgrounds denote the result of each of the shows:

     – Indicates Micky's team won.
     – Indicates Richard's team won.
     – Indicates the game ended in a draw.
Episode Original broadcast
(extended version)
Micky's team Richard's team Scores
(extended)
Guest narrator
1x01 6 October 2013
11 October 2013
Charlie Higson Jimmy Carr 1–2
2–3
David Harewood
1x02 13 October 2013
18 October 2013
Gabby Logan Ed Byrne 2–2
2–3
Phil Daniels
1x03 20 October 2013
25 October 2013
Romesh Ranganathan Jason Manford 2–4
3–4
Mariella Frostrup
1x04 27 October 2013
1 November 2013
Katherine Ryan Bob Mortimer 2–5
3–5
Brian Blessed
1x05 3 November 2013
8 November 2013
Robert Webb Miles Jupp 4–2
5–3
Charles Dance
1x06 10 November 2013
15 November 2013
Sally Phillips Reginald D. Hunter 3–3
6–4
John Sergeant
1x07 17 November 2013
22 November 2013
Rhod Gilbert Josie Long 3–5
5–5
John Craven
1x08 24 November 2013
29 November 2013
Vic Reeves Josh Widdicombe 3–3
3–3
Kirsty Wark

References

  1. "Was It Something I Said?". channel4.com. Retrieved 13 October 2013.

External links


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