A Question of Sport: Super Saturday

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A Question of Sport: Super Saturday
Genre Comedy and sport
Presented by Jason Manford
Helen Skelton
Starring Phil Tufnell
Matt Dawson
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes5
Production
Executive producerKieron Collins
ProducerGareth Edwards
Production locations dock10, MediaCityUK
Running time40 minutes
Original release
Network BBC One
Release21 June (2014-06-21) –
19 July 2014 (2014-07-19)
Related
A Question of Sport

A Question of Sport: Super Saturday (often shortened to Super Saturday) is a British television programme which was a spin-off from the long-running quiz show A Question of Sport .

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Super Saturday was hosted by comedian Jason Manford, [1] with Helen Skelton on pre-recorded rounds, and began airing on 21 June 2014 on BBC One. The show received a large amount of negative reviews from critics, and after just one series it was cancelled.

Production

The show was recorded at dock10, MediaCityUK on 5 and 6 June 2014, with more than one episode being recorded each day.

Episodes

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

  – indicates Matt's team won.
  – indicates Phil's team won.
No.Matt's teamPhil's teamScoreOriginal release date
1 Chris Ramsey, Ola Jordan Louie Spence, Shappi Khorsandi 9–521 June 2014 (2014-06-21)
2 Seann Walsh, Sharron Davies Patrick Robinson, Iwan Thomas 10–328 June 2014 (2014-06-28)
3 Katherine Ryan, Ted Robbins Michael Vaughan, Lizzy Yarnold 6–45 July 2014 (2014-07-05)
4 Louise Minchin, Anton du Beke Gethin Jones, Rebecca Adlington 8–912 July 2014 (2014-07-12)
5 Pixie Lott, Terry Alderton Helen Skelton, Adil Ray 5–719 July 2014 (2014-07-19)

Criticism

The show received complaints over its similarity to the game show A League of Their Own and the fact that a large number of guests were all from BBC programmes. The show was largely panned by critics and was cancelled after just one series.

References

  1. ↑ "Jason Manford to host 'A Question of Sport: Super Saturday'". British Comedy Guide . 14 May 2014.
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