Carpool (web series)

Carpool
Genre	Talk show
Created by	Robert Llewellyn
Starring	Robert Llewellyn
Original language	English
No. of episodes	106
Production
Running time	10–30 minutes
Original release
Network	www.llewtube.com iTunes YouTube
Release	9 January 2009 (2009-01-09) – 9 July 2014 (2014-07-09)
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Carpool

Carpool is a web series presented by English actor and comedian Robert Llewellyn. In each episode he interviews a guest while giving them a lift in an eco-friendly car (normally a Toyota Prius hybrid electric vehicle). The guests are often well-known British television personalities such as Jonathan Ross or Ade Edmondson. However, Llewellyn also interviews less-well-known figures as long as he feels that they will prove to be an interesting subject. The guests also included Llewellyn's fellow Red Dwarf actors, Danny John Jules, Craig Charles, Chris Barrie and Hattie Hayridge (as well as Tony Hawks, Arthur Smith and Ruby Wax who all appeared in cameo roles in Red Dwarf, while Ed Bye, the show's producer/director, was the first person interviewed for the series). Llewellyn has also reunited with his Scrapheap Challenge co-hosts, Cathy Rogers and Lisa Rogers for interviews.

The show was filmed using small cameras mounted within the car. Llewellyn drives his guest to a destination of their choosing as they talk informally about a variety of subjects. As Llewellyn is driving for the majority of the time, it can be difficult to deal with technical problems especially interference from mobile phones. Occasionally, as in the Lisa Rogers episode, outside events such as being stopped by police interrupt the discussions.

The TV show, based on the web format, has been developed by RDF. Funded and sponsored by Toyota, Carpool was first broadcast on Dave on 4 November 2010. ^[1] Carpool has been shortlisted for best content partnership in Broadcast Awards. ^[2]

Episodes

Episode	Release date	Guest	Running time
1	9 January 2009	Ed Bye	17:24
2	30 January 2009	Jonathan Ross (in a Tesla)	12:34
3	6 February 2009	Danny John-Jules	12:01
4	14 February 2009	Arthur Smith	14:03
5	20 February 2009	Charlotte Reather	12:40
6	28 February 2009	Nigel Planer	13:07
7	6 March 2009	Ruby Wax	20:05
8	13 March 2009	Stephen Garrett (TV production company Kudos)	13:06
9	19 March 2009	Jo Brand	18:07
10	27 March 2009	David Baddiel	17:47
11	3 April 2009	Craig Charles	19:45
12	10 April 2009	Chris Barrie	21:43
13	12 April 2009	Maria McErlane	13:45
14	17 April 2009	Dom Joly	18:04
15	24 April 2009	David Mitchell	21:17
16	1 May 2009	Lisa Rogers	22:45
17	8 May 2009	Channelflipboys	20:59
18	15 May 2009	Charlotte McDonnell (formerly Charlie McDonnell)	17:54
19	23 May 2009	Stephen Fry	31:57
20	29 May 2009	Tony Hawks	21:47
21	5 June 2009	Jemima Kiss (journalist from The Guardian)	20:46
22	12 June 2009	Paul Lavelle (deep sea diver, Polar explorer)	19:52
23	19 June 2009	Dave Gorman	22:24
24	23 June 2009	Glastonbury Special	19:19
25	26 June 2009	Cathy Rogers	17:34
26	3 July 2009	Jason Calacanis	18:51
27	10 July 2009	Oliver James	29:38
28	17 July 2009	Diarmuid O'Connell (Tesla)	24:02
29	24 July 2009	Brian Cox	30:32
30	31 July 2009	Doug Coleman (Toyota USA)	17:52
31	7 August 2009	Sharon Corr	28:59
32	14 August 2009	John Kingston (Honda UK)	29:00
33	21 August 2009	David Frank (RDF Media)	25:11
34	28 August 2009	Richard Noble	26:56
35	2518865 4 September 2009	Leo Laporte	27:36
36	11 September 2009	Chelsea Sexton (Who Killed the Electric Car?)	24:35
37	18 September 2009	Rich Tuckwell (topgayer car review website)	25:31
38	25 September 2009	Alice Roberts	30:42
39	2 October 2009	Dale Vince (Ecotricity founder)	28:04
40	5 October 2009	Mitsubishi i MiEV Review (with Catherine Perrin of Mitsubishi)	09:22
41	9 October 2009	Paul Jackson	27:55
42	16 October 2009	Paul Fishkin (music producer)	27:10
43	23 October 2009	Adrian Edmondson	25:56
44	30 October 2009	Martha Lane Fox	27:47
45	6 November 2009	Duncan Jones	27:09
46	13 November 2009	Dick Strawbridge	28:53
47	20 November 2009	Liz Jackson	26:50
48	27 November 2009	Paul Scott (Plug In America)	23:40
49	4 December 2009	Graham Linehan	26:59
50	11 December 2009	Baroness Greenfield	29:58
51	18 December 2009	Richard Herring (Christmas special)	27:58
52	8 January 2010	Patrick Stewart	33:07
53	15 January 2010	Ben Goldacre	29:28
54	22 January 2010	Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones	28:58
55	29 January 2010	Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)	28:01
56	5 February 2010	Graham Fellows	31:02
57	12 February 2010	Rob Grant	28:26
58	19 February 2010	Chris Goodall	25:06
59	26 February 2010	Rich Fulcher	25:40
60	5 March 2010	Hattie Hayridge	26:03
61	12 March 2010	Jon Ronson	29:52
62	19 March 2010	John Lloyd	29:36
63	26 March 2010	Neil Mullarkey	29:35
64	2 April 2010	Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Part 1	29:45
65	4 April 2010	Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Part 2	16:10
66	9 April 2010	Quentin Willson	25:57
67	16 April 2010	Paul Daniels	28:00
68	23 April 2010	Mitch Benn	21:10
69	30 April 2010	Claudio von Planta	29:24
70	7 May 2010	Phill Jupitus	31:56
71	14 May 2010	Emma Kennedy	28:56
72	21 May 2010	Hans Teeuwen	27:56
73	28 May 2010	Adam Henson ('TractorPool' Special)	28:27
74	25 June 2010	Paul Drayson	28:38
75	7 January 2011	Ross Noble (Extended Dave Version)	27:31
76	14 January 2011	Stephen K. Amos (Extended Dave Version)	19:39
77	21 January 2011	Jason Manford (Extended Dave Version)	25:36
78	28 January 2011	Rufus Hound (Extended Dave Version)	23:40
79	4 February 2011	Chris Addison (Extended Dave Version)	21:42
80	11 February 2011	Arthur Smith (Extended Dave Version)	28:18
81	17 February 2011	Rob Brydon (Extended Dave Version)	25:07
82	25 February 2011	Aleks Krotoski	28:04
83	1 March 2011	Tim Minchin (Extended Dave Version)	23:17
84	11 March 2011	Kevin McCloud	22:55
85	17 March 2011	Craig Charles (Extended Dave Version)	19:20
86	24 March 2011	Andy Ihnatko	21:57
87	31 March 2011	Jeremy Hardy (Extended Dave Version)	20:30
88	8 April 2011	Relly Annett-Baker (Twitrelief Special)	22:10
89	14 April 2011	Tim Vine (Extended Dave Version)	18:19
90	22 April 2011	Shappi Khorsandi	24:22
91	29 April 2011	Phill Jupitus (Extended Dave Version)	22:52
92	5 May 2011	Bob Burnquist	23:56
93	12 May 2011	Doon Mackichan (Extended Dave Version)	19:39
94	20 May 2011	Dr Sue Black	19:16
95	27 May 2011	Paul Daniels (Extended Dave Version)	23:50
96	2 June 2011	Viv Albertine	20:49
97	10 June 2011	Jim Jefferies (Extended Dave Version)	17:40
98	17 June 2011	David Baddiel (Extended Dave Version)	24:50
99	24 June 2011	Anna Arrowsmith	25:48
100	30 June 2011	Jason Byrne (Extended Dave Version)	21:43
101	7 July 2011	Jo Brand (Extended Dave Version)	18:08
102	15 July 2011	Jamie Bestwick (BMX World Champion)	19:30
103	22 July 2011	Toby Williams (Comedian also known as Dr George Ryegold) (Extended Dave Version)	19:02
104	29 July 2011	Richard Herring (Extended Dave Version)	19:39
105	20 November 2011	Cory Doctorow	26:50
106	9 July 2014	Mark Thomas	28:22
107	29 July 2016	Richard Bruce (Fully Charged/Carpool Crossover)	23:03

Dave series guests

Main article: Carpool (TV series)

Episode	Guests	Original Air Date
1	Rufus Hound and Jason Manford [3]	4 November 2010
2	Arthur Smith and Chris Addison [3]	11 November 2010
3	Rob Brydon and Jeremy Hardy [3]	18 November 2010
4	Ross Noble and Stephen K Amos [3]	25 November 2010
5	Craig Charles and Paul Daniels [3]	2 December 2010
6	Jo Brand and Jason Byrne [4]	5 January 2011
7	David Baddiel and Tim Minchin [4]	12 January 2011
8	Phill Jupitus and Toby Williams [4]	19 January 2011
9	Tim Vine and Doon Mackichan [4]	26 January 2011
10	Jim Jefferies and Richard Herring [4]	2 February 2011

Technical failures

Some shows were filmed, but due to technical failures, the episodes were never released. This is a list of them, along with the technical errors that occurred. ^[5]

• Helen Lederer – Out of focus picture and inaudible sound. ^[5]
• John Hegley – A "total sound fail". ^[5]
• Nick Carpenter – Camera batteries were flat. (Filmed on the Silverstone GP Track) ^[5]
• Cathy Rogers – Microphone failed halfway through, the first half was shown in her other episode

Commissioning

At London Film and Comic Con in July 2009, Danny John-Jules mentioned that RDF Productions (the production company behind Scrapheap Challenge ) had commissioned Carpool for broadcast and that Llewellyn is re-shooting a number of episodes in high-definition video for broadcast.

On 30 June 2010, it was announced that new shows will appear on the UKTV channel, Dave, as well as still appearing online after broadcast and that the format of the show will remain unchanged. ^[6]

See also

• Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
• Peter Kay's Car Share
• Carpool Karaoke

References

1. "Twitter announcement of Carpool debut on Dave". 24 September 2010. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
2. "Broadcast Awards Shortlist". May 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
3. "Carpool Line Up". Toyota. 4 November 2010. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
4. "Dave official show site".
5. "Carpool Announcement". llewtube. 30 June 2010.
6. Robinson, James (30 June 2010). "Dave commissions series based on Robert Llewellyn's web chatshow". The Guardian. London.

External links

• Carpool channel on YouTube
• Carpool official iPhone App