Lee Nelson's Well Good Show

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Lee Nelson's Well Good Show
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Genre Sketch show
Stand-up comedy
Written by Simon Brodkin
Directed byPeter Orton
Rebecca Rycroft
Adam Wimpenny
Presented bySimon Brodkin
StarringTerry Noble
Kathy Berry
Ben Willbond
Theme music composer Dizzee Rascal "Flex" (instrumental)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes15
Production
Executive producersRichard Allen-Turner
Jonn Thoday
Producer Spencer Millman
EditorGraham Barker
Running time30 minutes
Production companyAvalon Television
Original release
Network BBC Three
Release10 June 2010 (2010-06-10) 
13 October 2011 (2011-10-13)
Related
Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder
Lee Nelson's Well Funny People

Lee Nelson's Well Good Show is a British comedy sketch show, written and presented by Simon Brodkin [1] and produced by Avalon Television for BBC Three. It featured Brodkin hosting a studio based show as his comedy character Lee Nelson, a happy-go-lucky chav, and also featured television sketches of Brodkin's other comedy characters.

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Production

The BBC commissioned the show in 2009. [2] [3] Written by Brodkin, it was produced by Avalon Television. [2] [3] [4]

Cast

Characters and sketches

The programme consists of Brodkin (in character as Nelson throughout) hosting a studio show before an audience, which includes audience interaction, games (which contain unusual prizes, such as a pair of sunglasses, a victory belt and a tree), and features involving the characters Omelette, and Nelson's nan. [5] The programme also includes inserted recorded sketches featuring three other characters also portrayed by Brodkin: due to time limitations, in some episodes only two insert sketches would feature, though in others all three would appear. The insert sketches are:

Some of the characters have appeared previously in Brodkin's earlier TV work: sketches featuring the Jason Bent character appeared in Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder , an Avalon production first broadcast on ITV1 in 2009; these featured Murray as a sports reporter conducting post-match interviews with Bent. The same Al Murray series also featured the Lee Nelson character in a run of comic monologues. In 2008, the Dr. Bob character had appeared (as 'Dr. Omprakash') in BBC Three comedy showcase series The Wall .

Reception

Despite popular appeal, the show has received mainly negative reviews from critics. Liam Tucker of TV Pixie writes, 'Lee Nelson's Well Good Show is less 'well good' and more a pile of irredeemable crap littered with witless demi-jokes, all limping along on the questionable talent of Simon Brodkin. Presumably someone at BBC Three saw that he looks a little like Kevin Bishop, noticed that Ali G hasn't been around for the best part of a decade and calculated success on that shaky basis.' [6] Stuart Heritage of The Guardian remarks in an article concerning the justification behind Television Show names that 'BBC3's Lee Nelson's Well Good Show suffers from the fact that it's almost the exact scientific opposite of well good.' Despite the negative reviews, ratings were such that the BBC commissioned a second show, Lee Nelson's Well Funny People .

DVD release

A DVD was released on 22 August 2011 entitled The Complete Series 1. "Lee Nelson Live" was also released on 19 November 2012 featuring a live stand-up routine from Lee Nelson's live 2012 stand-up tour.

Transmissions

SeriesStart dateEnd dateEpisodes
110 June 201022 July 20107
225 August 201113 October 20118

Episode list

Series 1 (2010)

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date ViewersAudience
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1Episode 1Peter Orton and Adam WimpennySimon Brodkin10 June 2010 (2010-06-10)501,000 [7] 3%
2Episode 2Peter Orton and Adam WimpennySimon Brodkin17 June 2010 (2010-06-17)521,000N/A
3Episode 3Peter Orton and Adam WimpennySimon Brodkin24 June 2010 (2010-06-24)N/AN/A
4Episode 4Peter Orton and Adam WimpennySimon Brodkin1 July 2010 (2010-07-01)711,000 [8] 4.4%
5Episode 5Peter Orton and Adam WimpennySimon Brodkin8 July 2010 (2010-07-08)612,000 [9] 5%
6Episode 6Peter Orton and Adam WimpennySimon Brodkin15 July 2010 (2010-07-15)N/AN/A
7Episode 7 (highlights special)Peter Orton and Adam WimpennySimon Brodkin22 July 2010 (2010-07-22)N/AN/A

Series 2 (2011)

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date ViewersAudience
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8Episode 1Peter Orton and Rebecca RycroftSimon Brodkin25 August 2011 (2011-08-25)602,000 [10] 3.6%
9Episode 2Peter Orton and Rebecca RycroftSimon Brodkin1 September 2011 (2011-09-01)462,000 [11] 2.7%
10Episode 3Peter Orton and Rebecca RycroftSimon Brodkin8 September 2011 (2011-09-08)416,000 [12] 2.6%
11Episode 4Peter Orton and Rebecca RycroftSimon Brodkin15 September 2011 (2011-09-15)530,000 [13] 3.5%
12Episode 5Peter Orton and Rebecca RycroftSimon Brodkin22 September 2011 (2011-09-22)523,000 [14] 3.5%
13Episode 6Peter Orton and Rebecca RycroftSimon Brodkin29 September 2011 (2011-09-29)434,000 [15] 2.8%
14Episode 7Peter Orton and Rebecca RycroftSimon Brodkin6 October 2011 (2011-10-06)491,000 [16] 3.3%
15Episode 8 (highlights special)Peter Orton and Rebecca RycroftSimon Brodkin13 October 2011 (2011-10-13)486,000 [17] 3.1%

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