Michael McIntyre's Big Show

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Michael McIntyre's Big Show
Genre
Created by Michael McIntyre
Written by Michael McIntyre
Henry Paker
Directed byChris Howe
Presented by Michael McIntyre
Voices of Michael McIntyre (host)
Theme music composer Paul Farrer
Opening theme"Michael McIntyre's Big Show"
Ending theme"Michael McIntyre's Big Show"
Composer Paul Farrer
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series7
No. of episodes45 plus 2 compilation specials
Production
Executive producersClaire Horton
Daniel Baldwin
Ed de Burgh
ProducersJames Pratt
Christian Fletcher
Ed Daggett
Sonal Patel (series 1–2)
Carol Baffour-Awuah (series 2–)
Production locations Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London (2015–2018, 2023–)
London Palladium, London (2019)
EditorsSteve Andrews
Jamie Shemeld
Bex Murray (series 1–2)
Running time50–60 minutes
Production company Hungry Bear Media
Original release
Network BBC One
Release25 December 2015 (2015-12-25) 
present

Michael McIntyre's Big Show is a British variety and stand-up comedy television series, presented by British comedian Michael McIntyre, and broadcast by BBC One. The show was originally a one-off Christmas special in 2015, Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show, before the BBC announced that they had ordered a full series in 2016. It premiered on 16 April of that year, and concluded on 28 May 2016.

Contents

The show features celebrity guests, musical performances, comedy sketches from McIntyre and guest comics. The show was initially recorded at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. The series was well received by the public and BBC One renewed the show for a second series which began airing November 2016, concluding in a Christmas special, which was broadcast on Christmas Eve 2016.

The show was commissioned for a third series to air in 2017, which ran for 6 episodes from 18 November. [1] The series finished with its Christmas special on Christmas Eve. It was then announced in December 2017 that the show was renewed for a fourth series that aired in 2018. A fifth series aired in 2019 and was filmed at The London Palladium. [2] Following a break during the COVID-19 pandemic, it returned on 14 January 2023. [3]

Items and game segments

Each episode of Michael McIntyre's Big Show includes a game segment or an item involving a celebrity or an unexpecting member of the public.

Regular Segments (as of Saturday 18 November 2017)
SegmentInformation
Send to AllSend to All (also known as Celebrity Send to All) is a game in the show, which involves McIntyre taking a celebrity's phone and sending a usually awkward text message to all of his or her contacts; at the end of the show, Michael checks the celebrity's phone to see what replies have come through from the contacts. Celebrities that have appeared in this segment include presenter Holly Willoughby, comedian Bradley Walsh, pop stars Cheryl and Olly Murs, former footballer Alan Shearer, Italian dancer and Strictly Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli and actor Danny Dyer.
Unexpected Star of the ShowA member of the public who has no idea they are to appear on the show are told to come to the theatre and are asked to do various jobs that turn out to be fake. In fact, it's all fake, and they are led into a fake room that leads onto the theatre stage, after which either the walls of the fake room fall down or the person opens a door to see the audience. The unexpected star will then go backstage to prepare for their big performance at the end of the show. In series two episode 5 there were two unexpected stars of the show and in series two episode 6 there were 21 unexpected stars of the show; a choir.
Celebrity ComedianIn most shows, there is a celebrity comedian who does a 5-minute item in the show while McIntyre goes offstage for a break. Standup comedians such as Russell Howard, Sarah Millican, Catherine Tate, Harry Enfield, Romesh Ranganathan, Colin Cloud, Josh Widdicombe and Jack Whitehall have appeared in or are scheduled to appear in this segment.
Midnight GameshowFrom the third series a new segment was introduced called Midnight Gameshow this sees Michael go into one of the audiences' homes at midnight without them knowing and sneaking in to play a gameshow at midnight in the house of the surprised audience member. Michael asks three questions and celebrity guests also make an appearance. In later series, Michael would go into celebrities' houses, rather than members of the public.
Big Audience SurpriseOnly found in some of the episodes, Audience Surprise is a part of the show where Michael goes into the audience and will ask people questions until he finds the member of the audience he's looking for to surprise them with something about their lives in some way. In the second episode of the second series, McIntyre got a member of the audience up on the stage to play a game titled "Soap or Nope", where an audience member is shown a conveyor belt with actors and lookalikes travelling along it, for the audience viewer to guess whether they were from a soap or not. At the end of the segment, McIntyre introduced the audience member with her long- term pen pal and best friend from Australia, who she had never seen before: hence the fact that the audience member thought that her pen pal was a soap star, stating that she was "definitely soap". More surprises include “See it Win it” where an audience member's boyfriend ended up proposing to her and in the 2019 Christmas show where there was a family reunion.
Music PerformanceIn each episode, a guest performer or group will appear on stage with their latest song. In some episodes, the cast of new musicals appear with a number from their show. All Saints, Ellie Goulding, the cast of the musical School of Rock, Years & Years, Tom Odell, Shane Filan, Michael Ball and Jess Glynne are some of the performers to appear on the show.
Christmas GamesIn Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show there was a new feature of the show where 4 people, some celebrities, some non-celebrities, are playing against each other in festive games. The first game was Tree Decorating, and the second was putting food into a fridge.

Series overview

SeriesEpisodesOriginally airedAve. UK viewers
(millions)
First airedLast aired
Pilot 25 December 2015TBA
1 616 April 201628 May 20164.22
2 619 November 201624 December 20166.63
3 618 November 201724 December 20176.97
4 817 November 201812 January 20197.58
5 623 November 201925 December 20197.22
6 614 January 202318 February 20235.36
7 613 January 202417 February 2024TBA

Awards and nominations

YearResultAwardCategory
2017Won British Academy Television Awards Best Entertainment Performance
NominatedBest Entertainment Programme
2018NominatedBest Entertainment Performance
NominatedLew Grade Award for Entertainment Programme

International versions

CountryNamePresenterChannelDates
Flag of France.svg  France Le Big Show de JarryJarry France 2 14 May 2022 – present
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy [4] [5] Big Show con Andrea PucciAndrea Pucci Italia 1 27 September 2017 – 18 October 2018
Big Show - Enrico Papi Enrico Papi Canale 5 8 April – 8 May 2022
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands The Big Show met Ruben Nicolai Ruben Nicolai RTL 4 29 October 2022 – 17 December 2022
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom (original version)Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show Michael McIntyre BBC One 25 December 2015
Michael McIntyre's Big Show16 April 2016 – present

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