Reality Bites (TV series)

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Reality Bites
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Genre Comedy panel game
Presented by Stephen Mulhern
Starring Emma Willis
Joel Dommett
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes6 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producerDan Baldwin
Running time45 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production company Hungry Bear Media
Original release
Network ITV2
Release5 February (2015-02-05) 
12 March 2015 (2015-03-12)

Reality Bites is a British comedy panel game show presented by Stephen Mulhern. The programme made its debut on ITV2 on 5 February 2015. In each episode two teams of three compete and they are captained by Emma Willis and Joel Dommett. The questions and tasks are about reality television from around the world. [1]

Contents

Format

Episodes

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

  – indicates Emma's team won.
  – indicates Joel's team won.
  – indicates the game ended in a draw
EpisodeFirst broadcastEmma's teamJoel's teamScoresOther guestsWinner
1x015 February 2015 Jimmy Bullard
Joe Lycett
Bruno Tonioli
Luisa Zissman
7–5 Deirdre Kelly
Mark Jenkins
Charlotte Crosby
Alex Sibley
Emma's team
1x0212 February 2015 Jamie Laing
Matt Edmondson
Emma Bunton
Rylan Clark
3–4 Ashleigh Butler
Abz Love
Gary "Gaz" Beadle
Derek Acorah
Joel's team
1x0319 February 2015 Jake Quickenden
Katherine Ryan
Joe Swash
Stephanie Pratt
3–5 Dan Osborne
Solomon Akhtar
Nikki Grahame
Richard Burr
Joel's team
1x0426 February 2015 Marvin Humes
Alex Brooker
Katie Hopkins
Frankie Bridge
Kendra Wilkinson
4–3 Amy Childs
Chloe-Jasmine Whichello
George Gilbey
Johnny Robinson
Matthew Burton
Musharaf Asghar
Emma's team
1x055 March 2015 Andrew Maxwell
Denise van Outen
Katie Price
Ollie Locke
7–4 Louise Hazel
Russell Grant
Stevi Ritchie
Rex Newmark
Joel's team
1x0612 March 2015 Mark-Francis Vandelli
Bobby Mair
Peter Jones
Kerry Katona
7–4 Wagner Fiuza-Carrilho
Stuart Baggs
Levi Roots
Kelly Hoppen
Kellie Maloney
Joel's team

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References

  1. "Reality TV panel show coming to ITV2". British Comedy Guide. 23 January 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2015.