Wall of Fame | |
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Genre | Comedy panel game |
Presented by | David Walliams |
Starring | Jack Dee Kate Garraway Tamara Ecclestone Sara Pascoe Andrew Maxwell |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 10 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Running time | 30–60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
Production company | CPL Productions |
Original release | |
Network | Sky1 |
Release | 17 June – 19 August 2011 |
Wall of Fame is a British comedy panel game that was first broadcast on Sky1 in 2011. It is hosted by Little Britain star David Walliams and features Jack Dee, Kate Garraway, with Tamara Ecclestone for the first two episodes then Sara Pascoe took over from episode three, and Andrew Maxwell as regular panellists, alongside two weekly guests.
The premise of the show is the two teams of panellists discuss the week's top 25 most talked about celebrities in the UK. [1]
The coloured backgrounds denote the result of each of the shows:
Episode | First broadcast | Kate and Andrew's guest | Jack and Tamara's guest | Scores |
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1x01 | 17 June 2011 | Micky Flanagan | Tulisa Contostavlos | 3–0 |
1x02 | 24 June 2011 | Billie Piper | Sally Bercow | 4–5 |
Episode | First broadcast | Kate and Andrew's guest | Jack and Sara's guest | Scores |
1x03 | 1 July 2011 | Bear Grylls | Gabby Logan | 2–4 |
1x04 | 8 July 2011 | Jimmy Carr | Terry Wogan, Sally Lindsay [n 1] | 3–2 |
1x05 | 15 July 2011 | Jack Whitehall | Kym Marsh | 6–5 |
1x06 | 22 July 2011 | Eamonn Holmes | Holly Walsh | 5–5 |
1x07 | 29 July 2011 | Robert Winston | Anton du Beke | 3–2 |
1x08 | 5 August 2011 | Jessica Hynes | Stacey Solomon | 2–6 |
1x09 | 12 August 2011 | Compilation episode - "The Unseen Bits" | — | |
1x10 | 19 August 2011 | Compilation episode - "The Best of..." | — |
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