Wall of Fame (game show)

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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 originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes10 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time30–60 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production company CPL Productions
Original release
Network Sky1
Release17 June (2011-06-17) 
19 August 2011 (2011-08-19)

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.

Contents

Premise

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]

Episode list

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

  – indicates Kate and Andrew's team won
  – indicates Jack and Tamara's/Sara's team won
  – indicates the game ended in a draw
EpisodeFirst broadcastKate and Andrew's guestJack and Tamara's guestScores
1x0117 June 2011 Micky Flanagan Tulisa Contostavlos 3–0
1x0224 June 2011 Billie Piper Sally Bercow 4–5
EpisodeFirst broadcastKate and Andrew's guestJack and Sara's guestScores
1x031 July 2011 Bear Grylls Gabby Logan 2–4
1x048 July 2011 Jimmy Carr Terry Wogan, Sally Lindsay [n 1] 3–2
1x0515 July 2011 Jack Whitehall Kym Marsh 6–5
1x0622 July 2011 Eamonn Holmes Holly Walsh 5–5
1x0729 July 2011 Robert Winston Anton du Beke 3–2
1x085 August 2011 Jessica Hynes Stacey Solomon 2–6
1x0912 August 2011Compilation episode - "The Unseen Bits"
1x1019 August 2011Compilation episode - "The Best of..."

Notes

  1. Pascoe did not attend the recording of this episode.

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References

  1. Fletcher, Alex (24 May 2011). "David Walliams to host Sky1's 'Wall of Fame'". Digital Spy . Retrieved 26 July 2011.