You're Back in the Room

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You're Back in the Room
Genre Game show
Presented by Phillip Schofield
Starring Keith Barry
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes8
Production
Running time60 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production company Tuesday's Child
Original release
Network ITV
Release14 March 2015 (2015-03-14) 
9 April 2016 (2016-04-09)

You're Back in the Room is a British television game show that was broadcast on ITV from 14 March 2015 to 9 April 2016. The show is hosted by Phillip Schofield and starred Keith Barry. The premise consists of contestants who have to complete a series of normally straightforward tasks after being subject to "deep hypnosis", causing them to be compelled to develop various distracting tics or quirks that hinder their ability to compete.

Contents

A second series consisting of four episodes was announced on 21 July 2015 and began airing on 12 March 2016. [1]

On 7 October 2016, it was announced that the show had been axed. [2]

Episodes

Series 1 (2015)

Episode No.GuestsAirdateViewers
(millions) [3]
1 Ed Baines, Paul Rankin, Lesley Waters, Aldo Zilli 14 March 2015 (2015-03-14)4.24
2 Samia Smith, Nigel Pivaro, Jack P. Shepherd, Ryan Thomas 21 March 2015 (2015-03-21)4.06
3 Joe Swash, Vicki Michelle, Vincent Simone 28 March 2015 (2015-03-28)3.93
4 Diversity 4 April 2015 (2015-04-04)3.24

Series 2 (2016)

Episode No.GuestsAirdateViewers
(millions) [3]
1 Andrea McLean, Linda Robson, Sherrie Hewson, Nadia Sawalha and Kaye Adams 12 March 2016 (2016-03-12)3.20
2 Chris Kamara 19 March 2016 (2016-03-19)3.16
3 Joey Essex and Carl Fogarty 2 April 2016 (2016-04-02)2.58
4 Antony Cotton and Jennie McAlpine 9 April 2016 (2016-04-09)3.12

Reception

The show has received mixed reviews; Sarah Deen, in a Metro article, summarised that "everyone either completely loved or absolutely hated [the show]". [4] Adam Postans described You're Back in the Room as "one of the worst prime-time shows you'll ever see" in a Daily Mirror article. [5] Sam Wollaston gave the programme a mixed review, describing it as "quite funny for a while", but said it went "backwards from Brown to McKenna". [6] Ben Travis of the Evening Standard described the show as "watchably daft". [7] Benji Wilson from The Daily Telegraph gave the show a very positive review, opining that it is "significantly funnier than anything else on TV". [8]

International versions

CountryTitlePresenterHypnotistBroadcasterAired
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia You're Back in the Room Daryl Somers Flag of Ireland.svg Keith Barry [9] Nine Network [10] 3–25 April 2016
Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia Hipnosis un juego de menteVictor Mallarino Flag of Egypt.svg Mustafa Badawy [11] RCN 15 May 2016
Flag of France.svg  France Hypnose le Grand Jeu Stephane Rotenberg Cyrille Arnaud W9 [12] M6 (from 30 December 2015)9 October 2015
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands You're Back in the Room Beau van Erven Dorens Rinke Jacobs [13] RTL 4 [14] 2015
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand You're Back in the Room Jason Gunn Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Peter Powers TV2 [15] 21 July 2016
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland HipnozaFilip ChajzerArtur Makieła [16] TVN 3 March 2018
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal DivertidaMente João Manzarra Flag of Spain.svg José Tejada SIC 11 March 2018 [17] [18]
Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia Hipnoza dobra zabavaBoštjan RomihBožidar Grilc [19] POP TV 29 January 2017
Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Hypnotize Me Taye Diggs [20] Flag of Ireland.svg Keith Barry Fox (planned)
The CW
2017 (planned)
2019

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