You've Been Framed! was a British television programme on ITV where viewers contribute to the programme with their humorous home movies for the entertainment of others. Produced by ITV Studios, the series began in 1990.
Harry Hill pictured in 2016. Hill was the host from 2004, until the show ended in 2022.
The show's format is based on the Japanese show Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan (1986), which was also the basis for America's Funniest Home Videos (1989). The show is also similar in format to a number of other shows worldwide, such as Australia's Funniest Home Video Show (1991). In a deal with various foreign producers of similar shows, many imported clips are used, in exchange for home-grown videos from the United Kingdom.[1][2]
The show was first commissioned as a pilot and aired on ITV on 14 April 1990 with Jeremy Beadle as the host; a second pilot was also commissioned and aired on 1 September 1990. Both pilots were a success, with a full series commissioned, which began airing on 6 January 1991. The early Beadle era featured more audience participation: for example, brief interviews with people who had been featured in clips, and the audience voting for their favourite clip at the end of each show, with the winners throughout the series going through to the final, in a bid to win a £5,000 cash prize at the end of the series.
The show was referenced in the closing episode of Bottom, "Carnival", in 1995 with the name Jeremy Beadle's Viciously Hilarious Violent Domestic Incidents, for which the lead characters Richie and Eddie tried to film a fake clip they would later submit for it. A segment was introduced showcasing clips which had obviously been faked, called "Named, Framed and Shamed!", which ended when the studio was ditched in favour of an apartment setting later on when Jonathan Wilkes was presenting. This segment was also tried out during the Beadle era, under the name 'Dodgy Clip Alert'. Another parody of the series, You've Been Filmed!, featured as a short clip from the "Clip Round" in a 2009 episode of comedy panel show Shooting Stars, where the comedians from the series appeared in their own clearly faked video clips.
The format was tweaked in later years, and the studio set and logo changed several times. Lisa Riley took over the role as host from Beadle in 1998. While the programme was presented by Jonathan Wilkes, who replaced Riley in 2003, the feature where the studio audience voted for which clip was the best of the show returned, under the name 'Clip for a Trip', with the person who sent in the winning clip receiving £1,000.
In Autumn 2004, visual continuity was replaced with a narrator, voiced by Harry Hill, which meant that for the first time since the show began, there was no longer a studio set, audience or on-screen personality. Hill provides humorous commentary on the clips via voice-over, which means more clips can be shown. This also uses a short version of a short-lived 2003 intro, which was used in the Jonathan Wilkes era, and was used until 2007.
In the series' ninth year of transmission, ITV started another home videos series, Animals Do the Funniest Things featuring humorous clips of animals, which, although originally produced by LWT when it was first broadcast in 1999, was produced by Granada Television from 2002, therefore becoming Granada's second home video television series after You've Been Framed!.
Submission of clips to You've Been Framed! is free of postage, and in later years, the show began accepting clips via e-mail, and more lately, the inclusion of mobile phone videos; noted on-screen by a small mobile symbol in the corner of the screen, resembling a digital on-screen graphic. Originally, £100 was paid for every submitted clip that was shown. This was soon increased to £250 where it remained for the rest of the show's run. Granada Reports newsreader Andrew Brittain was a regular announcer from 1991 until the end of the Jonathan Wilkes era in 2003 when he left Granada Reports.
In later series, Hill made regular obtuse references to the Norfolk market town of Swaffham, in reprisal of the serious injuries he once received in a bizarre bird attack in the town. Additionally, whenever a woman vaguely resembles former host Lisa Riley, Hill referred to her as his "arch-nemesis". The latter was an example of how many of Hill's commentaries refer to people vaguely resembling celebrities as such celebrities. Even if someone resembles Hill, he will himself refer to himself as the person in the clip. For a period when Hill's television series Harry Hill's TV Burp was produced, the latter show would be broadcast directly after You've Been Framed! on ITV1, and Hill would occasionally make references to the consecutive scheduling on Harry Hill's TV Burp. The latter show's official book also features a section dedicated to You've Been Framed!, where Hill refers to it as "your second favourite show on television".
On 21 February 2023, ITV announced that there would be no new series that year, and that there were no plans for it to return in 2024.[3]
Format
During the show, the video clips are played and the people who sent them in receive £250. Just before the advert break, viewer-participation competitions are started, and then are concluded when the programme resumes; examples of these include the "What Happens Next?" competition where the viewers have to guess what happens after a clip is frozen is started, the "Framed Gold Records" competition, where viewers have to guess how many times something can happen before something else happens (for example, "How many people can fall over before a dog gets through a very tight space?"), or "Are you a cry baby? Maybe." competition, in which viewers guess if there will be tears before bedtime, is played. The answer is revealed after the break.
The video clips are normally sorted into separate categories, with examples being categories based on animals, humorous things children say, or embarrassing situations at weddings. Some of the categories let their clips play with humorous commentary from Harry Hill, whilst others have consistent musical backing, so that the clips can be seen as forming a sort of music video. Generally, the soundtrack choice is relevant to the subject of the category (for example, "What's New Pussycat?" once played over a category on cat videos). The musical categories also feature shorter clips than the commentary categories, as the latter will often feature more of what happens before and after the incident in the clip to accommodate Hill's commentary.
Episodes will typically begin with Hill announcing what is "coming up" in the episode, showing three brief clips, before seguing into the title sequence, although these openings could be considered part of the title sequence. This is a departure to episodes in the Jeremy Beadle/Lisa Riley eras, which used to contain cold openings showing all of a clip without any voice-over.
Sometimes, special editions featuring countdown or "A-Z" lists will be produced, which mostly reuse older clips. There have been approximately 67 specials, and are especially common in the current day.
Transmissions
Series
Jeremy Beadle era (1990–1997)
Series
Start date
End date
Episodes
Pilots
14 April 1990
1 September 1990
2
1
6 January 1991
28 February 1991
8
2
12 January 1992
1 March 1992
8
3
6 September 1992
11 October 1992
6
4
10 January 1993
29 May 1993
9
5
3 October 1993
19 December 1993
11
6
4 September 1994
17 December 1994
16
7
3 September 1995
19 November 1995
12
8
1 September 1996
15 December 1996
14
9
14 September 1997
7 December 1997
13
Lisa Riley era (1998–2002)
Series
Start date
End date
Episodes
10
4 September 1998
24 October 1998
8
11
17 July 1999
28 June 2000
23
12
2 September 2000
28 June 2001
17
13
21 October 2001
22 December 2001
10
14
8 September 2002
24 November 2002
12
Jonathan Wilkes era (2003–2004)
Series
Start date
End date
Episodes
15
12 October 2003
2 May 2004
30
Harry Hill era (2004–2024)
Series
Start date
End date
Episodes
16
11 September 2004
12 November 2005
22
17
10 September 2005
23 September 2006
22
18
9 September 2006
22 September 2007
22
19
14 July 2007
2007
4
20
29 September 2007
7 June 2008
25
21
28 June 2008
2009
27
22
10 October 2009
Early 2010
26
23
18 September 2010
2011
26
24
20 August 2011
11 August 2012
26
25
1 September 2012
2013
26
26
23 March 2013
Late 2014
26
27
15 November 2014
2015
19
28
25 December 2015
Early 2017
19
29
25 December 2016
2 April 2020
19
30
23 December 2017
24 October 2021
24
31
23 April 2020
4 August 2024
24
Specials
Throughout its run since its debut in 1990, You've Been Framed! has featured several spin-off specials (often reusing clips from previous shows):
100% You've Been Framed! (22 October 2011)
Best of You've Been Framed! (Early 2010)
Funniest Ever You've Been Framed! (27 October–1 December 2007)
Ultimate You've Been Framed! (2011)
I Love YBF! (Early 2013)
Totally You've Been Framed! (4–25 October 2008, 2009)
The Best of You've Been Framed! (2006)
Very Best of You've Been Framed! (Early 2007)
The Guide to You've Been Framed! (Late 2010)
You've Been Framed! A-Z (Early 2009)
You've Been Framed! A-Z of Christmas (25 December 2002)
You've Been Framed! and Famous (Early 2010, 8 June 2011, 7 January 2012)
You've Been Framed! and Famous 4 (Early 2013)
You've Been Framed! Best of the Best (2014)
You've Been Framed at Christmas! (1991, 1994–95, 1998–2001, 2003–06, 2008, 2009, 2011–14)
You've Been Framed! Harry's Favourites (28 July 2012)
You've Been Framed! Holiday Special (22 April 2006)
You've Been Framed! in Lapland (17 December 1994)
You've Been Framed! Kids' Special (Early 2005, Early 2007, Early 2010)
You've Been Framed! Late! (3 January 1993)
You've Been Framed Rides Again! (21 July 2012)
You've Been Framed! Sports' Special (17 December 2005)
You've Been Framed! Animal Special (25 June 2005, Early 2007)
You've Been Framed! Showbiz Special (2 July 2005)
You've Been Framed! Top 10s (29 January 2011)
You've Been Framed! The Next Generation (Early 2011)
You've Been Framed! Top 100 Animals (28 January 2012)
You've Been Framed! Top 100 Holidays (26 January 2013)
You've Been Framed! Top 100 Kids (4 February 2012)
You've Been Framed! Top 100 Talent (Early 2013)
You've Been Framed! Top 100 Weddings (Early 2013)
You've Been Framed! Strikes Back! (Early 2014)
You've Been Framed! Top 100 Senior Moments (Early 2014)
You've Been Framed! A-Z of Animals (Early 2014)
You've Been Framed! Top 100 Shockers (Early 2014)
You've Been Framed! Presents (20 September 2014)
You've Been Framed! Top 100 Sportstars (2015)
You've Been Framed! A-Z of Growing Up (2015)
You've Been Framed! Yearbook (2015)
You've Been Framed! Unleashed! (2015)
You've Been Framed! Reloaded! (2015)
You've Been Framed! Hall of Framed (2015)
You've Been Framed! with Bells on! (25 December 2015)
You've Been Framed! XXL (Late 2016)
You've Been Framed! Goes Wild! (Late 2016)
You've Been Framed! Supreme! (Late 2016)
You've Been Framed! Bites Back! (Early 2017)
You've Been Framed! Finest (Early 2017)
You've Been Framed! Bounces Back! (Early 2017)
You've Been Framed! Harry's Naughty List (25 December 2016)
You've Been Framed! Unchained (2017)
You've Been Framed! and Fearless! (2017)
You've Been Framed! King-Size! (2017)
You've Been Framed! to the Max! (2017)
You've Been Framed! Unlimited (2017)
You've Been Framed! Let Loose! (2017)
You've Been Framed! Unwrapped (23 December 2017)
You've Been Framed! Christmas Crackers (25 December 2020)
You've Been Framed! Goes Large! (2020)
You've Been Framed! Goes Savage! (2019)
You've Been Framed! Attacks! (2019)
You've Been Framed! Unstoppable! (2019)
You've Been Framed! Uncaged! (2020)
You've Been Framed! No Limits! (2020)
You've Been Framed! And Fabulous (2020)
You've Been Framed! And Furious! (2022)
You've Been Framed! On a Roll! (2022)
You've Been Framed! 5-Star Fails (2022)
You've Been Framed! Super-Size! (27 August 2022)[4]
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