Davina (talk show)

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Davina
Created by BBC
Presented by Davina McCall
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes8 (list of episodes)
Production
Production location BBC Television Centre
Running time60 minutes
Original release
Network BBC One
Release15 February (2006-02-15) 
12 April 2006 (2006-04-12)

Davina is a British chat show hosted by Davina McCall. It first aired on BBC One on 15 February 2006, however, the show ended on 12 April 2006 at the end of its first series due to low ratings. [1]

Contents

The series was announced in December 2005. [2] One show attracted fewer than 2.3 million viewers, when it was moved to 7pm. The series received a poor critical reception, with Gareth Maclean saying that McCall "... found herself floundering and foundering, struggling through "interviews" with stars of the calibre of Girls Aloud, Westlife and Patrick Kielty...", and "... demonstrated a complete lack of talent as a chatshow host", [3] with McCall herself saying that the programme was "the worst mistake of her life". [4]

Guests

The guests for the series were:

EpisodeAir dateGuestsMusical guests
115 February 2006 Max Beesley
Julian Clary
Vernon Kay
Tess Daly
Charlotte Church
KT Tunstall
222 February 2006 Pierce Brosnan
Patrick Kielty
Martin Shaw
Westlife
Corrine Bailey Rae
31 March 2006 Gloria Hunniford
Zöe Lucker
Neil Morrissey
Gordon Ramsay
Sugababes
Orson
48 March 2006 Ed Byrne
Katie Price
Eamonn Holmes
Girls Aloud
Vittorio Grigolo
515 March 2006 Michelle Collins
Alistair McGowan
Omid Djalili
Beverley Knight
Cyndi Lauper
629 March 2006 Dawn French
Jill Halfpenny
Louis Walsh
Mary J. Blige
Will Young
75 April 2006 Jenny Eclair
Lulu
Russell Watson
Shayne Ward
David Gray
812 April 2006 Jade Goody
Kacey Ainsworth
Richard Wilson
Piers Morgan
Peter Grant
Katie Melua
Kubb

Ratings

This is a table displaying the averages of each show for the chatshow, which aired on BBC1. These figures are made available from MediaGuardian.

EpisodeAir DateViewersShare
115 February 20063.5m14%
222 February 20062.7m11%
31 March 20063.0m13%
48 March 20062.5m11%
515 March 20062.3m10.4%
629 March 20062.6m12%
75 April 20062.4m11%
812 April 20062.2m11%

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References

  1. "BBC drops Davina's flop chat show". BBC News. 24 April 2006.
  2. "BBC One launches McCall chat show". BBC News. BBC News. 6 December 2005. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  3. Why is Davina's chatshow such a disaster? The Guardian , Gareth McLean, 15 March 2006. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  4. Before The Nightly Show: remembering Davina McCall's disastrous talk show, Davina The Daily Telegraph , Rebecca Hawkes, 14 March 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2018.