Comedian David Mitchell presented this BBC comedy/quiz panel show in which three celebrity guests were isolated in a rural location for three days with no access to TV or radio, or phones or computers, and then had to guess which of the news stories they were presented with from that week were real and which were fake.
Guests on the debut show were Frank Skinner, Reginald D Hunter, and (Mitchell’s future wife) Victoria Coren.
Subsequent guests included Miranda Hart, Katy Brand, Marcus Brigstocke, Clive Anderson, Sue Perkins, Ed Byrne, Sarah Millican, and Germaine Greer.
The BBC were accused of a “total sense of humour failure” when the director of BBC News, Helen Boaden, banned political editor Nick Robinson and other senior journalists, such as Huw Edwards and George Alagiah, from taking part in the programme, for fear that it could undermine the reputation of its journalism.
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Comedian David Mitchell presented this BBC comedy/quiz panel show in which three celebrity guests were isolated in a rural location for three days with no access to TV or radio, or phones or computers, and then had to guess which of the news stories they were presented with from that week were real and which were fake.
Guests on the debut show were Frank Skinner, Reginald D Hunter, and (Mitchell’s future wife) Victoria Coren.
