It's Only TV...but I Like It

It's Only TV... But I Like It is a comedy celebrity panel gameshow about television. It originally aired on BBC One from 3 June 1999 through 23 August 2002. Its presenter was Jonathan Ross, and the regular team captains were Julian Clary, Jack Dee (series 1 only), and Phill Jupitus.

It's Only TV...but I Like It
Title card for series 2–4
GenreComedy panel game
Created byJonathan Ross
Andy Davies
Jon Naismith
Directed byDavid G. Croft
Ian Lorimer
Presented byJonathan Ross
StarringJulian Clary
Jack Dee
Phill Jupitus
Theme music composerPete Baikie
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes32
Production
Executive producerAddison Cresswell
ProducersAndy Davies
Jon Naismith
Shaun Pye
Running time29 minutes
Production companyOpen Mike Productions
Release
Original networkBBC One
Original release3 June 1999 (1999-06-03) 
16 August 2002 (2002-08-16)

Overview

The teams played through various rounds in order to gain points. Whichever team had the most points at the end was declared the winner. If both teams had equal points at the end, then the result was declared as a draw with no tie-breaker played.

Rounds

There were various rounds played throughout the series, including:

  • TV Trivia - In this round, each team is shown three clips which have a tenuous link to a moment in television history. It is up to the teams to try and decipher the link.
  • Bad News or Are You Sitting Down? - Here, the teams are shown a clip from a TV show, but the clip is paused before a piece of bad news is delivered. The teams must guess what bad news is. Programmes varied in this round from soaps like Coronation Street and EastEnders to crime dramas such as The Bill or The Sweeney, period dramas such as Poldark or Martin Chuzzlewit to children's programmes like Pingu, Fireman Sam, Bob the Builder and Noddy.
  • Here's One I Made Earlier - Inspired by the long-running BBC series Blue Peter, the teams are given ingredients to a real Blue Peter "make", and asked to come up with what they think the presenter made out of them.
  • Channel Hopping - In this round the guests make their way into the TV screen (in reality, an elevated section of the stage behind Jonathan), and the team captains don special earmuffs to block out any noise. The captains also have a remote control to choose one of five TV programmes, which the guests must mime along to the theme tune in order for their captain to guess the programme. From series 2, this game was played in every episode, having been in half the episodes of series 1. From series 3, each captain would have a pair of earmuffs decorated to look like a certain television programme.
  • Opportunity Knockers - The teams are shown three clips of performers on talent shows such as New Faces, Opportunity Knocks or such programmes, and are asked to guess which of the three acts is still performing today. One such clip showed a teenage Toni Warne who in 2012 became a contestant on The Voice.
  • Granny Knows Best - The teams are shown a montage of elderly people describing a television programme in an obtuse way, and are asked what programme they are talking about. If they guess it correctly from the first montage the team are awarded five points, but if they don't then they are shown a second montage where the clues become easier but the point value decreases the more clues they get.
  • Masks - Where the team dons blindfolds and the opposing captain applies masks to the blindfolds of the opposite team, all of whom are faces from the same TV programme. The team then has to ask questions to the opposing side to guess who they are wearing masks of, mainly using yes-or-no questions.
  • Aliens - In this round, the teams are shown three aliens, one of which appeared in Doctor Who. The teams then ask the aliens questions as to their identities before voting on which is the real alien. Points are awarded for guessing correctly.
  • Wine Tasting - The teams are given a wine to taste (which had appeared on Food and Drink) and are asked to guess what the presenters said about the wine. Points are awarded for each correct description. In one variant of this round the contestants are asked to taste a beer, in this case the beer in question was Weihenstephaner.
  • Let's Laugh At Foreigners - The teams are shown three acts performing at a Eurovision Song Contest, and are asked which act got the lowest points.
  • Are You Being Serviced? - The teams are shown a clip from a sitcom, usually Are You Being Served? after which the round was named, and the clip is paused before the punchline is delivered. The teams have to guess what the punchline is.
  • Charley Says - Based on the Charley Says series of public information films, the teams are shown a public information film which is paused before the message is delivered. The teams have to guess what the film's message is.

The show always ended with a quickfire round with the teams on their buzzers. The three quickfire rounds were:

  • Catchphrase - Played in Series 1, the teams simply had to complete the unfinished catchphrases read out by Jonathan.
  • Who Said That? - Played in Series 2 and 3, Jonathan would read out a line of dialogue from a TV programme and the teams have to guess the character or person who said it.
  • Quickfire Trivia - Played in Series 4, this was a straightforward round of quickfire trivia questions, also incorporating catchphrases and identifying two TV personalities morphed together into one picture.

Return

The show returned on 5 March 2011 for a special during the BBC's 24 Hour Panel People in aid of Comic Relief 2011. The show's former team captain Jack Dee hosted with Ulrika Jonsson and Charlie Brooker as team captains. The guests were David Walliams, Danny Wallace, Tom Deacon, and Penny Smith.

Episodes

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

  – indicates Julian's team won
  – indicates Jack's/Phill's team won
  – indicates the game ended in a draw

Series 1 (1999)

No. Episode First broadcast Julian's guests Jack's guests Scores
1
1x013 June 1999Ant & Dec and John ThomsonCaroline Aherne and Antony Worrall Thompson15–6
2
1x0210 June 1999Fay Ripley and Barbara WindsorJohn Challis and Neil Morrissey15–17
3
1x0317 June 1999Leslie Ash and Bill TarmeyPatsy Palmer and Rowland Rivron22–19
4
1x0424 June 1999John Leslie and Wendy RichardSarah White and Richard Whiteley21–14
5
1x051 July 1999Wolf and John InmanMark Lamarr and Trev & Simon13–13
6
1x068 July 1999Nigel Havers and Lorraine KellyJayne Middlemiss and Tim Healy30–11
7
1x0715 July 1999Leslie Grantham and Carol SmillieLeslie Phillips and Jamie TheakstonTBC
8
1x0822 July 1999Ainsley Harriott and Melanie SykesJohn Noakes and Les DennisTBC

Series 2 (2000)

No. Episode First broadcast Julian's guests Phill's guests Scores
9
2x0124 February 2000Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Adam RickittUlrika Jonsson and Leslie PhillipsTBC
10
2x022 March 2000Davina McCall and Dean SullivanEsther Rantzen and Max BeesleyTBC
11
2x039 March 2000Anna Ryder Richardson and Angela GriffinJohn Sergeant and Noddy HolderTBC
12
2x0416 March 2000Shane Richie and Gloria HunnifordAlice Beer and Jack DochertyTBC
13
2x0523 March 2000Shaun Williamson and Donna AirNorman Wisdom and Meera SyalTBC
14
2x0630 March 2000Keith Chegwin and Amanda HoldenPeter Davison and SuggsTBC
15
2x076 April 2000Oz Clarke and Kirsty YoungFern Britton and "Handy" Andy8–17
16
2x0813 April 2000Boy George and Charlotte ColemanEsther McVey and Phil DanielsTBC

Series 3 (2001)

No. Episode First broadcast Julian's guests Phill's guests Scores
17
3x0123 February 2001"Nasty" Nick and Lisa RogersClaire Sweeney and Ainsley Harriott16–12
18
3x022 March 2001Richard Blackwood and Valerie SingletonGail Porter and Graham Cole11–10
19
3x039 March 2001Dermot O'Leary and Liz SmithLinda Barker and Richard Whiteley16–15
20
3x0416 March 2001Patrick Kielty and Keith DuffyVanessa Feltz and Jeremy Spake23–12
21
3x0523 March 2001Ralf Little and Gaby RoslinEmma Noble and Rich HallTBC
22
3x0630 March 2001Jim Bowen and Philippa ForresterTricia Penrose and Fred MacAulayTBC
23
3x0713 April 2001Rowland Rivron and Linda RobsonDoon Mackichan and Les DennisTBC
24
3x0820 April 2001Craig Doyle and Jilly GooldenMichelle Collins and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen15–15

Series 4 (2002)

No. Episode First broadcast Julian's guests Phill's guests Scores
25
4x0128 June 2002Joe Mace and Jennie BondTerry Wogan and Ainsley Harriott19–19
26
4x025 July 2002Ian McCaskill and Myleene KlassLucy Speed and Richard Blackwood8–9
27
4x0312 July 2002Vernon Kay and Debra StephensonAngela Rippon and Jo BrandTBC
28
4x0419 July 2002Barbara Windsor and Keith Harris[upper-alpha 1]Carol Smillie and Adam and JoeTBC
29
4x0526 July 2002Ed Byrne and Angela GriffinDavid Dickinson and Steven Pinder17–15
30
4x062 August 2002Cannon and Ball and Gina YasherePatsy Palmer and Stuart HallTBC
31
4x079 August 2002Roy Walker and Katy HillDiarmuid Gavin and Nicholas R. BaileyTBC
32
4x0816 August 2002The Krankies and GoldieColeen Nolan and Gary BeadleTBC
  1. Harris was accompanied by his puppets, Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey.
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