Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow

Production

The series was commissioned in February 2009 following the success of Live at the Apollo. Hosted by stand-up comedian Michael McIntyre, the series aimed to bring acts "new to a BBC One Saturday night audience". The series is often repeated on Comedy Central and is broadcast in high definition on BBC HD and Comedy Central HD.

Episodes

Series 1 (2009)

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:70%;" |- ! Episode ! Location ! Headliner ! Comedians ! Airdate |- | 1x01 | Edinburgh Playhouse | Rhod Gilbert | Kevin Bridges Stewart Francis Mark Watson

Series 2 (2010)

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:70%;" |- ! Episode ! Location ! Headliner ! Comedians ! Airdate |- | 2x01 | Glasgow Theatre Royal | Kevin Bridges | Craig Campbell Milton Jones Daniel Sloss

Christmas special (2011)

Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow returned for an hour long Christmas special on 25 December 2011 at 10.30pm. {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:70%;" |- ! Episode ! Location ! Comedians ! Musical acts ! Airdate |- | Special | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane | Rob Brydon James Corden and Miranda HartCorden and Hart performed a sketch on stage, in character as Smithy and Miranda respectively. Jack Dee Rhod Gilbert Sean Lock David MitchellMitchell did not appear on stage; he delivered a monologue about Christmas from the royal box. | Pixie LottLott performed a duet with McIntyre. Kylie Minogue | 25 December 2011 |}

Broadcast

In Australia, season one and two aired back-to-back on ABC1 each Saturday at 9:20pm (moved to 9:35pm for season two) from 18 September 2010. Episodes also made available from the ABC iview catch-up service.

Reception

The series peaked with 5.5 million viewers for the first episode, which also gained 1.17 million views on BBC iPlayer, the third highest for the year to 13 December 2009 behind Top Gear. In The Times, David Chater said that "If this roadshow is anything to go by, the quality of stand-up in Britain is at an all-time high." The series was nominated in the Best Comedy Entertainment Programme category for the 2009 British Comedy Awards.

In 2011 the programme was nominated in the National Television Awards but lost out to ITV Comedy, Benidorm. It's also nominated for the Entertainment Award in 2012 as well as Michael being nominated as best Entertainment Performance. The programme won the Entertainment Award, but Michael lost out as presenter to Ant and Dec.

DVD

'Michael Mcintyre's Comedy Roadshow' has not been commercially released onto DVD on its own, however both series have been available to watch on demand on services such as Lovefilm and Netflix. Michael's Stand up Segments from Series 1 were collected into a compilation and were included on his 'Hello Wembley DVD' as a special feature. Michael's segments from Series 2 were also placed into a compilation which was included on its own DVD as a content exclusive to the 'Michael Mcintyre Stand Up Collection Boxset' which was released in 2010.

Notes

References

References

1. (30 June 2011). "Michael Mcintyre to serve up festive treat on BBC One this Christmas". BBC.
2. (16 February 2009). "Michael McIntyre takes to the road with a brand new show for BBC One". [[BBC]] Press Office.
3. (23 April 2009). "New comedy tops bill on BBC One this summer with ''Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow''". [[BBC]] Press Office.
4. "David Mitchell has a rant about Christmas | Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow | BBC Comedy Greats".
5. "ABC1 Programming Airdate: Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow (season one, episode one)". ABC Television Publicity.
6. "ABC1 Programming Airdate: Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow (season two, episode one)". ABC Television Publicity.
7. "BBC iPlayer celebrates second birthday with record breaking figures". [[BBC]] Press Office.
8. (27 June 2009). "''Glastonbury 2009''; ''ER''; ''Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery''; ''Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow''". [[The Times]].