BBC cancel Never Mind The Buzzcocks

PostBBC cancel Never Mind The Buzzcocks by KK » Tue May 26, 2015 2:24 pm

Broadcast via Digital Spy wrote:

Never Mind the Buzzcocks has been cancelled.

Channel controller Kim Shillinglaw and BBC entertainment controller Mark Linsey have confirmed the end of the show, Broadcast reports.

A BBC spokeswoman said: "After 28 series we've decided not to bring Never Mind the Buzzcocks back to the BBC. This will create space for new entertainment formats in the future.

"We'd like to thank the team at Talkback, Rhod Gilbert, all the brilliant hosts over the years and of course Noel and Phill for the years of enjoyment they've given BBC Two viewers."

The pop music panel quiz first aired in November 1996, and has run for over 260 episodes over 28 series.

t was hosted by Mark Lamarr for its first 17 series. Guest presenters took over for the 18th run, before Simon Amstell took over hosting duties for four series.

The show returned to having guest hosts for series 23 to 27 and Rhod Gilbert took the role permanently for series 28.

Phill Jupitus has been a team captain since the start of the show, and was joined by Sean Hughes for the first ten series.

Bill Bailey was a captain for series 11 to 21. After joining for the last three episodes of series 21 when Bailey left, Noel Fielding became a permanent captain in series 23.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a64 ... c-two.html

They think it's all over...it is now!

I used to love this with Mark, Phil and Sean. Kind of lost interest after Mark left....

I always thought it was decent with Simon Amstell, too.

I liked the Rhod Gilbert series, never really liked Noel though. They should have binned him.

The Lamarr/Amstell years had a real edge to them, since then it's turned more into general background comfort viewing. Always been entertaining though.

Shame to see it go, hopefully they'll find something interesting to replace it with. The BBC are lacking a decent regular comedy show at the moment. (HIGNFY became really tiresome years ago IMO)

Stopped watching it when Amstell left. The quality fell through the floor.

I stopped watching pretty much when Lamarr left. I didn't enjoy it as much after he left.

Mafro wrote:Stopped watching it when Amstell left. The quality fell through the floor.

This. Didn't even realise it was still being kept on air until they announced Rhod Gilbert was taking over. Still though, anything with Noel Fielding in it getting axed is always good news.

Disappointing news. One of my favourite programmes.

The Amstell era was probably the best BBC panel show ever. Preston walking out and being replaced by a guy in the audience who looked a bit like Preston was absolutely brilliant.

Even the clip shows from that period were amazing. The faux-documentary about the show and whatnot.

Stopped watching when Lamarr left.

What Qikz should have wrote:I stopped watching pretty much when Bill Bailey left. I didn't enjoy it as much after he left. Bill Bailey rules.

Taking over from Lamarr must have been one of the toughest gigs in TV, but in my opinion Amstell was even better. He was a panel show genius.

Yeah, +1 here for the Amstell era.

I vaguely remember getting my online name from Buzzcocks somehow, it was probably about 15 years ago, so I can't remember the details. End of an era, liek if u cri evry tiem.

Never recovered after Amstel left.

It went from must watch TV to irrelevant in a short space of time.

I thought it was axed years ago :fp:

As said by another, one less gig for Noel Fielding is doing the world a favour.

This Noel Fielding hate, how the crack has no one said a bad thing about Phil Jupitus yet? The man is a laughter vacuum.

I once offered to buy Phil Jupitus a drink, working on the basis that he'd say no, it's ok, you're a poor student, I'll get you one. He just said cheers mate, I'll have a Grolsch.

Grolsch wasn't even cheap. Carling was £1 a pint. :evil:

We then sent in our mate who had mahoosive norks to flirt with him, and she got us all free tickets to his gig. Which was only ok. But made up for the drink thing, I guess.

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