Ask Rhod Gilbert

Ask Rhod Gilbert
Genre	Comedy
Created by	Chris Jones Stephen Stewart
Written by	Rhod Gilbert Greg Davies Lloyd Langford Madeleine Brettingham Barry Castagnola Matthew Crosby Keith Martin Henry Paker Dan Swimer Dominic English Kevin Day Lucien Young Aiden Spackman Tim Allsop Stewart Williams Steve Parry
Directed by	Pati Marr
Presented by	Rhod Gilbert
Starring	Regular Panelists: Greg Davies Lloyd Langford
Theme music composer	Cormac O'Kane
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	16 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Stephen Stewart Piers Fletcher Mark Linsey Alan Tyler
Producer(s)	Chris Curley Richard Grocock Stephanie McIntosh Sophie Cousens
Editor(s)	Bill Gill Mykola Pawluk Coilin O'Cearbhaill
Running time	40 minutes (Series 1) 35 minutes (Series 2)
Production company(s)	Green Inc
Release
Original network	BBC One
Picture format	16:9
Original release	27 September 2010 (2010-09-27) – 9 November 2011 (2011-11-09)
External links
Website
Production website

Ask Rhod Gilbert is a British comedy panel show produced by Green Inc for the BBC. It began on 27 September 2010 and ended on 9 November 2011 on BBC One, it is presented by Rhod Gilbert with Greg Davies and Lloyd Langford as regular panelists.^[1]

Overview

In each episode questions are asked by well-known personalities (many of these questions are set-ups for jokes) and members of the public, the host and his guests attempt to find the answers through studio demonstrations, experiments, archive clips, internet distractions, live phone calls and visual link-ups from home and around the world.^[2]

The second series became more structured than the first, with four rounds making up each show. The first round, "A Famous Face Asks", begins with a video clip from a famous personality or personalities, with questions asked in each one. The second round, "The World Asks", involves a video-recorded question from a person around the globe, while the third round, "The Audience Asks", is a quickfire round with questions from the audience. The fourth round, "Our Special Guest Asks", involves a question from one of the panellists, and also involves a section entitled "Let's Go To The Lab", where either one or two of the show's 'regulars', Greg Davies, Lloyd Langford and Rhod Gilbert direct a studio demonstration, usually involving one (or two) of the remaining 'regulars' partaking in an "experiment" to help answering the question in that round, with the "experiment" usually involving some form of gunging and/or minor humiliation of the involved individual(s).

Production

A pilot of the show was recorded on 22 March 2010 at the BBC Television Centre but has not been broadcast.^[1] The show was commissioned originally by Mark Linsey (Controller of Entertainment Commissioning), Alan Tyler (Executive Editor, Entertainment Commissioning) and Jay Hunt (Controller BBC1). Danny Cohen (Controller BBC1) re-commissioned the format for series two.^[3] Recording of the first series began in September 2010 and ended in November 2010. Three episodes of the first series were recorded at BBC Television Centre, another two were recorded at the BBC Blackstaff Studio, Belfast and the rest of the episodes were recorded at BBC Pacific Quay.^[1]

In 2013 Rhod Gilbert revealed that the show had been axed.^[4]

Transmissions

Episode list

Series 1

Series 2

References

External links