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Room 101. Paul Merton. Copyright: Hat Trick Productions / BBC
Room 101

Room 101 (1994)

  • TV chat show
  • BBC One / BBC Two
  • 1994 - 2007
  • 88 episodes (11 series)

What do you really dislike? In Room 101, celebrities have the chance to get rid of their personal hates forever. Stars Nick Hancock and Paul Merton.

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Episode menu

Series 8, Episode 3 - Linda Smith

Linda Smith talks about her hatred of adults who read Harry Potter, Tim Henman and men who wear bowties.

Into Room 101

- Adults who read Harry Potter novels
- Tim Henman
- "Back to School" signs
- Comic operas (later became "Posh people")

Took Home

- Men who wear bowties

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 17th November 2003
Channel
BBC Two
Length
45 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
Paul Merton Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Linda Smith Guest
Writing team
Paul Merton Writer (Additional Material)
John Irwin Script Consultant
Ged Parsons Script Consultant
Dan Gaster Script Consultant
Sarah Martin Script Consultant
Production team
Geraldine Dowd Director
Richard Wilson Series Producer
Victoria Payne Producer
Denise O'Donoghue Executive Producer
Sarah Bloomfield Associate Producer
Grant Philpott Associate Producer
John Ryan Associate Producer
Tim Ellison Editor
Cath Pater-Lancucki Production Designer
Karen Jackson Costume Designer
Claire Ford Make-up Designer
Warwick Fielding Lighting Designer
Charlotte Woy Production Manager

Press

Room 101 currently has an air of all too chummy bonhomie wafting about. The guest list needs to be looked at and expanded dramatically if the show is survive in its present format. When you're faced with a nonentity like Ronan Keating parading his bĂȘte noires to the nation then you know your number is up.

Cameron Borland, Off The Telly, 17th November 2003

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