The Michael McIntyre Chat Show
- TV chat show
- BBC One
- 2014
- 6 episodes (1 series)
Michael McIntyre hosts a chat show on BBC One. He talks to celebrity guests and plays the game 'send to all'.
Press clippings
BBC orders a second series of Michael McIntyre's Chat Show
The BBC has ordered a second series of Michael McIntyre's chat show. The stand-up comedian will return to BBC One later in the year for more episodes.
British Comedy Guide, 12th April 2014Don't write Michael McIntyre off as a host just yet
The comedian may not have stormed the ratings with his first show, but he gets big guests and is improving fast - a recipe for success.
Mark Jefferies, Radio Times, 28th March 2014The Michael McIntyre Chat Show: where did it go wrong?
The producers of the comedian's ailing show are clearly trying to revamp it to play to his strengths. What do Graham Norton and Jonathan Ross have that he doesn't?
Mark Lawson, The Guardian, 25th March 2014BBC says Michael McIntyre's show has made a 'fantastic start'
Mark Linsey, Controller, Entertainment Commissioning says: "We're delighted that The Michael McIntyre Chat Show has made such a fantastic start."
British Comedy Guide, 25th March 2014Michael McIntyre Chat Show facing axe
The Michael McIntyre Chat Show reportedly won't be returning to screens after its current run ends.
Sarah Deen, Metro, 24th March 2014Stop hating on Michael McIntyre
Michael McIntyre's new chat show is losing viewers perhaps because of his 'ego', but Ava Vidal wants to know what's wrong with having a good sense of self-esteem? Far better that than being crippled by self-doubt.
Ava Vidal, The Telegraph, 21st March 2014Is this proof the TV chat show is dead?
It takes experience and steel nerves to control a difficult interviewee. The problem is, Michael McIntyre is not a journalist. He's a family comedian, as abrasive as a butterball.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 21st March 2014Although I knew the programme was coming, I did feel that it received very little in the way of promotion before it aired last Monday. I have to say I didn't expect much going in, primarily as it was placed in the dreaded 10:35 slot for shows that BBC One aren't that proud of. To his credit McIntyre proved to be an endearing presence, as he often is, although he really didn't ask his guests that many probing questions.
I did feel that the programme was better depending on the quality of the guest, so to me it was at its best when Sir Terry Wogan appeared and reached a lull by the time we got to Lord Sugar.
One of the things that irritated me the most about McIntyre was the fact that he continually broke the fourth wall, whether that was to inform Lily Allen that somebody was talking to him in his ear or the pre-credit sequence in which we saw him talk to the audience ahead of the show itself. In fact McIntyre seemed more at home addressing the audience than he did when he was forced to go into chat show host mode.
His interactions with the crowd provided the funniest moments especially when he played the first ever round of 'Send to All'.
Though not as bad as some celebrity-fronted chat shows, especially the one that Allen herself hosted, I don't think that McIntyre really suits the chat show format in a way that others such as Alan Carr and Graham Norton do. Thankfully his likeability shines through which doesn't make watching the programme a chore, but at the same time I don't think I'd ever choose to watch it again.
The Custard TV, 17th March 2014Review: The Michael Mcintyre Chat Show, BBC One
In some ways this may be the simplest review I've ever written. If you like Michael McIntyre you'll like TMMCS. If you don't you won't.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 11th March 2014Michael McIntyre's chat show launches to 2.4 million
The Michael McIntyre Chat Show launched with over 2 million viewers on Monday night, according to overnight data.
Tom Eames, Digital Spy, 11th March 2014