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This current affairs comedy panel show, hosted by Nick Hancock, is also a guide to being a modern man. Last week's episode, the last in a six-part series, is typically sharp and sarcastic, with debates around what makes a metrosexual (fornicating on the Paris underground gets a good few laughs), the royal baby and the Wonga/Church of England spat. It's quick-witted and funny (though not hilarious) and comes across like a blokey Have I Got News For You.
Rahul Verma, Metro, 31st July 2013Room 101 is reducing the numeral of its network, moving from BBC2 to BBC1, while increasing the number of participants. Whereas previous hosts Nick Hancock and Paul Merton quizzed a single celebrity about their little list of things to be eliminated, new chairman Frank Skinner has a trio competing to delete. Friday's first panel is Fern Britton, Danny Baker and Robert Webb.
This is a big alteration - a chat-show becoming a panel game - and the presumable justification is a move to a more mainstream panel, although the obvious risk is that a show which had a distinctive premise and form has been made to look like several others. Rather inconveniently, Webb will have been seen 48 hours earlier on BBC1 in the now structurally similar Would I Lie To You?
Mark Lawson, The Guardian, 11th January 2012Acerbic tongues have been licking up the lemon juice in preparation for the return of Claudia Winkleman's deliciously scurrilous take on celebrity life. Joining her to tell us things that are not necessarily true about events that probably did happen are Dom Joly, Nick Hancock and Jo Caulfield. A crack legal team are on standby.
Jane Anderson, Radio Times, 7th January 2012