Blankety Blank
- TV comedy
- BBC One / ITV1
- 1979 - 2024
- 311 episodes (20 series)
Comedy panel-game-show of missing words hosted in turn by Terry Wogan, Les Dawson, Lily Savage and Bradley Walsh. Also features Paul O'Grady.
- Due to return for Series 21
Press clippings Page 3
Let's hope Blankety Blank doesn't get Keith Lemon
The best possible thing that could happen to Blankety Blank now is if someone like Paddy McGuinness took over and oversaw a ho-hum photocopy of the original show. But this is ITV. We cannot rule out the horrible prospect of Keith Lemon's Blankety Blank. Look at Through the Keyhole, once a respected if smug BBC One series that ITV snapped up and transformed into a witless totem to endless, tortuous, shrieking, pointless, Lambrini-drinking, grunting, cheapskate, empty-calorie Keith Lemon muck. If ITV has the power to do that to Through the Keyhole, imagine what a mess it would make of Blankety Blank.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 15th August 2016There is a new series of Blankety Blank (BBC1), if you fancy that. This economical series is bomb-proof as it leans confidently on the personality of the presenter - Terry Wogan, Les Dawson and now Lily Savage. When Spike Milligan was on the Blankety Blank panel, he seemed out of place because he instinctively gave witty answers. Too late he realised that what was needed was the bleeding obvious.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 28th June 1999