I Love My Country
- TV panel show
- BBC One
- 2013
- 8 episodes (1 series)
Saturday night entertainment show based on knowledge of the United Kingdom, hosted by Gaby Logan. Stars Gabby Logan, Micky Flanagan, Frank Skinner and Jamelia.
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I Love My Country: but how much?
A new quiz show that has swept through Europe will begin tonight on BBC One. I Love My Country is a celebrity panel game testing contestants' knowledge of Britain's history, geography and popular culture. Take our own quiz to see how patriotic you really are.
The Telegraph, 3rd August 2013Over each new Saturday night game show hangs the spectre of Don't Scare the Hare. Remember it? In 2011, the floppy-eared flop was pulled from BBC1 before the first series ended. It came at a time when the thinking was that shows needed crazy set gimmicks: a robotic hare, a moving wall with a hole in, an Olympic diving pool. Tonight's new arrival doesn't bother with that; it just cranks up the idea of a celebrity quiz to such heights of fizzing, demented hilarity that it's hard not to get swept along.
Frank Skinner and Micky Flanagan lead two teams answering British-themed questions from Gabby Logan. The Mayor of High Wycombe and the London School of Samba add local colour, and guest Charlotte Salt (from Casualty) gets a merciless ribbing on her surname. It's that kind of show.
David Butcher, Radio Times, 3rd August 2013I Love My Country - review
If the BBC's new Saturday night shiny-floor nightgasm of patriotic tub-thumping and mindless jingoistic cheer (cf. Berlin, 1933) were a sketch-show parody of opportunistic summertime quiz-show fluff, you wouldn't buy it.
Adam Lee Davies, Time Out, 3rd August 2013How well do you know Britain?
As I Love My Country hits our TV screens, test your knowledge of this United Kingdom with our true-or-false quiz.
Ellie Walker-Arnott, Radio Times, 3rd August 2013Frank Skinner loving being a dad but now a 'baby bore'
He was famous for banging on about football all the time, but now Frank Skinner is a self-confessed baby bore.
Mark Jefferies, The Mirror, 2nd August 2013Is BBC 'patriotic' quiz most inane TV achievement yet?
When ITV1 launched its celebrity diving show Splash!, the critical derision it prompted only succeeded in driving masochistic viewers to the belly-flopping entertainment on offer.
So let's help the BBC1 publicity machine out - I Love My Country, its new "patriotic" celebrity quiz show, is so thoroughly, idiotically inane, it could well be the worst entertainment offering that the corporation has yet dredged up for the edification of Saturday night viewers.
Adam Sherwin, The Independent, 2nd August 2013Frank Skinner & Micky Flanagan finally get decent show
It really shouldn't work but, as GQ discovered when we were granted a sneak peek of the first episode, the considerable charisma of the three hosts carries a distinctly dubious premise. Here is what we loved about it...
GQ, 24th July 2013Stars insist 'I Love My Country' isn't UKIP advert
A shamelessly patriotic new BBC1 Saturday night quiz show called I Love My Country is not a prime-time advertisement for UKIP, its star contestants have insisted.
Adam Sherwin, The Independent, 15th July 2013David Walliams quits new BBC show I Love My Country
David Walliams has pulled out of new BBC show I Love My Country. He will be replaced by sports pundit Gabby Logan when series airs next year.
The Mirror, 9th December 2012David Walliams to host new BBC One panel show
David Walliams, Frank Skinner and Micky Flanagan have signed up as host and team captains for brand new BBC One Saturday night panel show I Love My Country.
British Comedy Guide, 16th November 2012