Just A Minute (2012)

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Just A Minute returned to our TV screens this evening for another attempt at taking radio gold and making it into TV coltan. We made some notes! Here they are!

The 45th anniversary of the quaint Radio 4 panel show, in which contestants must talk for 60 seconds on any given subject "without repetition, hesitation or deviation", sees it honoured with a first television outing for 13 years. The opener of 10 nightly episodes calls upon TV quiz staples Paul Merton and Phill Jupitus to provide the deadpan humour, alongside Sue Perkins and Graham Norton, while long-standing host Nicholas Parsons marshalls proceedings with a boyish grin that belies his 88 years.

Nicholas Parsons: joke about my age as much as you like

Old people are the last acceptable butt of jokes because humour based on gender, race or disability is now unacceptable, Nicholas Parsons has said.

Stars signed up for Just A Minute TV version named

More details have been released about Just A Minute's 45-year anniversary run on BBC Two.

Should Just a Minute transfer to TV?

The brilliant Radio 4 panel show is to get a run of 10 episodes on BBC2 to celebrate its 45th birthday. Will you be watching?

'Just A Minute: The TV Show' ...Third time lucky?

Radio 4 comedy institution and maker of merriment for over 45 years, Just A Minute, is to be turned into a TV quiz show.

Poll: Should Radio 4's Just a Minute get TV series?

Is transferring the classic panel show really a good idea? Vote in our poll and let us know...