Michael McIntyre's Big Show: Series 3, Episode 1

TV variety
BBC One
2015 - 2024
41 episodes (7 series)

Variety show hosted by Michael McIntyre.

Due to return in January 2025
Series 2, Christmas Special repeated Monday at 6am on CC Extra
Streaming rank this week: 2,599

Series 3, Episode 1

Michael McIntyre's Big Show. Michael McIntyre. Copyright: Hungry McBear

Ed Balls plays Celebrity Send to All, and there is music from chart sensation Emeli Sandé and stand-up comedy from rising star Joe Lycett. Michael plays the Midnight Game Show and performs some of his own unmissable new comedy material, and one unsuspecting member of the public gets the surprise of their life when they become the 'Unexpected Star of the Show'.

Preview clips

Broadcast details

Date: Saturday 18^th November 2017
Time: 8:10pm
Channel: BBC One
Length: 60 minutes

Upcoming repeats

Thursday 26th December 2024 at 9:00am on Comedy Central
Thursday 26th December 2024 at 11:00pm on CC Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
Michael McIntyre	Host / Presenter

Guest cast
Ed Balls	Guest
Joe Lycett	Guest
Stella Brading	Self
Bill Oddie	Self
Emeli Sandé	Musical Performer

Writing team
Henry Paker	Writer (Additional Material)

Production team
Chris Howe	Director
Christian Fletcher	Series Producer
Ed Daggett	Producer
Sarah Pack	Producer
Dan Baldwin	Executive Producer
Rachel Ashdown	Executive Producer
Claire Horton	Executive Producer
Claire Nash	Edit Producer
Clara Marshall	Edit Producer
Lucy Metcalfe	Edit Producer
Adrian Pegg	Line Producer
Ben Bacon	Strand Producer
Juliet Denison	Creative Director
Steve Andrews	Editor
Jamie Shemeld	Editor
George Winfield	Editor
Dominic Tolfts	Production Designer
Nigel Catmur	Lighting Designer
Paul Farrer	Composer

Videos

Series 3 trailer

The wait is over... Michael McIntyre is back for a brand new series.

Featuring: Michael McIntyre.

Midnight Gameshow

Michael McIntyre brings a camera crew to Dean's house in the middle of the night to wake him up to play the Midnight Gameshow!

Featuring: Michael McIntyre & Bill Oddie.

Send To All with Ed Balls

Michael sends an embarrassing text from Ed Ball's phone to his contacts and the replies he gets are great.

Featuring: Michael McIntyre & Ed Balls.

Press

TV review: Michael McIntyre's Big Show, BBC1

This is a show that wants to be everything for everyone. It even harked back to McIntyre's Live at the Apollo roots with a stand-up set from special guest Joe Lycett, who did a winning routine about scamming a scammer who was trying to get him to pay a deposit on a possibly non-existent flat. I'd heard him do that gag so long ago it harked back to those happy carefree days before Brexit. But then in that way this is a show all about nostalgia. Apart from Send To All there is nothing truly new in it. But do you know what the weirdest thing is about it? It all happened so fast I was too busy enjoying it at the time to notice.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 19th November 2017

Michael McIntyre's Big Show, BBC1, review

A pleasantly silly Saturday night winner.

Jeff Robson, i Newspaper, 19th November 2017

A third run of McIntyre's amiable funfest introduces a benign nightmare called The Midnight Gameshow: the host bursts into a sleeping fan's bedroom and stages a quiz, complete with celebrity guests. Back at the theatre, Emeli Sandé and Joe Lycett are the turns, while Ed Balls plays Celebrity Send to All. Before sending an awkward text, McIntyre has a peek at the intimidatingly extravagant Balls/Cooper Ocado order.

Jack Seale, The Guardian, 18th November 2017

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