Never Mind The Buzzcocks
- TV panel show
- Sky Max / BBC Two
- 1996 - 2024
- 310 episodes (32 series)
Panel game based on the world of rock and pop music, featuring comedians and musicians. Stars Mark Lamarr, Simon Amstell, Rhod Gilbert, Greg Davies, Phill Jupitus and more.
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Episode menu
Series 29, Episode 1
Further details
In the first episode of the series, Daisy May Cooper welcomes singer Anne-Marie and Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall to her team as they go head-to-head against Noel Fielding, series regular Jamali Maddix and comedian Nish Kumar.
In true Buzzcocks style, the episode covers an eclectic mix of music related mayhem, from discussing Liam Gallagher's and Steve Tyler's strange claims to identifying members of Bucks Fizz and N-Trance.
Notes
Noel's team won, 15 points to 10.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Tuesday 21st September 2021
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- Sky Max
- Length
- 45 minutes
Cast & crew
| Greg Davies | Host / Presenter |
| Noel Fielding | Team Captain |
| Daisy May Cooper | Team Captain |
| Jamali Maddix | Regular Panellist |
| Anne-Marie Nicholson (as Anne-Marie) | Guest |
| Jade Thirlwall | Guest |
| Nish Kumar | Guest |
| Cheryl Baker (as The Fizz) | Self |
| Dale Longworth | Self |
| Kevin O'Toole | Self |
| Jay Aston (as The Fizz) | Self |
| Mike Nolan (as The Fizz) | Self |
| Antony Costa | Self |
| Edele Lynch | Self |
| Richard Breen (as Abz Love) | Self |
| Tinchy Stryder | Self |
| Ian Watkins (as H) | Self |
| Barry Castagnola | Writer |
| Laura Claxton | Writer |
| Charlie Cooper | Writer |
| Huge Davies | Writer |
| Erika Ehler | Writer |
| Phil Kerr | Writer |
| Lloyd Langford | Writer |
| Mike Wozniak | Writer |
| Maisie Adam (as Maisie Adams) | Writer |
| Barbara Wiltshire | Series Director |
| Tom Vinnicombe | VT Director |
| Jordan Read | Series Producer |
| Shirley Jones | Executive Producer |
| Kate Edmunds | Executive Producer |
| Jonno Richards | Executive Producer |
| Will Brown | Edit Producer |
| Jess Davis | Line Producer |
| Juliet Morrish | Senior Producer |
| Emily Pickthall | Senior Producer |
| Jon Blow | Editor |
| Spencer Doane | VT Editor |
| Dominic Tolfts | Production Designer |
| Faye Sawyer | Costume Designer |
| Chris Kempton | Lighting Designer |
| Richard Turner | Composer |
| Peter Garston | Composer |
| Cat Ladd | VT Costume Designer |
| Adrian Merciante | VT DOP |
Video
Anne-Marie's dig at Bucks Fizz
Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall slams Noel Gallagher, Greg Davies regrets his bread-based burn to Nish Kumar and Daisy May Cooper's intros round is so poor Noel Fielding almost leaves the set.
Press
I still can't get over the fact that Noel Fielding - such a brazen goth! - presents Bake Off. Last week he also returned as one of the team captains on Sky's fresh spin on the long-running music quizshow Never Mind The Buzzcocks, alongside new host Greg Davies, new team captain Daisy May Cooper (This Country) and regular contestant Jamali Maddix. The guests were Jade Thirlwall (ex-Little Mix), singer Anne-Marie and Mash Report comedian Nish Kumar.
If you want to feel old, watch a music panel show where no one recognises Buck's Fizz in the lineup section. Elsewhere, it was entertaining: Cooper, in particular, channelled her own rock star to the point where she started reminding you of everyone you've ever seen stealing other people's drinks in a backstage area. If I have one criticism, it's that the music content is now almost jarringly mainstream. With previous Buzzcocks personnel, you got the impression that they knew and cared enough about music to descend, if necessary, into an unseemly row about Fall lyrics. Comedy is crucial, but don't (completely) forget the music.
Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 26th September 2021Never Mind The Buzzcocks review
It's back? I'd barely noticed it had gone.
James Jackson, The Times, 22nd September 2021Review: Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Sky Max
They said it couldn't and maybe shouldn't be done. They did it and it worked. Welcome back.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 22nd September 2021Never Mind The Buzzcocks review
The music quiz is back from rehab, cleaned up and on Sky. Girls are finally allowed, too - though with a show this confused, they might regret smashing this glass ceiling.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 21st September 2021Never Mind The Buzzcocks review
Times have changed - this reinvention proves it's cool to be kind.
Ed Power, i Newspaper, 21st September 2021Never Mind The Buzzcocks review
Panelists laughed so heartily at each other's jokes it may as well have been a rehearsal - time to put some booze in those famous mugs?
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 21st September 2021