Shooting Stars
- TV panel show
- BBC Two / BBC Choice
- 1993 - 2011
- 72 episodes (8 series)
Possibly the world's barmiest, weirdest, surreal and off-the-wall panel show. Presented by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. Also features Ulrika Jonsson, Mark Lamarr, Will Self, Jack Dee, Johnny Vegas and more.
Episode menu
2008 Specials - Shooting Stars: The Inside Story
Further details
Guests filmed for the documentary include team captains Will Self and Ulrika Jonsson, Lenny Henry, Amanda Donohoe, Michael Winner, Paul Whitehouse, Tim Healy, Charlie Higson, Johnny Vegas, Matt Lucas, Gary Rhodes, Noel Fielding and Martine McCutcheon.
Vic and Bob make appearances as Tom Fun and Derek. Plus, Vic also appears as Inspector Fowler.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Tuesday 30th December 2008
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
| Tim Healy | Host / Presenter |
| Vic Reeves | Various |
| Bob Mortimer | Various |
| Noel Fielding | Self |
| Charlie Higson | Self |
| Lenny Henry | Self |
| Paul Whitehouse | Self |
| Ulrika Jonsson | Self |
| Martine McCutcheon | Self |
| Gary Rhodes | Self |
| Barry McGuigan | Self |
| Dan Gillespie Sells | Self |
| Matt Lucas | Self |
| Chris Steele (as Dr. Chris Steele) | Self |
| Amanda Donohoe | Self |
| Ben Thompson | Self |
| Paul Shane | Self |
| Darcus Howe | Self |
| Johnny Vegas | Self |
| Will Self | Self |
| Michael Winner | Self |
| Vic Reeves | Writer |
| Bob Mortimer | Writer |
| Lisa Clark | Producer |
| Katie Taylor | Executive Producer |
| Paul Holland | Editor |
Press
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer first hosted their anarchic celebrity quiz show in 1993. The first of two programmes marking the show's 15th anniversary tonight is a documentary about the making of it - and, like Shooting Stars itself, the film is funny, eccentric and a little self-indulgent. Interspersed with interviews with some of the celebrities who found themselves subjected to Reeves' and Mortimer's particular kind of comedy (which veered from the surreal to the mildly offensive), the presenters themselves play various crew members reminiscing about their time working behind the scenes. This is a suitably unique way to contemplate a programme which Martine McCutcheon calls 'bizarre' and of which Larry Hagman said, "I've done some loony shows in my time but this is certainly the one."
Shooting Stars launched the career of Matt Lucas - who played scorekeeper George Dawes before he went on to global fame with David Walliams in Little Britain - and latterly also co-starred the often self-confessedly drunken comic Johnny Vegas.
Simon Horsford, The Telegraph, 29th December 2008