What A Load Of Buzzcocks
- TV panel show
- BBC Two
- 2013
- 8 episodes (1 series)
Highlights series presenting the best of 16 years of Never Mind The Buzzcocks pop history. Stars Mark Lamarr, Simon Amstell, Phill Jupitus, Sean Hughes, Bill Bailey and more.
Press clippings
What a Load of Buzzcocks was a lazy cut-and-paste job, but as lazy cut-and-paste jobs go it was one of the better ones. The show looked back over the past 17 years through the skewed prism of comedy quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks, covering changes in pop, fashion and team captain Phill Jupitus' waistline.
Never Mind the Buzzcocks started in 1996, suggesting a chronological approach that would force everybody to wait a whole 11 episodes for the quiz show's most memorable moment, when Ordinary Boys' frontman Preston walked off stroppily, only to be replaced by a member of the studio audience.
Harry Venning, The Stage, 7th June 2013