Would I Lie To You?
- TV panel show
- BBC One
- 2007 - 2025
- 161 episodes (18 series)
Panel show in which believable lies and unbelievable truths must be identified. Stars Rob Brydon, Angus Deayton, Lee Mack and David Mitchell.
- Continues on Friday on BBC1 at 8pm with Series 18, Episode 9
- Catch-up on Series 18, Episode 8
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Would I Lie To You? At Christmas, BBC1, review
Rose Matafeo and Jim Broadbent made this a real cracker.
Ed Power, i Newspaper, 20th December 2021BAFTA TV Awards 2021 nominations
Ghosts, Inside No. 9, Man Like Mobeen and This Country are amongst the nominees in the BAFTA TV Awards 2021.
British Comedy Guide, 28th April 2021To love and to cherish: nurturing Would I Lie To You?
Peter Holmes and Rachel Ablett, the husband and wife team behind BBC1's comedy panel show, reveal how they keep the magic of the series alive.
Broadcast, 26th March 2021Female stand-ups on panel shows: one in one out
Taskmaster has welcomed only 11 female stand-up comedians in six years.
Mark Muldoon, i Newspaper, 18th March 2021Would I Lie To You? to be remade in America
American network The CW is to make its own version of hit panel show Would I Lie To You?.
British Comedy Guide, 9th March 2021WILTY? called out for lack of diversity
Would I Lie To You? has been called out for its lack of diversity after just one non-white comedian, Sindhu Vee, appeared this series.
Cydney Yeates, Metro, 2nd March 2021Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020 winners
After Life, Staged, Horrible Histories, Would I Lie To You?, Taskmaster and Inside No. 9 have won prizes in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020. Radio 4 comedies Michael Spicer: Before Next Door, Dead Ringers, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and Joe Lycett's Obsessions have also won.
British Comedy Guide, 8th February 2021Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020 shortlist
60 TV and radio programmes have been shortlisted across 10 categories for the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020. Voting is now open to determine the winners.
British Comedy Guide, 11th January 2021Would I lie to you about the greatest comedy on TV?
It is hard at times like this to hang on to your sense of fun. It can feel, as crisis leads to ray of hope and back again to crisis, as if there is nothing left to laugh about. Thank heavens, then, for Would I Lie To You?, the most consistently funny, consistently joyful television show of the century. Why should I make wild claims for what is, after all, a parlour game, a panel show, a bit of fluff? Because now more than ever we need to seize on to what unites us.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 5th January 2021Blankety Blank most-watched new TV comedy in 2020
Blankety Blank was the most-watched new British comedy on TV in 2020. 5.2 million viewers tuned in to see the comic game show's revival on Christmas Day. The Graham Norton Show and ITV sitcom Kate & Koji also got over 5 million viewers last year.
British Comedy Guide, 1st January 2021