The Mad Bad Ad Show Explained

Genre:Comedy panel game
Director:Richard Valentine
Andrew Chaplin
Lucy Forbes
Geraldine Dowd
Presenter:Mark Dolan
Starring:Micky Flanagan
Mark Watson
Voices:Simon Greenall
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English
Num Series:1
Num Episodes:6
List Episodes:
  1. Episode list
Executive Producer:Lee Hupfield
Paul Gilheany
Andrew Newman
Producer:Laura Clark
Editor:Stuart Lutes
Philip Lepherd
Diane Bernhardt
Sasha Thuillier
Location:BBC Television Centre
Runtime:50 minutes (inc. adverts)
Company:Objective Productions
Channel:Channel 4

The Mad Bad Ad Show is a British comedy panel show made by Objective Productions and hosted by Mark Dolan.[1] It aired for one season on Channel 4 in 2012.

Format

The premise of the show is based around answering questions about and related to advertisements, with the two team captains, Mark Watson and Micky Flanagan, each also making an advertisement of their own for a fictitious product which they also have to invent.

The programme consists of two teams, each featuring, alongside the captains, one other comedian and one advertising professional.

Episode list

The coloured backgrounds denote the result of each of the shows:

– Indicates Micky's team won

– Indicates Mark's team won

First broadcastMicky's teamMark's teamScoreWinner
117 February 2012Simon Chamberlain
Holly Walsh
Kate Stanners
Joe Wilkinson
8–2Mark's team
224 February 2012Matthew Crosby
Nils Leonard
Jason Manford
Kate Stanners
9–3Mark's team
32 March 2012Victor van Amerongen
Miles Jupp
Sean Lock
Gail Parminter
8–2Mark's team
430 March 2012Lorraine Kelly
Rory Sutherland
Peter Sells
Josh Widdicombe
9–4Micky's team
56 April 2012Rosie Arnold
Rufus Hound
Richard Exon
Sara Pascoe
9–4Mark's team
613 April 2012Rachel Riley
Rory Sutherland
Richard Exon
Chris Ramsey
8–6Micky's team

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Mad Bad Ad Show, coming soon to Channel 4 . 14 July 2011 . Madeleine . Knight . . 23 February 2012.