Space Cadets

Debbie mentioned in a comment over on Jenni's blog that one of the things we've been enjoying this week is panel shows. QI is one of our favourite shows and this week we've been dipping our TV watching toes in 2 shows - Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Space Cadets. Bill Bailey is a common element of both, as is the unimportant nature of the questions. Really, it's all about cracking jokes (in the case of Space Cadets) and taking the piss out of panelists (on Buzzcocks). By far the best thing about Buzzcocks is the ruthless mockery of the guests by the host. It's especially good when other members of the panel join in. We've only seen one episode of Space Cadets so far and it was a fun, geeky distraction. Bill Bailey and Craig Charles are the team captains with Greg Proops as the host in a sci-fi quiz. There were possibly more questions in this show than in the episodes of Buzzcocks we watched, though there was a similar amount of mucking about making the funnies. It's not brilliantly funny but the first show did feature a very good-natured William Shatner as a guest and had enough giggles to keep us watching. We've grabbed the next 6 eps from Youtube and will watch them over the next week or so :-)