A Question of Sport: Super Saturday
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A Question of Sport: Super Saturday | |
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Genre | Comedy and sport |
Presented by | Jason Manford Helen Skelton |
Starring | Phil Tufnell Matt Dawson |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 5 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Kieron Collins |
Producer | Gareth Edwards |
Production locations | dock10, MediaCityUK |
Running time | 40 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 21 June 19 July 2014 | –
Related | |
A Question of Sport |
A Question of Sport: Super Saturday (often shortened to Super Saturday) is a British television programme which was a spin-off from the long-running quiz show A Question of Sport.
Super Saturday was hosted by comedian Jason Manford,[1] with Helen Skelton on pre-recorded rounds, and began airing on 21 June 2014 on BBC One. The show received a large amount of negative reviews from critics, and after just one series it was cancelled.
Production
[edit]The show was recorded at dock10, MediaCityUK on 5 and 6 June 2014, with more than one episode being recorded each day.
Episode Guide
[edit]The coloured backgrounds denote the result of each of the shows:
- – indicates Matt's team won.
- – indicates Phil's team won.
Episode no. | Original air date | Matt's team | Phil's team | Score |
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1 | 21 June 2014 | Chris Ramsey, Ola Jordan | Louie Spence, Shappi Khorsandi | 9–5 |
2 | 28 June 2014 | Seann Walsh, Sharron Davies | Patrick Robinson, Iwan Thomas | 10–3 |
3 | 5 July 2014 | Katherine Ryan, Ted Robbins | Michael Vaughan, Lizzy Yarnold | 6–4 |
4 | 12 July 2014 | Louise Minchin, Anton du Beke | Gethin Jones, Rebecca Adlington | 8–9 |
5 | 19 July 2014 | Pixie Lott, Terry Alderton | Helen Skelton, Adil Ray | 5–7 |
Criticism
[edit]The show received complaints over its similarity to the game show A League of Their Own and the fact that a large number of guests were all from BBC programmes. The show was largely panned by critics and was cancelled after just 1 series.