Alan Carr's Specstacular
| Alan Carr's Specstacular | |
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Title card for Alan Carr's New Year Specstacular
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| Presented by | Alan Carr |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 8 (as of 31 December 2015) |
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| Producer(s) | Open Mike Productions |
| Location(s) | The London Studios |
| Running time | 95-150 minutes |
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| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Original release | 31 December 2011 – present |
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| Related shows |
Alan Carr: Chatty Man The Sunday Night Project The Justin Lee Collins Show |
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| Website | |
Alan Carr's Specstacular is a special broadcast on Channel 4 presented by Alan Carr. The show features Alan and guests all competing in sketches, games and musical performances. The show was originally broadcast on 31 December 2011 as Alan Carr's New Year Specstacular and has spawned to various other specials including two Summertime Specstaculars in 2012 and a Grand National Specstacular in 2013.
The title sequence, designed by Lee Jacobs, sees Carr mischievously setting off a giant rocket in the basement of Channel 4. It blasts through the roof to the delight of the queueing crowd outside to spell out the show's title.
For the first show Carr was joined by Jonathan Ross, Micky Flanagan, Melanie Sykes, Gok Wan, Olly Murs, Kirstie Allsopp, Alesha Dixon, Bruno Tonioli and Heston Blumenthal. JLS and The Ting Tings provided live music.
Sketches included a spoof of The King's Speech, a Made in Chelsea parody featuring the show's cast, along with a number of skits featuring David Walliams - including one which sees Carr as Prince William and Walliams as Kate Middleton.Cher Lloyd also made an appearance as herself.
It was filmed on Wednesday 7 December 2011 at The London Studios. The first series was watched by an averaged of 1.86 million viewers with a 10% share as well as scoring 158k and a 0.9% share on +1.
During the evenings festivities, the guests discussed adult themes, including Gok Wan telling Carr to "fuck off" and joking that he would not perform oral sex on him, Blumenthal talking about a strap-on sex toy and Ross commenting on a full-frontal naked picture of N-Dubz star Dappy. Following the show, Channel 4 received fifty-seven complaints from viewers, and it was believed that government-approved regulatory authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries, Ofcom, would investigate the show. However, after consideration, Ofcom has confirmed that the show had met "generally accepted standards" for a show aired after the 9pm watershed. A Channel 4 spokesman said: "It was an irreverent end-of-year party, appropriately scheduled post-watershed with clear warnings."
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