Alan Carr: Chatty Man
| Alan Carr: Chatty Man | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Chat show |
| Directed by | Chris Howe |
| Presented by | Alan Carr |
| No. of series | 16 |
| No. of episodes | 181 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Andrew Beint Addison Cresswell |
| Producer(s) | Open Mike Productions Jon Holman |
| Location(s) | The London Studios |
| Running time | 50–80 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Original release | 14 June 2009 – 25 December 2016 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Alan Carr: Happy Hour |
| Related shows |
The Sunday Night Project The Justin Lee Collins Show Alan Carr's Specstacular |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Alan Carr: Chatty Man (also simply known as Chatty Man) is a BAFTA award-winningBritish comedy chat show presented by comedian Alan Carr. The show features interviews with celebrity guests, sketches, topical chat and music.
The show was first on as two pilots in late May 2009; it proved popular with the public and was commissioned for a series and ran for 16 series from 2009 to 2016. The first episode drew in a total of 2.15 million viewers. To date, the show has broadcast 16 series and 181 episodes. The eleventh series consisted of 18 episodes, making it the longest series to date. A new series began airing on 30 August 2013. In 2013, Carr signed a two-year contract extension with Channel 4, which would see him staying at the channel until 2015 in a new deal worth £4 million. The sixteenth and final series premiered on 3 March 2016 and finished on 5 May 2016.
In continental Europe and Scandinavia, Alan Carr: Chatty Man is shown on BBC Entertainment a week behind the UK. Old episodes have been repeated on 4Music between 2012-2013.
A structural difference from other British chat shows is that while the guests for each episode of Chatty Man all film on the same day, there is rarely any on-screen interaction between the guests. A guest will be introduced and be interviewed, and then they are almost always gone when the next guest comes out. An advantage to this process is that Carr is able to pre-tape interviews with certain guests. If a particular guest is unavailable to be interviewed on the chosen week, an interview can be pre-taped and slotted in during the next week's editing. Often, at the end of a series, the final episode can be made up of three pre-taped interviews (as well as a musical performance) filmed earlier in that particular series' run, thus eliminating one tape date. However, in recent series, all guests have returned to the sofa during the final part of the programme.
An interview with Marilyn Manson was recorded in mid-2009, however, due to Manson's drunkenness, plans to air the interview were scrapped.
In July 2010, Lily Allen was slated to appear on the show for an interview and to perform with Professor Green, but she ended up pulling out at the last minute for medical reasons, along with Green. Due to this being her second time pulling out of Chatty Man, Carr berated her in front of his audience before filming. She later apologised to him on Twitter.
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