An Audience with...
| An Audience with... | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy, Entertainment |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 55 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | ITV Studios (originally London Weekend Television) |
| Running time | 60–90 minutes (including adverts) |
| Release | |
| Original network |
ITV, STV, UTV; Channel 4 |
| Original release |
1978 (An Audience With Jasper Carrott - six-part series) 1980 (An Audience With...) – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
1978 (An Audience With Jasper Carrott - six-part series)
An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television (now part of ITV Studios), in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style.
The show's title began as An Audience with Jasper Carrott, a normal six-part television series for the comedian, his first television show, broadcast in 1978, produced by London Weekend Television (LWT). From 1980 onwards, the show then changed into An Audience with...(name of host), with one-off special guest hosts performing in front of celebrity audiences.
The show has traditionally been broadcast on ITV on Saturday nights, while some shows in the 1980s were broadcast on Channel 4. The show has been commissioned at varying intervals, with ten shows broadcast in the 1980s, followed by twenty in each in the decades of the 1990s and 2000s. Since 1994 there has been at least one and often multiple shows broadcast per year, with the exception of 2000 and 2003.
Some hosts have appeared multiple times. Dame Edna Everage has been host three times, while Freddie Starr, Ken Dodd, Joan Rivers, Shirley Bassey, Al Murray and Donny Osmond have all been asked to return once. One show, for Jeremy Beadle, was hosted posthumously. In 2010, a five-part highlights series of the show, 30 Years of An Audience With, was broadcast on ITV.
More recent shows have focused more on musicians and singers rather than comedians - the last comedian given An Audience with... was Al Murray in 2007.
The An Audience With title was first used in a television series produced by London Weekend Television (LWT) for the comedian Jasper Carrott, which aired for six episodes in 1978.
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