Boys and Girls (TV series)

Boys and Girls
Genre	Gameshow
Presented by	Vernon Kay, Orla O'Rourke Spin-offs: Dougie Anderson
Opening theme	"Music To Watch Girls By", Andy Williams
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producer(s)	UMTV
Running time	60-90 minutes (including adverts)
Release
Original network	Channel 4
Picture format	16:9
Original release	March 2003 – May 2003

Boys and Girls was a British television gameshow broadcast in 2003 by Channel 4.

The series was produced by Chris Evans through his company UMTV, and was presented by Vernon Kay. Evans only occasionally appeared on screen, usually as the driver of the golf buggy used to ferry the winning contestants off-set at the end of the show. Thus the show was one of the first Evans-produced shows not to feature Evans himself in a presenting role (in fact, Evans did not regularly front any UMTV programmes until OFI Sunday in late 2005). Kay's co-presenter was Irish presenter and model Orla O'Rourke. Also featuring Oliver Knight of Spectrecom Films.

Boys and Girls took the form of a battle-of-the-sexes contest. The audience for each show would be made up of 200 potential contestants - 100 male and 100 female.

The contestants would initially assemble in the afternoon for what was referred to on-air as the 'pre-show party' - this saw the contestants assemble in a large hall. Each member of the group was given a few seconds to perform a stunt, skill or talent with the aim of impressing the 100 members of the opposite sex. Following this, each group would vote on who their favourite performer was (for the main game selection), and also rate the attractiveness of each performer (for the Babe or Minger game).

In the studio, games included 'Babe or Minger', where Kay would randomly select members of the 200 and invite them to guess whether they were a 'babe' (included in the top 50 of the vote carried out by the opposite sex) or a 'minger' (in the bottom 50).

Other short games and features would then follow, such as a segment in which tickets for a future show were offered to home viewers living in a featured street who performed a task set out by the host (such as opening the front door in their pyjamas).

Then the 'quiz' would be played. Two celebrity guests - one for each team - would enter the audience to canvas the team's opinions in response to a series of questions posed by Kay. These questions would be on the subject of relationships and would take the form of an 'either/or' choice, i.e. "What's more important, a big heart or a big wallet?". The celeb would gather the audience's apparent majority opinion and present this as an answer to Kay. If this answer matched the answer on Kay's card (as gleaned from an earlier general poll) then the team scored a point. The team which scored the most points in the Quiz would be the team represented in the Main Game.

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