Horne and Corden
| Horne & Corden | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Kathy Burke |
| Starring |
Mathew Horne James Corden Mathew Baynton Kellie Bright Nick Mohammed |
| Opening theme | Does It Offend You, Yeah? - "We Are Rockstars" |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Tiger Aspect Productions |
| Distributor | Endemol UK |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC Three |
| Original release | 10 March – 14 April 2009 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Gavin & Stacey |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Horne & Corden is a British sketch show written by Jon Brown, Steve Dawson, Andrew Dawson, Tim Inman and the cast, script edited by Sam Ward, and starring Mathew Horne and James Corden. It aired on BBC television in 2009. The first episode was broadcast on 10 March 2009 on BBC Three. It is presented by and stars Mathew Horne and James Corden in front of a live audience, featuring pre-recorded sketches (often on location) and vignettes filmed in a studio with an audience. Several episodes featured a song and dance routine as their finale. The first episode attracted the highest ratings for a comedy show debut on BBC Three. However, ratings quickly dropped throughout the show's run.
In Australia, all six episodes were also aired on ABC2 (and the ABC iView catch-up service) from 1 September to 6 October 2009 in the Thursday 9pm timeslot.
Although the first episode of the show attracted 817,000 viewers, making it most-watched debut for a comedy series on BBC Three, the reviews for Horne & Corden were vitriolic. Benji Wilson of the Daily Telegraph said that the show "was about as funny as credit default swaps". while Rachel Cooke in the New Statesman called it "excruciating – as funny and as puerile as a sixth-form revue". Sam Wollaston from The Guardian wrote:
"There's a sketch about a gay war reporter, a cock-drawing class in a boys' school, Spiderman and Superman meet in the changing rooms, a bloke takes forever to reach orgasm. Clever, see? It's crude, but that's not the problem; crude can be funny. Not here, though, because of how artlessly it's done. It looks as if they've just thought of these comedy situations, and then not really known how to fill them in. Never has a three-minute sketch felt so long, and the joke inevitably comes down to the fact that James Corden is fat and is happy to show us his wobbly bits. Or one of them gets his arse out."
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