Richard & Judy Book Club
| Richard & Judy | |
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| Also known as | 'Richard & Judy's New Position' |
| Genre | Chat show |
| Presented by | Richard Madeley Judy Finnigan |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 1,215 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company(s) | Cactus TV |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Channel 4 (26 November 2001 – 22 August 2008) Watch (7 October 2008 – 1 July 2009) |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Original release | 26 November 2001 – 1 July 2009 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | This Morning (1988–present) |
Richard & Judy (also known as Richard & Judy's New Position) was a British television chat show presented by the married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. The show originally aired on Channel 4 from 26 November 2001 to 22 August 2008, but later moved to digital channel Watch from 7 October 2008 to 1 July 2009.
The Richard & Judy show started with Channel 4 on 26 November 2001 and aired every weekday from 5pm to 6pm. Between 2006 and 2008, the Richard & Judy show shared this original with The Paul O'Grady Show, a programme that started in March 2006. For three months of each year, between 2006 and 2008, the Richard & Judy show occupied the 5pm to 6pm slot (January to March and June to August), and then the Paul O'Grady Show occupied the timeframe for the following three months (March to June and September to December).
On the 15 August 2008 edition of the show, Richard stated that the following week's episode would be the last with Channel 4 and the final broadcast occurred on 22 August 2008.
Following the show's departure from Channel 4, the producers of Richard & Judy subsequently signed a £2 million deal with the UKTV network Watch. Madeley and Finnigan renamed the show and hosted Richard & Judy's New Position from 7 October 2008. The couple stated that the new version would be "a high octane prime time show", with Madeley explaining, "we [Madeley and Finnigan] were both hugely impressed with the team at UKTV, and their proposal was attractive and fun and will give us the kind of flexibility in our personal lives which we have been looking for". The presenters continued featuring the programme's popular "Book Club" that had begun on their Channel 4 show.
The Watch version of the show featured a sofa area for interviews, as well as a bar area where the star guests and the show's crew members gathered during broadcasts. Each week the show employed a celebrity barman; comedian Rufus Hound undertook the role in the first week's episode. Hound had been a frequent guest on the Channel 4 series.
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