The Terry and Gaby Show

The Terry and Gaby Show
Genre	Daytime chat
Created by	Chris Evans
Starring	Terry Wogan, Gaby Roslin
No. of episodes	200
Production
Producer(s)	UMTV
Release
Original network	Five
Original release	2 June 2003 – 26 March 2004

The Terry and Gaby Show was a daytime television show broadcast on Five on weekday mornings between June 2003 and April 2004, produced by Chris Evans' company UMTV. It was hosted by Terry Wogan and Gaby Roslin.

The opening titles featured Gaby dressed up like a movie star driven to the studio in a limo and walking on red carpet to the door. Meanwhile, Terry, carrying a briefcase, rode a rickety old bicycle across London and parked it outside the back door before quietly entering the building through said back door.

The show was not well known for the guests who appeared on it, but rather for its many bloopers or double entendres (such as the instance when a number of various sized tennis balls were located around the studio to mark that year's Wimbledon tournament, and when introducing Pat Cash as a guest Gaby announced "And I'm sure you can guess from the size of those balls who's coming up next!")

Intended to compete head-to-head with ITV1's This Morning, it was much hyped before its launch. The first show included Jonathan Ross as its main guest.

The early episodes tried to capture the atmosphere of Terry's BBC Radio 2 breakfast show. They even had a butler for Terry, named Bulstrode, who in reality was one of the show's producers, usually there to serve him drinks (of the alcoholic kind).

Roving reporter Danny McCall (a former Brookside actor) featured in a section called "Live Loot". From Monday to Thursday, he would go to a certain location in the UK and go to someone's house trying to get them to sell something to him. He had £100 each day to bribe them with. The first person he visited on the first show was future regular Danny Baker. On Friday, the four items collected over the week would be given away to viewers.

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