You're Back in the Room
| You're Back in the Room | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Game show |
| Presented by | Phillip Schofield |
| Starring | Keith Barry |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company(s) | Tuesday's Child |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV, STV, UTV |
| Picture format | 16:9 (HDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 14 March 2015 – 9 April 2016 |
You're Back in the Room is a British television game show that has broadcast on ITV from 14 March 2015 to 9 April 2016. The show is hosted by Phillip Schofield and stars Keith Barry. The premise consists of contestants who have to complete a series of normally straightforward tasks after being subject to deep hypnosis, causing them to be compelled to develop various distracting tics or quirks that hinder their ability to compete.
A second series consisting of four episodes was announced on 21 July 2015 and began airing on 12 March 2016.
On 7 October 2016, it was announced that the show had been axed.
The show has received mixed reviews; Sarah Deen, in a Metro article, summarised that "everyone either completely loved or absolutely hated [the show]". Adam Postans described You're Back in the Room as "one of the worst prime-time shows you'll ever see" in a Daily Mirror article. Sam Wollaston gave the programme a mixed review, describing it as "quite funny for a while", but said it went "backwards from Brown to McKenna". Ben Travis of the Evening Standard described the show as "watchably daft". Benji Wilson from The Daily Telegraph gave the show a very positive review, opining that it is "significantly funnier than anything else on TV".
The show has been criticised by some hypnotists, such as Mark Powlett and Liz McElligott (chief executive of the National Hypnotherapy Society), who have claimed that it is not possible to use hypnosis to make people do things against their will and that contestants are merely play acting. Keith Barry has asserted that all contestants are genuinely hypnotised and ITV have said that "duty of care to the contestants was always of paramount importance", and that the show follows regulations of Ofcom and the 1952 Hypnotism Act.
An Australian version of You're Back in the Room, hosted by Daryl Somers, was screened in 2016 on the Nine Network. Keith Barry was the hypnotist in this version as well as the British edition.
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