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8 out of 10 Cats
Sean Lock, Jimmy Carr & Jason Manford
Format	Panel Show
Presented by	Jimmy Carr (Series 1 - present)
Starring	Team captains: Sean Lock (Series 1 - present) Dave Spikey (Series 1 - 4) Jason Manford (Series 5 - present)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	8
No. of episodes	68 (inc. 4 Big Brother specials) (List of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	Endemol
Location(s)	BBC TVC
Running time	22 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Channel 4
Original run	3 June 2005 – present
External links
Official website

8 out of 10 Cats is a television comedy panel game made by Zeppotron (a subsidiary of Endemol) for Channel 4. It was first broadcast on 3 June 2005. The show is based on statistics and opinion polls, and draws on polls produced by a variety of organizations and new polls commissioned for the programme, carried out by company Harris Poll. The show's title is derived from a well-known advertising tagline for Whiskas cat food which originally claimed that "8 out of 10 cats prefer Whiskas". The first advert ever screened during the show's commercial break was for Whiskas. The show will return for a ninth series on 8 January 2010 ^{[1] [2]}.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Current rounds 3 Retired rounds 4 Episodes 5 DVDs 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Overview

The show is hosted by comedian Jimmy Carr and features two teams, captained by Sean Lock and Jason Manford. Manford replaced Dave Spikey, who left after the fourth series to concentrate on other projects.

Every week, the captains are joined by two celebrities from the likes of David Walliams and Alan Carr. Often, topical celebrities appear on the show, for example Ruth Badger following her appearance on The Apprentice.

The show is recorded at BBC Television Centre, typically the day before transmission.

[edit] Current rounds

• "What Are You Talking About?" - The polling organisation asked the public what they were talking about during the week. The teams have to try and guess the top five.
• "Pick of the Polls" - The teams are given 4 pictures to pick from and are given a poll based around that picture.
• "Believe It or Not" - The teams are given a statistic and try to guess if it is true or false.
• "And the Winner Is..." The teams are given a question from a poll and then they try to guess what came on top of that poll.
• "The Poll With a Hole"- each team is given a statistic but it is missing one piece of salient information. The teams have to guess what that piece of information is.

The points often do not add up correctly, but this is because the show has to be edited to fit in its 26 minute slot.

Until season 8 there were four rounds during the game, but now it has been limited to three.

[edit] Retired rounds

These rounds only featured in Series 1 and the Big Brother special shows:

• "Face Off" - The teams have to guess who from a list of famous people came top with respect to a particular topic.
• "Word Association" - The teams view a clip illustrating a word and have to guess the top three things people thought of when they heard that word.
• "What's the Poll?" - The teams are given five famous people, picture by picture, and they have to guess which poll they appeared on.

[edit] Episodes

[edit] DVDs

8 out of 10 Cats: Claws Out is a ninety-minute collection of highlights from the past few series which features deleted scenes considered too offensive to be aired. It was released on 20 November 2006. ^[3]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• 8 out of 10 Cats at Channel4.com
• 8 out of 10 Cats at the Internet Movie Database
• 8 out of 10 Cats at EpisodeWorld.com