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Shooting Stars

1993 · 8 seasons · 30m per episode · Comedy

Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as 3 full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with 2 series before returning to BBC Two for another 3 series from 2008 until its cancellation in 2011. Created and hosted by double-act Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, it uses the panel show format but with the comedians' often slapstick, surreal and anarchic humour does not rely on rules in order to function, with the pair apparently ignoring existing rules or inventing new ones as and when the mood takes them.

Seasons

• Season 1 — 9 episodes (September 25, 1995)
• Season 2 — 14 episodes (September 27, 1996)
• Series 3 — 8 episodes (September 26, 1997)
• Season 4 — 8 episodes (January 13, 2002)
• Season 5 — 12 episodes (October 6, 2002)
• Season 6 — 6 episodes (August 26, 2009)
• Season 7 — 7 episodes (July 13, 2010)
• Season 8 — 6 episodes (August 8, 2011)

Cast

• Bob Mortimer as Self - Presenter
• Ulrika Jonsson as Self- Team Captain
• Vic Reeves as Self - Presenter
• Jack Dee as Self- Team Captain
• Dan Renton Skinner as Angelos Epithemiou
• Nico Tatarowicz as Self - Narrator

Details

Created by

Bob Mortimer and Vic Reeves

First aired

December 27, 1993

Episodes

70

Genres

Comedy

Network

BBC Choice and BBC Two

Status

Ended

TMDB score

7.7 / 10 from 29 votes