Shooting Stars
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Shooting Stars

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.

Comedy

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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.

Released December 27, 1993

Quick facts

Language
en
Status
Ended
Votes
26
Seasons
8

Top cast

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Bob Mortimer

Bob Mortimer

Self - Presenter

Ulrika Jonsson

Ulrika Jonsson

Self- Team Captain

Vic Reeves

Vic Reeves

Self - Presenter

Jack Dee

Jack Dee

Self- Team Captain

Dan Renton Skinner

Dan Renton Skinner

Angelos Epithemiou

Nico Tatarowicz

Nico Tatarowicz

Self - Narrator

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