You're Back in the Room was a British television game show that was broadcast on ITV from 14 March 2015 to 9 April 2016. The show was hosted by Phillip Schofield and starred 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.
You're Back in the Room | |
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Genre | Game show |
Presented by | Phillip Schofield |
Starring | Keith Barry |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
Production | |
Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
Production company | Tuesday's Child |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 14 March 2015 9 April 2016 | –
A second series consisting of four episodes was announced on 21 July 2015 and began airing on 12 March 2016.[1]
On 7 October 2016, it was announced that the show had been axed.[2]
Episode No. | Guests | Airdate | Viewers (millions)[3] |
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1 | Ed Baines, Paul Rankin, Lesley Waters, Aldo Zilli | 14 March 2015 | 4.24 |
2 | Samia Smith, Nigel Pivaro, Jack P. Shepherd, Ryan Thomas | 21 March 2015 | 4.06 |
3 | Joe Swash, Vicki Michelle, Vincent Simone | 28 March 2015 | 3.93 |
4 | Diversity | 4 April 2015 | 3.24 |
Episode No. | Guests | Airdate | Viewers (millions)[3] |
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1 | Andrea McLean, Linda Robson, Sherrie Hewson, Nadia Sawalha and Kaye Adams | 12 March 2016 | 3.20 |
2 | Chris Kamara | 19 March 2016 | 3.16 |
3 | Joey Essex and Carl Fogarty | 2 April 2016 | 2.58 |
4 | Antony Cotton and Jennie McAlpine | 9 April 2016 | 3.12 |
The show has received mixed reviews; Sarah Deen, in a Metro article, summarised that "everyone either completely loved or absolutely hated [the show]".[4] 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.[5] 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".[6] Ben Travis of the Evening Standard described the show as "watchably daft".[7] Benji Wilson from The Daily Telegraph gave the show a very positive review, opining that it is "significantly funnier than anything else on TV".[8]
Country | Title | Presenter | Hypnotist | Broadcaster | Aired |
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Australia | You're Back in the Room | Daryl Somers | Keith Barry[9] | Nine Network[10] | 3–25 April 2016 |
Colombia | Hipnosis un juego de mente | Victor Mallarino | Mustafa Badawy[11] | RCN | 15 May 2016 |
France | Hypnose le Grand Jeu | Stephane Rotenberg | Cyrille Arnaud | W9[12] M6 (from 30 December 2015) | 9 October 2015 |
Netherlands | You're Back in the Room | Beau van Erven Dorens | Rinke Jacobs[13] | RTL 4[14] | 2015 |
New Zealand | You're Back in the Room | Jason Gunn | Peter Powers | TV2[15] | 21 July 2016 |
Poland | Hipnoza | Filip Chajzer | Artur Makieła[16] | TVN | 3 March 2018 |
Portugal | DivertidaMente | João Manzarra | José Tejada | SIC | 11 March 2018[17][18] |
Slovenia | Hipnoza dobra zabava | Boštjan Romih | Božidar Grilc[19] | POP TV | 29 January 2017 |
United States | Hypnotize Me | Taye Diggs[20] | Keith Barry | Fox (planned) The CW |
2017 (planned) 2019 |