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They Think It's All Over

1995–2005 · 19 seasons

A breezy, joke-filled studio panel show where sporting banter and light celebrity ribbing roll by easily without demanding much of you.

Created by
Ian Lorimer
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Nick Hancock, Boris Becker, Gary Lineker
Overview
They Think It's All Over is a British comedy panel game with a sporting theme produced by Talkback and shown on BBC One. The show's name is taken from Kenneth Wolstenholme's famous 1966 World Cup commentary quotation, "they think it's all over...it is now!" and the show used the phrase as the last line of every programme. In 2006 the show was axed after 11 years of being on-air.

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Created by
Ian Lorimer
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Nick Hancock, Boris Becker, Gary Lineker
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Tone
  • lightstrength 3 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • campystrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • sport
  • friendship
  • media
  • celebrity
Places
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour7
Realism8
Romance0
Tension1
Darkness1
Complexity2
Emotional weight1

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Genres
comedy
Created by
Ian Lorimer
Starring
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Length
19 seasons, 146 episodes, 30 min each
Network
BBC One
Languages
English

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