''Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow'' is a British

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television series hosted by comedian

Michael McIntyre Michael Hazen James McIntyre (born 21 February 1976) is a British comedian, writer, and television presenter. In 2012, he was the highest-grossing stand-up comedian in the world. He currently presents the variety and stand-up comedy show '' Mic ...

from different venues around the United Kingdom and

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. The first series was broadcast with six episodes in 2009. Each episode features a routine from McIntyre, followed by three other comedians before the headline act. A second six-episode series in the same format followed in 2010. A special one-hour Christmas episode transmitted on 25 December 2011.

Production

The series was commissioned in February 2009 following the success of '' Live at the Apollo''. Hosted by stand-up comedian

, the series aimed to bring acts "new to a

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Saturday night audience". The series is often repeated on

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and is broadcast in high definition on

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and Comedy Central HD.

Episodes

Series 1 (2009)

Series 2 (2010)

Christmas special (2011)

''Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow'' returned for an hour long Christmas special on 25 December 2011 at 10.30pm.

Broadcast

In Australia, season one and two aired back-to-back on

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each Saturday at 9:20pm (moved to 9:35pm for season two) from 18 September 2010. Episodes also made available from the

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catch-up service.

Reception

The series peaked with 5.5 million viewers for the first episode, which also gained 1.17 million views on

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, the third highest for the year to 13 December 2009 behind '' Top Gear''. In ''

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'', David Chater said that "If this roadshow is anything to go by, the quality of stand-up in Britain is at an all-time high." The series was nominated in the Best Comedy Entertainment Programme category for the 2009

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. In 2011 the programme was nominated in the

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but lost out to ITV Comedy,

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. It's also nominated for the Entertainment Award in 2012 as well as Michael being nominated as best Entertainment Performance. The programme won the Entertainment Award, but Michael lost out as presenter to Ant and Dec.

DVD

'Michael Mcintyre's Comedy Roadshow' has not been commercially released onto DVD on its own, however both series have been available to watch on demand on services such as Lovefilm and Netflix. Michael's Stand up Segments from Series 1 were collected into a compilation and were included on his 'Hello Wembley DVD' as a special feature. Michael's segments from Series 2 were also placed into a compilation which was included on its own DVD as a content exclusive to the 'Michael Mcintyre Stand Up Collection Boxset' which was released in 2010.

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