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Premiered: 2011-12-31
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Airs: Saturday at 21:00
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Alan Carr's Specstacular is a special broadcast on Channel 4 presented by Alan Carr. The show features Alan and guests all competing in sketches, games and musical performances. The show was originally broadcast on 31 December 2011 as Alan Carr's New Year Specstacular and has spawned to various other specials including two Summertime Specstaculars in 2012 and a Grand National Specstacular in 2013.
Alan Carr welcomes in 2018 with his inimitable brand of unpredictable madness, hysterical sketches, party games and a cracking guest list including Big Narstie, Jonnie Peacock, Keith Lemon, Caroline Flack, Alex Brooker, Binky Felstead, Tom Davis, Charlotte Dawson and Kim Woodburn. Music is by Stefflon Don and Pete Tong with Becky Hill and The Heritage Orchestra, conducted by Jules Buckley. Alan's special guests appear in various guises including a raft of sketches, entertaining games and musical performances along with his raucous studio audience who participate in the New Year festivities.
Air Date: 31 Dec 2017Alan Carr's New Year Specstacular is back - witness Alan and his special celebrity guests running riot around Channel 4 HQ bringing in 2017 with unpredictable madness, party games and special guests. There's VT sketches, games and top music performances along with raucous audience participation. Guests include Danny Dyer, Keith Lemon, Greg Rutherford, Laura Whitmore, Sinitta,Will Mellor and Gemma Collins. Music is by Professor Green who sings One Eye on the Door and I Need You Tonight, and Teiks performs Sunshine.
Air Date: 31 Dec 2016Alan is joined by David Guetta, Danny Dyer, Mel B, Greg Davies, Kelly Brook and Nish Kumar, Ellie Goulding and The Vamps.
Air Date: 31 Dec 2015On 31 December 2014, Carr brings in 2015 with special guests Jonathan Ross, Alesha Dixon, Mark Wright, James Corden, Caroline Flack, Tulisa Contostavlos, Professor Green and Seann Walsh.
Air Date: 31 Dec 2014A third New Year Specstacular was broadcast on 31 December 2013 and featured Abbey Clancy, Ben Cohen, James Corden, Keith Lemon, Seann Walsh and Emma Willis with music from Katy B and Tinie Tempah featuring Labrinth.
Air Date: 31 Dec 2013On 19 March 2013 "Alan Carr's Grand National Specstacular" was announced by Channel 4 as part of their line-up of programming building up to the 2013 Grand National.[10] The 95-minute special was broadcast on 5 April 2013, on the eve of the Grand National, and featured Jonathan Ross, Paddy McGuinness, Kimberley Walsh, Louis Walsh, James Nesbitt, Abbey Clancy, Rylan Clark, Alex Brooker, Russell Brand and Clare Balding, with music performed by Madness. Miranda Hart was scheduled to appear but could not after injuring her knee earlier in the week. The celebrities played games and drew out which horses they got in the sweepstake. The special pulled in 1.49 million viewers.
Air Date: 19 Mar 2013For the second "New Year Specstacular", Carr was joined by guests Melanie Sykes, Jonathan Ross, Jimmy Carr, Jack Whitehall, Christine Bleakley, Gok Wan and Rylan Clark. Bruno Mars, DJ Fresh and Ms. Dynamite provided live music performing their tracks, "Locked Out of Heaven", "Young Girls" and "Gold Dust". At the end of the show, Carr performed "Rapper's Delight" live. Party games included Olympics Musical Chairs, Snog Marry Kill, Bash The Boris, New Year's Revolutions, Antony Worrall Thompson's Bag Of Swag Eat Off, Truth or Luge, Rebekahroo, Have I Got New Years News For You, Sketches and spoofs included Carr impersonating The Queen, Harry Styles, Felix Baumgartner, Kate Middleton, 999: What's Your Emergency?, Brad Pitt, Sinitta, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole, Jessie J, Julie Goodyear, Fifty Shades of Grey, Olympic Volunteers, James Bond, Clare Balding, Skyfall and The Great British Bake Off. Other appearances were made by Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Jamie Laing. The special was watched by an average of 1.9 million with an 11% share. The 15-minute viewing peak was 2.4 million.
Air Date: 31 Dec 2012"Alan Carr's Summertime Specstacular 2" was broadcast on 17 August 2012, during Channel 4's Funny Fortnight. Guests included Jonathan Ross, Tulisa, Keith Lemon, Melanie Sykes, Paloma Faith, Labrinth and Fatima Whitbread. Team GB Olympic medallists Mo Farah, Nicola Adams, Greg Rutherford, Louis Smith, Heather Stanning and Helen Glover also appeared. The special was watched by 1.37 million viewers.
Air Date: 17 Aug 2012"Alan Carr's Summertime Specstacular" was broadcast on 8 June 2012, during the week of celebrations for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Carr was joined by guests David Walliams, Justin Bieber, The Saturdays, the cast of Made in Chelsea, Amy Macdonald, Carol Vorderman, Paddy McGuinness, Christian Jessen and Rizzle Kicks. Carr was also visited by Russell Brand via video link. The special was watched by 1.746 million viewers, the second most watched broadcast on Channel 4 that week.
Air Date: 8 Jun 2012For the first show Carr was joined by Jonathan Ross, Micky Flanagan, Melanie Sykes, Gok Wan, Olly Murs, Kirstie Allsopp, Alesha Dixon, Bruno Tonioli and Heston Blumenthal. JLS and The Ting Tings provided live music. Sketches included a spoof of The King's Speech, a Made in Chelsea parody featuring the show's cast, along with a number of skits featuring David Walliams - including one which sees Carr as Prince William and Walliams as Kate Middleton. Cher Lloyd also made an appearance as herself. It was filmed on Wednesday 7 December 2011 at The London Studios. The first series was watched by an averaged of 1.86 million viewers with a 10% share as well as scoring 158k and a 0.9% share on +1.
Air Date: 31 Dec 2011
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