Release Date

26 Mar, 2012

Runtime

00:30: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

14/1

Synopsis

Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy and television panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Its first transmission on Radio 4 was on 22 December 1967, three months after the station's launch. The Radio 4 programme won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award in 2003. The object of the game is for panellists to talk for sixty seconds on a given subject, "without repetition, hesitation or deviation". The comedy comes from attempts to keep within these rules and the banter among the participants. In 2011 comedy writer David Quantick ascribed Just a Minute's success to its "insanely basic" format, stating, "It's so blank that it can be filled by people as diverse as Paul Merton and Graham Norton, who don't have to adapt their style of humour to the show at all."

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2012 series

26 Mar, 2012

Celebrating 45 years of this classic radio comedy panel game, host Nicolas Parsons is joined by guests each week. The players try to speak for one minute on a subject while avoiding hesitation, repetition and deviation.

1994 series

Aired on ITV. First season of the TV version of popular radio show Just a Minute.

1999 Series

Aired on BBC TV. Third series of the TV version of popular radio show Just a Minute.

1995 Series

Aired on ITV. Second season of the TV version of Just a Minute.

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