Fake Reaction

Fake Reaction is a British television comedy panel game shown on ITV2 that ran for two series from 3 January 2013 to 6 March 2014^[1][2] presented by Matt Edmondson with regular team captains Joe Swash and Ellie Taylor.^[3]

Fake Reaction
Genre	Comedy Panel game
Written by	James Menzies Christopher Davies Phil Kerr Dan Swimer Simon Bullivant Dominic English Kevin Day Will Ing
Directed by	Ian Lorimer
Presented by	Matt Edmondson
Starring	Team captains: Ellie Taylor Joe Swash
Theme music composer	Dobs Vye
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	18 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Gary Chippington
Producer	Tommy Panays
Production locations	Riverside Studios (2013) BBC Elstree Centre (2014)
Editor	Tim Ellison
Running time	45 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production company	STV Studios
Original release
Network	ITV2
Release	3 January 2013 (2013-01-03) – 6 March 2014 (2014-03-06)

Production

A pilot edition was recorded in April 2012 for BBC Three, however the show was picked up by ITV2 for an eight-episode run from 3 January 2013.^[4] A second series of ten episodes began production in late 2013, and premiered on 2 January 2014.^[5]

On 3 September 2014, Edmondson revealed that the programme had been axed after two series.^[6]

Transmissions

Main article: List of Fake Reaction episodes

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
1	3 January 2013	21 February 2013	8
2	2 January 2014	6 March 2014	10