That's Showbusiness

That's Showbusiness is a game show that aired on BBC1 from 20 May 1989 to 8 July 1996 and hosted by Mike Smith.

That's Showbusiness
Genre	Game show
Created by	Jeremy Pascall Phil Swern
Presented by	Mike Smith
Starring	Team captains Gloria Hunniford (1989-91) Kenny Everett (1989-91)
Theme music composer	Ed Welch (1989-91) Debbie Wiseman (1992-94) Helene Muddiman (1995-96)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	8
No. of episodes	132 (inc. 8 specials)
Production
Production location	New Broadcasting House[1]
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	BBC North
Original release
Network	BBC1
Release	20 May 1989 (1989-05-20) – 8 July 1996 (1996-07-08)

Format

In the first three series, the game was played with two teams of three, with team captains Kenny Everett and Gloria Hunniford competing. From the fourth series onwards, the game was played with two teams of two celebrities with no team captains competing. The quiz was split into various rounds and scoring was usually two points per answer or one point if offered across to the opposing team for a bonus. The rounds altered slightly from series to series. The following featured significantly:

• Three Questions – based on a comedy clip.
• Romantic Triangles – where the teams must try and guess which celebrity two other celebrities had been romantically involved with.
• Guess which of these three people said this particular quote
• Movie – Each team member would see a clip of a classic or newly released film and asked relevant questions on the film and/or its stars.
• Videoke – Each team would sing along to a music video or performance, the video would fade out and hopefully, when it was faded back in again, they would be in the right place.
• "Quickfire" – 12 themed questions to be answered alternately by teammates within one minute.

Transmissions

Series

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
1	20 May 1989[2]	26 August 1989[3]	14
2	2 June 1990[4]	25 August 1990[5]	12
3	20 April 1991[6]	13 July 1991[7]	13
4	11 April 1992[8]	18 July 1992[9]	14
5	9 January 1993[10]	3 April 1993[11]	13
6	17 January 1994[12]	15 August 1994[13]	27
7	6 March 1995[14]	15 September 1995[15]	26
8	1 April 1996[16]	8 July 1996[17]	13

Specials

Date	Entitle
30 December 1989[18]	Holiday Special
31 December 1990[19]	New Year's Eve Special
31 December 1991[20]	New Year's Eve Special
31 December 1992[21]	New Year's Eve Special
20 December 1993[22]	Christmas Special
22 December 1994[23]	Christmas Special
18 February 1995[24]	Eastenders Special
29 December 1995[25]	Movies Special