The Catherine Tate Show is a British comedy sketch series, created by, written by and starring Catherine Tate. Produced by Tiger Aspect Productions, it was originally commissioned for BBC Two for the majority of its run, before moving to BBC One. The series additionally features Matthew Horne, Niky Wardley, Derren Litten, Aschlin Ditta, Angela McHale and Ella Kenion. Litten, Ditta and Horne also served as co-writers for the series.
During the course of the programme, 20 episodes of The Catherine Tate Show aired, including two specials over three series, between 16 February 2004 and 25 December 2007. In addition, one Comic Relief sketch aired in 2007, and four spin-off "Nan" specials broadcast between 25 December 2009 and 30 December 2015.
Series overview
editEpisodes
editSeries 1 (2004)
editNo. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [1] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | "Episode 1" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Derren Litten, Mathew Horne & Aschlin Ditta | 16 February 2004 | N/A (<2.40)[a] |
2 | 2 | "Episode 2" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Derren Litten, Mathew Horne & Aschlin Ditta | 23 February 2004 | N/A (<2.40)[a] |
3 | 3 | "Episode 3" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Derren Litten & Arthur Mathews | 1 March 2004 | N/A (<2.08)[a] |
4 | 4 | "Episode 4" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Derren Litten & Aschlin Ditta | 8 March 2004 | N/A (<2.37)[a] |
5 | 5 | "Episode 5" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Derren Litten, Arthur Mathews & Mathew Horne | 15 March 2004 | N/A (<2.33)[a] |
6 | 6 | "Episode 6" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Derren Litten, Mathew Horne, Bruce Mackinnon & Aschlin Ditta | 22 March 2004 | N/A (<2.20)[a] |
Series 2 (2005)
editNo. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [1] | ||||||
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7 | 1 | "Episode 1" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Derren Litten, Mathew Horne & Aschlin Ditta | 21 July 2005 | 3.50 | ||||||
8 | 2 | "Episode 2" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Derren Litten, Mathew Horne & Aschlin Ditta | 28 July 2005 | 2.97 | ||||||
9 | 3 | "Episode 3" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate & Aschlin Ditta | 4 August 2005 | 2.89 | ||||||
10 | 4 | "Episode 4" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate & Aschlin Ditta | 11 August 2005 | 3.55 | ||||||
11 | 5 | "Episode 5" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Aschlin Ditta & Steve Pemberton | 18 August 2005 | 3.48 | ||||||
12 | 6 | "Episode 6" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Jenny Lecoat & Aschlin Ditta | 25 August 2005 | 3.92 | ||||||
Special | ||||||||||||
13 | S | "The Catherine Tate Christmas Show" | Christine Gernon | Catherine Tate | 20 December 2005 | 5.66 |
Series 3 (2006)
editNo. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [1] | ||||||
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14 | 1 | "Episode 1" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Aschlin Ditta & Gordon Anderson | 26 October 2006 | 4.81 | ||||||
15 | 2 | "Episode 2" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Aschlin Ditta & Gordon Anderson | 2 November 2006 | 4.25 | ||||||
16 | 3 | "Episode 3" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Aschlin Ditta & Gordon Anderson | 9 November 2006 | 4.92 | ||||||
17 | 4 | "Episode 4" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Aschlin Ditta & Gordon Anderson | 16 November 2006 | 4.00 | ||||||
18 | 5 | "Episode 5" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Aschlin Ditta & Gordon Anderson | 23 November 2006 | 4.06 | ||||||
19 | 6 | "Episode 6" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Aschlin Ditta, Gordon Anderson & Jonathan Harvey | 30 November 2006 | 4.15 | ||||||
Special | ||||||||||||
20 | S | "Christmas Special" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Derren Litten, Mathew Horne & Aschlin Ditta | 25 December 2007 | 6.75 |
Catherine Tate's Nan (2009–15)
editNo. overall | No. special | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [1] |
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21 | 1 | "Nan's Christmas Carol" | Gordon Anderson | Catherine Tate, Aschlin Ditta & Gordon Anderson | 25 December 2009 | 8.46 |
22 | 2 | "Nan" | Geoff Posner | Catherine Tate, Brett Goldstein & Dan Swimmer | 4 January 2014 | 4.47 |
23 | 3 | "Nanger Management" | Geoff Posner | Catherine Tate, Brett Goldstein & Dan Swimmer | 27 December 2015 | 3.14 |
24 | 4 | "Knees Up Wilmott-Brown" | Geoff Posner | Catherine Tate, Brett Goldstein & Dan Swimmer | 30 December 2015 | 2.97 |