O'Brien is a British television talk show presented by James O'Brien. It was broadcast on ITV from 30 March 2015 to 10 April 2015.

O'Brien
GenreTalk show
Presented byJames O'Brien
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes10
Production
Running time60 minutes (inc. adverts)
Original release
NetworkITV
Release30 March (2015-03-30) –
10 April 2015 (2015-04-10)

Episodes

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# Panelists Airdate
1 Jim Davidson,[1] Stacey Dooley, Heydon Prowse, Jolyon Rubinstein & Ava Vidal 30 March 2015 (2015-03-30)
2 Edwina Currie, Andrew Pierce, Kevin Maguire, Emma Kenny & Deirdre Kelly 31 March 2015 (2015-03-31)
3 Janet Street-Porter, Christine Hamilton, Dawn Harper, Norman Lamb, Vick Hope, Nikki Grahame & Lateysha Grace 1 April 2015 (2015-04-01)
4 Jim Davidson, Dee Kelly, Keri Nixon, Stinson Hunter & Charlie Webster 2 April 2015 (2015-04-02)
5 Sally Hudson, Graham Stanier, Rosie Welby, Alex Reid, Annabel Knight, Ashley Cain & Anna Williamson 3 April 2015 (2015-04-03)
6 Jim Davidson, Sue McPherson & Anna Williamson 6 April 2015 (2015-04-06)
7 Jim Davidson, Christine Hamilton, Mike Sylvain, Shazia Awan, Nadine Dorries, Matt Forde, Arun Ghosh & Owen Jones 7 April 2015 (2015-04-07)
8 Jim Davidson & Ava Vidal 8 April 2015 (2015-04-08)
9 Anna Williamson & Dee Kelly 9 April 2015 (2015-04-09)
10 Eamonn Holmes, Michelle Mone, Ranvir Singh & Shazia Mirza 10 April 2015 (2015-04-10)

Reception

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The majority has been negative with Gerard O'Donovan of The Daily Telegraph describing the show as "low rent" and "disappointing".[2]

References

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  1. ^ Danny Walker (29 March 2015). "Watch Jim Davidson GRILLED by James O'Brien: CBB winner defends 'casual racism' and rules out Top Gear job". mirror. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  2. ^ O'Donovan, Gerard (30 March 2015). "O'Brien review, ITV: 'disappointing'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 April 2015.