Arena: Just a Minute

Paul Merton and long-time panelist
Clement Freud, on a different episode

Arena: Just a Minute
BBC4
26 December 2002
Documentary
DVD
B

A television look at the long-running radio show, which I own several episodes of.  We see the history of the series, mixed in with the taping of one episode, as well as interviews with those contestants.  Some of this is almost '60s experimental and it shouldn't hold together as well as it does.  And, yes, Paul has the best lines, like usual.

(I would've reviewed this earlier, but my ex-husband mislabeled it as October '07.)

Room 101: Ross Noble

Room 101: Ross Noble
Channel Four
1 December, 2003
Talk Show
DVD
B-

Despite his dislike of cats, I mostly enjoyed the Geordie comic's interactions with Paul here.  He has a high success rate of banishment, ironically his only failure to get into the Room being his objection to people who look like cats.