MICHAEL McIntyre’s Big Show viewers were left gobsmacked after learning the truth about the series' star-studded format.
Last-minute changes were recently made to the latest instalment of the popular BBC show, and fans are convinced they have sussed out how the show's creators make it happen.
The Big Show sees the 47-year-old host get up to various tricks, including inviting several celebrity guests, musical performances, and comedy sketches from Michael and other comedians.
The show aired as a one-off Christmas special in 2015, but following its success, the BBC commissioned an entire series the following year.
But fans of the family show were shocked to learn that the episodes are not filmed as standalone but instead, they are pre-recorded.
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What's more, pre-recorded segments aren’t filmed with any particular episode in mind.
Instead, they are later edited in when production have decided where they fit best, meaning they can even be swapped out last minute.
Fans realised that this was the case after TV Zone revealed that last Saturday’s episode of Michael McIntyre’s Big Show had been edited at the last minute to fit the running order.
Taking to X(Twitter), TV Zone penned: “Yet more changes to this weekend’s #BigShow episode. This weekend’s Send To All is with Joe Lycett, not Anne-Marie as billed.”
Retweeting the news, a TV account named Super TV responded: “Have just discovered that Michael McIntyre’s #BigShow isn’t ONE same show every weekend, but actually every single show is chopped up and edited together at seemingly random?
“Why would they do that?! Michael has to wear the exact same clothes every single time he films?”
Confirming the claim, a user who was previously an audience member replied: “Yep…when I went, we had to sit through a re-recording of a star of the show from the week before due to it not being filmed correctly!’
Other show viewers expressed their surprise about the discovery of how Big Show was filmed, with one user saying that there must be a ‘logical decision’ behind the process.
They added: “Ngl, I didn’t know this either, and surely it would make more hassle when it comes to editing it? Although tbf there’s bound to be some sort of logical reason because I doubt they’d make things more difficult for themselves than necessary.”
Another suggested: “Everything is over-edited and overproduced nowadays. They just can’t handle the unexpected.”
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On Saturday night, the show made a comeback, but BBC viewers were left far from impressed as Bradley Walsh became the latest celebrity to join the host for one of the Big Show’s most popular segments.
Michael McIntyre’s Big Show continues on Saturday at 6:50pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
