Saturday night family favourite, Alan Carr’s Picture Slam is returning to shoot at the BBC’s Pacific Quay Studios in Glasgow, with the second series returning to BBC One and iPlayer later this year.
The first series of Picture Slam averaged 3.3 million viewers across its eight-episode run, and saw its strongest audience in the penultimate episode, which averaged 4.6 million, making this the biggest Entertainment launch on the BBC last year and the second biggest new Entertainment launch across the market in 2023.
Picture Slam sees three teams of two battle against the clock to identify as many pictures as they can for the chance of winning the £10,000 jackpot.
Carr said: “I am over the moon that Picture Slam is coming back, I love the show so much and I’m bowled over by how popular it’s become. It’s manic, a little bit random and full of fun – it’s like if I was a quiz show.”
Kalpna Patel-Knight, head of entertainment at the BBC added: “With even more episodes to look forward to in the second series and our funny host Alan Carr at the helm, Picture Slam is the perfect teatime treat that the whole family can play along with.”
Alan Carr’s Picture Slam (10×45’) is made by Triple Brew Media, part of All3Media’s Objective Media Group and was commissioned by Kalpna Patel-Knight, head of entertainment at the BBC. The executive producers are Julie Kelling, Ed De Burgh and Ben Shephard for Triple Brew Media and Toby Stevens for OMG Scotland. Adeel Amini is the series producer. The Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Neil McCallum. The series will be distributed by All3Media international.
Applications for S2 are now open until March 31st 2024.
