Shooting Stars is a UK television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two. Created by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, it is both a parody of the game show format, and an experiment in dadaist television. The first series was broadcast in 1995, and the most recent in 2002 (the second series to be shown that year). From Monday 7 January 2008, Shooting Stars is showing on the UK digital channel Challenge. The shows run for half an hour on Challenge, and because the channel broadcasts adverts, the repeated episodes are cut down to approx. 20 minutes with adverts. On Saturday 23 February 2008 Russell Brand on his BBC Radio 2 show claimed he was asked to appear in a new Christmas Special and that Matt Lucas would return as George Dawes, this has yet to be confirmed.
