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Dave Gorman's Important Astrology Experiment

BBC television comedy series


Dave Gorman's Important Astrology Experiment is a BBC television comedy series presented by Dave Gorman which was broadcast in 2002. The studio-based show was interspersed with footage of Gorman literally taking the advice of horoscopes for 40 days and nights to see if following astrology enhances love, health and wealth, and, ultimately, happiness.

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To see if his life was better for following astrology, Gorman's twin brother Nick was used as a control experiment. A panel of experts commented on the success, or otherwise, of the progress of the experiment: agony aunt Denise Robertson, TV doctor Hilary Jones, and financial advisor Alvin Hall. The studio audience voted upon whether Dave's life was turning out better as a consequence of the experiment in comparison to Nick's, with results represented as a graph.[1]

The series was cited in a scholarly journal as an example of "television that combines humour with serious topics [which] has been increasingly evident since the 1990s" alongside The Mark Thomas Comedy Product and The Mark Steel Lectures.[2] The show was written by Gorman and Danny Wallace, and followed from their acclaimed The Dave Gorman Collection.

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References

  1. "DAVE GORMAN'S IMPORTANT ASTROLOGY EXPERIMENT". BBC - Press Office. 2 August 2002. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  2. Speed, Lesley (2020). "Comic investigation and genre-mixing: the television docucomedies of Lawrence Leung, Judith Lucy and Luke McGregor". Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. 34 (5): 690–702. doi:10.1080/10304312.2020.1782838. S2CID 225729153.
  3. "29 August 2002". Radio Times (4095): 62.
  4. "5 September 2002". Radio Times (4096): 72.
  5. "12 September 2002". Radio Times (4097): 72.
  6. "19 September 2002". Radio Times (4098): 78.
  7. "26 September 2002". Radio Times (4099): 78.
  8. "3 October 2002". Radio Times (4100): 80.

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