Top 8 bingo-focused TV shows, episodes and scenes according to Sun Bingo | The Sun
HAVE you seen these classic depiction of bingo on TV? See how many you already know and make sure to check out the rest.
Bingo is a game of highs and lows, with plenty of potential for drama.
No wonder it’s been the centre of so many TV moments.
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From whole shows dedicated to the game we love, to segments within TV shows, bingo is a TV star in its own right.
Here are Sun Bingo’s top 8 bingo TV credits.
There are bingo-based TV shows, episodes with a bingo theme as well as TV scenes that take place in bingo halls.
This is bingo’s best moments in the spotlight.
Lucky Numbers
Lucky Numbers was a weekly bingo-themed game show on ITV, hosted by Shane Richie.
Each week, the live audience were given an individual number.
The giant lottery machine, RANDI, released three balls. The audience members whose numbers were selected got to participate in the show.
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The show also utilised viewer participation. Thanks to the show’s sponsor, The Sun newspaper, viewers who bought the paper could play along with a game card that came free with their copy of The Sun.
Viewers could win a share of £20,000 cash.
Eyes Down – That Peter Kay Thing
This mockumentary episode focuses on the fictional Apollo Bingo Hall, and a day in the life of its employees and regulars.
The main focus is on Patrick O’Neil (Peter Kay), a cynical teenage employee.
Other memorable characters include showman, ladies’ man bingo caller Tom Dale (Peter Kay), and jobsworth fire safety trainer, Keith Lard.
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Kamikaze Bingo – Curb Your Enthusiasm
TV writer and producer Larry David stars in this American sitcom as a semi-fictionalised version of himself.
The show follows the various shenanigans that Larry gets himself into with friends, family and colleagues.
That includes when Larry accuses two ladies at his father’s retirement home of fixing a bingo game.
Nanageddon – The Mighty Boosh
While trying to impress girls, Vince Noir (Noel Fielding) accidentally summons the evilest demon known to man, Nanatoo (Margaret John).
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In the disguise of an old woman, Nanatoo decides to hide in plain sight at a bingo hall.
The dramatic showdown between good and evil takes place as a bingo game plays out in the background.
Eyes Down
The fictional Rio Bingo Hall in Liverpool is managed by the perpetually grumpy Ray Temple (Paul O’Grady).
He must try to manage an eclectic staff, which includes number checker Martin (Tony Maudsley), who is in love with the bingo hall’s diner manager, Christine (Rosie Cavaliero) but he must work up the courage to tell her.
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Meanwhile, will the wacky rituals of the regulars bring them luck?
How the Rogue Roar’d – Shakespeare and Hathaway
Private investigators Lu Shakespeare (Jo Joyner) and Frank Hathaway (Mark Benton) are hired to assist with the closing of Lucky’s Hall, an old bingo hall.
Frank is shocked to find his old nemesis, and former criminal, Eddie Monmouth (Vic Reeves) working there.
When the owner of the hall mysteriously dies, Frank wonders if a leopard really can change its spots.
Bingo – Better Call Saul
Before becoming Saul Goodman, the consigliere for meth cooks Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) in Breaking Bad, he was Jimmy McGill, the earnest lawyer trying to make an honest living.
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In his desperate bid to drum up new clients, Jimmy attempts to engage with the elderly population by acting as ball caller at a bingo game.
B-I-N-G-NO – Impractical Jokers
Each week, comedy troupe the Tenderloins compete in a series of practical joke based challenges designed to test and embarrass each other.
Each week, the loser must face a final humiliation.
In this episode, the losing joker faces the wrath of a bingo hall as he repeatedly claims to have “bingo” when he does not.
As the crowd of bingo regulars get angrier, will he live to tell the tale?
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