Exclusive: ITV panel show Sorry, I Didn’t Know has sealed itself in the record books by becoming the network’s longest-running show from a production company led by Black creatives.
Hosted by Bel-Air star Jimmy Akingbola and shot in front of a live audience in London, the series, which launched just after the Black Lives Matter protests, sees team captains Chizzy Akudolu and Eddie Kadi plus guests take each other on in several quiz rounds mainly centered on Black history.
Produced by TriForce Productions, Sorry, I Didn’t Know has consistently made history itself, first becoming the inaugural UK TV quiz show to be centered on Black history, before being shifted away from the Black History Month schedules and now becoming “the longest running show produced by a company led by Black creatives,” according to the producers. Producers believe it is the longest-running show from a Black-led indie across all UK networks.
Hosted by Bel-Air star Jimmy Akingbola and shot in front of a live audience in London, the series, which launched just after the Black Lives Matter protests, sees team captains Chizzy Akudolu and Eddie Kadi plus guests take each other on in several quiz rounds mainly centered on Black history.
Produced by TriForce Productions, Sorry, I Didn’t Know has consistently made history itself, first becoming the inaugural UK TV quiz show to be centered on Black history, before being shifted away from the Black History Month schedules and now becoming “the longest running show produced by a company led by Black creatives,” according to the producers. Producers believe it is the longest-running show from a Black-led indie across all UK networks.
- 5/15/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Jimmy Akingbola-hosted Sorry, I Didn’t Know, the UK’s first quiz show centered on Black history, has been recommissioned and shifted away from ITV’s Black History Month schedule.
TriForce Productions’ panel show has run for three seasons during the October commemorative month in the UK but ITV is showing its commitment to the four-parter by moving it later in the Autumn.
The fourth outing of the Rts-nominated entertainment format will likely air in November and this time will be series produced by BET Awards producer Jonte Richardson.
In Sorry, I Didn’t Know, which is hosted by Peacock’s Bel-Air star Akingbola and filmed in front of a live audience, team captains Chizzy Akudolu and Eddie Kadi lead guests who answer questions about Black history. The show started life as an ITV 2 pilot in 2016 before being commissioned four years later as the UK TV...
TriForce Productions’ panel show has run for three seasons during the October commemorative month in the UK but ITV is showing its commitment to the four-parter by moving it later in the Autumn.
The fourth outing of the Rts-nominated entertainment format will likely air in November and this time will be series produced by BET Awards producer Jonte Richardson.
In Sorry, I Didn’t Know, which is hosted by Peacock’s Bel-Air star Akingbola and filmed in front of a live audience, team captains Chizzy Akudolu and Eddie Kadi lead guests who answer questions about Black history. The show started life as an ITV 2 pilot in 2016 before being commissioned four years later as the UK TV...
- 6/21/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Bel-Air star Jimmy Akingbola’s heartwrenching Handle with Care doc has been picked up by Peacock in the U.S.
Handle with Care, which debuted on ITV in the UK and is produced by TriForce Productions, sees Akingbola tell the story of his upbringing after he was adopted by parents of a different ethnicity to his own. He also meets others who have experienced the British care system, including the likes of Save Me star Lennie James and athlete Kriss Akabusi, in order to build up a picture.
The doc tells a “positive story” of growing up in care, Akingbola recently told Deadline.
He will be familiar to Peacock subscribers, having played Geoffrey the butler in the first two seasons of the NBCUniversal streamer’s The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot, which was recently renewed for a third series.
Akingbola said Peacock is the “natural home” due to the “parallels...
Handle with Care, which debuted on ITV in the UK and is produced by TriForce Productions, sees Akingbola tell the story of his upbringing after he was adopted by parents of a different ethnicity to his own. He also meets others who have experienced the British care system, including the likes of Save Me star Lennie James and athlete Kriss Akabusi, in order to build up a picture.
The doc tells a “positive story” of growing up in care, Akingbola recently told Deadline.
He will be familiar to Peacock subscribers, having played Geoffrey the butler in the first two seasons of the NBCUniversal streamer’s The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot, which was recently renewed for a third series.
Akingbola said Peacock is the “natural home” due to the “parallels...
- 3/24/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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