WAIT WAIT…DON’T TELL ME!: Behind-the-Scenes #3

Get an exclusive inside look inside the sold-out studio taping for BBC America’s all new Original Special WAIT WAIT…DON’T TELL ME!: A ROYAL PAIN IN THE NEWS before the Premiere *** Friday Dec 23 at 8/7c *** only on BBC America.

Go inside Chicago’s Chase Auditorium and get the inside scoop as host Peter Sagal, official judge & scorekeeper Carl Kasell, panelists Paula Poundstone, Alonzo Bodden and Nick Hancock and special guest Neil Gaiman prepare to bring the NPR’s Peabody Award-winning radio quiz show comes to television for the first time ever!

As award-winning writer NEIL GAIMAN (Coraline, The Sandman, Doctor Who: The Doctor’s Wife) says, “The three questions they give you are carefully extracted from the sum-total of world knowledge to be three things you don’t know.”

BBC AMERICA and NPR are bringing the acclaimed radio quiz show to television with a 2011 year-in-review special. Join host Peter Sagal and official judge and scorekeeper Carl Kasell for an evening of informative fun as they lead a panel of both US and UK talent through 2011’s biggest events. The Special looks back at the year’s top stories from an American and British perspective and includes listener contests.

PLUS: award-winning writer Neil Gaiman (Coraline, The Sandman, Doctor Who: The Doctor’s Wife) as the featured guest for the classic multiple-choice quiz segment “Not My Job.”

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