Season 20 • Episode 67
LatestThe Wright Stuff is a British television chat show, hosted by Matthew Wright, and airing on Channel 5 each weekday morning from 9:15 to 11:10am. The series characterises itself as "Britain's brightest daytime show", which "gives ordinary people the chance to talk and comment on everything from the invasion of Iraq to social, emotional and even sexual issues back at home", as well as featuring "showbiz stars and media commentators". The Wright Stuff has been nominated as "Best Daytime Programme" at both the Royal Television Society and the National Television Awards. The show first aired on 11 September 2000 and was created at Anglia Television who produced it for two years until their takeover by Granada. It is now produced by Princess Productions who also produced the short-lived The Vanessa Show.
Production
Somehow made Channel 5 feel like the nation's living room.
Writing
Topic choices that walked the line of acceptable taste daily.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Launched the same day as 9/11, accidentally becoming a real-time chronicle of Britain processing global trauma through daytime bickering.
The show's phone-in format directly inspired later 'panel of normals' formats, though none matched its glorious grubbiness.
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