Channel 4 scrap show as comedian admits 'everything went wrong' in pilot

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James Acaster has spilled the tea on his Channel 4 show getting axed after a pilot nightmare.The beloved comedian was working on a new project for the network, but when things took a southward turn during the pilot's filming, it was all thumbs down on moving forward with a series.The 40-year-old funnyman, famed for his stints on Mock The Week and bagging a whopping five Chortle Awards, not to mention his Netflix special Repertoire and the hit podcast Off Menu he co-hosts with Ed Gamble, faced a rare hiccup.

Opening up on the Always Be Comedy podcast, James didn't hold back as he said: "It was three hours of filming and I'd say everything went wrong that could have gone wrong.

I absolutely loved it. At one point I said to the audience, 'I think what they should do is just take these three hours, cut them up into six half hours in real time and put it out as a series.' "I've never seen them do that before.This is absolutely what we should do, this has been so f*****g nuts." He was trying to bring to life a format borrowed from his show Question Team which throws comedians into guessing games about the public - like whose phone battery was the most juiced, or who boasts the largest garden, reports the Mirror.

Recalling the chaotic filming day he quipped: "It went from having four members of the public and four panellists to having 20 members of the public on stage behind me as well, who are also playing the game," spilling the specifics of the quirky game setup. "And those four members of the public who are guessing...