The Deborah J Show

**The Deborah J Show** is a talk show hosted by TCoS singer and pop princess Deborah J and produced by STV Studios. It premiered on the STV network in 2019. It is the most popular programme in STV's daytime schedule, broadcasting on weekdays at midday and reaches an audience of one billion.

## Format

The programme takes the form of an hour long talk show, in which Deborah J and her guests discuss celebrity gossip, current events, popular culture, or just whatever else she feels like talking about. Each episode features between 4 and 7 guests, sometimes talking to several unconnected people at once as a group, sometimes talking with a guest one-on-one for a while. Deborah will also take some portions of the show by herself to address the audience directly, generally about something light hearted and comedic, with plenty of jokes and shenanigans thrown in. Other recurring segments and running bits fill in the remainder of the show's runtime. Deborah's band, TCoS, are always present in studio to provide all music live, and Deborah usually closes the show with a song.

## Recurring segments

between the chat sessions with her guests, Deborah has been known to engage in a variety of regular featurettes, these have included:

#### Agony Auntie Deb

In the earlier years of the show, Deborah would take calls from viewers wishing to air whatever misfortune and misery they wanted from their recent lives, which Deborah would chip in her own thoughts and suggestions, if appropriate. This was a very popular segment, but was always something of a risky inclusion due to the show being broadcast live. Eventually it was dropped from use after a Mr Garrold Floop-De-Woop regaled a stunned Deborah with an extremely raunchy tale of a visit to a village of senior citizens while working as a travelling banana salesman. The entire crew were too captivated by the sordid details that no-one thought to cut the call off, resulting in a record number of complaints and ultimately leading the production team to cut the segment.

#### Where in the world is Deborah

Only used in episodes where Deborah is away and unavailable to host the episode in person, she will record a small and humorous travelogue to insert into the episode, thus satisfying the requirements of her contract to be present in her own show. Some of the most popular instalments have included her trip to Bute which featured an acapella cover of the TCoS classic track “Deborah's Bute Holiday”, Spanish fishing town Villajoyosa where Deborah gave a very thorough rundown of a restaurant that served what she perceived to be the best pizza in the world, Stratford Upon Avon, where she expressed her disappointment at her bandmember Avon not being there through the medium of iambic pentameter, The Lair of the Enderdragon and, rather confusingly, the moon

#### Debs on film

roughly once monthly, Deborah – being a frequent cinema attendee and huge film fan – will share her thoughts on all the films she's seen in the past few weeks, which is often a surprising amount. On one memorable occasion, a noticeably dishevelled Deborah, seemingly dressed in her pyjamas, spent almost the entire episode ranting about her thoughts on the entire history of the muppets, having spent the entire weekend marathoning their back-catalogue of movies. Her guest stars that week ended up barely featured, after Clu Gulager valiantly tried but ultimately failed to join the Muppet discussion.

#### Don't @ me

Deborah, being famously against the idea of her fans following her on social media, will occasionally take time in her show to pull quotes about herself and her bandmates from various online platforms and read them to camera with a deadpan humour. This brought a rather controversial moment early on when one of these rather unflattering messages turned out to be from the band's then-drummer Dalekcheese. These segments will almost always end with TCoS bass player and notable hermit Danoftardis calling out from the bandstand "this is why I keep offline"

## Notable Guests

The most frequent guests on the Deborah J show are Colin Baker, Davrid Goodoson, and Brooding Tom. Although the advertising material was worded in such a way as to suggest this trio were weekly guests, what was actually meant was that the show had weekly guests, of whom these were the most prominent. In the four years that the show has been on the air, Colin Baker has appeared 60 times, Brooding Tom 54 times and Davrid Goodoson 47 times. Other guests of note have included Faceless Sparrow, Reba Mackintyre, the Honey Monster, Beabadoobee, Simon Smith and his Dancing Bear, the Moxx of Balhoon, the ghost of Jonathan Adams, all 119,986 participants of the 1988 record holding world's longest conga line, rival musical group Boy Genius, Perpugillium Brown, Ben Jackson, Jamie McCrimmon, Frobisher, Jackson Lake, Jackie Lane, The Pieber Controller, Phillip Hinchcliffe Doctor, Kidney of Morbius, Mary Shelley, Timelord General, Blue Alien Romana, Vislor Turlough, Ace and Glitz’s Baby, Nic Briggs, War Veteran Tim Latimer, The Valyard, K9, jammy the dodger, Craig the lodger, Jo Grant, Mavic Chen, Tobias Vaughn, 3 different Geoffrey Palmers, David Tennant from the pre 2005 big finish stories, Georgia Tennant, Georgia Tennant’s Dad, Georgia Tennant’s Dad’s pet snake, Doctor Boat, Dalek Rabe and Jamie McCrimmon.

On a small number of occasions, when Deborah has been otherwise engaged during filming of her show, a guest host has filled in. This role has been filled at varying times by David Warner, Daleks Jones, Doctor Gamer (prior to being appointed as the Drummer in TCoS) and recurring guest Colin Baker. In addition to being friends of Deborah, all the guest hosts have also appeared as guests on episodes hosted by Deborah.