Hat Trick Productions

The Bubble' is a comedy news-quiz show, hosted by David Mitchell which plays on the fact that some news stories are so hard to believe you'd think they'd been made up.  In this show some of them have.

Each week three celebrity contestants - a mixture of comedians, smart celebrities and wild-card bookings - are locked away in a media-free zone - 'the bubble' - for four days.  No phones, no television, no internet access.  When they're brought out into the studio, they're shown a series of news reports, headlines and images from TV, newspapers and celebrity gossip magazines.  All they have to do is identify the true stories from the fakes.  Because they've been away and out of touch - just like when you come back from a holiday - they'll believe almost anything. And truth is so often stranger than anything they could possibly imagine...