Gamble is also co-writer and co-host of the Peacock and Gamble Podcast, with Ray Peacock, and was named best compere in the 2014 Chortle Awards, where he was also nominated for best club comic.
With Richard Ayoade and Joanne McNally as team captains
Ed Gamble is to host a new panel show in which teams of comedians compete to win a live studio audience over to their most outrageous opinions.
Richard Ayoade and Joanne McNally will be the team captains in Unacceptable, which will air on free-to-air channel TLC this summer.
Each week they will be joined by guest comedians who must convince the audience to agree with views that are, as the title suggests, deliberately daft, niche or ill-advised.
The show uses a live ‘swingometer’ to track how many audience members each team wins over, with Gamble also introducing challenges that force contestants to act on the opinions they’ve been defending.
The series, which runs to six hour-long episodes, is produced by Ranga Bee Productions, the company founded by comedian Romesh Ranganathan and producer Benjamin Green.
In a statment they said: ‘We are delighted to be making Unacceptable for TLC. It’s a new format that allows comics to debate the sort of opinions they normally only discuss backstage.
‘With Ed helming and Richard and Joanne leading the teams, it’s going to be an incredibly sharp and funny series. We realised that as comedians rarely admit they’re wrong, the only option was to create a show that lets the people decide.’
Gamble said: ‘I’m absolutely buzzing to be hosting this brand-new format for TLC. It’s always been my dream to see some of the biggest comedy legends around expose and justify opinions that really should’ve stayed in the group chat. Dreams can come true!"
The commission is one of several comedy formats TLC has announced since relaunching as a free-to-air channel at the start of this year including Mock The Week, which has just been recommissioned for a second series.
The channel has also ordered Zero Stars, a series fronted by Roisin Conaty and Sara Pascoe, though full details of that show have yet to be announced.
Graham Lafferty, who oversees content strategy for Warner Bros. Discovery UK and Ireland, said: ‘With Ed Gamble as host and Richard Ayoade and Joanne McNally as team captains, we think this is a great addition to TLC’s line-up.’
Unacceptable was ordered by Lafferty and commissioned by Charlotte Reid.
Published: 5 Mar 2026
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