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Richard Bacon's Beer & Pizza Club

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ7323893 ↗
Source-derived summary

Richard Bacon's Beer & Pizza Club is a British comedy panel show produced by Talkback Thames for ITV4. The programme is presented by Richard Bacon. The programme has aired two series.

Overview

Each week, Bacon is joined by three celebrity guests who discuss various issues whilst free to drink beer and eat pizza. Each guest also asks a big question to the others and the person who gives the best answer is declared the winner of that round.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Richard Bacon's Beer & Pizza Club” is television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Richard, Bacon's and Beer, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current 78-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Richard, Bacon's and Beer is the immediate research focus.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7323893. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Richard Bacon's Beer & Pizza Club” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.