Irish comedian and TV presenter Dara O Briain’s new show ‘Dara O’Briain: School of Hard Sums’ will receive its UK premiere tonight (April 16).
A co-production between Fujisankei Communications International (FCI) and Northern Ireland’s Wild Rover Productions , the eight-part series was commissioned for UKTV station Dave. It will begin tonight at 8pm.
The comedy panel show will see O Briain attempt to use high-level maths theories to solve “everyday problems”.
In each episode Dara teams up with Oxford University maths professor Marcus du Sautoy and a variety of comedy guests to dissect each problem and find ways to solve them. The show’s guests include Ireland’s David O’Doherty and Jason Byrne.
The series is being produced by Sean Miller (Tarrant on TV) and is executive produced by Philip Morrow for Wild Rover and Katherine Parsons for FCI. All production was carried out in London.
It was commissioned by Richard Watsham, commissioning editor, UKTV and ordered by Steve North, general manager for Dave.
The show is based on the Emmy Award nominated Japanese format ‘Comaneci University Mathematics’.
