It features Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona impersonating personalities from entertainment and sport.

They worked together on a number of projects, with their first television series being The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos in 1989.

After performing in his own show in Edinburgh in 1998, McGowan was approached by a BBC executive about working on a series, which he wanted Ancona to be involved in.

Alistair McGowan's Big Impression first aired as a pilot on BBC One in 1999,[1] running to a full series in 2000, with the couple splitting up just before filming began.

Speaking with The Independent, Ancona said working on the series was "exciting but it was tricky and there were some very low points.