In each episode, Hacker interviews a celebrity, and plays games and the show also includes recurring segments, such as sketches.
Series 1 of Hacker Time was filmed in 2010 at BBC Television Centre in studio TC9, which was decommissioned shortly after production finished.
At the start is a cold open featuring what goes wrong in the studio where the show takes place.
The episodes consist of a fact file, a comedic chat about the star of the show, a fictional commercial break (in some episodes), a song, a specific themed segment (usually in the style of a soap opera), more chatting, a parody of the show the special guest stars in, and another sketch.
Whenever Lady Sarah comes to the Abbey, Lord Percy tries to do something nice for her involving the maids and it all goes disastrously wrong.
In Series 2 of Hacker Time, The Adventures of Sherlock Bones (a parody of Sherlock Holmes) replaces Downstairs Abbey, in which Hacker goes around the land of Teapot solving mysteries, often making silly conclusions at the end of each episode.
In Series 3, The Adventures Of Sherlock Bones is replaced with the "hard hitting medical docu-drama", "Casually", a spoof of Casualty, in which all the doctors and nurses give the wrong treatment.