The Bubble is a British television quiz show hosted by David Mitchell, and made for the BBC by Hat Trick Productions.

Each week, three comedians are tasked to differentiate real news stories from fake ones, after four days of isolation in 'The Bubble', a remote country house.

[1] Contestant Frank Skinner speculated that the name of the show comes from the sterile isolation regime employed in so-called boy in the bubble medical cases.

[3][4] Already successful in those countries, the British version was the first to use celebrities as contestants, and was being aimed at a high-brow audience similar to that for the quiz show QI.

Ian Burrell of The Independent called out this as a case of double standards, especially since BBC presenters took part in producing the unaired pilot, and the basic fact The Bubble was aired on the network.