Polls, punchlines and a long Cats night in
Jimmy Carr, Sean Lock and Joan Rivers feature in a three-and-a-half-hour collection of the show's survey-based final rounds.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
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- 0:00Jimmy Carr introduces "And The Winner Is...", the survey-guessing final round collected throughout this compilation.
- 0:10A disappointing-holiday question sends Sean Lock into an imagined romantic weekend in Düsseldorf.
- 2:17The teams try to identify the hardest thing to open; the answer arrives at 02:40.
- 5:26Bagpipes and nose flutes feature in guesses about the least popular musical instrument.
- 15:50A tourist-attraction question prompts Lock's account of a disastrous visit to a humid butterfly house.
How much Cats is enough for an evening? The official 8 Out of 10 Cats channel offered a three-and-a-half-hour compilation, then rounded off its four-upload week with an even longer collection.
The most watched new arrival, "Three and a Half Hours of Cosy British Telly | 8 Out of 10 Cats", gathers the "And The Winner Is..." final rounds. Jimmy Carr asks for survey answers; Sean Lock, Dave Spikey, Jason Manford and guests including Joan Rivers supply plenty of diversions. An early question about disappointing holiday destinations gives Lock an opening to imagine a romantic weekend in Düsseldorf. Later, bagpipes and nose flutes enter the discussion of the least popular musical instrument.
That collection reached roughly 36,000 views. The other new uploads offered an American-roasting compilation, a David O'Doherty showcase and "4 Hours of Non-Stop Laughs | 8 Out Of 10 Cats", newly posted on Saturday. These are selections from the television archive, not newly filmed panel-show episodes.
Shorter archive extracts carry the strongest momentum. James Acaster's band story, about a bandmate disrupting gigs, has passed nine million views and is adding viewers much faster than the other highlighted clips. Alex Jones explaining her dislike of Bonfire Night and Lock teasing Claudia Winkleman about operating the heating are also drawing attention.
Across the channel, daily views are comfortably above their usual level, while the subscriber count grew over the week. Cats also drew the largest weekly view total among its nearby-sized talk-show peers. Elsewhere in that group, TODAY with Jenna & Sheinelle and Smartypants are having notably busier viewing days than usual. For Cats, the distinctive combination is a long evening's worth of survey rounds alongside Acaster's compact band anecdote.
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- 8 Out of 10 Cats
- Subscribers
- 124,000 ▲ 4,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 10,886,366
- Videos published this week
- 4
- Video published
- November 7, 2026
- Video views so far
- 35,717
- Views on its first day
- 13,174
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