Unmissable show?
University Challenge. I watch it in order to prove something to myself, but I invariably go away disappointed. I'm the same with things like golf and bowling. I always end up ashamed of myself. I'm annoyed at myself for getting the pop culture questions and not much else. I'll get the name of an Arctic Monkeys track and then miss a question on TS Eliot.
Earliest TV memory?
Watching Grandstand with my dad every weekend. That was a bit of a mainstay. The whole day would unfold with all these sports given this great narrative significance you never knew they had, like racing from Epsom. My dad would tell me to shut up while the race was on. He didn't even have any money on it or anything.
Bring back?
Curb Your Enthusiasm. I don't think it's officially over, but I do hope they make another one. And The Armando Iannucci Shows, which were really funny and unusual. There hasn't been anything quite like it since it aired over a decade ago.
Pitch us a TV show...
I'd like to make a structured reality show about structured reality shows. To see that format cannibalise itself. You could do it as a prank show, where you say, "We're appointing loads of new people to make a structured reality show," and you go behind the scenes with the characters and the production team of a show that doesn't exist. Or maybe it could be an out-and-out parody. A structured reality show about something really tedious: boring bourgeois people like me, monologuing about not knowing which new TV show to watch and wondering where to go for dinner on Friday.
Mastermind specialist subject?
I find that… as I'm evincing, I spend a lot of time pausing, because I'm so afraid of making a single grammatical mistake. So maybe grammar. Or 90s footballers.
Catch the final Liam Williams Experience show at The Invisible Dot, N1, on 25 Apr
