The first episode brought in an average of 1.3 million viewers, Alex Fletcher of
Digital Spy was highly critical of the show: "...occasionally a TV monster does cross my path and bewitches with me its sheer awfulness.
Celebrity Wrestling,
The Farm, "
TOWIE Live", ''
Mark Wright's Hollywood Nights and now joining that list is Paddy's TV Guide
. ...Paddy's TV Guide'' is a weird mix of not particularly amusing video clips and buttock-clenchingly awful editing that squeezes hysterical audience laughter on top of every inoffensive but utterly unamusing comment from the show's host." Fletcher concluded his review by saying: "Bafflingly bad, Paddy will do well to wipe this whole project from his wiki page and pretend it never happened if he knows what's best for him." Redbrick.me's Rosie Pooley slated the programme as well. She said, "I guarantee that 10 minutes spent on youtube will bring up funnier material than Paddy manages to muster. What Channel 4 has yet to realise is that when Paddy is not swinging out the one-liners with a group of 30 girls lapping up every word, every joke he fluffs up falls flat and makes
Paddy’s TV Guide frankly awkward to watch." ==See also==