Booze Britain was a fly-on-the-wall documentary television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 series produced by Granada that aired on British

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

 satellite TV channel Bravo in half-hour episodes which documented the binge drinking

Binge drinking

Binge drinking or heavy episodic drinking is the modern epithet for drinking alcoholic beverages with the primary intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time. It is a kind of purposeful drinking style that is popular in several countries worldwide,...

 culture of various towns and cities in the United Kingdom. Typically, the series followed a group of friends as they indulge in an evening drinking heavily in various establishments usually in their own town or city, police officers fining and arresting people for various alcohol related incidents and also paramedic

Paramedic

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s who are called out to handle the consequences of drunkenness

Drunkenness

Alcohol intoxication is a physiological state that occurs when a person has a high level of ethanol in his or her blood....

. The narration by Mark Womack

Mark Womack (British actor)

Mark Edward Womack is an English actor, best known for starring in Liverpool 1, Sorted and Willy Russell's Dancin thru' The Dark.Womack was born in Liverpool in 1961, eldest son of Frances and Tom Womack...

 provided alcohol

Alcohol

In chemistry, an alcohol is an organic compound in which the hydroxy functional group is bound to a carbon atom. In particular, this carbon center should be saturated, having single bonds to three other atoms....

-related statistics and comments on medical issues raised by the scenes depicted.

In its second series, subtitled Binge Nation, they went to numerous places in the country.

Notably, in one episode, it showed how the effects of alcohol can have someone's behaviour. The most watched episode, in Newquay

Newquay

Newquay is a town, civil parish, seaside resort and fishing port in Cornwall, England. It is situated on the North Atlantic coast of Cornwall approximately west of Bodmin and north of Truro....

 depicted the events of a night out involving "The Tanks

Old School (film)

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" (Sam, Jonny, Ned, Roy, Steve and James). It got out of hand when Sam drank a pint of urine

Urine

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, threw it up, only for Jonny to finish the remains.