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This is a list of British game shows. A game show is a type of radio, television, or internet programming genre in which contestants, television personalities or celebrities , sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes.
Carnal Knowledge (game show) Catchphrase (British game show) Catchword (game show) Celebrity Fifteen to One; Celebrity Squares; Chain Letters; Challenge Anneka; Cluedo (British game show) Concentration (British game show) Connections (game show) Countdown (game show) Counterpoint (radio programme) Crosswits; Cryer's Crackers; The Crystal Maze
Pages in category "Quiz shows" The following 74 pages are in this category, out of 74 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Student quiz show; 0–9.
The $64,000 Question is an American game show broadcast in primetime on CBS-TV from 1955 to 1958, which became embroiled in the 1950s quiz show scandals. Contestants answered general knowledge questions, earning money which doubled as the questions became more difficult.
Twenty-One is an American game show originally hosted by Jack Barry that initially aired on NBC from 1956 to 1958. Produced by Jack Barry-Dan Enright Productions, the show featured two contestants playing against each other in separate isolation booths, answering general-knowledge questions to earn 21 total points.
On the 1994-1995 series, each game consisted of the cryptic round, in which each answer scored two points, and two Big Boards with the second Big Board being played for one minute and the point values being doubled during the last 30 seconds. One game pitted two boys and the other game pitted two girls.
Most forms of modern quiz bowl are modeled after game shows. [4] College Bowl, which was created by Don Reid as a USO activity for U.S. servicemen during World War II, was an influential early quiz bowl program. [5] [6] Also known as "The College Quiz Bowl," it started on radio in 1953 and then aired on national television in the U.S. from 1959 ...
These Shows only lasted few minutes and interrupted TV-sitcoms like "Scrubs" in the morning to get viewers to call the phone numbers. Shortly after adoption of the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (broadcast treaty) in September 2008, which allows the regulators to impose fines to the channels in case of irregularity, several channels announced the end of ...