Activity-oriented

• Dale's Supermarket Sweep
  Dale's Supermarket Sweep
  Dale's Supermarket Sweep was a UK game show based on the American Supermarket Sweep TV show format.-1993 - 2001:The original show was recorded in the Television House in Nottingham, which was renamed the Carlton Studios in 1996...
  
  
• Friends Like These
  Friends Like These
  Friends Like These was a British television programme broadcast on BBC One, and was presented by Ant & Dec and later by Ian Wright. The show was aired on BBC One from 6 November 1999 until 1 March 2003.-Format:...
  
  
• Fort Boyard
  Fort Boyard (TV series)
  For the fortress see Fort Boyard Fort Boyard is a French game show created by Jacques Antoine that was first broadcast in 1990 and is popular to this day...
  
  
• Gladiators
• Grudge Match
• History Hunt
• Interceptor
  Interceptor (TV series)
  Interceptor was a British game show created by Jacques Antoine and produced by Chatsworth Television for Thames Television in 1989, and shown on the ITV network during that summer, with the hosting its last show on 1 January 1990 for a New Year bonanza...
  
  
• It's a Knockout
  It's a Knockout
  It's a Knockout was adapted from the French show Intervilles. It ran between from 7 August 1966 to 25 December 1988 on BBC1, 28 May 1990 on ITV, 3 August 1991 to 24 December 1994 on S4C and from 3 September 1999 to 6 January 2001 on Channel 5, produced by Richard Hearsey and Ronin Entertainment...
  
  
• Knightmare
  Knightmare
  Knightmare is an English television program for children, produced by Broadsword Productions for Anglia Television and was broadcast on ITV from 7 September 1987 to 11 November 1994...
  
  
• Pets Win Prizes
  Pets Win Prizes
  Pets Win Prizes was a game show, produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation and shown on Saturday nights on BBC 1 in the United Kingdom from 16 July 1994 to 3 August 1996...
  
  
• Scrapheap Challenge
  Scrapheap Challenge
  Scrapheap Challenge is an engineering game show produced by RDF Media and broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK. In the show, teams of contestants have 10 hours in which to build a working machine that can do a specific task, using materials available in a scrapheap. The format was exported to the...
  
  
• The Crystal Maze
  The Crystal Maze
  The Crystal Maze was a British game show, produced by Chatsworth Television and shown on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom between 15 February 1990 and 10 August 1995. There was one series per year, with the first four series presented by Richard O'Brien and the final two by Ed Tudor-Pole, who made...
  
  
• The Cube
  The Cube (game show)
  The Cube is a BAFTA Award–winning British television game show which first aired on ITV on 22 August 2009. Presented by Phillip Schofield, it offers contestants the chance to win a top prize of £250,000 by completing challenges from within a 4x4x4 metre Perspex cube...
  
  
• The Desert Forges
  The Desert Forges
  The Desert Forges was a game show set in the Wadi Rum desert region in Jordan. It was first aired on Channel 5 in 2001. It is produced by Adventure Line Productions, who also made Fort Boyard.-Objective:...
  
  
• The Krypton Factor
  The Krypton Factor
  The Krypton Factor was a British game show produced by Granada Television for broadcast on ITV. The show originally ran from 7 September 1977 to 20 November 1995, and was hosted by Gordon Burns and usually broadcast on the ITV network on Mondays at 19:00....
  
  
• Treasure Hunt
  Treasure Hunt (UK game show)
  Treasure Hunt was a popular UK game show, based on the format of the French show La Chasse au Trésor, created by Jacques Antoine. It appeared on Channel 4 between 28 December 1982 and 18 May 1989 and was revived by BBC Two between 16 December 2002 and 2 August 2003.-The game:A team of two...
  
  
• Ultra Quiz
  Ultra Quiz
  Ultra Quiz was an elimination game show series that was produced by TVS and aired for three series and a total of 24 episodes on the ITV network from 9 July 1983 until 17 August 1985. The British version was devised by Jeremy Beadle...
  
  

Dating

Dating game show

Dating game shows are television game shows, some say reality game shows, that incorporate a dating system in the form of a game with clear rules. Human matchmaking is involved only in selecting the game's contestants - usually for amusement value as opposed to any concern for their happiness or...

 

• Blind Date
  Blind Date (UK TV series)
  Blind Date is a British dating game show produced by London Weekend Television. An unscreened pilot was made with comic Duncan Norvelle as presenter but it was eventually hosted by Cilla Black, who already hosted the LWT series, Surprise, Surprise...
  
  
• ElimiDate
  ElimiDATE
  elimiDATE was a television dating reality show in which one contestant chooses between four contestants of the opposite sex by eliminating them one by one in three total rounds...
  
  
• Love on a Saturday Night
  Love on a Saturday Night
  Love on A Saturday Night was a London Weekend Television produced game show that aired on ITV between 7 February and 22 May 2004. It was a replacement show for Blind Date, and lasted only one and a half series before being axed.-The main game:...
  
  
• MTV Senseless
  MTV Senseless
  Senseless is a British television dating game show hosted by Tom Price which first aired on MTV UK on June 12, 2006. It is aired each weekday at 11pm....
  
  
• Streetmate
  Streetmate
  Streetmate was a dating game show in the UK that first aired on Channel 4 from 30 October 1998 to 9 March 2001 and ran for 3 series. It was hosted by Davina McCall. It returned on 27 September 2007 but it moved to ITV2 as part of the channel's XXL Thursday line-up...
  
  
• Take Me Out
  Take Me Out
  Take Me Out is a 2002 play by American playwright Richard Greenberg originally staged by Donmar Warehouse, London, with The Public Theater. It premiered off-Broadway on September 5, 2002, at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, and made Its Broadway debut on February 27, 2003, at the Walter Kerr...
  
  

Panel games

• 8 out of 10 Cats
  8 Out of 10 Cats
  8 out of 10 Cats is a television comedy panel game made by Zeppotron for Channel 4. It was first broadcast on 3 June 2005. The show is based on statistics and opinion polls, and draws on polls produced by a variety of organizations and new polls commissioned for the programme, carried out by...
  
  
• A League of Their Own
  A League of Their Own (game show)
  A League of Their Own is a comedy panel game that was first broadcast on Sky1 on 11 March 2010. It is hosted by Gavin and Stacey star James Corden and features Andrew Flintoff and Jamie Redknapp as team captains and Georgie Thompson and John Bishop as regular panellists, alongside two weekly...
  
  
• Argumental
  Argumental
  Argumental is a British improvised comedy panel game in which two teams captained by Robert Webb and Seann Walsh debate and argue on various topics. Sean Lock hosts the game. It is made by independent production company Tiger Aspect Productions for Dave and made its debut on 27 October 2008...
  
  
• Bognor or Bust
  Bognor or Bust
  Bognor or Bust was a 2004 UK television panel game, on the subject of news and current affairs. Produced by 4DTV for ITV, the show conventionally gave contestants the opportunity to win prizes, yet was comedic in style. It combined members of the public and celebrities on the same panel.The show...
  
  
• Call My Bluff
• Celebrity Juice
  Celebrity Juice
  Celebrity Juice is a British television comedy panel game show on ITV2 that has been airing since 24 September, 2008. The show is presented by Keith Lemon, with regular captains Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton, alongside regular panellist Rufus Hound...
  
  
• Cluedo
• Gagtag
• Have I Got News for You
  Have I Got News for You
  Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been broadcast since 1990, currently the BBC's longest-ever running television panel show...
  
  
• If I Ruled the World
  If I Ruled the World (game show)
  If I Ruled the World is a television show aired in the United Kingdom in 1998 and 1999. It was a comedy panel game show, similar to Have I Got News For You but focused on parodying the behaviour of politicians...
  
  
• I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
  I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
  I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, sometimes abbreviated to ISIHAC or Clue, is a BBC radio comedy panel game broadcast since 11 April 1972 at the rate of one or two series each year , transmitted on BBC Radio 4, with occasional repeats on BBC Radio 4 Extra and the BBC's World Service...
  
  - Radio
• It's Only TV...But I Like It
  It's Only TV...But I Like It
  It's Only TV... But I Like It was a comedy celebrity panel gameshow about television. It originally aired on BBC 2 from 3rd June 1999- 23rd August 2002...
  
  
• Just a Minute
  Just a Minute
  Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Its first transmission on Radio 4 was on 22 December 1967, three months after the station's launch. The Radio 4 programme won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award in 2003....
  
  (a regular BBC Radio 4
  BBC Radio 4
  BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
  
   panel game, it appeared on TV briefly)
• Mock the Week
  Mock the Week
  Mock the Week is a British topical celebrity panel game hosted by Dara Ó Briain that launched in 2005. The game is influenced by improvised topical stand-up comedy, with several rounds requiring players to deliver answers on unexpected subjects on the spur of the moment.It is made by independent...
  
  
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks
  Never Mind the Buzzcocks
  Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game television show with a pop music theme, currently without a permanent presenter. It stars Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding as team captains. The show is produced by Talkback Thames for the BBC, and is usually aired on BBC Two...
  
  
• The News Quiz
  The News Quiz
  The News Quiz is a topical panel game broadcast on British radio BBC Radio 4.-History:It was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as chairman. Subsequently it was chaired by Simon Hoggart, Barry Took , and then again by Simon Hoggart until March 2006. Hoggart was replaced by Sandi Toksvig in...
  
  (Radio 4's predecessor to Have I Got News For You)
• Pop Quiz
  Pop quiz
  Pop Quiz was a British television quiz programme that originally aired on BBC1 from 4 July 1981 to 28 December 1984 with a Top of the Pops special from 4 January 1994 hosted by Mike Read, It was then revived from 21 May to 9 July 1994 on the same channel but this time hosted by Chris Tarrant, it...
  
  
• QI
  QI
  QI is a British comedy panel game television quiz show created and co-produced by John Lloyd, hosted by Stephen Fry, and featuring permanent panellist Alan Davies. Most of the questions are extremely obscure, making it unlikely that the correct answer will be given...
  
  
• A Question of Sport
  A Question of Sport
  A Question of Sport is a long-running BBC quiz show which started on 2 December 1968 and continues to this day. It is currently recorded at The Studios, MediaCityUK...
  
  
• Quote... Unquote
  Quote... Unquote
  Quote... Unquote is a long-running panel game broadcast on BBC Radio 4 based on quotations. Every episode since the beginning of the series in 1976 has been chaired by its deviser, Nigel Rees. In July 2011, the programme began a new series, being broadcast at 1.30pm on Mondays, repeated on...
  
  
• Shooting Stars
  Shooting Stars
  Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as 3 full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with 2 series before returning to BBC Two for another 3 series from 2008 until its axing in 2011...
  
  
• The Book Quiz
  The Book Quiz
  The Book Quiz is a BBC Four quiz programme. The first series, first broadcast in 2007, was hosted by David Baddiel with a second 2008 series hosted by Kirsty Wark.-Critical reception:...
  
  
• The Brain Drain
  The Brain Drain
  The Brain Drain was a BBC comedy panel show that ran for 2 seasons in the early 1990s.Presented by Jimmy Mulville and featuring a panel of 4 performers , the show was essentially a comedy version of Question Time...
  
  
• The Brains Trust
  The Brains Trust
  The Brains Trust was a popular informational BBC radio and later television programme in the United Kingdom during the 1940s and 50s.- History :...
  
  
• They Think It's All Over
  They Think It's All Over (TV series)
  They Think It's All Over was a British comedy panel game with a sporting theme produced by Talkback Thames and shown on BBC One. The show's name is taken from Kenneth Wolstenholme's famous 1966 World Cup commentary quotation, "they think it's all over...it is now!" and the show used the phrase as...
  
  
• Through the Keyhole
  Through the Keyhole
  Through the Keyhole was a British panel game, hosted by Sir David Frost where panellists are given a video tour of a mystery famous guest's property and attempt to identify them. As of 1996, it is produced by David Frost's own production company, Paradine Productions at The Leeds Studios , and has...
  
  
• Twenty Questions
  Twenty Questions
  Twenty Questions is a spoken parlor game which encourages deductive reasoning and creativity. It originated in the United States and escalated in popularity during the late 1940s when it became the format for a successful weekly radio quiz program....
  
  
• What's My Line?
• Whodunnit?
• What the Dickens?
• Whose Line Is It Anyway?
  Whose Line Is It Anyway?
  Whose Line Is It Anyway? is a short-form improvisational comedy TV show. Originally a British radio programme, it moved to television in 1988 as a series made for the UK's Channel 4, for a 10 series run...
  
  
• Win, Lose or Draw
• Would I Lie To You?
  Would I Lie To You? (TV series)
  Would I Lie to You? is a comedy panel game made by Zeppotron for BBC One. It was first broadcast on 16 June 2007.-Format:The show was presented by Angus Deayton in 2007 and 2008, and by Rob Brydon from 2009 onwards...
  
  

Puzzle-oriented

• Blankety Blank
  Blankety Blank
  Blankety Blank is a British comedy game show based on the 1977–1978 Australian game show Blankety Blanks ....
  
  
• Brainbox Challenge
  Brainbox Challenge
  Brainbox Challenge is a game show hosted by Clive Anderson and produced by BBC Manchester. It is broadcast weekdays on BBC Two at 6:30pm, and started on 25 February 2008. From 17 March, the show moved to a lunchtime slot of 1:00pm....
  
  
• BrainTeaser
  BrainTeaser
  BrainTeaser was a British game show, first broadcast in 2002, produced by Endemol UK subsidiary Cheetah Productions.BrainTeaser was live, with phone-in viewer puzzles being announced and played during the show in addition to the studio game...
  
  
• Catchphrase
• Catchword
  Catchword (game show)
  Catchword was a daytime word game show first shown on BBC1 Scotland from 17 April 1985 until 2 April 1986, hosted by Gyles Brandreth, and then network on its sister channel BBC2 from 5 January 1988 until 23 May 1995, hosted by Paul Coia-Format:...
  
  
• Chain Letters
  Chain Letters
  Chain Letters was a British television game show produced by Tyne Tees Television. The show was filmed at their City Road studios in Newcastle Upon Tyne and broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom between 7 September 1987 and 25 April 1997. Three contestants competed to win money by changing letters...
  
  
• Countdown
  Countdown (game show)
  Countdown is a British game show involving word and number puzzles. It is produced by ITV Studios and broadcast on Channel 4. It is presented by Jeff Stelling, assisted by Rachel Riley, with regular lexicographer Susie Dent. It was the first programme to be aired on Channel 4, and over sixty-five...
  
  
• Wheel of Fortune
  Wheel of Fortune (UK game show)
  Wheel of Fortune is a British television game show created by Merv Griffin. Contestants compete to solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes...
  
  

Quiz

• 100%
• The £64,000 Question
• Ask the Family
  Ask the Family
  Ask the Family is a British television quiz show originally made by the BBC and broadcast on BBC One between 1967 and 1984. In 1999, it was revived by UK Gold, and in 2005 again returned with a series on BBC2....
  
  
• Are You Smarter Than A Ten Year Old?
  Are You Smarter Than A 10 Year Old? (UK)
  Are You Smarter Than a/Your 10 Year Old? was a British quiz show which aired on Sky1. There were two editions, one broadcast weekly in primetime, hosted by Noel Edmonds and a daily version, originally hosted by Dick and Dom, but later hosted by Damian Williams...
  
  
• Beat the Nation
  Beat the Nation
  Beat The Nation was a quiz show on the UK commercial channel Channel 4 that ran for just one series and 120 episodes from 5 January to 2 July 2004...
  
  
• Blockbusters
• Brain of Britain
  Brain of Britain
  Brain of Britain is a BBC radio general knowledge quiz, broadcast on BBC Radio 4.-History:It began as a slot in What Do You Know? in 1953 before becoming a programme in its own right in 1967. It was chaired by Franklin Engelmann until his death in 1972.-Format:The format of the quiz is simple...
  
  
• Cash Cab
  Cash Cab
  Cash Cab is a TV game show devised by Adam Wood that originated in the United Kingdom and has been licensed to television networks in numerous other countries...
  
  
• Divided
  Divided (game show)
  Divided was a British game show, first broadcast on 18 May 2009. The programme was hosted by Andrew Castle with Charlotte Hudson as the Question Master for Series 1, and Rachel Pierman as the Question Master for Series 2....
  
  
• Eggheads
  Eggheads
  Eggheads is a BBC quiz show created by 12 Yard Productions, first broadcast in 2003, and presented by Dermot Murnaghan. For the 2008 series, Jeremy Vine was brought in to present on nights when Murnaghan was hosting the spinoff series Are You an Egghead? This happened again from October 2009 while...
  
  
• Fifteen to One
  Fifteen to One
  Fifteen to One was a popular general knowledge quiz show broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. It ran from 4 January 1988 to 19 December 2003, and had a reputation for being one of the toughest quizzes on TV. Throughout the show's run it was presented and produced by William G. Stewart...
  
  
• Going for Gold
  Going for Gold
  Going for Gold is a British television game show that originally aired on BBC1 between 12 October 1987 and 9 July 1996.It has since been revived for Channel 5 from 13 October 2008 to 20 March 2009...
  
  
• Mastermind
  Mastermind (TV series)
  Mastermind is a British quiz show, well known for its challenging questions, intimidating setting and air of seriousness.Devised by Bill Wright, the basic format of Mastermind has never changed — four and in later contests five contestants face two rounds, one on a specialised subject of the...
  
  
• Masterteam
  Masterteam
  Masterteam is a BBC television and radio quiz show, devised by the team which made Mastermind. The show was devised by Dave Ross at the BBC Quiz Unit....
  
  
• Only Connect
  Only Connect
  Only Connect is a quiz show programme first shown on BBC Four on 15 September 2008, presented by Victoria Coren. In the series, teams compete in a tournament of finding connections between seemingly unrelated clues. Radio Timess listings usually describe it as "a game of patience and lateral...
  
  
• Postcode Challenge
  Postcode Challenge
  Postcode Challenge is a Scottish television game show presented originally by Carol Smillie and currently by Angus Purden, produced by STV Productions for broadcast on STV.-Format:...
  
  
• Quizmania
  Quizmania
  Quizmania was a popular British interactive gameshow. The show was devised by Chuck Thomas, Debbie King, and Simone Thorogood and produced by Fremantle Media for Information TV and ITV . Currently, the online revival is produced by Screen Pop Ltd. in association with Illumina Digital...
  
  
• Round Britain Quiz
  Round Britain Quiz
  Round Britain Quiz is a panel game that has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 since 1947, making it the oldest quiz still broadcast on British radio...
  
  
• School's Out
  School's Out (TV series)
  School's Out was a BBC television series hosted by Danny Wallace. Based on the premise of school subjects, celebrity contestants are asked questions they would have been asked at school.-Rounds:...
  
  
• Screen Test
  Screen Test
  Screen Test was a UK children's quiz show about films, broadcast from 18 November 1970 to 20 December 1984 on BBC1. It was first hosted by Michael Rodd, who was succeeded by Brian Trueman and Mark Curry.-Background:...
  
  
• Take It or Leave It
  Take It Or Leave It (game show)
  Take It or Leave It? was a British game show, developed by Dutch format company Intellygents, that aired on the digital channel Challenge. Challenge tends to air repeats of classic game shows that have been commissioned by other broadcasters, but it is rare that they produce original content...
  
  
• Telly Addicts
  Telly Addicts
  Telly Addicts is the name of a BBC1 game show hosted by Noel Edmonds, broadcast from 3 September 1985 until 29 July 1998 and produced at the BBC's Pebble Mill Studios...
  
  
• The Mint
  The Mint (game show)
  The Mint was a live, late night, interactive quiz show with celebrity guests and live studio contestants filmed in a large extravagant set designed to look like the inside of a mansion. The programme, which was dogged by criticism that its questions were ambiguous and arbitrary, aired on ITV and...
  
  
• The People Versus
  The People Versus
  The People Versus is a television game show which aired on ITV from 2000 to 2002 in the United Kingdom. Kirsty Young hosted the program for the primetime series and Kaye Adams hosted the program for the daytime series. The show was radical in terms of the two changes of versions. The second version...
  
  
• The Vault
  The Vault (game show)
  The Vault is a game show created in Israel , by Erez Tal. It was later a British hit on ITV, running from 2002 until 2004. It was hosted by Davina McCall , Melanie Sykes and Gabby Logan...
  
  
• The Weakest Link
  The Weakest Link
  The Weakest Link is a television game show which first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 14 August 2000 and will end its run in 2012 when its host Anne Robinson ends her contract. The original British version of the show airs around the world on BBC Entertainment...
  
  
• Top of the Form
• University Challenge
  University Challenge
  University Challenge is a British quiz programme that has aired since 1962. The format is based on the American show College Bowl, which ran on NBC radio from 1953 to 1957, and on NBC television from 1959 to 1970....
  
  
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (UK game show)
  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a British television quiz show which offers a maximum cash prize of one million pounds for correctly answering successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty...
  
  
• Winning Lines
  Winning Lines
  Winning Lines was a National Lottery game show produced by Celador that ran on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 12 June 1999 to 16 October 2004. It was originally hosted by Simon Mayo from 1999 to 2000, then Phillip Schofield from 2001 to 2004....
  
  

Reality television

Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 

• Back To Reality
• Big Brother
  Big Brother (UK)
  Big Brother UK is the British version of the Dutch Big Brother television format, which takes its name from the character in George Orwell's 1948 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four...
  
  
• Britain's Got Talent
  Britain's Got Talent
  Britain's Got Talent is a British television talent show competition which started in June 2007 and originated from the Got Talent series. The show is produced by FremantleMedia's TalkbackThames and Simon Cowell's production company SYCOtv. The show is broadcast on ITV in Britain and TV3 in Ireland...
  
  
• Fear Factor
  Fear Factor
  Fear Factor is an American stunt/dare reality game show. The original Dutch version was called Now or Neverland. When Endemol USA and NBC adapted it to the American market in 2001, they changed the name to Fear Factor. The show pits contestants against each other in a variety of stunts for a...
  
  
• Hell's Kitchen
  Hell's Kitchen (UK TV series)
  Hell's Kitchen was a British cookery reality show aired on ITV which featured prospective chefs competing with each other for a final prize. Four series had been aired since 2004, three presented by Angus Deayton and the latest by Claudia Winkleman....
  
  
• I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!
  I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!
  I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here is a reality television game show series in which 8 to 15 celebrities live together in a jungle environment for a few weeks. They have no luxuries, and compete to win a cash prize...
  
  
• I'm Famous and Frightened!
  I'm Famous and Frightened!
  I'm Famous and Frightened was a Living TV reality TV show in which 8 celebrities stayed for three nights in a "haunted" castle. They had to then do terrifying challenges in order to raise money for charity; each one was evicted until only the winner was left.The first series aired on Friday 12...
  
  
• Love Island
  Love Island
  Love Island was a daily British reality television programme. In the show, twelve single celebrities spent five weeks on an island in Fiji. Viewers would vote for the couple they would like to see in the "love shack" where the two would get to know one another better...
  
  
• Shipwrecked
• Strictly Come Dancing
  Strictly Come Dancing
  Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom and Latin dances. The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing, with an allusion to the film Strictly Ballroom...
  
  
• Survivor
  Survivor (UK TV series)
  Survivor in the UK was broadcast by the ITV network. It hit screens in the United Kingdom in 2001, with huge promotion and hype from tabloid newspapers. The Grand Prize was £1,000,000....
  
  
• The Games
• The X Factor
  The X Factor (UK)
  The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. Created by Simon Cowell, it began in September 2004 and is contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. It is the originator of the international X Factor franchise. The seven series of the show to date...
  
  

• 3-2-1
  3-2-1
  3–2–1 was a popular British game show that was made by Yorkshire Television for ITV. It ran for ten years, between 29 July 1978 and 24 December 1988. Throughout its run, the show was hosted by former Butlins Redcoat Ted Rogers. It was based on a Spanish gameshow called Un, dos, tres.....
  
  
• Beat the Clock
  Beat the Clock
  Beat the Clock is a Goodson-Todman game show which has aired on American television in several versions since 1950.The original show, hosted by Bud Collyer, ran on CBS from 1950–1958 and ABC from 1958–1961. The show was revived in syndication as The New Beat the Clock from 1969–1974, with Jack Narz...
  
  
• Beat the Crusher
  Beat the Crusher
  Beat the Crusher was a game show airing on Sky One during 1999 in the United Kingdom. It was hosted by comedian Freddie Starr, with assistant Melinda Messenger. The show was noted for its bizarre end game, which featured two couples gambling their automobiles for the chance to win a new one...
  
  
• Beat the Teacher
  Beat the Teacher
  Beat the Teacher was a British game show devised by Clive Doig, made by BBC Television and shown as part of Children's BBC on weekdays at teatimes.-Show format:Each edition featured two contestants; one a school student and the other a teacher...
  
  
• Big Break
  Big Break
  Big Break is a British game show based around the game of snooker, mixed with traditional game show elements. It was broadcast on BBC1 between 30 April 1991 and 9 October 2002...
  
  
• Bullseye
• Celebrity Squares
• Cheggers Plays Pop
  Cheggers Plays Pop
  Cheggers Plays Pop was a British children's television show broadcast from 10 April 1978 to 7 November 1986. The show's format consisted of a series of physical and mental challenges undertaken by two teams of children representing their respective schools, together with studio performances by...
  
  
• Crosswits
  Crosswits
  Crosswits is a British TV quiz show, originally hosted by Barry Cryer, then comedian Tom O'Connor took over until the show ended in 1998....
  
  
• Deal Or No Deal
  Deal or No Deal
  Deal or No Deal is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which was the Dutch Miljoenenjacht produced by Dutch producer Endemol. It is played with up to 26 cases with certain sums of money...
  
  
• Dog Eat Dog
• Distraction
  Distraction (game show)
  Distraction was a game show that aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom from 31 October 2003 to 11 June 2004. Presented by comedian Jimmy Carr, the show involves contestants answering questions, while being distracted in various bizarre, painful and humiliating ways.Carr is aided by...
  
  
• Defectors
  Defectors (game show)
  Defectors was a Challenge TV game show that aired from 2001 to 2002. It was hosted by Richard Orford.-Transmissions:...
  
  
• Every Second Counts
• Family Fortunes
  Family Fortunes
  Family Fortunes is a British game show, based on the American game show Family Feud. The programme ran on ITV from 6 January 1980 to 6 December 2002 before being revived by the same channel in 2006 under the title of All Star Family Fortunes...
  
   (see also Family Feud
  Family Feud
  Family Feud is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. Two families compete against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey question posed to 100 people...
  
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• First And Last
• Gameshow Marathon
  Gameshow Marathon (UK game show)
  Gameshow Marathon is a British game show, broadcast from 17 September 2005 to 26 May 2007 on ITV .After a quick retrospective look at the history of the particular show, the show itself is recreated. This involved recreating the original set and using original opening programme titles, including...
  
  
• Golden Balls
  Golden Balls
  Golden Balls was a British daytime game show on the ITV network, presented by Jasper Carrott. It was filmed at the BBC Television Centre. From 25 February 2008 to 13 February 2009, the show was sponsored by ITV Bingo ; and from 2 November to 18 December 2009, the show was sponsored by Carpet Right...
  
  
• The Generation Game
  The Generation Game
  The Generation Game was a British gameshow produced by the BBC in which four teams of two competed to win prizes...
  
  
• The Golden Shot
  The Golden Shot
  The Golden Shot is a British television game show produced by ATV for ITV between 1 July 1967 and 13 April 1975, based on the German TV show Der goldene Schuss. It is most commonly associated with host Bob Monkhouse, though, three other presenters also hosted the show during its lifetime...
  
  
• Hole in the Wall
  Hole in the Wall (UK game show)
  Hole in the Wall was a game show that airs on BBC One in the United Kingdom. This game is an adaptation of the Japanese game Brain Wall in which players must contort themselves to fit through cutout holes of varying shapes in a large polystyrene wall moving towards them as they stand in front of a...
  
  
• In the Grid
  In the Grid
  In the Grid was a game show that airs on UK broadcaster Five at 6.30pm week nights. It first aired on Monday 30 October 2006.In the Grid was hosted by Les Dennis and was produced by Initial West, one of the Endemol UK companies.-Round 1 - The Grid:...
  
  
• May The Best House Win
  May The Best House Win
  May The Best House Win is a Lifestyle Gameshow created by ITV Studios's Shiver Productions. The first series ran from the 23 to the 27 of February 2010...
  
  
• Mr. & Mrs.
• Name That Tune
  Name That Tune
  Name That Tune is a television game show that put two contestants against each other to test their knowledge of songs. Premiering in the United States on NBC Radio in 1952, the show was created and produced by Harry Salter and his wife Roberta....
  
  
• Ninja Warrior
• Odd One Out
  Odd One Out
  Odd One Out was a weekly quiz programme that was hosted by Paul Daniels and was broadcast on BBC1 from 16 April 1982 to 19 April 1985.-Gameplay:The object of Odd One Out is to guess which one of four items does not belong & why it doesn't belong...
  
  
• Play Your Cards Right
  Play Your Cards Right
  Play Your Cards Right is a British television game show based on the American show known as Card Sharks. The gameplay was basically the same as in the American version.-Broadcast History:...
  
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  Card Sharks
  Card Sharks is an American television game show created by Chester Feldman for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. Two contestants compete for control of a row of oversized playing cards by answering questions posed by the host and then guessing if the next card is higher or lower in value than...
  
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• The Price is Right
  The Price Is Right
  The Price Is Right is a television game show franchise originally produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, and created by Bob Stewart, and is currently produced and owned by FremantleMedia. The franchise centers on television game shows, but also includes merchandise such as video games, printed...
  
  
• Red or Black?
  Red or Black?
  Red or Black? is a British television game show that is broadcast on ITV. In each round the contestants chose red or black, with those that chose the incorrect colour being eliminated. During the first series, four finalists guessed the colour correctly in the final round and became millionaires...
  
  
• Robot Wars
  Robot Wars (TV series)
  Robot Wars is a British game show modelled on a US-based competition of the same name. It was broadcast on BBC Two from 1998 until 2003, with its final series broadcast on Five in 2003 and 2004. Additional series were filmed for specific sectors of the global market, including two series of Robot...
  
  
• Runaround
  Runaround (UK game show)
  Runaround was produced by Southern Television for ITV between 2 September 1975 and 7 September 1981. It was much more successful than the American original. The original host was comedian Mike Reid, who later starred in EastEnders as Frank Butcher. In 1977 his place was taken by Leslie Crowther and...
  
  
• Strike It Lucky
  Strike It Lucky
  Strike It Lucky was a popular British television game show from 1986 to 1999, originally produced by Thames Television for ITV, and presented by the British comedian Michael Barrymore...
  
  
• SUDO-Q
  SUDO-Q
  SUDO-Q was a BBC quiz show hosted by Eamonn Holmes for four series between 5 December 2005 and 23 March 2007. The format was based on a mix of the number puzzle Sudoku and general knowledge questions.-Round 1:...
  
  
• Takeshi's Castle
  Takeshi's Castle
  was a Japanese game show that aired between 1986 and 1989 on the Tokyo Broadcasting System. It featured the Japanese actor Takeshi Kitano as a count who owns a castle and sets up impossible challenges for players to get to him. The show has become a cult television hit around the world...
  
  (see also MXC
  MXC
  MXC was an American comedy television program that aired on Spike TV from 2003 to 2007. It is a re-edit of footage from the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle which originally aired in Japan from 1986 to 1989...
  
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• Take Your Pick
  Take Your Pick
  Take Your Pick was a UK game show originally broadcast by Radio Luxembourg in the early 1950s. The show transferred to television in 1955 with the launch of ITV, where it continued until 1968...
  
  
• The Colour of Money
  The Colour of Money (TV series)
  The Colour of Money was a British game show, broadcast on ITV between 21 February and 11 April 2009. The programme was produced by 12 Yard Productions, and hosted by Chris Tarrant and Millie Clode...
  
  
• Time Commanders
  Time Commanders
  Time Commanders was a series of programmes made by Lion TV and PlayGen for BBC Two that ran for two seasons from 2003 to 2005. The programmes, originally hosted by Eddie Mair and more recently by Richard Hammond, featured a specially made game engine to reenact historical battles. A team of four...
  
  
• Turnabout
  Turnabout (game show)
  Turnabout was a BBC Television daytime quiz programme that aired on BBC1 from 26 March 1990 until 7 October 1996. The programme was hosted by Rob Curling.-Sphere Game:...
  
  
• Viking: The Ultimate Obstacle Course
  Viking: The Ultimate Obstacle Course
  , sometime abbreviated to Viking: TUOC, is a Japanese obstacle course endurance game show using an obstacle course produced by Fuji TV and Monster9. The English version of Viking is produced by ESPN2 with two American commentators calling the action. In Europe it airs on Eurosport 2 with the...
  
  
• Win Beadle's Money (see Win Ben Stein's Money
  Win Ben Stein's Money
  Win Ben Stein's Money is an American television game show that ran from July 28, 1997 to January 31, 2003 on the Comedy Central cable network with episodes airing until May 8, 2003. It featured three contestants who competed in a general knowledge quiz contest to win the grand prize of $5,000 from...
  
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• Wipeout
• You Bet!
  You Bet!
  You Bet! was a British game show based around the format of the German show Wetten, dass..? developed by Frank Elstner. You Bet! ran on ITV, mostly on Saturday nights but sometimes on Fridays, between 20 February 1988 and 12 April 1997, initially hosted by Bruce Forsyth from 1988 to 1990, then by...