Make Your Play
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Make Your Play was a live, interactive quiz show, showing in the UK on the ITV
Network, from Monday to Saturday, beginning after midnight. The show was launched on Friday September 29, 2006 on ITV and ITV Play
.
The prizes are greater than usually available on ITV Play (often exceeding £20,000), but as a result of this, callers are usually taken less often.
In order to win money, viewers must either call in at a cost of 75p from a BT landline, or enter through the ITV website. If they are successful they will be placed on hold, then transferred live to the studio if they are lucky, where they go on to deliver their answer.
Make Your Play has given over £3 million pounds. It went over the £3 million mark on July 1, 2007, when a contestant by the name of Mr Joseph Percy said "next day". An on screen graphic was then shown saying "£3 Million Given Away" accompanied with a siren sound effect
.
In February and March 2007, ITV Play and all shows associated with it were suspended after allegations that consumers were being cheated. ITV decided to suspend these services – which included phone-in votes and competitions on shows such as Dancing on Ice
and This Morning
– while an independent review was carried out to see if members of the public were getting a fair deal when they rang in. The problem was shortly resolved, and the ITV Play
channel was closed down "permanently".
An announcement on 12 September 2007 confirmed that the show, along with similar late night phone ins, would be phased out by the end of 2007.
ITV Play's Glitterball ended on September 30, 2007. As a result, Make Your Play was extended, running six nights a week until the closure of ITV Play, with the last Make Your Play being broadcast on the morning of December 23, 2007.
On 1 July 2009, former presenter Ben Baldwin
announced via his Twitter
page that Make Your Play would launch as a stand alone channel on Freeview and Sky on 19 January 2010. So far, Make Your Play has yet to return to the air.
Guest Presenters
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
Network, from Monday to Saturday, beginning after midnight. The show was launched on Friday September 29, 2006 on ITV and ITV Play
ITV Play
ITV Play was a 24/7 participation television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV plc. The ITV Play name continued on the ITV Network until December 2007....
.
The prizes are greater than usually available on ITV Play (often exceeding £20,000), but as a result of this, callers are usually taken less often.
In order to win money, viewers must either call in at a cost of 75p from a BT landline, or enter through the ITV website. If they are successful they will be placed on hold, then transferred live to the studio if they are lucky, where they go on to deliver their answer.
Make Your Play has given over £3 million pounds. It went over the £3 million mark on July 1, 2007, when a contestant by the name of Mr Joseph Percy said "next day". An on screen graphic was then shown saying "£3 Million Given Away" accompanied with a siren sound effect
Sound effect
For the album by The Jam, see Sound Affects.Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media...
.
Controversy
A game where viewers were invited to "add the pence" was criticised for providing a solution which was all but impossible to reach.In February and March 2007, ITV Play and all shows associated with it were suspended after allegations that consumers were being cheated. ITV decided to suspend these services – which included phone-in votes and competitions on shows such as Dancing on Ice
Dancing on Ice
Dancing on Ice is a British television show co-hosted by Christine Bleakley and Philip Schofield, in which celebrities and their professional partners figure skate in front of a panel of judges. The format, devised by LWT and Granada Television, has been a prime-time hit in eight different...
and This Morning
This Morning (TV series)
This Morning is a British daytime television programme broadcast on ITV. As of September 2011, its main presenters are Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, and Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes, with various other presenters standing in for illness or contributing to sections of the programme.The...
– while an independent review was carried out to see if members of the public were getting a fair deal when they rang in. The problem was shortly resolved, and the ITV Play
ITV Play (channel)
ITV Play was a 24/7 participation television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV plc. The ITV Play name continued on the ITV Network until December 2007....
channel was closed down "permanently".
An announcement on 12 September 2007 confirmed that the show, along with similar late night phone ins, would be phased out by the end of 2007.
ITV Play's Glitterball ended on September 30, 2007. As a result, Make Your Play was extended, running six nights a week until the closure of ITV Play, with the last Make Your Play being broadcast on the morning of December 23, 2007.
On 1 July 2009, former presenter Ben Baldwin
Ben Baldwin
Ben Baldwin is a British television presenter, he was one of the main hosts of ITV's Make Your Play. Ben has also presented on ITV Play's This Morning Puzzle Book. He currently works on Endemol Produced Gala TV every Thursday and Friday....
announced via his Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
page that Make Your Play would launch as a stand alone channel on Freeview and Sky on 19 January 2010. So far, Make Your Play has yet to return to the air.
Presenters at time of original demise
- Ben BaldwinBen BaldwinBen Baldwin is a British television presenter, he was one of the main hosts of ITV's Make Your Play. Ben has also presented on ITV Play's This Morning Puzzle Book. He currently works on Endemol Produced Gala TV every Thursday and Friday....
- Zö Christien
- Yolly KoppelYiolanda KoppelYiolanda "Yolly" Koppel is a television presenter with many years experience presenting for Carlton Television, CITV and Nickelodeon, with her friend Mounya Khamlichi...
- Charlie McArdle
- Russ SpencerRuss SpencerRussell Spencer is an English television presenter and singer.-TV work:Spencer is a television presenter, hosting shows such as the ITV1 game show Make Your Play. He was also anchor presenter three nights a week for The Great Big British Quiz on Five...
Other presenters
- Emily BoothEmily BoothEmily Katherine Booth , also known by her stage name Emily "Bouff" Bouffante, is an English actress and television presenter.- Early life :...
- Alex Kramer
- Dave O'Riley
- Katy PullingerKaty PullingerKaty Pullinger is a British television presenter . She has presented live television for over three years including ITV Play's Glitterball, on which she made her last appearance in August...
Guest Presenters
- Anna Fowler
- Mel PeacheyMelissa PeacheyMelissa "Mel" Peachey is a British television personality, most notable for hosting PlayMania on GSN and Quiznation in the United Kingdom.-Early career:Born in London, she started out as an assistant for a London television network...