What happened to those annoying 'quiz TV' programmes?
AdamCleland
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I'm sure most of us here remember the sort of show I'm on about, ITV used to run something called Quizmania at night, and I believe there was also a dedicated channel on Sky called The Great Big British Quiz, there was probably also lots of different sorts of this programme format going. Where there'd be a relatively simple question, but nearly every answer people gave would be wrong, and the show would rake in the cash from £1.50 calls.
Can anyone shed any light on what happened to them? They seemed to all disappear from TV at once. Was there a new regulation put in place? I used to really like Quizmania, some of the hosts were brilliant.
Can anyone shed any light on what happened to them? They seemed to all disappear from TV at once. Was there a new regulation put in place? I used to really like Quizmania, some of the hosts were brilliant.
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They were all caught blocking calls, not giving out the cash prizes, cutting corners and one occasion, telling one caller their answer was wrong and then 2 hours later, giving the prize to someone else who gave the same answer as the previous caller.
So they were stopped at the beginning of 2007.
I used to watch them on my many nights of insomnia. Annoyingly I'd fall asleep on the couch waiting to hear the "right" answer.
Quiz Night was shown by various ITV Networks. Don't remember Stuart Hall ever presenting it though. The only presenter I remember presenting it was Ross King.
EDIT: Just looked up on YouTube. And you're right, Stuart Hall did present it as well.
ITV also took it a step further and had the ITV Play channel for a few months. It got closed down when all the rip off things started, featuring programming such as the This Morning Puzzlebook.
Probably not, they're damaged goods now after all the scandals were exposed a couple of years ago.
A particularly bad phone in quiz was "Grab A Grand" on some of the small digital channels, the same puzzle would stay on screen for hours and the supposed "callers" had the most ridiculous voices and bad accents.
I always thought they were a little fishy though. The host would stand there begging for a caller, then low and behold, somebody's decided to ring in... :rolleyes:
I'm pretty sure Greggles (was that his name?) used to post on these forums.
On the whole though it was a fad that declined rapidly.
The hint was like "A word featuring hand"
People rang in with handcuffs, handbag etc etc
The answer was something insane like handmarigon *Note that word was just made up*.
His version had a pub set theme.
"Jack" was my favourite caller, with his slow, dreary speech!
Yes. Essentially they were looking to present what were apparently very simple questions but that actually had exceptionally obscure answers. They pushed the definition of "quiz" to and often beyond breaking point.
Quizmania was brilliant loved Greg Scott on it.
I use to watch Itv play all the time.
I celebrated new year 2007 with Quiz call- how sad!
I have signed autographs from all these shows
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6266649.stm