To think there is way too many game shows TV...

I think that a while ago, tv companies assumed that to an extent, those who still watch tv at transmission time are a captive audience of sorts, especially Saturday evenings. Game shows are cheap to make compared with dramas, for example. You can also get repeats easily on Challenge, Dave and other such channels.

I don't perceive there to many more though than over the last few years.

💯 agree but then I don't like them at all!

Yes, I wish they'd focus on the two important aspects: the random excitement of seeing what is in the boxes and then the skill/courage in considering the impact and probability based on that randomness and deciding when to bail and when to carry on. Just scrap the woo.

There are also a weirdly high amount of people who will say they desperately want, say, £5K to fulfil a lifelong dream; they end up being offered £10K, but greedily turn it down because the £100K is still there on the board (alone amongst a sea of blues) - then they end up going home with £2.75 and say it really doesn't matter in the slightest because the money isn't important and it was their 'journey' that was their main goal!

Also, they're all such immensely great friends. Surely, going on the law of averages, there would be some of them that really don't get on at all, and some that detest each other. I'd love to see somebody whose box number is chosen early on say, as they go to open it, "Well, Janet, you're an irritating, arrogant nincompoop - so I'm desperately hoping that this is the £100K and you end up going home with a fiver!"

MN's acceptable 'ism' raises its ugly head again.

Tuvalu is very popular now, thanks to Pointless! I can also name a lot of the periodic table that didn't exist when I did A level Chemistry, eons ago. Watching a lot of games shows has helped my pub quiz team a lot of money.

Have you seen any of the old Max Bygraves episodes? He was a terribly boring, doddering, unfunny game show presenter, with no sense of excitement or pace - especially as he took over FF straight after Bob Monkhouse.

Have you seen the classic Turkey Bob episode? The man's mortally embarrassed wife offered William G Stewart (then the producer of FF) £100 to never show it, but he refused and told her that it had cost them £38,000 to make that episode!

Full Episode:

Just the Big Money finale:

I would put all the Love Island genre of programmes on at 3am!

Over Christmas, the BBC had a lot of very popular, much-awaited programmes in their schedule - Strictly, Gavin & Stacey, Call The Midwife, Doctor Who, Wallace & Gromit, Outnumbered etc. - which hugely dominated the viewing figures.

ITV obviously have to think about their commercial income, so if they know they probably can't compete, it's easier for them to accept defeat and put cheaper, maybe more minority-interest, programmes on; and keep their big banger, bread-and-butter-type programmes that draw the biggest advertising spend (based on eyeballs) on another time, when the BBC's offering isn't as strong.

It's each to their own though isn't it? I don't really watch quiz shows other than the odd one occasionally if I've got nothing else to do/watch and I'm killing time, but I also don't watch the big BBC dramas or any of the soaps, or the stuff everyone raves about on streaming services like squid games and stranger things. I don't think they shouldn't be on, they're just not to my taste.

Oh no 😄😄 it's just opening boxes??

Each to their own though, I do love eastenders

Agree, the sob stories are awful

@TeenLifeMum when Channel 5 began half my town could pick it up, half couldn't 😂

Ikr! We didn’t get the fifth for years because it clashed with a French channel signal - Folkestone in Kent.

@TeenLifeMum gosh there's five channels now. How fancy.
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Richard Osman talked about this on his podcast recently. TV viewing figures have been in sharp decline for some years... except for most of the quiz/game shows. So something like The Chase pulled in over a million viewers every day 10 years ago, and still does now (or even more than it used to). Whereas something like Eastenders/Corrie now only get a fraction of what they did 10 years ago. The game/quiz genre is not going anywhere any time soon!

Well I don't watch any of them, but TV companies are businesses and wouldn't do it if it didn't make them £££.

I don't think MN is the game show audience really. But there are millions of retired or unemployed or disabled or elderly etc people who find them easy watching and keeps their brains active.

Sat evening it's seen as family TV.

Agree so much, itv one day over Christmas had quiz shows from 2 till 7 then the dreaded soaps, feels like all that’s on tv now is quiz shows , reality tv and soaps no wonder so many people turn to the streaming services

I often feel quite outdated but we only ever watch streaming so I kind of forget about the 5 TV channels 😂

@TeenLifeMum if you're over the age of approximately 75 then yes you watch live TV.
A lot of that age group have yet to discover there's more than BBC and "The Other Side".
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(lighthearted......)

Oh no this is the only thing I like on the TV don't take them away! 😂 my partner and I watch the Chase and we LOVE 1% club! He also likes House of Games but I'm not keen on that one. Can we please scrap all the soaps and reality shows instead!?

I am not against game shows as such but I really dislike how many times some of them are repeated. Yes I am looking at you Pointless. I feel like I know some of the contestants personally now and when I recognise them for the umpteenth time I switch off. Same goes for the Celebrity Pointless. An ancient one on last night with sports personalities.

People watch normal tv rather than streaming?

@Bloom15 it seems so obvious now 😂😂😂
Still so boring to watch. Even with Alexander Armstrong who I quite like.

Yeah that makes sense if you thought that. They used to explain it on the show I think. My mum doesn't get it after multiple explanations to be fair!

@FizzyBisto - yeah that is a good explanation. I used to like Family Fortune, but with Les Dennis.

I am good at retaining useless
Information so I think that is why I like quiz shows.

Have you only just noticed?

It is cheap tv. Contestants are free. Add up the hours of programmes where the majority of people making the content aren’t paid. Game shows, fly on the wall documentaries, have been taking over the tv screens for decades