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

The 1% Club is great - although the 15% question always seems to be suspiciously easier than the few before it.

I just wish they would put the puzzle up on the full screen for the 30 seconds, though, for those of us without giant cinema-style screens at home; rather than squashing it down to a third of the screen. There's plenty of time to focus on the contestants and on Lee, but not during the tiny fraction of the show when the actual puzzles are up!

Not a fan of most game shows, but really enjoy 1% Club and Limitless Win. Occasionally WWTBAM, but don’t make a point of it, more if it’s on when I turn the TV on.

Wait... Question Time counts as a game show?! As in the one on Thursday night, hosted by Fiona Bruce, where people discuss politics and current affairs?!

Ugh I hate them!

We love Challenge - it's one of our most-watched channels - we just wish they'd show a greater variety of old gameshows, though, and not always The Chase, which we are getting sick of now.

Then again, there are literally hundreds of other channels that we see in the listings and we wonder who would ever want to watch them!

I guess it's the beauty of the modern day: so many channels and so many options for streaming online. Gone are the days of 3, 4 or 5 TV channels and absolutely nothing else to watch except what you could rent from Blockbuster or your own homemade holiday videos.

There are millions of different programmes/videos available to watch, so it's probably a very good thing if we don't have the slightest interest in most of them, as none of us will ever live long enough to watch more than a tiny fraction of everything that's out there!

I have a fairly serious quiz/game show habit - I never miss Pointless, House of Games, University Challenge, Only Connect, Mastermind…..Sometimes The Chase and Tipping Point. I also enjoy Deal or No Deal; The fun is seeing whether people hold their nerve and being glad it’s not you having to take the risk!

If you've ever seen Family Fortunes, it's basically the exact opposite of that... exact the answers can't be so obscure that they aren't technically correct!

See, this is where we're all different: we absolutely love DOND and never miss a single episode.

It would be nice if they ditched the sob-stories and woo ways of 'knowing' or 'influencing' what amounts have been put randomly in the boxes; but the main premise of the show is gripping to us.

Then again, we wouldn't watch Eastenders or Coronation Street or the football - even the big World/European(?) Cup final with England in it - if you paid us. Yet I hear that those are all somewhat popular!

Millions of people do. Lots watch it less, and lots don't watch it at all; but it's still extremely popular. A bit like cash, maybe.

I don't think live TV will last as a concept indefinitely, especially as the older generations leave us; but it's far from dead yet.

Saturday nights on BBC1 are ridiculous. There's usually 3 on one after another, Pointless, Hit List and Weakest Link.

I totally agree about the waffling on wth the contestants at the start. I really don't care, just get on with it!

My first thought was yes there are too many but then I thought that I actually do like a lot of them,

House of Games
The Chase
Pointless
The 1% Club
Mastermind
And that thing with Allan Carr and the pictures!
Oh and The Hit List, if that counts.

A lot of my family. They are possibly the only people who watch that Challenge channel that has loads of old repeats. I don’t see the appeal myself tbh.

Some people love game shows. I don’t really so never think about them.

There was loads on BBC at Christmas that I liked though. I guess everyone is different, hence there being plenty of quiz shows despite you and I not liking them.

Havnt watched live tv (or paid for a licence) in over 10 years. I'm always shocked when I do see any (eg when visiting parents) just how rubbish 'normal TV' is. And the adverts are just wall to wall! I don't know how so many people bare to watch it day after day!

I don't mind the more serious quiz shows; the problem with most of the others is the endless gab with the contestants - does anyone really care about Julie's nine grandchildren or Dave's 'hilarious' anecdote from work?

I'd sooner have game shows than interminable reality TV!!!

I believe fucking Love Island is due back again... yuck!!!

@Bloom15 ah that makes sense.
I would watch it and think if they needed an answer that the least amount of people gave then why don't they give a completely wrong answer.
But if the answer they give has to actually be a correct answer then I get it now !
😂

Prime time TV in the 70s when I were a lass was full of game shows. The Generation Game, Celebrity Squares, 321... used to love them!
I now enjoy The Chase, Only Connect and House of Games.

Yes - so countries in Australasia as an example.

Both Australia and Tuvalu would be correct but you'd win with Tuvalu. I think they interview 100 people with the questions so you're playing against the general public and what they said.

Yeah this.

I LOVE the traitors though.

@Bloom15 so with Pointless does the answer have to be correct but is the answer is the one the least amount of people gave?

Quiz / Game shows, that most channels think can only be presented by men …

Yes I was just saying that to DP tonight and Wheel of Fortune with Graham Norton was just dire. Honestly it's such boring TV.

I love quiz shows like Pointless and House of Games - those are pretty much the only things I watch on actual tv. Much better that than another boring prime time drama!