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The Daily Quiz
The Daily Quiz! was a live, phone-in quiz channel, previously a TV programme, which was showing on ITV Play (Freeview channel 35) and also on Men & Motors (Sky Digital channel 131) from 3pm-6pm seven days a week. Two presenters were in the studio simultaneously and took it in turns to answer calls, the second presenter waits by the jackpot board or front desk and is brought in every so often to chat. ''The Daily Quiz!'' had a newspaper/gossip theme running throughout the show and at regular intervals, the presenters sat at their desk, related celebrity news stories from the day's papers and discussed them in a light-hearted manner. Viewers could win up to £5000 in the jackpot game. ''The Daily Quiz!'' was part of the ITV Play stable (along with '' The Mint'' and ''Quizmania'') and started broadcasting on this channel on 19 April 2006. One of ''The Daily Quiz!''s main presenters was Kat Shoob, who is also a presenter on ITV Play's flagship programme, '' The Mint''. The show wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Game TV
Big Game TV (stylised as BIG Game TV!) was a live phone-in quiz channel that was broadcast via Sky Broadcasting in 2005. It released a spin-off, ''The Hallmark Channel Quiz'' on 6 March 2006, which was shown on The Hallmark Channel. The show used only three of the presenters. Big Game TV Productions added The Daily Quiz! on 13 March 2006. This show aired on ITV Play and on Men & Motors seven days a week and featured a selection of Big Game TV's presenters. ITV ended their involvement with Big Game TV due to fraud allegations in May 2006. Controversy Big Game TV was the subject of a City of London Police investigation brought by the BBC Radio 4 programme ''You and Yours'' in May 2006 over allegations that receptionists were told to ignore all incoming calls for long periods of time while 150-200 calls per minute were charged 75p each. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV Play (channel)
ITV Play was a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc. The channel was devoted exclusively to phone-in quiz show programmes, expanding upon ITV1 and ITV2's late-night quiz programmes such as '' Quizmania'' and '' The Mint.'' ITV Play launched on 19 April 2006—replacing Men & Motors on Freeview—and started broadcasting on the Sky platform on 24 July 2006. The channel was short-lived; its programmes, along with those carried by other British television channels, faced scrutiny for their semblance to gambling. Concurrently, a series of scandals also emerged surrounding the use of premium-rate telephone numbers on British television. On 5 March 2007, ITV announced that it would audit its use of premium-rate lines across its programming, resulting in the closure of ITV Play until further notice; on 13 March, ITV announced that ITV Play would be closed permanently. The ITV Play name continued as a strand on ITV1 during the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men & Motors
Men & Motors was a men's lifestyle television channel in the UK. It was the last remaining station operated by the former Granada Sky Broadcasting joint venture, set up by Granada Television (now part of ITV plc) and satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting in 1996. Men & Motors closed on 1 April 2010. In February 2021, One Media iP relaunched a Men & Motors channel via Kapang, a television app, fronted by Shane Lynch and Torie Campbell. History Launch From its launch, Men & Motors was only available with subscription television services and for its first two-year on air, it shared space with Granada Plus and was on air each night from 11pm until 2am. It was part of the original line-up (as a "primary channel") for ITV Digital, a Digital terrestrial television service part-owned by Granada. This saw its broadcast hours expand and it came on air at the earlier time of 9pm, with motors content before 11 pm, and adult content thereafter. When ONdigital closed, Men & Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |