BIG Game TV!
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| Channel 849 - BIG Game TV! | |
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| Format | Phone-in Quiz show |
| Run time | 3pm-3am: Mon-Fri 5pm-3am: Sat-Sun |
| Starring | Various Presenters |
| Production company | Big Game TV Productions |
| Related shows | The Daily Quiz!, Hallmark Channel Quiz |
BIG Game TV! is a live phone-in quiz channel shown on its own channel on Sky Digital 849, it is also relayed on Hollywood TV, Life TV, Bonanza and Raj TV.
BIG Game TV! broadcasts live daily between the hours of 3:00pm and 3:00am, Monday to Friday and 5:00pm to 3:00am on Saturday and Sunday. The channel encourages viewers to participate by a premium-rate telephone call or via a 'Free Web Entry' available on their website.
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[edit] About Big Game TV
BIG Game TV! Productions released their first spin-off show, The Hallmark Channel Quiz on March 6th 2006. This is a higher class version of BIG Game TV! shown on The Hallmark Channel (Sky digital channel 153) between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. This show only uses 3 of BIG Game's presenters and is slightly more serious due to the audience it's being aimed at.
BIG Game TV Productions branched out further when The Daily Quiz! went on air on 13th March 2006. This show aired on ITV Play (Freeview channel 35) and on Men & Motors (Sky channel 131) seven days a week from 3pm-6pm and featured a selection of BIG Game TV!'s presenters. ITV ended their involvement with Big Game TV due to the fraud allegations in May 2006.
[edit] History of the Channel
BIG Game TV! was pretty low budget (static camera angles, in-expensive graphics) until 6th February 2006 when a new set was unveiled along with all new animated graphics.
[edit] Fraud Squad Raid
On 19 May 2006, officers from the Fraud Squad raided the offices of the channel after a BBC Radio 4 investigation for the You and Yours programme found that receptionists were told to ignore all incoming calls for long periods of time while 150-200 calls per minute were clocked up at 75p a time. [1] Due to the police investigation into BIG Game TV! the channel was removed from the NTL platform on the 7th of June 2006. BIG Game TV! timeshared with Channel NTL between 21:00 and 03:00. [2]
[edit] Presenters
- Matt Cuttle
- Keith Price
- Leah Charles
- Kylie Cushman
- Natasha Powell
- Jim Brooman
- Jemish Patel
- Tommy Sandhu
- Lisa Hanlon
[edit] Past Presenters
- Timmy Mallett
- Kat Shoob
- Andrea Binks
- Georgina Burnett
- Sarah Booker
[edit] References
- ^ BIG Game TV - The Fraud Squad Raids by the BBC for the BBC Radio 4 programme You and Yours, broadcast May 19, 2006, retrieved May 27, 2006.
- ^ ntl remove Big Game TV from channel line up by Cable Forum, created June 7, 2006, retrieved June 7, 2006.
[edit] Trivia
One of Big Game TV's presenters, Kylie Cushman, co-stars in the independent film, Max Payne: Payne & Redemption , due to be released this year.
