Quiz TV

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Quiz TV
Launched	June 14, 2004
Closed	June 23, 2006
Owned by	HSN
Website	http://www.quiz.tv
Availability At time of closure
Satellite
Sky Digital	Channel 852
Cable
NTL	Channel 633
Telewest	Channel 750

Quiz TV was a Quiz channel that aired daily from 4pm to 1am on Sky, NTL and Telewest Digital. The channel started in June 2004 and had given away over £2,000,000. Quiz TV ceased broadcasting on June 23, 2006, mainly due to competitive quiz channels and not enough money being made.

1 Games on Quiz TV
2 Trivia
3 Presenters
- 3.1 Fansite

[edit] Games on Quiz TV

These are a list of the games Quiz TV played daily. Some games were not played as often as others.

Blank Check

There was a word that appeared on the game, and the viewers had to say a word that comes before it or after it. eg. ?-on could be (carry)-on, but what the viewers had to do is match the ones already pre-set on Quiz TV's list. Easier sayings/words that come before or after the word on screen are generally for lower amounts of money, while more obscure answers were worth more money.

8 Items or Less

There was a paragraph on screen, explaining that a fictional person had gone to the supermarket and had bought eight items. All the items begin with a certain letter, and had to be guessed by the viewers.

Quizagrams

The game involved nine random letters appearing on screen. The viewers had to make smaller words out of the nine letters. The words were between four to seven letters long, and usually the smaller words were worth more. eg.

The nine random letters:   HICKTCOLT
An answer: CHICK.

Word Search

This game involved four dashes, two with letters above them and two blank. The viewers had to match the words that Quiz TV had made as answers.

eg.

The dashes with and without letters:    _A_E
An answer:                              SAME

Mania/Quiz

One example of such a game was Colour Mania, in which there were usually, eight different answers. The Viewers had to guess the object Quiz TV came up for the list.

All Shook Up

In This game, there was a picture of a celebrity on screen, but they were divided into squares and the squares were jumbled up. For the viewer to win they had to say who the celebrity is.

Wordsnake

In this game there is a grid of 9 letters. For the viewer to win they had to say what the word was, which snaked around the grid. This game had a reputation of being easy as there are only 40 possibilities to fit a 9-letter word in the grid.

eg.

 B C U
 A E E
 R B S

Answer:Barbecues

There were many other games played on Quiz TV, but in Summer 2005 these games were banned as viewers insisted there was more than just one answer to them. These games included the well-known 'Seeing Red' in which the viewers had to count every 'red' you saw. It is believed it was banned as it was not clear which reds you were to count, and the answers could be well over 1000.

[edit] Trivia

There was a puppet named Christopher 'Chops' Longwool which was used regularly on the show.

Besides Chops there were many other features on Quiz TV, including the fortune teller on a plasma screen named 'Quizmarellda'. Occasionally, the game on screen disappeared and a character called 'Qman' appeared and a little video appeared of him and what he had been up to.

Since starting in 2004, it had over 10,000 winners.

There was a jackpot which usually stands at over £1000, depending on how much the games offer and also the time of day. The Jackpot's odds of being beaten were one in 256.

Quiz TV had other jackpots apart from the main one, such as The Golden Trail. They had however removed them due to popularity from viewers of the original Jackpot.