Make Your Play

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Make Your Play

Genre	Phone-in quiz show
Starring	Ben Baldwin, Alex Kramer
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Running time	Various
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV Play, ITV1, ITV2
Original run	29 September 2006 – present

Make Your Play is a live, interactive quiz show, showing on ITV1 from roughly 00.00 and ITV2 from 01.00 Thursday to Saturday. The show was launched on Friday 29 September 2006 on ITV1 and ITV Play.

The prizes are greater than usually available on ITV Play (often exceeding £20,000), but as a result of this, callers are usually taken less often.

In order to win money, viewers must either call in at a cost of 75p from a BT landline, or enter through the ITV website. If they are successful they will be placed on hold, then transferred live to the studio if they are lucky, where they go on to deliver their answer.

1 Controversy
2 Presenters
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Controversy

The show has received criticism from some quarters because the puzzles are too hard, or perhaps, even impossible to solve. Ofcom reprimanded the ITV Play show Quizmania for selecting "rawlplugs" as the answer to the question "Name something found in the contents of a woman's handbag". Also, a game where viewers were invited to "add the pence" was criticised for providing a solution which was impossible to reach.^[1]

In February and March of 2007, ITV Play and all shows associated with it were suspended after allegations that consumers were being cheated. ITV decided to suspend these services – which included phone-in votes and competitions on shows such as Dancing on Ice and This Morning – while an independent review was carried out to see if members of the public were getting a fair deal when they rang in. The problem was shortly resolved, and the ITV Play channel was closed down permanently.^[2]