Exclusive: In a move that would have shaken up the UK broadcasting landscape, ITV attempted to poach Channel 4’s Gogglebox earlier this year, just a few months before saying it was mulling a bid for the show’s production outfit.
Deadline can reveal that ITV programs boss Kevin Lygo, who is said to be a huge Gogglebox fan, held exploratory conversations with Studio Lambert over switching the show from one commercial broadcaster to the other several months ago.
Gogglebox’s contract is renewed roughly once every three years, we understand, and it was mid-contract when Lygo made contact. At present, the show is staying put on Channel 4.
Were Gogglebox to move to ITV, the deal would undoubtedly be the biggest in UK broadcasting since The Great British Bake Off switched from the BBC to Channel 4 in 2017. Shows moving channel has popularized in recent years, with Channel 4 also picking up...
Deadline can reveal that ITV programs boss Kevin Lygo, who is said to be a huge Gogglebox fan, held exploratory conversations with Studio Lambert over switching the show from one commercial broadcaster to the other several months ago.
Gogglebox’s contract is renewed roughly once every three years, we understand, and it was mid-contract when Lygo made contact. At present, the show is staying put on Channel 4.
Were Gogglebox to move to ITV, the deal would undoubtedly be the biggest in UK broadcasting since The Great British Bake Off switched from the BBC to Channel 4 in 2017. Shows moving channel has popularized in recent years, with Channel 4 also picking up...
- 6/23/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Wheelhouse UK Wins First Commission With Channel 5’s ‘Puzzling’
Jimmy Kimmel and Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse has secured its first UK commission, a Channel 5 quiz format produced with ITV Studios-backed 12 Yard. In Puzzling [working title], broadcaster and historian Lucy Worsley will challenge Britain’s brightest minds across five rounds on language, calculation, lateral thinking, visual intelligence and memory. In a dramatic plot twist, the winning team then turn on each other to be named the ‘Best of the Best’ and earn a place in the series Grand Final, where the winner will be crowned. The series is the first revealed commission for Wheelhouse’s UK arm, which is helmed by former Deal or No Deal producer Glenn Hugill, who set it up earlier this year. 12 Yard is co-producer. Channel 5 rarely dabbles in quiz formats but recently picked up Eggheads, another high-end quizshow that used to air on BBC Two.
Jimmy Kimmel and Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse has secured its first UK commission, a Channel 5 quiz format produced with ITV Studios-backed 12 Yard. In Puzzling [working title], broadcaster and historian Lucy Worsley will challenge Britain’s brightest minds across five rounds on language, calculation, lateral thinking, visual intelligence and memory. In a dramatic plot twist, the winning team then turn on each other to be named the ‘Best of the Best’ and earn a place in the series Grand Final, where the winner will be crowned. The series is the first revealed commission for Wheelhouse’s UK arm, which is helmed by former Deal or No Deal producer Glenn Hugill, who set it up earlier this year. 12 Yard is co-producer. Channel 5 rarely dabbles in quiz formats but recently picked up Eggheads, another high-end quizshow that used to air on BBC Two.
- 5/3/2023
- by Max Goldbart, Nancy Tartaglione and Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Nearly a third of the LGBT+ characters to have featured on US TV over the past year will not be returning in future, a new report has revealed.
Over the period between 1 June 2022 and 31 May 2023, a total of 596 LGBT+ characters were featured on scripted TV.
Of these, 175 will not be returning in the following season, as a result of series being cancelled or coming to a pre-agreed end. The majority of these characters (140) are the result of series being cancelled.
The statistics are taken from the annual report published by the US media monitoring organisation GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation).
The report takes into account LGBT+ characters across scripted primetime broadcast networks, scripted primetime cable networks, and scripted series on the eight major US streaming platforms: Prime Video, Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, and Paramount+.
Sarah Kate Ellis, CEO of GLAAD, describes the significant cancellation rates...
Over the period between 1 June 2022 and 31 May 2023, a total of 596 LGBT+ characters were featured on scripted TV.
Of these, 175 will not be returning in the following season, as a result of series being cancelled or coming to a pre-agreed end. The majority of these characters (140) are the result of series being cancelled.
The statistics are taken from the annual report published by the US media monitoring organisation GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation).
The report takes into account LGBT+ characters across scripted primetime broadcast networks, scripted primetime cable networks, and scripted series on the eight major US streaming platforms: Prime Video, Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, and Paramount+.
Sarah Kate Ellis, CEO of GLAAD, describes the significant cancellation rates...
- 3/21/2023
- by Louis Chilton
- The Independent - TV
Eggheads fans will be excited to see one of the original stars return for the 2,000th episode.
The long-running quiz show, which began in 2003, is set to broadcast its milestone episode on Wednesday (22 March).
Eggheads started on BBC Two in 2003, before moving to Channel 5 in 2021 with host Jeremy Vine, who has hosted since 2008. More than 70,000 questions have been asked across the past 24 series.
The show sees a team of contestants pitted against specialist quizzers, who are general knowledge experts.
Fan-favourite star Judith Keppel left the series in 2022 after 19 years on the panel.
However, the 80-year-old will return for the anniversary episode, telling Pa: “It’s amazing. It’s lovely to be able to be doing that. Eggheads obviously has been a great success over the years because we’ve gone on such a long time.”
She said of the show’s success: “I think people love bringing teams.
The long-running quiz show, which began in 2003, is set to broadcast its milestone episode on Wednesday (22 March).
Eggheads started on BBC Two in 2003, before moving to Channel 5 in 2021 with host Jeremy Vine, who has hosted since 2008. More than 70,000 questions have been asked across the past 24 series.
The show sees a team of contestants pitted against specialist quizzers, who are general knowledge experts.
Fan-favourite star Judith Keppel left the series in 2022 after 19 years on the panel.
However, the 80-year-old will return for the anniversary episode, telling Pa: “It’s amazing. It’s lovely to be able to be doing that. Eggheads obviously has been a great success over the years because we’ve gone on such a long time.”
She said of the show’s success: “I think people love bringing teams.
- 3/21/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - TV
Like the Doctor in the Tardis, the new presenter of University Challenge will know they have a hard act to follow, as Jeremy Paxman’s withering looks and razor-sharp question-mastery have become part of the show’s very identity. And, much like the new Doctor, when the BBC announced it would name University Challenge’s next host later this week, it prompted fierce speculation on social media.
So who could it be? While former Question Time and Newsnight presenters make some obvious choices, the new host will need to be someone with enough time in their schedule, and popular picks like Clive Myrie and Jeremy Vine are already busy with quiz shows Mastermind and Eggheads, respectively.
But that still leaves us with plenty of predictions. Fingers on buzzers! Here’s our starter for ten…
Samira Ahmed
A fearless and award-winning journalist and broadcaster, Ahmed will narrate a University Challenge documentary airing later this month,...
So who could it be? While former Question Time and Newsnight presenters make some obvious choices, the new host will need to be someone with enough time in their schedule, and popular picks like Clive Myrie and Jeremy Vine are already busy with quiz shows Mastermind and Eggheads, respectively.
But that still leaves us with plenty of predictions. Fingers on buzzers! Here’s our starter for ten…
Samira Ahmed
A fearless and award-winning journalist and broadcaster, Ahmed will narrate a University Challenge documentary airing later this month,...
- 8/16/2022
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
Paramount’s Channel 5 To Revive BBC Cult Hit ‘Challenge Anneka’ After 30 Years
Paramount-owned Channel 5 is reviving BBC format Challenge Anneka after almost 30 years. Led by presenter Anneka Rice, the show involves Rice being dropped at secret locations to meet individuals at the heart of a challenge, which she, along with a team of volunteers and regular Dave the Soundman, then has to help solve. The show was a cult hit for BBC One, running from 1989 to 1995 and revived by ITV for specials in 2006. Channel 5 has rebooted several older UK shows of late including BBC drama All Creatures Great and Small and quiz format Eggheads. “There’s never been a better time to bring back such a loved series to our screens,” said Guy Davies, Commissioning Editor VP Non Scripted UK Originals Channel 5/Paramount+. ITV Studios label Twofour is producing.
Viaplay Secures English Football Rights
Scandi streamer Viaplay has made...
Paramount-owned Channel 5 is reviving BBC format Challenge Anneka after almost 30 years. Led by presenter Anneka Rice, the show involves Rice being dropped at secret locations to meet individuals at the heart of a challenge, which she, along with a team of volunteers and regular Dave the Soundman, then has to help solve. The show was a cult hit for BBC One, running from 1989 to 1995 and revived by ITV for specials in 2006. Channel 5 has rebooted several older UK shows of late including BBC drama All Creatures Great and Small and quiz format Eggheads. “There’s never been a better time to bring back such a loved series to our screens,” said Guy Davies, Commissioning Editor VP Non Scripted UK Originals Channel 5/Paramount+. ITV Studios label Twofour is producing.
Viaplay Secures English Football Rights
Scandi streamer Viaplay has made...
- 5/23/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The BBC is lining up a new game show from the team behind The Weakest Link and Tipping Point where, unlike the lottery, contestants hope their balls stay in the bag.
The British public broadcaster has commissioned Danger Balls from Mighty Productions, the company behind Rick Edwards-fronted !mpossible (above).
The game show, where only the last ball left in play at the end wins the big cash prize, features three teams of two who’ve each been allocated five numbered balls. As the balls are picked from the bag at random the teams must answer questions to eliminate an opponent’s ball or save their own. The show also has compelling moments of strategy. Will the players cash in their balls when given the chance or hold out and hope for the big money, even though it could mean leaving with nothing?
Ordered by BBC Commissioning Editor, Entertainment and Daytime Jo Street,...
The British public broadcaster has commissioned Danger Balls from Mighty Productions, the company behind Rick Edwards-fronted !mpossible (above).
The game show, where only the last ball left in play at the end wins the big cash prize, features three teams of two who’ve each been allocated five numbered balls. As the balls are picked from the bag at random the teams must answer questions to eliminate an opponent’s ball or save their own. The show also has compelling moments of strategy. Will the players cash in their balls when given the chance or hold out and hope for the big money, even though it could mean leaving with nothing?
Ordered by BBC Commissioning Editor, Entertainment and Daytime Jo Street,...
- 11/2/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Louisa Mellor Aug 4, 2016
Daphne Fowler left Eggheads a few years ago after a long, successful quizzing career. Here’s why she’s an inspiration…
In April 2002, Daphne Fowler and Chris Hughes formed part of a quizzing supergroup assembled by The Guardian. For a bit of fun, the newspaper set some of the country’s top trivia buffs loose on the greater London pub quiz circuit to see what havoc they could wreak.
The “dream team” cut a swathe from Clerkenwell to Hampstead, only coming unstuck on a foray to the King’s Head in Rochester where they lost the win by a single point. Having failed to recognise the theme tune to Beverley Hills 90210, they filed onto the minibus home and drove away from the week’s lone defeat. Somewhere along the A2, a dejected then-out-of-work Hughes told his teammates “I just wish I could turn all this garbage in...
Daphne Fowler left Eggheads a few years ago after a long, successful quizzing career. Here’s why she’s an inspiration…
In April 2002, Daphne Fowler and Chris Hughes formed part of a quizzing supergroup assembled by The Guardian. For a bit of fun, the newspaper set some of the country’s top trivia buffs loose on the greater London pub quiz circuit to see what havoc they could wreak.
The “dream team” cut a swathe from Clerkenwell to Hampstead, only coming unstuck on a foray to the King’s Head in Rochester where they lost the win by a single point. Having failed to recognise the theme tune to Beverley Hills 90210, they filed onto the minibus home and drove away from the week’s lone defeat. Somewhere along the A2, a dejected then-out-of-work Hughes told his teammates “I just wish I could turn all this garbage in...
- 8/3/2016
- Den of Geek
The BBC has announced that there are no plans to introduce same-sex couples to Strictly Come Dancing.
The broadcaster released a statement after Eggheads star Cj de Mooi claimed he was rejected from the show because he wanted a male dance partner.
Strictly Come Dancing 2015: Who's been paired with who on Saturday's launch show?
Cj had told Radio 1's Newsbeat: "I thought, as it's now 2015, it's time this format in Britain had a same-sex couple."
He also took issue with an alleged comment from the BBC, which reasoned that Strictly is a "family show".
"I think their announcement that they're a 'family show' and have no plans for same-sex couples seems that they're being a little bit narrow-minded and defining family in some very narrow terms," said Cj.
"I think it's horrible to say 'your family has to be one man, one woman and 2.4 children'. What a revolting thing...
The broadcaster released a statement after Eggheads star Cj de Mooi claimed he was rejected from the show because he wanted a male dance partner.
Strictly Come Dancing 2015: Who's been paired with who on Saturday's launch show?
Cj had told Radio 1's Newsbeat: "I thought, as it's now 2015, it's time this format in Britain had a same-sex couple."
He also took issue with an alleged comment from the BBC, which reasoned that Strictly is a "family show".
"I think their announcement that they're a 'family show' and have no plans for same-sex couples seems that they're being a little bit narrow-minded and defining family in some very narrow terms," said Cj.
"I think it's horrible to say 'your family has to be one man, one woman and 2.4 children'. What a revolting thing...
- 9/6/2015
- Digital Spy
As Only Connect and University Challenge return to the BBC for new series, we salute the geek comforts of UK TV quiz shows…
Never mind A.E. Housman’s maxim that “all human knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use”, no knowledge is really precious until it serves the slightest use watching a TV quiz. If you’ve ever moaned about not needing your schoolboy geometry in the real world, you’ve clearly never experienced the joy of shouting “Cartesian Plane” at BBC Two on a Monday night.
Quiz shows are a TV comfort blanket for trivia nerds. That instant sliding-into-a-warm-bath relaxation other people experience when they hear the first bars of a beloved soap theme is what the opening ‘dum’ of the University Challenge music does to us. You’re home now, says that music. Wherever you are, whatever’s going on in your life,...
Never mind A.E. Housman’s maxim that “all human knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use”, no knowledge is really precious until it serves the slightest use watching a TV quiz. If you’ve ever moaned about not needing your schoolboy geometry in the real world, you’ve clearly never experienced the joy of shouting “Cartesian Plane” at BBC Two on a Monday night.
Quiz shows are a TV comfort blanket for trivia nerds. That instant sliding-into-a-warm-bath relaxation other people experience when they hear the first bars of a beloved soap theme is what the opening ‘dum’ of the University Challenge music does to us. You’re home now, says that music. Wherever you are, whatever’s going on in your life,...
- 7/13/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
“Eggheads” is a new show on BBC Two that gives quiz show fans the ultimate of challenges. The television show, which can be seen on FilmOn’s BBC Two online channel, features some of the best quiz winners in Britain taking on challengers who are hoping to win a big cash prize. “Jeremy Vine hosts the show where every day a new team of challengers take on probably the greatest quiz team in Britain – the Eggheads – made up of some of the country’s top quizzers, including brand new Egghead Lisa Thiel, the bad boy of quizzing Cj de Mooi, ‘Tremendous Knowledge’ Dave Rainford, Mastermind and Millionaire winner Pat Gibson, [ Read More ]
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- 2/13/2015
- by monique
- ShockYa
The BBC has defended Eggheads star Barry Simmons over his appearance on a Radio 4 quiz.
Simmons is a regular 'Egghead' on the BBC Two gameshow, but has also reached the final of Brain of Britain.
The broadcaster has received five complaints from viewers about Simmons's appearance in the radio programme's semi-final, reports The Sunday Telegraph.
A BBC statement said: "There is no rule banning Eggheads from appearing on Brain of Britain - the only rule is that former champions are not allowed to return.
"Brain of Britain is a very unpredictable quiz and it is quite possible a well-known quizzer like Barry could be beaten."
Simmons has previously won £64,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and has also reached the semi-final of Mastermind and the 2009 Brain of Britain final.
Jeremy Vine and Dermot Murnaghan host Eggheads, which sees a team of five contestants taking on a team made up of quiz show champions.
Simmons is a regular 'Egghead' on the BBC Two gameshow, but has also reached the final of Brain of Britain.
The broadcaster has received five complaints from viewers about Simmons's appearance in the radio programme's semi-final, reports The Sunday Telegraph.
A BBC statement said: "There is no rule banning Eggheads from appearing on Brain of Britain - the only rule is that former champions are not allowed to return.
"Brain of Britain is a very unpredictable quiz and it is quite possible a well-known quizzer like Barry could be beaten."
Simmons has previously won £64,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and has also reached the semi-final of Mastermind and the 2009 Brain of Britain final.
Jeremy Vine and Dermot Murnaghan host Eggheads, which sees a team of five contestants taking on a team made up of quiz show champions.
- 3/11/2013
- Digital Spy
Dermot Murnaghan has reportedly been unfaithful to his wife. The People has printed a picture allegedly of the Sky newsreader embracing his make-up artist Camilla Tew. Murnaghan, also known for hosting BBC quiz show Eggheads, has four children with Maria Keegan, to whom he has been married for 23 years. The pictures, taken last week, appear to show Murnaghan on (more)...
- 9/9/2012
- by By Paul Millar
- Digital Spy
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