Record breaking game shows
May 11, 2020 7:22 pmCategory: Uncategorised

Game Shows are incredibly popular in the UK and thousands and thousands of people sit down each week to watch their favourites. If you find that your television picture is a little fuzzy and you are missing your gameshow you might want to contact a TV Aerial Installation Cardiff such as https://www.onevisionltd.co.uk/tv-aerial-installation-cardiff to get this fixed.
Here are some game shows that have broken records and made a number of television firsts.
- The first game show to ever offer a cash prize was ‘Take Your Pick’ was broadcast in 1955
- A Question of Sport and University Challenge are the longest running game shows on our screen. Before this it was Come Dancing.
- Countdown has produced the most episodes with over 7000 being filmed over the years and the program is still going strong today.
- The shortest running show was ‘The Debbie King Show’ which only had one episode broadcast.
- Jeremy Paxman is the longest serving host having hosted University Challenge for over 25 years.
- Davina McCall has hosted the most game shows with over 18 to her name. Next is Vernon Kay with 16 and then Bob Monkhouse with 15.