Best British game show series
A curated collection of popular game show series from United Kingdom.
Richard Osman's House of Games (2017)
Richard Osman's House of Games (2017)
Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.
Pointless Celebrities (2011)
Pointless Celebrities (2011)
Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present a celebrity version of the general knowledge quiz in which contestants try to come up with the answers that nobody else could think of.
Richard Osman's House of Games Night (2020)
Richard Osman's House of Games Night (2020)
Each week a group of four famous faces go toe-to-toe testing their general knowledge in a variety of entertaining games. The series includes all the favourite, funny games from the BBC Two series, with the addition of some new items for the prime time shows, including the appearance of a house band and some special guests. As ever, all of the games are rooted in general knowledge and can be played along at home by viewers.
The Traitors: Uncloaked (2024)
The Traitors: Uncloaked (2024)
Catch up from the castle. The latest banished and murdered have their say with Ed Gamble. How will they react to the betrayals, revelations, mind games and manipulations?
A League of Their Own: Mexican Road Trip (2024)
A League of Their Own: Mexican Road Trip (2024)
A League of Their Own is heading to Mexico for their next epic adventure. As ever, it’s Red vs Blue –with the teams competing in a series of sporting and cultural challenges in a bid to avoid the series forfeit. To raise the stakes, for the first time ever it won’t just be the team captains in the firing line for the forfeit. This Road Trip promises to be even more exciting as the teams travel from Mexico City to Baja California – seeing all incredible Mexico has to offer.
The Answer Run (2024)
The Answer Run (2024)
Comedian Jason Manford hosts an exciting brand new fast-paced quiz show, where three couples face a series of 50/50 questions which hurtle The Answer Run down towards them.
Safeword (2015)
Safeword (2015)
A new panel show hosted by Rick Edwards, Safeword invites two celebrities into a studio to be mercilessly ripped by an array of comedians and each other, until they can’t take it anymore and have to deploy their ‘safeword’.The brave stars will have their public profiles scrutinised and their social media accounts hijacked as the rival panels poke around their personal and professional lives. The only thing that can help the celebrities is using their safeword to make it all stop.
Cash Cab (2005)
Cash Cab (2005)
Cash Cab is a game show that aired on the ITV Network in the UK from 13 June 2005 to 28 June 2006. The original programme that launched the worldwide Cash Cab franchise, it was hosted by John Moody.The show's host initially poses as an ordinary taxi driver and drives around the major cities of the United Kingdom in a cab. The show pays its passengers for correctly answering standard general knowledge questions. Contestants are recruited in advance but are not told that the quiz will be taking place in the cab, so although the "pick-ups" are not as random as they appear on screen, the contestants are genuinely surprised when the taxi turns out to be the Cash Cab.The contestants tell the driver their destination before getting into the taxi and are not allowed to change it. They then have the distance they need to travel to answer questions. The first five questions are relatively easy and worth £10 each, the next five are a little harder and worth £50, the next seven, even harder and worth £100, and any question after that is worth £500. If the contestant gets three questions wrong, they lose the money they have won up to that point and must leave the cab immediately.The host of Cash Cab, John Moody, is a genuine qualified taxi driver, and has an easygoing presenting style.
Meet the Parents (2016)
Meet the Parents (2016)
Can you find the perfect match by only meeting their parents? Meet the Parents is brand new dating show for ITV. Single guys and girls are paired up with the help of the people who know them best - their parents. From love lives and ex'es to school reports and awkward teenage antics, nothing is off limits. Presented by Holly Willoughby, Meet the Parents is dating like you've never seen it before!
The Traitors (2022)
The Traitors (2022)
Get them before they get you. 22 strangers, one castle, £120k - Claudia Winkleman hosts the ultimate reality game of trust and treachery. Let the mind games begin.
I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! (2002)
I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! (2002)
Twelve celebrities are abandoned in the Australian jungle. In order to earn food, they must perform Bushtucker Trials which challenge them physically and mentally.
Race Across the World (2019)
Race Across the World (2019)
In a frenetic race across the world, travellers can choose any route they like - but no flights or phones are allowed. On the trip of a lifetime, which pair will finish first?
Celebrity Big Brother (2001)
Celebrity Big Brother (2001)
Celebrity Big Brother is a British television reality game show. The show follows a number of celebrity contestants, known as housemates, who are isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom built House. Each week, one of the housemates is evicted by a public vote, with the last housemate named the winner.
Takeshi's Castle (2002)
Takeshi's Castle (2002)
Welcome to the Takeshi's Castle, a Japanese game show involving 100 to 140 contestants who try to go through a series of silly physical challenges designed to eliminate them. Designed like a live-action Mario game, thousands of people have come to take on Takeshi's Castle to try and win the ¥1,000,000 prize but hardly anyone does! Each episode was filmed over the entire length of the day, with some challenges going well into the night.
Big Brother (UK) (2000)
Big Brother (UK) (2000)
A British reality television game show in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house for several weeks, trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run.
The Circle (UK) (2018)
The Circle (UK) (2018)
Players from all walks of life will compete to win up to £50,000. All living in one modern block but separately in individual apartments, the players will never come face-to.face, and can only interact with one another through an specially-designed app called The Circle.
MasterChef (2005)
MasterChef (2005)
John Torode and Gregg Wallace are looking for the country's next star chef. Those who make it through to the quarter-final must prove their knowledge and passion for food. The heats have produced four exceptional cooks, but only one of them will make it through today to become a semi-finalist. Initially named Masterchef Goes Large, the series changed it's name to Masterchef in 2008.
The Masked Singer (UK) (2020)
The Masked Singer (UK) (2020)
A singing competition where celebrities compete with each other but with one particularity: their identity is hidden by full masks. The British adaptation of the worldwide hit.
Junior Taskmaster (2024)
Junior Taskmaster (2024)
Spin-off of the award-winning Taskmaster. In each heat, a group of five children will attempt a series of tasks that test creative, physical and intellectual skills - in the hope of impressing the Junior Taskmaster and scoring top points in their subsequent studio appearances.
Pointless (2009)
Pointless (2009)
Quiz in which contestants try to score as few points as possible by plumbing the depths of their general knowledge to come up with the answers no-one else can think of.
The Chase (2009)
The Chase (2009)
The Chase is a British game show, broadcast on ITV and hosted by Bradley Walsh. The chasers are Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace, both of whom have been Chasers since series 1, Anne Hegerty, who joined them in series 2, and Paul Sinha, who debuted in series 4.A team of four contestants attempt to amass as much money as possible by answering quick-fire questions in a 60 second round - each correct answer earns the contestant £1,000 and that money becomes the basic for the chase. The Chaser, a quiz genius, attempts to prevent the contestant reaching home by answering more multiple-choice questions correctly. If a contestant makes it home the money they have won will be added to the team total which will be played for in The Final Chase where remaining team members collaborate against The Chaser.
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel (2020)
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel (2020)
Michael McIntyre hosts a gameshow packed with huge stars, big laughs and a giant spinning wheel. Can the contestants, guided by celebrity experts, answer their way to a fortune?
The Crystal Maze (1990)
The Crystal Maze (1990)
The Crystal Maze was a British game show, produced by Chatsworth Television and shown on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom between 15 February 1990 and 10 August 1995. The series is set in "The Crystal Maze", which features four different "zones" set in various periods of time and space. A team of six contestants take part in a series of challenges in order to win "time crystals". Each crystal gives the team five seconds of time inside "The Crystal Dome", the centrepiece of the maze where the contestants take part in their final challenge.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (1998)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (1998)
A game show created in the United Kingdom, in which contestants attempt to answer general knowledge questions in an intimidating atmosphere in order to scoop the £1 million top prize. The original series was hosted by Chris Tarrant, and its modern-day revival is hosted by Jeremy Clarkson.
Quiz (2020)
Quiz (2020)
The story of Charles Ingram, a former British army major who caused a major scandal in the early 2000s after being caught cheating his way to winning £1 million on the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Ingram, his wife Diana and an accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, who was sitting in the audience, initially pulled off the on-screen heist before being caught and standing trial.
