As Seen on TV (game show)

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As Seen on TV
Presented by Steve Jones
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes8 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Karen Smith
  • Robin Ashbrook
ProducerLeon Wilde
Production company Shine TV
Original release
Network BBC One
Release17 July (2009-07-17) 
3 September 2009 (2009-09-03)

As Seen on TV is a BBC television panel game show based around TV trivia. It is produced by Shine TV by arrangement with Unique Broadcasting; the latter is the company owned by Noel Edmonds, who presented the similarly themed show Telly Addicts .

Contents

It is presented by Steve Jones, with team captains Fern Britton and Jason Manford. [1] [2]

The first episode was broadcast on Friday 17 July 2009. It was moved to a Thursday evening slot from its second episode.

Rounds

Round 1: What's on TV?

The teams are shown six TV programmes which are categories related to TV based questions. Each player gets to pick one category each.

The shows are:

Round 2: TV Years

Each team is shown a clip of TV shows which all started in the same year. They are asked 2 questions about certain parts of the clip and a further point for guessing the correct year.

Round 3: Thingy Off The Telly

Each team tries to guess a person who has been on the TV from a particular TV show, hence they're called the "Thingy Off The Telly". They can ask as many Yes/No questions as they want until Steve passes it over to the other team.

Round 4: TV Gold/TV Lists

Round 4 was either a game called "TV Gold", in which the team is shown a clip from a TV show and have to answer 3 related questions about the show or another game called "TV Lists" where the studio audience are asked which of 9 people or things from a certain category they like the best. The team then has to work out the audience top 3, then the audience top 1.

Round 5: Name That Show

The teams are shown pictures of TV shows and have to buzz in when they can identify them. They get 2 points for a correct answer, but 1 is deducted for an incorrect answer. Whoever is in the lead at the end of the round wins the show.

Episodes

  – Indicates Fern's team won.
  – Indicates Jason's team won.
IndexAir dateFern's guestsScoreJason's guests
s01-0117 July 2009 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Tina Hobley 15–14 Pauline Quirke, Lauren Laverne
s01-0223 July 2009 Rufus Hound, Diane Parish 17–6 Kate Garraway, John Craven
s01-0330 July 2009 Peter Serafinowicz, James Martin 9–22 Debra Stephenson, Michelle Collins
s01-046 August 2009 Danny Wallace, Sally Lindsay 19–3 Jo Joyner, Marshall Lancaster
s01-0513 August 2009 Richard Fleeshman, Anton du Beke 10–11 Melanie Sykes, Christopher Biggins
s01-0620 August 2009 Bradley Walsh, Hardeep Singh Kohli 22–15 Arlene Phillips, Dermot Murnaghan
s01-0727 August 2009 Dom Joly, Joe Pasquale 9–12 Angela Griffin, Eamonn Holmes
s01-083 September 2009 Laurie Brett, James Fleet 7–12 Jodie Prenger, Clare Balding

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References

  1. Jane Simon (17 July 2009). "As Seen on TV BBC1, 8.30pm". Mirror.
  2. "A quick chat with Steve Jones". What's on TV. 10 July 2009.