Countdown is a British game show involving word and mathematical tasks that began airing in November 1982. It is broadcast on Channel 4 and is most recently presented by Colin Murray, assisted by Rachel Riley with lexicographer Susie Dent. It was the first programme to be broadcast on Channel 4 and 90 series have been broadcast since its debut on 2 November 1982. With over 8,000 episodes, Countdown is one of Britain's longest-running game shows; the original French version, Des chiffres et des lettres, ran on French television almost continuously from 1965 until 2024.
Independent Television News (ITN) is a UK-based media production and broadcast journalism company. ITN is based in London, with bureaux and offices in Beijing, Brussels, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, New York, Paris, Sydney and Washington, D.C.
Blockbusters is a British television quiz show based upon an American quiz show of the same name. A solo player and a team of two answer trivia questions, clued up with an initial letter of the answer, to complete a path across or down a game board of hexagons.
Through the Keyhole is a British comedy panel game show created by the TV producer Kevin Sim and originally presented by Sir David Frost in the studio and Loyd Grossman on location. The location presenter goes around celebrities' houses and a panel of other celebrities in the studio try to guess who the famous homeowner is.
Bullseye is a British darts-themed television game show created by Andrew Wood and Norman Vaughan. The show features three pairs of contestants, each consisting of an amateur darts player and a quizzer, competing in darts games and quizzes to win cash and prizes.
Alastair James Stewart OBE is an English former journalist and newscaster.
International Gladiators 2 was the second international competition of the Gladiators franchise, consisting of seven episodes. The series was filmed at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham during spring 1996.
Gladiators: The Ashes 2 was the second Ashes series for Australian Gladiators and UK Gladiators. This was the final series in the original Australian series.
International Gladiators 1 was the first international competition of the Gladiators franchise, consisting of seven episodes. Held at the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, England, the competition pitted contenders and Gladiators from the United States, the United Kingdom (Gladiators), Finland (Gladiaattorit) and Russia, who did not have a domestic series at the time of production, against one another.
Gladiators: The Ashes 1 was the first Ashes series for Australian Gladiators and UK Gladiators.
The Chase is a British television quiz show broadcast on the ITV network, hosted by Bradley Walsh. Contestants play against a professional quizzer, known as the "chaser", who attempts to prevent them from winning a cash prize.
Diagonal View is a Multi Channel Network founded in March 2008 by Matt Heiman and Steve Carey, together with ITN. Unlike many other MCNs who are primary aggregators of content, Diagonal View own and produce the majority of their own videos. A platform agnostic company, their content can be viewed on YouTube, Facebook, Vessel, AOL amongst others. With separate teams working on different platforms, they are thought to be the largest digital content producer outside of the US.
Gladiators: Springbok Challenge 1 was the first Springbok Challenge series for South African Gladiators and UK Gladiators.
The fourth series of Gladiators aired in the UK from 16 September to 23 December 1995. The prizes in this series were the £14,000 prize money once again, but the grand champions also received a holiday on Paradise Island in The Bahamas as well as a four-wheel drive off-the-road family vehicle for each of them. Nissan provided the prize vehicles for this series, with two Sunny Traveller cars on display in Gladiator Arena during the final.
The seventh and penultimate series of Gladiators aired in the UK from 5 September to 12 December 1998.
The third series of Gladiators aired in the UK from 3 September to 31 December 1994. Once again, the grand champions split £10,000 while the runners-up split £4,000. In addition, the grand champions also won the right to take part in the 1995 International Gladiators competition that would air on ITV the following spring, as well as each receiving a Jeep Wrangler four-wheel drive off-the-road vehicle.
The fifth series of Gladiators aired in the UK from 28 September 1996 to 11 January 1997. The prizes in this series included a holiday at Sun City in South Africa for the runners-up with £1,000 for each of them to spend there, while the winners each received £1,000 for themselves along with a luxury four-wheel drive off-the-road family vehicle, which this season was the Ford Maverick SUV.
The second series of Gladiators aired in the UK from 28 August 1993 to 1 January 1994. Like the previous series, the Grand Final had £14,000 to be split among the finalists. However, the grand champions also won a trip to Hollywood to compete against the American Gladiators along with a holiday in Barbados with their partner.
The sixth series of Gladiators aired in the UK from 13 September to 27 December 1997. It was originally planned to begin on 6 September 1997, but was postponed by a week following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and ITV's decision to broadcast a non-entertainment schedule that evening.
Anything More Would Be Greedy is a six-part British television comedy-drama miniseries was written and created by Malcolm Bradbury and directed by Rodney Bennett, this series was produced by Anglia Television for the ITV Network, first aired on ITV from 26 July to 30 August 1989. The drama was narrated by Simon Cadell and it stars Martin Wenner, Sharon Holm, Alison Sterling, Robert Bathurst, Tessa Peake-Jones, Matthew Marsh and Christopher Benjamin. The series begins as the story of a group of Cambridge students and their lives in the ten years following their graduation.
