Panel show
A panel show or panel game is a
Format
While many early panel shows stuck to the traditional quiz show format in which celebrities tried to get the right answers and win, the primary goal of modern panel shows is to entertain the audience with comedy, with the game or quiz structure providing subjects for the comedians to joke about.
Panel shows can have any number of themes. Many are topical and
Some panel shows are variations of classic parlor games.
Frequently, a panel show features recurring panelists or permanent team captains, and some panelists appear on multiple panel shows.[9] Most shows are recorded before a studio audience.
International production
United States
The first known example of a panel show in the world is the radio program
U.S. panel shows transferred to television early in the medium's history, with the first known example being
TV panel shows saw their peak of popularity in the 1950s and '60s, when
Later years saw several successes in the format, with
In 2015, ABC announced primetime revivals for Match Game and To Tell the Truth.[23] From 2013 to 2017, Comedy Central aired @midnight, an internet culture and social media-themed panel game which used a more quiz show-styled presentation—with the celebrity guests buzzing in to earn points for punchlines and responses in various segments.[24][25] In 2024, a reboot of the show, now titled After Midnight and hosted by Taylor Tomlinson, premiered on CBS.[26]
United Kingdom
Panel shows are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they have found continued success since the
The British version of
The modern British panel show format of TV comedy quizzes started with in 2000.
After HIGNFY's success, panel shows proliferated on British TV. Notable example include QI on various BBC channels since 2003, Mock the Week on BBC Two from 2005 to 2022, 8 Out of 10 Cats on Channel 4 since 2005, Would I Lie to You? on BBC One since 2007, and the annual special, The Big Fat Quiz of the Year on Channel 4 since 2004.
On the radio, The News Quiz, Just a Minute, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and The Unbelievable Truth are among the most popular and long-running panel shows, all of which air on BBC Radio 4.
British comedy panel shows feature mainly male guests. A 2016 study that analysed 4,700 episodes from 1967 to 2016 found that 1,488 of them had an all-male lineup, and only one an all-female cast. The proportion of women rose from 3% in 1989 to 31% in 2016.[33]
Australia
New Zealand
Currently running New Zealand panel shows include the news quiz
Canada
CBC Radio One currently broadcasts two long-running radio panel shows: The Debaters, which debuted in 2006, and Because News, which debuted in 2015.
In 2022, Noovo began broadcasting Le maître du jeu, a local French language adaptation of Taskmaster.
Former Shows
In 2014,
France
Germany
German panel shows include 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe ("7 Days, 7 Heads"), Genial daneben ("Idiot Savant"), Kopfball ("Headball"), Die Montagsmaler ("Pictionary"), Noch Besserwissen ("Even Better Knowledge"), Pssst … (similar to I've Got A Secret), Die Pyramide (the German version of Pyramid), Quizfire, Sag die Wahrheit ("Tell the Truth", the German version of To Tell the Truth), Typisch Frau – Typisch Mann ("Typical Woman – Typical Man"), Was bin ich? ("What am I?", the German version of What's My Line?) and Was denkt Deutschland? ("What Does Germany Think?").
Japan
Early Japanese panel shows include 話の泉 ("Source of the Story"), based on Information Please on NHK Radio 1 from 1946 to 1964; 二十の扉 ("Twenty Doors"), based on Twenty Questions on NHK Radio 1 from 1947 to 1960; ジェスチャー ("Gestures"), a charades show on NHK General TV from 1953 to 1968; and 私の秘密 ("My Secret"), based on I've Got a Secret on NHK General TV from 1956 to 1967.
Currently, a wide variety of Japanese variety shows are popular, and many of them feature owarai comedians, Japanese idols, and other celebrities playing games.
Some games involve bizarre physical stunts.
Other shows include 日本語探Qバラエティ クイズ!それマジ!?ニッポン ("Is it really!?"), a celebrity word game; くりぃむクイズ ミラクル9 ("Miracle 9"), a show somewhat similar to Hollywood Squares; Numer0n, a celebrity numbers game; and オールスター感謝祭 ("All Star Thanksgiving"), a semi-annual celebrity quiz. There are many other games featuring celebrities within Japan's variety genre.
Prime Minister Ōta is a show featuring many comedians and politicians debating fictional proposals in a sort of game show version of a legislative chamber.
Examples
- Front Page Challenge
- Good News Week
- Hollywood Game Night
- Hollywood Squares
- It's News to Me
- I've Got a Secret
- Match Game
- Password
- Says You!
- Spicks and Specks
- The Debaters
- The Marriage Ref
- To Tell the Truth
- Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!
- What's My Line?
See also
References
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In the old days, quizzes and panel games were easy to tell apart, because quiz competitors were people you'd never heard of, and panellists were more or less well-known figures. More recently, though, the rise of the celebrity quiz has complicated the picture.
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Skillful chefs of television cooked up a panel show called "What's My Line?" more than a decade ago. ... Now still another variation of the good old recipe has been launched, "The Match Game."
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The daily "Hollywood Squares" series is a tic-tac-toe game with a panel of nine performers...
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Apparently romance finally bloomed on a panel show—but in truth "Password" had little or nothing to do with it.
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