Shopping on line can be easy, simple and save you lots of money. It can also take a lot of your time, frustrate you, and result in unwanted purchases. Now the same can be said for regular high street shopping, but with the vast opportunity presented by the Internet it will pay you to spend a few minutes reading this and understanding how to better optimize your Game Show shopping experience:
1. Compare - without doubt the biggest advantage that the Game Show offers shoppers today is the ability to compare thousands of Game Show at a time. This is a great thing, but not necessarily all the time! Too much can be daunting at times so take advantage of the great comparison sites and where possible let them do the hard work for you.
2. Research - if it has been said it will be on the internet. Ignorance is no longer a justifiable reason for buying the wrong thing. Take the time to research in detail everything that you could possible want to know about
3. Testimonials - don't know anybody that has bought a Game Show? Wrong! If the Game Show is good the internet will let you know. Use the Internet as a friend and get testimonials before you buy.
4. Questions - Got a question about Game Show then search the Forums, FAQ's, Blogs etc. Don't be afraid to ask .....
5. Reputation - Never heard of the company selling Game Show? Don't worry, no reason why you should know every company in the world, but you know someone that does! Use the internet to find out what people are saying about Game Show and build up a picture of their reputation for sales, returns, customer service, delivery etc.
6. Returns - still worried that even after all of the above your Game Show wont be what you want? Check out the returns policy. There is so much competition now that someone, somewhere is bound to offer the terms that you are comfortable with.
7. Feedback - happy with your Game Show then let people know, after all you are depending on others people input in your buying decision, so why not give a little back.
8. Security - check for the yellow padlock on the Game Show site before you buy, and the s after http:/ /i.e. https:// = a secure site
9. Contact - got a question about Game Show, or want to leave a comment then check out the sites contact page. Reputable companies have them and respond.
10. Payment - ready to pay for your Game Show, then use your credit card or PayPal! Be aware of companies that don't accept them, there may be genuine reasons but given the huge amount of choice you have when buying online there is no reason at all not to buy via credit card or PayPal.
A
game show involves members of the public or
celebrity, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes. In some shows contestants compete against other players or another team whilst other shows involve contestants striving alone for a good outcome or high score. Game shows often reward players with prizes such as cash, or holidays and goods and services provided by the show's sponsors. Early television game shows descended from similar programs on broadcast
radio.
Game shows around the world
Argentina
- Buena Fortuna
- Ta Te Show (Argentine version of Hollywood Squares) (1992-1996)
Australia
Belgium
While Belgium has three main languages, most of their game shows tend to be in Dutch. One notable exception is an adaptation of
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire on RTL-TVI, which is a French-language station. There is also a Dutch-language version which airs on
VTM.
- De Canvascrack
- De Drie Wijzen
- De IQ Quiz
- De Pappenheimers
- Qui Sera Millionaire (French-Belgian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, one of the few game shows in Belgium in French, and not Dutch)
- Rap Klap (Dutch-Belgian version of Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak/Ruck Zuck)
- Wie Wordt Miljonair (Dutch-Belgian version of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire)
Brazil
Bulgaria
- 10/64 - prime-time Q&A, on Kanal 1
- Bum (show) (Boom) - Q&A, on Evrokom
- Kosherut (The Hive) - game show, on Msat TV
- Minuta e mnogo (A Minute Is Too Much) - Q&A show with higher difficulty of the questions, on Kanal 1
- Sdelka ili ne (Deal or No Deal, literally "Deal or Not") - a version of the successful European game show, on Nova televiziya
- Koy iska da stani bogat (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire) - a version of the popular Q&A, on Nova televiziya, almost always referred to as just "Stani bogat" by Bulgarians
- Treska za zlato (GOld Fever) - lotto, on bTV (TV)
- Vot na doverie (Vote of Confidence) - show that often features celebrities, on bTV (TV)
Canada
Canada game and quiz shows (at least the English-language ones) have often been aimed towards children and teenagers between the ages of six and 19. A majority of these game shows often run for 30 minutes in each episode.
They are often derived of its formats from game shows that are produced in the
United States, having most of them been run on Canadian networks such as
CTV Television Network, Global and
Citytv. One of the only actual English prime time game shows to air on
Canadian television is
Deal or No Deal Canada.
Although
United States game and quiz shows are popular in Canada, Canadian residents are not eligible to be contestants on most of them, Jeopardy! being one exception. Unlike in the United States, game show winnings in Canada are not subject to income tax (actually, most countries sans US are not subject to income tax).
There are very few Canadian adaptaions of American, British, and Dutch-originated quiz shows in the English language. Most, like versions of
The Price Is Right,
Wheel of Fortune,
Jeopardy!, and
Family Feud, are in French. The only known English-language versions of these shows are versions of
Deal or No Deal,
Supermarket Sweep,
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? , and the upcoming Canadian version of
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?. There is also a French-language version of
Deal or No Deal. Most of the game shows that air in Canada and that are in English are the US game shows.
Czech Republic
Chile
- Sábado Gigante
- El rival más débil (Chilean version of The Weakest Link)
- Trato Hecho, now ¡Allá Tú! (Deal or no Deal)
- ¿Quién quiere ser millonario?, now ¿Quién merece ser millonario (Who Wants to be a Millionaire?)
- Desafío Familiar (Family Feud)
- ¿Quién soy Yo? (What's My Line?)
- La Rueda de la Fortuna (Wheel of Fortune)
- ¿Cuánto vale el show?
- El Tiempo es Oro
- Atrévase otra vez
- Superdupla
- El Último Pasajero
Finland
Original Finnish ideas
- Far Out (game show) (Game show where two teams did tasks in several European cities. The winner team of the week (voted by the TV audience) got to a different city for the following week, the losers had to come back to Finland)
- Tuttu juttu (game show full of roses and love about knowing your life partner)
- Suuri kupla (children's game show about the world of comics)
- Maailman ympäri (geographical quiz show)
- SF-Studio (entertaining quiz show about the latest news)
- Giljotiini (quiz show where you need to know who doesn't know)
- Reitti 44 (trip around the world in two teams, including tasks)
- Retsi ja Jykke (quiz show, followed by spin-off shows by the same team, until the death of Jyrki Otila (Jykke))
- Räsypokka (strip poker show)
Finnish versions of international series
- Uutisvuoto (Finnish version of Have I Got News for You)
- Haluatko miljonääriksi? (Finnish version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?)
- Heikoin Lenkki (Finnish version of The Weakest Link)
- Greed(game show)
- Mitä Maksaa (Finnish version of The Price is Right)
- Voitto kotiin (Finnish version of Family Feud)
- Onnenpyörä (Finnish version of Wheel of Fortune)
- Napakymppi (Finnish version of The Dating Game, not considered officially as the same program in the first years of the show, but eventually the producers admitted the resemblance)
- Tuntemattomat (Finnish version of Identity, coming in 2008)
France
- Le Chevalier Du Labyrinthe
- Cresus
- Le Juste Prix (French version of The Price is Right)
- Des chiffres et des lettres
- Fort Boyard
- Les Jeux de Vingt Heures
- Le Maillon Faible (French version of The Weakest Link)
- Pyramide
- La Roue de la Fortune (French version of Wheel of Fortune)
- Une Famille en or (French version of Family Feud)
- Qui veut gagner des millions? (French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?)
- A Prendre ou à Laisser (French version of Deal or not to Deal)
Germany
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Japan
Mexico
Panama
Philippines
ABS CBN
- 1 vs. 100
- Kapamilya, Deal or No Deal
- Pilipinas, Game KNB?
- Wowowee
- Game Na Game Na
- Games Uplate Live!
GMA
ABC
Q (Quality Television)
IBC
RPN
- Family Kwarta o Kahon
- Battle of the Brains
- Spin-A-Win
- Super Suerte sa 9
Studio 23
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Russia
Russian quiz, game & dating shows
Russian reality shows
Serbia
South Africa
Spain
- El gran juego de la oca (The Big Goose Game - 1993-1995, 1998)
- El Precio Justo
- El Rescate Del Talisman
- La Ruleta de la Suerte (Spanish version of Wheel of Fortune)
- Decision Final (Spanish version of Russian Roulette)
- Waku Waku (TV show)
- Un Dos Tres
- Alta Tension (Spanish version of Wipeout)
Thailand
- Fan Pan Tae (Channel 5) (September 1st, 2000 - Present)
- Tod Sa Gun Game(or Who's that) (Channel 9) (April 1st, 2003 - Present)
- Ching Roi Ching Lan (Channel 7) (1990 - Present)
- Black Box (gameshow) (Channel 3) (January 1st, 2005 - Present)
- Game Jarachon (Channel 5) (April 1998 - March 2005)
- One Night Genius (Channel 3) (July 3rd, 2006 - Present)
- Khun Jum Nean (Channel 5) (October 4th, 2003 - December 24th, 2004)
- Stop Time (Channel 5) (October 2nd, 2001 - January 11th, 2003)
- Game Zone (Channel 9) (1997 - September 28th, 2002)
- Game Settee (Channel ITV) (March 4th, 2000 - Present)
- Game Wat Doung (Channel 5) (2001 - Present)
- Ma Tam Nat (Channel 3) (1984 - 1995)
- 4 tor 4 Family Game (Channel 3) (2001 - 2007)
- 07 Show (Channel 7) (? - Present)
- The Weakest Link#Thailand(orThe Weakest Link) (Channel 3) (February 7th, 2002 - December 26th, 2002)
- Deal or No Deal (Thailand) (Channel 3) (2005)
- Pick Lock (Channel 3) (1987 - 1990)
United Kingdom
United States
Venezuela
See also
External links
- – An active listing of links to websites about game shows.
A
game show involves members of the public or
celebrity, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes. In some shows contestants compete against other players or another team whilst other shows involve contestants striving alone for a good outcome or high score. Game shows often reward players with prizes such as cash, or holidays and goods and services provided by the show's sponsors. Early television game shows descended from similar programs on broadcast radio.
Game shows around the world
Argentina
- Buena Fortuna
- Ta Te Show (Argentine version of Hollywood Squares) (1992-1996)
Australia
Belgium
While Belgium has three main languages, most of their game shows tend to be in Dutch. One notable exception is an adaptation of
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire on RTL-TVI, which is a French-language station. There is also a Dutch-language version which airs on
VTM.
- De Canvascrack
- De Drie Wijzen
- De IQ Quiz
- De Pappenheimers
- Qui Sera Millionaire (French-Belgian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, one of the few game shows in Belgium in French, and not Dutch)
- Rap Klap (Dutch-Belgian version of Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak/Ruck Zuck)
- Wie Wordt Miljonair (Dutch-Belgian version of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire)
Brazil
Bulgaria
- 10/64 - prime-time Q&A, on Kanal 1
- Bum (show) (Boom) - Q&A, on Evrokom
- Kosherut (The Hive) - game show, on Msat TV
- Minuta e mnogo (A Minute Is Too Much) - Q&A show with higher difficulty of the questions, on Kanal 1
- Sdelka ili ne (Deal or No Deal, literally "Deal or Not") - a version of the successful European game show, on Nova televiziya
- Koy iska da stani bogat (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire) - a version of the popular Q&A, on Nova televiziya, almost always referred to as just "Stani bogat" by Bulgarians
- Treska za zlato (GOld Fever) - lotto, on bTV (TV)
- Vot na doverie (Vote of Confidence) - show that often features celebrities, on bTV (TV)
Canada
Canada game and quiz shows (at least the English-language ones) have often been aimed towards children and teenagers between the ages of six and 19. A majority of these game shows often run for 30 minutes in each episode.
They are often derived of its formats from game shows that are produced in the
United States, having most of them been run on
Canadian networks such as
CTV Television Network,
Global and
Citytv. One of the only actual English prime time game shows to air on
Canadian television is
Deal or No Deal Canada.
Although United States game and quiz shows are popular in Canada, Canadian residents are not eligible to be contestants on most of them, Jeopardy! being one exception. Unlike in the United States, game show winnings in Canada are not subject to
income tax (actually, most countries sans US are not subject to income tax).
There are very few Canadian adaptaions of American, British, and Dutch-originated quiz shows in the English language. Most, like versions of
The Price Is Right,
Wheel of Fortune,
Jeopardy!, and
Family Feud, are in French. The only known English-language versions of these shows are versions of
Deal or No Deal,
Supermarket Sweep,
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? , and the upcoming Canadian version of
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?. There is also a French-language version of
Deal or No Deal. Most of the game shows that air in Canada and that are in English are the US game shows.
Czech Republic
Chile
- Sábado Gigante
- El rival más débil (Chilean version of The Weakest Link)
- Trato Hecho, now ¡Allá Tú! (Deal or no Deal)
- ¿Quién quiere ser millonario?, now ¿Quién merece ser millonario (Who Wants to be a Millionaire?)
- Desafío Familiar (Family Feud)
- ¿Quién soy Yo? (What's My Line?)
- La Rueda de la Fortuna (Wheel of Fortune)
- ¿Cuánto vale el show?
- El Tiempo es Oro
- Atrévase otra vez
- Superdupla
- El Último Pasajero
Finland
Original Finnish ideas
- Far Out (game show) (Game show where two teams did tasks in several European cities. The winner team of the week (voted by the TV audience) got to a different city for the following week, the losers had to come back to Finland)
- Tuttu juttu (game show full of roses and love about knowing your life partner)
- Suuri kupla (children's game show about the world of comics)
- Maailman ympäri (geographical quiz show)
- SF-Studio (entertaining quiz show about the latest news)
- Giljotiini (quiz show where you need to know who doesn't know)
- Reitti 44 (trip around the world in two teams, including tasks)
- Retsi ja Jykke (quiz show, followed by spin-off shows by the same team, until the death of Jyrki Otila (Jykke))
- Räsypokka (strip poker show)
Finnish versions of international series
- Uutisvuoto (Finnish version of Have I Got News for You)
- Haluatko miljonääriksi? (Finnish version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?)
- Heikoin Lenkki (Finnish version of The Weakest Link)
- Greed(game show)
- Mitä Maksaa (Finnish version of The Price is Right)
- Voitto kotiin (Finnish version of Family Feud)
- Onnenpyörä (Finnish version of Wheel of Fortune)
- Napakymppi (Finnish version of The Dating Game, not considered officially as the same program in the first years of the show, but eventually the producers admitted the resemblance)
- Tuntemattomat (Finnish version of Identity, coming in 2008)
France
Germany
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
- 5/5 (Israeli version of Hot Streak)
- Deal or No Deal (Isreal)
- Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
- Galgal Hamazal
- The Weakest link
- Project Y (Big Brother)
- 1 vs. 100
Japan
- Za Gaman
- Hey! Spring of Trivia
- Takeshi's Castle
- The Weakest Link (2002)
- Kuizu $ Mirionea (Japanese version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? )
- The Deal (Japanese game show) (Japanese version of Deal or No Deal)
- Panel Quiz Attack 25
- Viking: The Ultimate Obstacle Course
- Sasuke (Broadcast in U.S. as Ninja Warrior)
Mexico
- 100 Mexicanos Dijeron (Mexican version of Family Feud) (2001-2005)
- The Price is Right (Mexican version of The Price Is Right) (1997-2001)
- ¡Buenas Tardes! (2006-present)
- Espacio en Blanco
- En Familia con Chabelo
- Factor Miedo (Mexican version of Fear Factor)
- Jeopardy!
- Picardía Mexicána
- Weakest Link (Mexican version of The Weakest Link)
- Sexos en Guerra
- La Rueda De La Fortuna (Mexican version of Wheel of Fortune)
- the chair
- Vas o No Vas (Mexican game show) (Mexican version of Deal or No Deal) (2004-2006)
Panama
Philippines
ABS CBN
GMA
ABC
Q (Quality Television)
IBC
RPN
- Family Kwarta o Kahon
- Battle of the Brains
- Spin-A-Win
- Super Suerte sa 9
Studio 23
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Russia
Russian quiz, game & dating shows
Russian reality shows
- 12 Negrityat
- Bol'shoj Brat (Russian version of Big Brother)
- Dom (reality show)
- Fabrika Zvyozd (or "Star Factory")
- Golod
- Kandidat (Russian version of The Apprentice)
- Klub Byvshikh Zhen
- Narodnyj Artist(Russian version of American idol)
- Nastoyaschij Muzhchina
- Posledniy Geroy (Russian version of Survivor)
- Sem' Pod Solncem
- Serdce Afriki (Another version of Survivor)
- Vozmozhnosti Plasticheskoj Khirurgii
Serbia
South Africa
Spain
Thailand
- Fan Pan Tae (Channel 5) (September 1st, 2000 - Present)
- Tod Sa Gun Game(or Who's that) (Channel 9) (April 1st, 2003 - Present)
- Ching Roi Ching Lan (Channel 7) (1990 - Present)
- Black Box (gameshow) (Channel 3) (January 1st, 2005 - Present)
- Game Jarachon (Channel 5) (April 1998 - March 2005)
- One Night Genius (Channel 3) (July 3rd, 2006 - Present)
- Khun Jum Nean (Channel 5) (October 4th, 2003 - December 24th, 2004)
- Stop Time (Channel 5) (October 2nd, 2001 - January 11th, 2003)
- Game Zone (Channel 9) (1997 - September 28th, 2002)
- Game Settee (Channel ITV) (March 4th, 2000 - Present)
- Game Wat Doung (Channel 5) (2001 - Present)
- Ma Tam Nat (Channel 3) (1984 - 1995)
- 4 tor 4 Family Game (Channel 3) (2001 - 2007)
- 07 Show (Channel 7) (? - Present)
- The Weakest Link#Thailand(orThe Weakest Link) (Channel 3) (February 7th, 2002 - December 26th, 2002)
- Deal or No Deal (Thailand) (Channel 3) (2005)
- Pick Lock (Channel 3) (1987 - 1990)
United Kingdom
United States
Venezuela
See also
External links
- – An active listing of links to websites about game shows.
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