Quizmania (Australia)
| Quizmania | |
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| Created by |
Debbie King Chuck Thomas Simone Thorogood |
| Starring |
Katrina Conder Nikki Osborne Amy Parks Suze Raymond Brodie Young Two hosts per episode Mondays - Wednesdays; three hosts per episode on Fridays and Saturdays |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 207 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | FremantleMedia Australia |
| Running time | 180 minutes Mondays - Wednesdays 240 minutes Fridays and Saturdays (including commercials) |
| Production company(s) | Crackerjack Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | Nine Network |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Original release | 25 July 2006 – 24 June 2007 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | The Mint (Australia) |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Quizmania was an Australian phone-in quiz show, based on the British program of the same name, and broadcast on the Nine Network in the late night time slot (post-midnight). The show was produced from Nine's Richmond studios in Melbourne. Its main Director was Rick Maslan.
Quizmania was first broadcast live on Nine Network stations GTV, TCN, QTQ, and NTD, and affiliates NBN and WIN Television on 25 July 2006. The show was unique in that it was broadcast live to South Australia, Western Australia, and Northern Territory with the presenters welcoming all three states to the show half an hour after it started, due to all three states being thirty minutes behind the Australian east coast. Similarly during daylight saving months, Queensland viewers were welcomed an hour later when the broadcast began in that state.
Sometimes due to varying program schedules in each capital city or regional area, some cities and/or areas did not broadcast Quizmania while other cities and/or areas still received the broadcast.
Only contestants aged 18 or over were allowed to participate. Underage callers were a regular occurrence on the show especially during school holidays.
When it first aired on Tuesday 25 July 2006, Quizmania was to soon run in direct competition with the established The Up-Late Game Show on Channel Ten, returning a week later on Monday 31 July, after the 2006 Big Brother series had ended with its UpLate late-night show finished. A few days after, Seven Network introduced a similar phone-in quiz show, Midnight Zoo. Both competing programmes soon ceased broadcasting – Midnight Zoo only lasted three months. Quizmania remained on air for the longest period.
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