Show Me the Telly
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| Genre | Game show |
| Presented by | Richard Bacon |
| Starring | Chris Tarrant (team captain) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
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| Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company(s) | Shiver Productions |
| Distributor | ITV Studios |
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| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 25 November – 20 December 2013 |
Show Me the Telly was a British game show that aired on ITV from 25 November to 20 December 2013 and was hosted by Richard Bacon with Chris Tarrant as team captain.
The game consists of four rounds; the first three rounds see the 'TV Lovers' compete with the 'TV Legends' in order to win additional time for the fourth round; the fourth round then sees one of the 'TV Lovers' compete against the clock to win the daily £3,000 prize.
The first round, Switch On, is a clip-based round. An on-the-buzzer question is asked to the team captains to determine the order of play. The teams then alternately pick from six programme categories given. Behind each category is a programme clip, and this is followed by three questions - though they are not necessarily always directly related to the clip shown (for instance, episode one featured a clip from Made in Chelsea followed by questions about The Valleys and The Only Way is Essex). Each player plays once in this round, and if the total score (out of nine questions given) achieved by the 'TV Lovers' exceeds that of the 'TV Legends', ten seconds are added to the time for the endgame; if the 'TV Legends' beat or equal the Lovers' score, no time is added.
The second round is played in three parts, each worth five seconds added to the endgame if the 'TV Lovers' can better the score achieved by the 'TV Legends'.
The first part of the game sees a board of six options shown, and the teams alternately pick one of the options and give the appropriate answer. For instance, the six options may be TV catchphrases, and the players have to give the character or show that the phrase is associated with; other versions of this game have asked contestants to fill in missing words in programme titles, or to determine whether a programme title given really existed as a programme. If the Lovers get more right than the Legends, five seconds are added to the endgame. At the end of this game, a clip from one of the featured shows or stars is played.
The second round is a clips-based round: each team gets a clip and associated question, for instance working out which programme, personality or event a series of people taking part in vox pops are talking about, or determining which musician a Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes contestant is going to perform as. If the Lovers answer correctly and the Legends are wrong, five seconds are added to the endgame.
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