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Big Game TV (stylised as BIG Game TV!) was a live phone-in
quiz channel A quiz channel (also known as a participation television channel) is a television channel that focuses on phone-in quizzes. The quizzes usually focus on puzzles, such as filling in blanks, identifying subjects, or other forms of word puzzles. Th ...
that was broadcast via Sky Broadcasting in 2005. It released a spin-off, ''The Hallmark Channel Quiz'' on 6 March 2006, which was shown on The
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. The show used only three of the presenters. Big Game TV Productions added
The Daily Quiz! The Daily Quiz! was a live, phone-in quiz channel, previously a TV programme, which was showing on ITV Play (Freeview channel 35) and also on Men & Motors (Sky Digital channel 131) from 3pm-6pm seven days a week. Two presenters were in the stu ...
13 March 2006. This show aired on
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and on
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seven days a week and featured a selection of Big Game TV's presenters.
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ended their involvement with Big Game TV due to
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allegations in May 2006.


Controversy

Big Game TV was the subject of a
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investigation brought by the
BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...
programme ''You and Yours'' in May 2006 over allegations that receptionists were told to ignore all incoming calls for long periods of time while 150-200 calls per minute were charged 75p each.BIG Game TV - The Fraud Squad Raids
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for the
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programme You and Yours, broadcast 19 May 2006, retrieved 27 May 2006. The channel was later called before a parliamentary committee.
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removed the channel from their channel line-up on 7 June.ntl remove Big Game TV from channel line up
by Cable Forum, created 7 June 2006, retrieved 7 June 2006. The channel closed down entirely after leaving Sky in early 2007, after some bad press for the call-TV industry.


Presenters

* Natasha Powell *
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*Kat Shoob *
Georgina Burnett Georgina Burnett (born 7 December 1978) is an Australian-born British television presenter. Early life Burnett was born on 7 December 1978 in Sydney, Australia. When she was three years old, her family moved to the United Kingdom, settling in ...
* Jim Brooman * Matt Cuttle *
Keith Price Keith Price (born June 28, 1991) is a former American football quarterback. He played college football at Washington, where he was the starting quarterback from 2011 to 2013. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Seattle Seahawks i ...


Voiceover

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Mitch Johnson (announcer) Mitchell Allen Johnson (born March 1, 1942) is a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins, Los Angeles Rams and Cleveland Browns. He played college football at UCLA. ...


References

{{reflist Quiz channels in the United Kingdom Defunct British television channels Phone-in quiz shows Television channels and stations established in 2005