''Brain Box'' is a live, interactive quiz show, showing in

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and the

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on UTV, and in Scotland on STV, airing every night, beginning after midnight. The quiz show launched on UTV in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland on Monday 3 August 2009, and on STV in Scotland just over a year later, on Thursday 19 August 2010. The show began airing on

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in the Republic of Ireland on 9 September 2010, just 7 months after the axing of the controversial '' Play TV''. The channel ceased transmission of the programme just a week later, without explanation. ''Brain Box'' is a commercial presentation, by NetPlay TV – in association with

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. Although broadcast only in Scotland and Ireland, the show was actually produced at

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in London, England (also previously used by ''

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'').

Reception

The Belfast Telegraph's Gail Walker said that "UTV's ''Brainbox'' (possibly the worst, most cynical local programme ever made) is an appallingly fascinating thing" and filled with "brushwood-rolling silent airtime" and that its only agenda was "to keep callers phoning in". On Tuesday 8 February 2011, presenter David Johnson announced that ''BrainBox'' would end its series on 12 February 2011.

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