A panel show or panel game is a

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in which a panel of celebrities participates. Celebrity panelists may compete with each other, such as on ''

The News Quiz ''The News Quiz'' is a British topical panel game broadcast on BBC Radio 4. History ''The News Quiz'' was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as chairman. Subsequently, it was chaired by Barry Took from 1979 to 1981, Simon Hoggart f ...

''; facilitate play by non-celebrity contestants, such as on '' Match Game'' and '' Blankety Blank''; or do both, such as on ''

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me ''Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'' is an hour-long weekly news radio panel show produced by WBEZ and National Public Radio (NPR) in Chicago, Illinois. On the program, panelists and contestants are quizzed in humorous ways about that week's news ...

''. The genre can be traced to 1938, when ''

Information Please ''Information Please'' is an American radio quiz show, created by Dan Golenpaul, which aired on NBC from May 17, 1938, to April 22, 1951. The title was the contemporary phrase used to request from telephone operators what was then called "inf ...

'' debuted on U.S. radio. The earliest known television panel show is '' Play the Game'', a

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show in 1946. The modern trend of comedy panel shows can find early roots with '' Stop Me If You've Heard This One'' in 1939 and '' Can You Top This?'' in 1940. While panel shows were more popular in the past in the U.S., they are still very common in the

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Format

Whats My Line original television panel 1952

While many early panel shows stuck to the traditional quiz show format in which celebrities tried to get the right answers and win, the primary goal of modern panel shows is to entertain the audience with comedy, with the game or quiz structure providing subjects for the comedians to joke about. Panel shows also feature comedic banter, friendly ribbing and camaraderie among the panelists. Scoring is often deemphasised in panel shows. The American version of '' Whose Line Is It Anyway?'' acknowledged this with the introduction, "Welcome to ''Whose Line Is It Anyway'', the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter." '' QIs opaque scoring system is purportedly a mystery even to its creator, ''

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue ''I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue'' is a BBC radio comedy panel game. Billed as "the antidote to panel games", it consists of two teams of two comedians being given "silly things to do" by a chairman. The show was launched in April 1972 as a pa ...

'' dispenses with points altogether, and many other shows mention points only occasionally or at the end, instead of continuously displaying scores in front of players. Panel shows can have any number of themes. Many are topical and

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, such as '' Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'', '' Have I Got News for You'', ''

'' and '' Mock The Week''. '' 8 Out of 10 Cats'' is based on

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ing; '' What's My Line?'' is about occupations; '' Never Mind the Buzzcocks'' and '' Face the Music'' center on

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; '' A League of Their Own'', '' A Question of Sport'' and '' They Think It's All Over'' are

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s-themed; '' Was It Something I Said?'', '' Quote... Unquote'' and '' Who Said That?'' feature

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s; '' My Word!'' involves

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; ''

I've Got a Secret ''I've Got a Secret'' is an American panel game show produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. Created by comedy writers Allan Sherman and Howard Merrill, it was a derivative of Goodson-Todman's own panel show, ''What's My Li ...

'' is about secrets; '' To Tell The Truth'' and '' Would I Lie to You?'' deal with

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s; and ''

It Pays to Be Ignorant ''It Pays to Be Ignorant'' was a 1942–1951 radio comedy show which maintained its popularity during a nine-year run on three networks for such sponsors as Philip Morris, Chrysler, and DeSoto. The series was a spoof on the academic discourse on ...

'' and ''

'' are parodies. Some panel shows are variations of classic parlor games. '' Twenty Questions'' is based on the parlor game of the same name, '' Give Us a Clue'' is modelled after

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, and '' Call My Bluff'' and '' Balderdash'' are based on

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. Frequently, a panel show features recurring panelists or permanent team captains, and some panelists appear on multiple panel shows. Most shows are recorded before a studio audience.

International production

United States

The first known example of a panel show in the world is the radio program ''

'', which debuted on 17 May 1938 on the NBC Blue Network. An evolution of the

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format, ''Information Please'' added the key element of a panel of celebrities, largely writers and intellectuals, but also actors and politicians. Listeners would mail in questions, winning prizes for stumping the panel. U.S. panel shows transferred to television early in the medium's history, with the first known example being '' Play the Game'', a

show that aired on DuMont and ABC beginning in 1946. The celebrity charades concept has been replicated numerous times since then. The most popular adaptation was '' Pantomime Quiz'', airing from 1947 to 1959, and having runs on each of the four television networks operating at the time. Other charades shows have included ''

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''; '' Movietown, RSVP''; '' Celebrity Charades''; '' Showoffs'' and ''

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''. TV panel shows saw their peak of popularity in the 1950s and '60s, when CBS ran the three longest-running panel shows in

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: '' What's My Line?'', ''

'' and '' To Tell the Truth''. At times, they were among the top ten shows on U.S. television, and they continue to experience occasional revivals. All three Goodson-Todman primetime shows were cancelled by CBS in 1967 amid ratings declines and trouble attracting younger viewers, although the programs were consistently profitable by being among the cheapest television shows to produce. Their cancellations came as attention to demographics and a focus on younger viewers gained currency among advertisers. The departures of these three New York-based shows were also part of a mass migration of television production to Los Angeles, leaving only one primetime show produced on the East Coast. Later years saw several successes in the format, with '' Match Game''; '' Hollywood Squares''; '' The Gong Show''; '' Win, Lose or Draw''; '' Celebrity Sweepstakes''; '' Password'' and ''

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'' primarily running in the daytime and airing in their greatest numbers during the '70s and '80s. These panel shows marked a shift in the format: Whereas CBS' primetime shows had panelists guessing secrets about the guests, these new shows largely had panelists playing games with guests. Later, the U.S. version of '' Whose Line Is It Anyway?'' had a primetime run from 1998 to 2004 on ABC, while '' Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'' has become a popular weekend show on NPR since 1998. While ''Wait Wait'' continues to find success on the radio with a format driven by comedic banter, U.S. TV panel shows currently employ a format closer to traditional game shows that happen to have celebrity players. NBC has taken games such as

, '' Password'' and Pictionary and repackaged them into ''

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'', airing since 2013, and NBC's '' Tonight Show'' features many celebrities playing similar games with host

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. Comedy Central aired ''

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'', in which comedians stand behind ''

Jeopardy! ''Jeopardy!'' is an American game show created by Merv Griffin. The show is a quiz competition that reverses the traditional question-and-answer format of many quiz shows. Rather than being given questions, contestants are instead given genera ...

''-like podiums and buzz in to win points for punchlines. Both NBC's and Comedy Central's takes on panel shows emphasise points, competing and winning in the style of traditional game shows, with less focus on comedic content. In 2013,

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revived ''Whose Line Is It Anyway?'', which features improv sketches. In 2014, '' Celebrity Name Game'' with

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premiered in syndication, in which players and celebrities try to get each other to guess famous names. In 2015, ABC announced primetime revivals for ''Match Game'' and ''To Tell The Truth.''

United Kingdom

Panel shows are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they have found continued success since the BBC adapted its first radio panel shows from classic parlor games. Perhaps the earliest UK panel show is the BBC radio adaptation of '' Twenty Questions'', which debuted on 28 February 1947. Panel shows can have decades-long runs in the UK: ''Twenty Questions'' lasted until 1976, while '' Just a Minute'' has remained on the air, and had Nicholas Parsons as host from 1967 until 2019. Other long-running games on radio include ''

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue ''I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue'' is a BBC radio comedy panel game. Billed as "the antidote to panel games", it consists of two teams of two comedians being given "silly things to do" by a chairman. The show was launched in April 1972 as a pa ...

'' since 1972, ''

'' since 1977, '' My Word!'' from 1956 to 1988, and '' My Music'' from 1967 to 1994. The British version of '' What's My Line?'' may have been the first television panel show in the UK, with an original run from 1951 to 1963 and several remakes in later years. The word game '' Call My Bluff'' aired from 1965 to 2005, the charades show '' Give Us a Clue'' ran from 1979 to 1992, and the improv game '' Whose Line Is It Anyway?'' aired from 1988 to 1998. Current British panel shows have become showcases for the nation's top stand-up and improv comedians, as well as career-making opportunities for new comedians. Regular comics on panel shows often go on to star in sitcoms and other TV shows. The modern British panel show format of TV comedy quizzes started with '' Have I Got News for You'', a loose adaptation of

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's ''

''. ''HIGNFY'', as the show is sometimes known, began airing in 1990, and has been the most-viewed show of the night, regularly attracting as much as a 20%

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. The show's success grew after its transfer from

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to the flagship

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in 2000. After ''HIGNFYs success, panel shows proliferated on British TV. Notable example include '' QI'' on various BBC channels since 2003, '' Mock the Week'' on BBC Two from 2005 to 2022, '' 8 Out of 10 Cats'' on

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since 2005, '' Would I Lie to You?'' on BBC One since 2007, and the annual special, '' The Big Fat Quiz of the Year'' on Channel 4 since 2004. On the radio, ''

'', '' Just a Minute'', ''

'' and '' The Unbelievable Truth'' are among the most popular and long-running panel shows, all of which air on BBC Radio 4. British comedy panel shows feature mainly male guests. A 2016 study that analysed 4,700 episodes from 1967 to 2016 found that 1,488 of them had an all-male lineup, and only one an all-female cast. The proportion of women rose from 3% in 1989 to 31% in 2016.

Australia

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n panel shows include advertising-focused ''

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'' and its various spinoffs on ABC1 since 2008, the music quiz '' Spicks and Specks'' on ABC1 from 2005 to 2011 and again since 2014, news quiz ''

Have You Been Paying Attention? ''Have You Been Paying Attention?'' (abbreviated on social media as HYBPA? and stylised on-screen as Have you been paying attention? in sentence case) is an Australian panel game television quiz show on Network 10. The series, which is produced ...

'' on Network Ten since 2013, and tabloid quiz ''

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'' on ABC1 and

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since 2013. News quiz '' Good News Week'' aired on ABC1 from 1996 to 1998 and on Network Ten from 1999-2000 and again from 2008 to 2012, sports quiz '' A League of Their Own'' aired on

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in 2013, and pop culture quiz '' Tractor Monkeys'' aired on ABC1 in 2013.

New Zealand

New Zealand panel shows include the news quiz '' 7 Days'' since 2009 and the New Zealand version of ''Would I Lie To You?'' in 2012, on

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, and a New Zealand version of an Australian panel show, '' Have You Been Paying Attention? New Zealand'', since July 2019 on TVNZ 2.

Canada

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panel show '' The Debaters'' has aired on CBC Radio One since 2006, and in 2014, Super Channel ordered 36 episodes of a panel show called ''Too Much Information''. A revival of '' Match Game'' aired on

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from 2012 to 2014, the news quiz ''

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'' aired on

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from 1957 to 1995, and the charades show '' Party Game'' aired in syndication from 1970 to 1981.

France

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panel shows include ' ("Friday, Everything Goes"), an improv game on TF1 since 2011. Earlier panel shows include ', a linguistic game on ORTF and TF1 from 1969 to 1981; ' ("The Academy of Nine"), based on ''Hollywood Squares'' on

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from 1982 to 1987; '' Cluedo'', based on the board game Cluedo/Clue on France 3 from 1994 to 1995; '' Burger Quiz'' on Canal + from 2001 to 2002; ' ("Incredible Experiences"), about scientific experiments on France 2 and France 3 from 2008 to 2012; and ' ("Sofa Quiz"), an adaptation of Hollywood Game Night on TMC in 2014.

Germany

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panel shows include ''

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'' ("7 Days, 7 Heads"), '' Genial daneben'' ("Idiot Savant"), '' Kopfball'' ("Headball"), '' Die Montagsmaler'' ("Pictionary"), '' Noch Besserwissen'' ("Even Better Knowledge"), '' Pssst …'' (similar to ''I've Got A Secret''), '' Die Pyramide'' (the German version of ''Pyramid''), '' Quizfire'', ''

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'' ("Tell the Truth", the German version of ''To Tell the Truth''), '' Typisch Frau – Typisch Mann'' ("Typical Woman – Typical Man"), '' Was bin ich?'' ("What am I?", the German version of ''What's My Line?'') and '' Was denkt Deutschland?'' ("What Does Germany Think?").

Japan

Early

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ese panel shows include 話の泉 ("Source of the Story"), based on ''Information Please'' on

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from 1946 to 1964; 二十の扉 ("Twenty Doors"), based on ''Twenty Questions'' on NHK Radio 1 from 1947 to 1960; ジェスチャー ("Gestures"), a charades show on

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from 1953 to 1968; and 私の秘密 ("My Secret"), based on ''I've Got a Secret'' on NHK General TV from 1956 to 1967. Currently, a wide variety of Japanese variety shows are popular, and many of them feature owarai comedians,

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s, and other celebrities playing games. Some games involve bizarre physical stunts. '' Brain Wall'', adapted in English-speaking countries as '' Hole in the Wall'', has comedians attempt to jump through oddly shaped holes in moving walls without falling into water, '' DERO'' and its successor ''

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'' have celebrities solve mental and physical challenges to escape traps and hazards or presumably die trying, '' VS Arashi'' has a team of celebrities compete against J-pop group

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and their Plus One guest(s) in physical games, '' Nep League'' has various celebrity teams competing in various quizzes that test their combined brainpower in the fields of Japanese, English, General Knowledge, Etc., and '' AKBingo!'' similarly features members of pop group

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and others competing in physical challenges and quizzes. Other shows include 日本語探Qバラエティクイズ!それマジ!?ニッポン ("Is it really!?"), a celebrity word game; くりぃむクイズミラクル9 ("Miracle 9"), a show somewhat similar to Hollywood Squares; '' Numer0n'', a celebrity numbers game; and オールスター感謝祭 ("All Star Thanksgiving"), a semi-annual celebrity quiz. There are many other games featuring celebrities within Japan's variety genre. '' Prime Minister Ōta'' is a show featuring many comedians and politicians debating fictional proposals in a sort of game show version of a legislative chamber.

Examples

* ''

'' * '' Good News Week'' * ''

'' * '' Hollywood Squares'' * '' It's News to Me'' * ''

'' * '' Match Game'' * '' Password'' * ''

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'' * '' Spicks and Specks'' * '' The Debaters'' * '' The Marriage Ref'' * '' To Tell the Truth'' * '' Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!'' * '' What's My Line?''

References

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External links

UKGameshows.com: List of panel gamesThe British Comedy Guide: List of British Panel Shows
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