Poll of the Year 2022

Revision as of 23:07, 1 January 2023

We can't believe it ourselves, but it's time once again for the poll that EVERYBODY'S talking about - The UKGameshows.com/Bother's Bar Poll of The Year 2022!

Not many changes this year but the New Media Five is now the Streaming Five because it isn't 2013 any more and streaming is a much bigger part of the landscape - who knows at what point we might drop it completely and just incorporate it into the Halls of Fame and Shame? The BBC have suggested they'll become streaming only in 2030. Right now we're still in a messy period of broadcasters working things out, we now have the headache of shows appearing online with a view to getting a broadcast several months later - vote for them in Streaming for now unless they've had a broadcast, this might change in years to come.

The Rules

Easy peasy. For each category (except Golden Moments) you get FIVE votes, so you can nominate FIVE shows. Please put each vote on a separate line, it makes it easier for us to count. You can no longer give the same show multiple votes.
For most of the categories, your choices are for new formats made and broadcast in the UK in 2022.
You do not have to use all your votes.
We welcome short comments with your reasoning for your vote – these may be used in the final write-up. We're more likely to use your comments if they are to the point. The comments will be kept anonymous.
If you’re in the industry it would be useful to point that out – we absolutely welcome you and you may indeed vote for shows you’ve worked on – but we reserve the right to disqualify insincere dodgy ballots.
Compilation shows and streams - for the avoidance of doubt, the "banner" is the format not the individual shows, see Gameshow Marathon previously.
Time is of the essence, the vote closes 23:59 Monday 9th January.

The Categories

Hall of FAME – For the best gameshows, competitive reality and panel games first broadcast on linear TV in the UK in 2022.
Hall of SHAME – For the worst gameshows, competitive reality and panel games first broadcast on linear TV in the UK in 2022.
Golden Five – For any shows made primarily for the UK market that had a new first-run episode broadcast in 2021.
Streaming Five - For gameshow and gameshow-adjacent shows/podcasts/streams that have been uploaded or broadcast originally and primarily on streaming services such as Netflix, Paramount+, Amazon, Youtube, Twitch, Spotify and the like during 2022. Must be *legitimately* able to view/listen in the UK (i.e. no you cannot vote for something from abroad someone has fansubbed and put on Youtube or whatever).
Magic Moments – For your favourite moments. If there are Youtube links, that would be handy.

A non-exhaustive list of new formats can be found below - if you think we're missing anything then get in touch. We give shiny floor show and competitive unscripted reality equal weight. You can vote for revivals.

How to vote

This year the preferred method is by Google Forms. This allows you to fill it in over a number of sessions and change or modify your votes up until the deadline.

However we also accept e-mail ballots, please send them to poll@bothersbar.co.uk with Poll of the Year 2022 in the subject line and they'll get to the same place.

A list of new formats for 2022 follows. Please be aware that it may not be exhaustive, and that it mainly focusses on formats on broadcast television.

2022

December
Britain Get Singing	Singing
Cooking Up Love	Lifestyle
Pen/Campwyr	Quiz, sport, regional (Wales)
Steve Wright's Quiz of the Year	Radio, news
That's My Jam	Stunts and Dares
November
Queens for the Night	Variety
The Traitors	Reality, lying
You Won't Believe This	Puzzle, lying
October
Aldi's Next Big Thing	Business
The Big Blow Out	Lifestyle
Riddiculous	General knowedge quiz, puzzle
Unbreakable (2)	Reality
September
Bad Chefs	Lifestyle
Beauty and the Geek (R)	Reality
Celeb Cooking School	Lifestyle
Hire Me	Recruitment
Make Me Prime Minister	Reality, politics
Ninja Warrior UK (R)	Sports
August
Are You the One? UK	Reality, dating
Dating With My Mates	Dating
Fastest Finger First	General knowledge quiz
Game on Grandparents	Gaming
Garden of the Year	Lifestyle (gardening)
Sport Relief All Star Games	Sport
Wales' Home of the Year	Lifestyle, regional (Wales)
July
Field of Dreams	Sport
June
Hungry for It	Lifestyle, food
One Question	Quiz, general knowledge
May
Britain's Top Takeaways	Food
Flipping Fast	Lifestyle, property
Let's Make a Love Scene	Dating
Lovestruck High	Reality, romance
The Games (R)	Reality, sport
April
The 1% Club	Quiz, puzzles
Brain Reaction	Comedy panel game
Crazy Contraptions	Technological
Fight School (2)	Sports (boxing)
Ministry of Offence	Comedy panel game, news
The Remotely Amusing Game Show	Comedy panel game, regional (Scotland)
Romeo & Duet	Dating
Stitch, Please!	Creative (costumes)
You Heard It Here First	Radio, panel game
March
Bridge of Lies	Quiz, general knowledge
The Drop	Business and fashion
Fame in the Family	Decision making, relations
Future Food Stars	Business, cookery
The Great Big Tiny Design Challenge	Miniature craft
Great British Treasure Hunt	Lifestyle, history
The Island	Panel game
One and Six Zeros	Big prize quiz, general knowledge
Rock Till We Drop	Music
Sign2Win	Specialist Subjects Quiz
February
The Big Design Challenge	Design
Britain's Best Young Artist	Children's, art
Damned Lies	Radio panel game, statistics
The Fast and the Farmer-ish	Agriculture, driving
Gassed Up	Motoring, celebrity challenges
Gwrach y Rhibyn	Adventure, childrens, regional (Wales)
Loggerheads	Lifestyle, creative, regional (Scotland)
The Real Dirty Dancing	Reality, dance
Starstruck	Variety, singing
January
The Great Cookbook Challenge	Cookery
Limitless Win	Big prize general knowledge quiz
Watercolour Challenge (R)	Lifestyle
Yn y Ffram	Photography, regional (Wales)

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 ==How to vote==
-[https://forms.gle/Rt4ZyBFrrAiraGNA8 This year the preferred method is by Google Forms.] This allows you to fill it in over a number of sessions and change or modify your votes up until the deadline.
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 However we also accept e-mail ballots, please send them to [mailto:poll@bothersbar.co.uk poll@bothersbar.co.uk] with '''Poll of the Year 2022''' in the subject line and they'll get to the same place.