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While UKGameshows.com is (even if we say so ourselves) the most comprehensive guide to the genre anywhere on - or off - the web, with well over a thousand programmes already in our database it is inevitable that even we're stumped sometimes. So we're asking for your help. A number of our "most wanted" shows are now listed here and a team of volunteers is standing by, waiting to add your contributions to our compendium of game show knowledge. Go on, help us out. It's what Mumsy would want.
See if you can answer the questions in the Independent's Quizshow Quiz by Terry Kirby. Then see if you can see how many mistakes or inaccuracies there are in it. We stopped counting after 19 - quite impressive over 50 questions. We'll post our correct answers later in the week. Why do journalists find it so difficult to get basic facts about game shows right?
Challenge TV want to know your game show confessions. Did your appearance on Mr & Mrs lead to divorce? Do you suffer from interminable claustrophobia after you we're trapped for seven hours in an oversize comedy chef suit, courtesy of It's a Knockout? Did Dusty Bin try it on with your wife? Did you ever ask Bob Holness for a P? Was there an embarrassing incident involving you, your trousers and Les Dennis? Email all your stories, anecdotes, disasters and embarrassing moments to gameshow@challenge.co.uk. They'll publish the best, most gory stories on their site and they're giving away Bendy Bullys for tales that really make their hair stand on end.
In the pipeline
Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Series 20: September to December 2006
The X Factor Series 3: 19 August to December 2006
Mastermind: March to December 2006
Eggheads Series 6: 25 September to October 2006
The Price is Right: May to December 2006
In It to Win It Series 5: 22 July to 16 September 2006
Saturday Night Takeaway Series 6: September 2006
Celebrity Family Fortunes: Autumn 2006
Celebrity Masterchef: September 2006
1 vs 100: 30 September to 11 November 2006
Perfect Strangers: Autumn 2006
Codex: November 2006
Take It or Leave It: Winter 2006
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Game show news
25 August The Apprentice headhunted by former boss
BBC One controller Peter Fincham has announced that The Apprentice, which he first brought to the UK in his former role as CEO of TalkbackThames, is to move from BBC Two to BBC One when it returns in the new year. The Apprentice: You're Fired! will move from BBC Three to BBC Two. A new run of The Apprentice USA begins on BBC Two next week.
25 August Old shows, new hosts
The BBC has confirmed that Simon Amstell is to be the new host of Never Mind the Buzzcocks after a successful guest host spot in the most recent series. There's also change afoot for Test the Nation, with Danny Wallace replacing Phillip Schofield as Anne Robinson's assistant on the interactive quiz. And last but not least, Dermot O'Leary has been confirmed as the host of new lottery show 1 vs 100, which will launch toward the end of September.
28 July Who wants to buy a Millionaire? They do!
A buyer has been found for the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? format which was put up for sale by Celador in January. The winning bidder is Dutch interactive entertainment group 2waytraffic, which beat Endemol to bag the worldwide rights to the show together with the UK programme library. Celador is selling off its TV formats in order to concentrate on its radio production business.
26 July Treasure Hunt returns... sort of
Princess Productions are putting together a new Channel 4 treasure hunting game show called The Search. Ten individuals from all walks of life are tasked with travelling around the world to eight countries to solve a number of challenges and puzzles. The 10 players will work together as two competing teams. The format is not related to NBC's Treasure Hunters but appears to share similar themes. The pilot was filmed last October, and the series begins filming this September. No host has been announced but our grapevine hears that Jamie Theakston is associated with the project.
19 June Mr & Mrs
Mr and Mrs looks set for yet another comeback. Celador International have bought the worldwide rights to the format from Derek Batey Enterprises and are looking to remake it for a major UK broadcaster, as well as licensing it worldwide, both for TV and other media. Update: And well done to Media Guardian for picking up on this story, only five weeks after we published it.
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