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A Panel Game or Panel Show is a variation on the Game Show in which celebrities and comedians compete in teams to win points. Panel games are a mainstay of British television, perhaps due to the continued UK popularity of radio entertainment, from which the format was adapted; or to accommodate lower UK production budgets. The games are a useful way for up-and-coming — or fast-descending — comedians to pay the bills. The celebrity contestants are usually paid an appearance fee, but there is rarely a prize as an incentive to win, although the contestants may still be highly competitive. The focus is on comedy; The Points Mean Nothing, and some shows feature a joke prize that is mundane (Have I Got News for You), bizarre (Shooting Stars), or non-existent (I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue). Panel games feature a host who asks the questions and adjudicates, and often some of the panelists are regulars who appear every week. The host makes jokes between the rounds, of which there are up to six, some more gimmicky than others, including video clips and minigames. Not to be confused with Celebrity Specials of a Game Show, where the celeb accrues prize money and donates it to a charity of their choosing. |
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Sponk!, a Whose Line-esque show created for the Nickelodeon spin-off network Noggin. The show had two teams of actors perform improvisational sketches, which in this case would be voted on by the studio audience. | |
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The one that is most familiar to American viewers is Whose Line Is It Anyway?, which had four comedians who would perform improv comedy to win points from host Clive Anderson (later replaced by Drew Carey for the somewhat-louder American version). | |
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That's My Jam, hosted by Jimmy Fallon in 2021-22, has a large focus on karaoke-style singing in addition to trivia segments, and many of the celebrity guests are musicians. They "compete" in teams of two, but The Points Mean Nothing, the last round is worth more than the rest of the game combined, and the winning team receives only a pair of metal-plated boom-box trophies, with actual monetary prizes/donations being divided equally among contestants' chosen charities regardless of outcome. | |
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Just a Minute, which, over the years, has placed more and more emphasis on joke-telling than on trying to speak for a minute without repetition, hesitation, or deviation, with the panel now generally composed of stand-up comedians (the original regulars included columnist Clement Freud and comic actors (but not stand-up comedians) Peter Jones, Derek Nimmo, and Kenneth Williams). Host Nicholas Parsons did insist that it was the contributions and not the point-scoring that is most important, but this has not stopped many panelists over the years from taking the "game" aspect very seriously. | |
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Would I Lie to You?, hosted in the first two seasons by Angus Deayton, currently hosted by Rob Brydon, with team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell. Slightly more emphasis on the game part of panel game, the contestants read out a card that either contains an unlikely truth about themselves or a lie made up by the researchers of the show, and they have to defend it as true, while the other team prods them for additional facts and then says whether it's the truth, or a lie. (A video link explains it better than that description.) There are also various other rounds, such as each member of one team claiming to know a mystery guest. It's one of the best panel shows on today, with very little scripted material, lots of funny stories and plenty of good-natured ribbing. | |
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Because News, a CBC radio panel game that first aired in 2015. | |
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is a parody of the panel show genre (featuring many intentionally surreal rounds where scoring points would be completely impossible even if they tried) and has been broadcast with most of the original panelists since 1972. | |
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Good News Week was originally a carbon copy of Have I Got News For You, but its political satire didn't survive the move to commercial television. After a ten year hiatus, the rebooted show focuses more on oddball stories, celebrity news and musical guests. | |
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Citation Needed has Tom pull up a Wikipedia article, and the other three panelists who can't see the article have to guess the details, and get points for answering questions Tom makes about the article. Because all four of them are quite geeky and still intelligent, a lot of educational joking ensues. | |
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The Unbelievable Truth, hosted by David Mitchell. The four guests give a lecture on a particular subject that is full of lies, except for five truths scattered throughout, and the others have to pick out the truths as they go. | |
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Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown is a panel show released in Podcast format. | |
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Figure It Out has four panelists try to figure out what a contestant's secret talent is before all three rounds are up. Being a Nickelodeon show, lots of slime is expected. | |
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Booty Royale: Never Go Down Without a Fight! has an In-Universe example in one chapter where the idol trio Japan KGB, which includes protagonist Haebaru Misora, appears in a celebrity trivia competition. Her girlfriend, Brainy Brunette Hara Akira, wins it for them almost singlehandedly. | |
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Two of These People Are Lying has Chris, Matt, and Gary choose a Wikipedia article and they all have to lie about the one randomly chosen by Tom from a pile and claim it's their article. | |
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A long-running British panel show was Never Mind the Buzzcocks, which is based around music and generally features pop and rock stars as well as comedians. After most of the original cast started having other commitments, the show bounced back with a very successful format of rotating guest hosts and temporary team captains. Phill Jupitus has appeared in every episode but one, making him pretty much the face of the show. The show's initial final season was hosted by Rhod Gilbert, and the other team captain is Noel Fielding. After being cancelled in 2015, it was revived in 2021 with Greg Davies as the host with Daisy May Cooper and Jamali Maddix as the new team captains. | |
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They Think It's All Over, also a sporting panel game but with more emphasis on the funny (each side had a regular sportsman, a regular comedian and one other random, usually a sportsman), was rendered slightly redundant. A change of panelists didn't kill the show; a change of hosts did. Rampantly most famous for the Feel The Sportsman round, where contestants were blindfolded and had to identify a sportsperson (or, in several cases, a team of sportspersons) by touch alone. | |
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This format was once common on North American prime time; the tone was more serious, although there was still some joking going on. The best known of these were CBS's To Tell the Truth, I've Got a Secret, and What's My Line? (all of which later went into syndication) and CBC's Front Page Challenge, which ran for 37 years (1958-95). | |
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Subverted in Annually Retentive, a 2-for-1 Show which shows both a traditional panel game and the (fictional) behind-the-scenes backstabbing that happens behind it. As far as the celebrities are concerned, it's a 'proper' panel show, and only the host and captains act in the behind-the-scenes bits. | |
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One of the oldest British panel games is A Question of Sport, which — since it typically features sportsmen — is generally regarded as more niche and less funny than its competitors (there were a lot of restrictions on how funny they could be when Princess Anne turned up). It's headed a bit more towards the comedic in recent years (ever since Sue Barker took over the chair), which meant that... They Think It's All Over, also a sporting panel game but with more emphasis on the funny (each side had a regular sportsman, a regular comedian and one other random, usually a sportsman), was rendered slightly redundant. A change of panelists didn't kill the show; a change of hosts did. Rampantly most famous for the Feel The Sportsman round, where contestants were blindfolded and had to identify a sportsperson (or, in several cases, a team of sportspersons) by touch alone. |
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Virtually Famous is another British panel show with the same format as the traditional ones, with the additional theme of things that are internet famous. | |
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Ironic, considering that Charlie Brooker is credited as a joke writer on some episodes of 8 Out Of 10 Cats, and has been a panelist on Have I Got News for You and Would I Lie to You? twice... In fact, you might say... Charlie Brooker is right about everything. |
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A similar show is Mock the Week, basically Have I Got News For You meets Whose Line. | |
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My Word!, long-running (1956-1988) BBC radio panel game with challenges based on language and wordplay. Best remembered for the final round, which was an excuse for team captains Frank Muir and Denis Norden to tell comic anecdotes ending in excruciating puns. | |
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You Have Been Watching, themed around television shows, hosted by Charlie Brooker. | |
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Also Australian is Talkin' 'bout Your Generation, hosted by Shaun Micallef and featuring comedians Baby Boomer Amanda Keller, Generation X Charlie Pickering, Generation Y Josh Thomas, and their celebrity guests, in an attempt to determine the superior generation. | |
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You could argue shows like Match Game and The Hollywood Squares (and their various knockoffs and Derivative Works, such as Break the Bank (1976), the 70s revivals of You Don't Say!, and Battlestars) are the result of the panel game and the game show getting drunk and doing it. | |
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David Firth of Fat-Pie.com doesn't appear to much like panel shows, as displayed in a cartoon he made for Charlie Brooker's show Screenwipe that mocks the pre-written jokes many of them use. It also makes a few jabs at internet videos. See the cartoon here. Ironic, considering that Charlie Brooker is credited as a joke writer on some episodes of 8 Out Of 10 Cats, and has been a panelist on Have I Got News for You and Would I Lie to You? twice... In fact, you might say... Charlie Brooker is right about everything. |
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More panelly American example: NPR's Says You! where a regular cast, consisting mostly of media writers and producers, plays a series of games dealing with trivia and English vocabulary. | |
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The News Quiz, something of a radio counterpart to Have I Got News for You (which it predates by thirteen years). In its early years, it was a relatively straight panel game about the week's news, with the panel largely comprising journalists and politicians, but since around the mid-1990s there has been more emphasis on comedy. | |
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The format was taken to its logical conclusion in Shooting Stars which dispensed with rules, order and sense, and featured questions such as "True or False: Bill Cosby was the first-ever black man" (the answer was false; it was actually Sidney Poitier). It also featured dream sequences, sketches, and other distractions from the boring business of actually hosting a show. The guests are more of an afterthought than anything. | |
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8 Out of 10 Cats, about statistics, hosted by Jimmy Carr, regular team captain Sean Lock (either of whom tend to be CMOF-worthy separately), relatively new team captain Jon Richardson, and the occasional somewhat thematic celebrity (such as Chris Hoy, after he won Olympic gold). As of Series 22, the team captains are now Rob Beckett and Katherine Ryan though Sean ( until his death in 2021) and Jon are the team captains on the spinoff hybrid series 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown with Jimmy also serving as the host. |
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The Museum of Curiosity, which has been described as a sister show to QI. Guests including comedians, scientists and explorers each "donate" something to the museum, explaining why it is significant. The "donations" can be literally anything from ordinary objects to cosmic events to abstract concepts. | |
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Have You Been Paying Attention? is an Australian Panel Game in a somewhat similar vein to the BBC's Have I Got News for You (though with a larger focus on the "quiz" side of things as the contestants actually score more than five points), Have You Been Paying Attention?, as its intro suggests, tests a group of five comedians/radio personalities on the week's events. | |
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As of Series 22, the team captains are now Rob Beckett and Katherine Ryan though Sean ( until his death in 2021) and Jon are the team captains on the spinoff hybrid series 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown with Jimmy also serving as the host. | |
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