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Big Game TV
File:BIG Game TV.jpg
The BIG Game TV! logo
StarringSeveral presenters
Production
ProducerBIG Game Television Productions
Running time10 hours (weekdays), 13 hours (weekend)
Original release
ReleasePresent
Related
The Daily Quiz!, Hallmark Channel Quiz

BIG Game TV! is a live phone-in quiz channel shown on its own channel on Sky Digital 849. BIG Game TV! broadcasts live daily between the hours of 12:00 and 03:00 and encourages viewers to participate by telephone or via their website.

BIG Game TV! Productions released their first spin-off show, The Hallmark Channel Quiz on March 6th 2006. This is basically a higher class version of BIG Game TV! shown on The Hallmark Channel (Sky digital channel 153) between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., seven days a week. This show only uses 3 of BIG Game's presenters and is slightly more serious due to the audience it is being aimed at. BIG Game TV Productions branched out further when The Daily Quiz! went on air on 13th March 2006. This show aired on ITV Play (Freeview channel 35) and on Men & Motors (Sky channel 131) seven days a week from 3pm-6pm and features a selection of BIG Game TV!'s presenters.

BIG Game TV! was pretty low budget (static camera angles, in-expensive graphics) until 6th February 2006 when a new set was was unveiled along with all new animated graphics.

On 19 May 2006, officers from the Fraud Squad raided the offices of the channel after a BBC Radio 4 investigation for the You and Yours programme found that receptionists were told to ignore all incoming calls for long periods of time while 150-200 calls per minute were clocked up at 75p a time. [1] Due to the police investigation into BIG Game TV! the channel was removed from the NTL platform on the 7th of June 2006. BIG Game TV! timeshared with Channel NTL between 21:00 and 03:00. [2]

Presenters

Past presenters

References

  1. ^ BIG Game TV - The Fraud Squad Raids by the BBC for the BBC Radio 4 programme You and Yours, broadcast May 19, 2006, retreived May 27, 2006.
  2. ^ ntl remove Big Game TV from channel line up by Cable Forum, created June 7, 2006, retreived June 7, 2006.

Trivia

One of Big Game TV's presenters, Kylie Cushman, co-stars in the independent film, Max Payne: Payne & Redemption , due to be released this year.

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