The Question Is – Is It All Worth Knowing?’ The cultural circulation of the early British quiz show

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ID11267464
AuthorsSu Holmes (University of Kent, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume29
Issue1
Pages53-74
Publication date2007-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedia Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0163443706071999
OpenAlexW2098953214
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

This article draws on archival research in order to explore the cultural circulation of the early quiz show in Britain-the conceptions, interpretations and evaluations which structured its development. The history of the British quiz show remains particularly neglected in television scholarship, and is often only discussed in relation to the advent of commercial television. Here it is usually invoked as the epitome of ITV's bid to woo the audience with ‘cheap’, undemanding and ‘trivial’ fare. This association between the quiz show and commercialism has rendered the BBC, a public service broadcaster, particularly invisible in quiz show history. But the BBC played a crucial role in developing the broadcast conception of the quiz/game show well before ITV was part of the cultural landscape. Ranging across both radio and television, it is this history that is explored here

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