Eggheads fans will be excited to see one of the original stars return for the 2,000th episode.
The long-running quiz show, which began in 2003, is set to broadcast its milestone episode on Wednesday (22 March).
Eggheads started on BBC Two in 2003, before moving to Channel 5 in 2021 with host Jeremy Vine, who has hosted since 2008. More than 70,000 questions have been asked across the past 24 series.
The show sees a team of contestants pitted against specialist quizzers, who are general knowledge experts.
Fan-favourite star Judith Keppel left the series in 2022 after 19 years on the panel.
However, the 80-year-old will return for the anniversary episode, telling Pa: “It’s amazing. It’s lovely to be able to be doing that. Eggheads obviously has been a great success over the years because we’ve gone on such a long time.”
She said of the show’s success: “I think people love bringing teams.
The long-running quiz show, which began in 2003, is set to broadcast its milestone episode on Wednesday (22 March).
Eggheads started on BBC Two in 2003, before moving to Channel 5 in 2021 with host Jeremy Vine, who has hosted since 2008. More than 70,000 questions have been asked across the past 24 series.
The show sees a team of contestants pitted against specialist quizzers, who are general knowledge experts.
Fan-favourite star Judith Keppel left the series in 2022 after 19 years on the panel.
However, the 80-year-old will return for the anniversary episode, telling Pa: “It’s amazing. It’s lovely to be able to be doing that. Eggheads obviously has been a great success over the years because we’ve gone on such a long time.”
She said of the show’s success: “I think people love bringing teams.
- 3/21/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - TV
This Quiz review contains spoilers.
Quiz Episode 2
“People like us don’t deal with the police,” Diana Ingram (Sian Clifford) tells her husband in episode two, adding with Clifford’s precise comic timing, “this is Wiltshire.”
It’s half a gag at the expense of cosy middle England, and half an insight into the part that class plays in this scandal. Risks are taken either by people with nothing to lose, or by people who have never lost. The Ingrams, wellies-and-Le Creuset types from comfortable backgrounds, look very much like the latter.
That’s partly why their concerted efforts (whether judged as criminal or not) to take cash from Who Wants to be a Millionaire? feel egregious. Like that of Judith Keppel, the show’s first millionaire, granddaughter of an Earl and third cousin to the Duchess of Cornwall, any win by them would be tough to celebrate. Line it up with expenses-fiddling,...
Quiz Episode 2
“People like us don’t deal with the police,” Diana Ingram (Sian Clifford) tells her husband in episode two, adding with Clifford’s precise comic timing, “this is Wiltshire.”
It’s half a gag at the expense of cosy middle England, and half an insight into the part that class plays in this scandal. Risks are taken either by people with nothing to lose, or by people who have never lost. The Ingrams, wellies-and-Le Creuset types from comfortable backgrounds, look very much like the latter.
That’s partly why their concerted efforts (whether judged as criminal or not) to take cash from Who Wants to be a Millionaire? feel egregious. Like that of Judith Keppel, the show’s first millionaire, granddaughter of an Earl and third cousin to the Duchess of Cornwall, any win by them would be tough to celebrate. Line it up with expenses-fiddling,...
- 4/14/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Aug 4, 2016
Daphne Fowler left Eggheads a few years ago after a long, successful quizzing career. Here’s why she’s an inspiration…
In April 2002, Daphne Fowler and Chris Hughes formed part of a quizzing supergroup assembled by The Guardian. For a bit of fun, the newspaper set some of the country’s top trivia buffs loose on the greater London pub quiz circuit to see what havoc they could wreak.
The “dream team” cut a swathe from Clerkenwell to Hampstead, only coming unstuck on a foray to the King’s Head in Rochester where they lost the win by a single point. Having failed to recognise the theme tune to Beverley Hills 90210, they filed onto the minibus home and drove away from the week’s lone defeat. Somewhere along the A2, a dejected then-out-of-work Hughes told his teammates “I just wish I could turn all this garbage in...
Daphne Fowler left Eggheads a few years ago after a long, successful quizzing career. Here’s why she’s an inspiration…
In April 2002, Daphne Fowler and Chris Hughes formed part of a quizzing supergroup assembled by The Guardian. For a bit of fun, the newspaper set some of the country’s top trivia buffs loose on the greater London pub quiz circuit to see what havoc they could wreak.
The “dream team” cut a swathe from Clerkenwell to Hampstead, only coming unstuck on a foray to the King’s Head in Rochester where they lost the win by a single point. Having failed to recognise the theme tune to Beverley Hills 90210, they filed onto the minibus home and drove away from the week’s lone defeat. Somewhere along the A2, a dejected then-out-of-work Hughes told his teammates “I just wish I could turn all this garbage in...
- 8/3/2016
- Den of Geek
A contestant on Simon's Cowell's gameshow Red Or Black? has won £1.5 million - the biggest jackpot in UK TV history, according to reports.
The man, reported to be a carpenter called Graham, scooped the prize on the ITV1 show after beating seven other contestants in a series of challenges on Monday.
Hosts Ant and Dec - reported to be overwhelmed by the contestant's surprise win
The winner, believed to be a father-of-three from Berkshire, will not pick up the prize until the pre-recorded show is broadcast in August.
The show, produced by Cowell's company, is hosted by Ant and Dec - reported to be "stunned" by the record payout, according to the Sun.
The previous biggest win on TV was £1 million which was first won by Judith Keppel on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in 2000.
The £1.5 million prize is a result of the show's nightly £500,000 jackpot being rolled over...
The man, reported to be a carpenter called Graham, scooped the prize on the ITV1 show after beating seven other contestants in a series of challenges on Monday.
Hosts Ant and Dec - reported to be overwhelmed by the contestant's surprise win
The winner, believed to be a father-of-three from Berkshire, will not pick up the prize until the pre-recorded show is broadcast in August.
The show, produced by Cowell's company, is hosted by Ant and Dec - reported to be "stunned" by the record payout, according to the Sun.
The previous biggest win on TV was £1 million which was first won by Judith Keppel on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in 2000.
The £1.5 million prize is a result of the show's nightly £500,000 jackpot being rolled over...
- 6/27/2012
- by PA
- Aol TV.
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