Are there any quiz shows that allow Irish contestants on?

dark crystal

I love quizzes and I love quiz shows. I had a notion the other day that I might try and enter 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' or maybe 'The Chase'. I could do with a few thousand to boost the aul bank account. Imagine my dismay as my dreams fell cruelly down around my ears when I realised that no one from the Republic of Ireland is welcome to apply. For anything. I was devastated.

Then it dawned on me that we don't have any quiz shows based in this country. No more 'Where in the World' or 'Know your Sport'. Nothing. You can't count 'Winning Streak', as that's a Lottery game you have to buy a scratchcard for and I never buy scratchcards. Even if you manage to get on it, it's just about spinning a wheel and hoping for the best. Any idiot can do that.

I remember we had our own version of 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' back during the Celtic Tiger years with Uncle Gaybo, but that only lasted about 3 weeks. The licence fee revenue probably couldn't withstand paying out the prizes. Now that I think back on it, I'm almost sure when of my ex's friends was on it, but was fairly useless and left with €1,000 or something. I'm almost sure they let Irish people on 'Bullseye' back in the day and that was during the troubles.

So why have we been shunned from British game shows? Has anyone ever been on a TV quiz show (expecting at least one person to mention Blackboard Jungle). Tell us how you did it!

Sardonicat

dark crystal wrote: »

I love quizzes and I love quiz shows. I had a notion the other day that I might try and enter 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' or maybe 'The Chase'. I could do with a few thousand to boost the aul bank account. Imagine my dismay as my dreams fell cruelly down around my ears when I realised that no one from the Republic of Ireland is welcome to apply. For anything. I was devastated.

Then it dawned on me that we don't have any quiz shows based in this country. No more 'Where in the World' or 'Know your Sport'. Nothing. You can't count 'Winning Streak', as that's a Lottery game you have to buy a scratchcard for and I never buy scratchcards. Even if you manage to get on it, it's just about spinning a wheel and hoping for the best. Any idiot can do that.

I remember we had our own version of 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' back during the Celtic Tiger years with Uncle Gaybo, but that only lasted about 3 weeks. The licence fee revenue probably couldn't withstand paying out the prizes. Now that I think back on it, I'm almost sure when of my ex's friends was on it, but was fairly useless and left with €1,000 or something. I'm almost sure they let Irish people on 'Bullseye' back in the day and that was during the troubles.

So why have we been shunned from British game shows? Has anyone ever been on a TV quiz show (expecting at least one person to mention Blackboard Jungle). Tell us how you did it!

Countdown and Fifteen to One have Irish contestants.

dark crystal

Sardonicat wrote: »

Countdown and Fifteen to One have Irish contestants.

I do like Scrabble...

However, I'm fairly sure none of those have cash prizes. Or do they?

Only connect had an Irish guy this year. Probably lives in London.

Badly Drunk Boy

There's a new family quiz called Home Advantage hosted by Jennifer Zamparelli. The top prize is €5000 and it'd probably be terrible but I'll give it a watch. "You don't need to be a hard-core quizzer". I don't like the sound of that!!

I like quizzes myself but would never go on the telly for one (I'm a shy lickle boy), which makes it more frustrating, considering I always know all the answers!

dark crystal

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

There's a new family quiz called Home Advantage hosted by Jennifer Zamparelli. The top prize is €5000 and it'd probably be terrible but I'll give it a watch. "You don't need to be a hard-core quizzer". I don't like the sound of that!!

I like quizzes myself but would never go on the telly for one (I'm a shy lickle boy), which makes it more frustrating, considering I always know all the answers!

Oooh, nice one! I'll have to have a word with the family and see if they'd be up for that...doubtful, but no harm in asking.

Edit: It seems you need two adults and two kids from the same household per team. Only one kid in this household. God damnit!

EddieN75

What about "Tipping point"? You could probably go on that

dark crystal

EddieN75 wrote: »

What about "Tipping point"? You could probably go on that

UK residents only

Del2005

dark crystal wrote: »

UK residents only

Do you know anyone with a UK address? Just "move" over and apply to enter with their address.

thesandeman

dark crystal wrote: »

Edit: It seems you need two adults and two kids from the same household per team. Only one kid in this household. God damnit!

You better get to work so.

EddieN75

dark crystal wrote: »

UK residents only

How about in the north? Do they have any game shows or anything up there?

freshpopcorn

I remember watching the £1 Million Pound drop a few years ago and they said the contestants were from Southern Ireland but they were probably in the UK with a bit. Last I heard it was called the £100,000 drop tough.

Duckworth_Luas

Get Henry Kelly's career resuscitated and Going for Gold uncancelled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0pvFulUd98

An Ri rua

There's an Irish quiz format where you get your prize in tranches, over 5 years usually.

You get to create the questions yourself, and make them really arcane and obtuse, and the other chaps have to scramble to dig out facts to answer your invariably sh1tebird question.

It's called Parliamentary Questions and its part of an immersive entertainment package called Dail Eireann, where you are immersed up to your neck in sh1t.

Best part is, the less of an education you have, the more likely you are to fly at it. It's s right earner, as quizzes go.

An Ri rua

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I remember watching the £1 Million Pound drop a few years ago and they said the continents were from Southern Ireland but they were probably in the UK with a bit. Last I heard it was called the £100,000 drop tough.

Ireland was made up portions of 2 continents originally. I'm afraid you're close but no cigar. Null points Mon Ami.

Jim2007

So why have we been shunned from British game shows? Has anyone ever been on a TV quiz show (expecting at least one person to mention Blackboard Jungle).

Probably for the same reason you can’t get on a French, German or Italian show, it’s a foreign country!

ax530

I believe regulations here around prize money do not support the quiz show format we see on UK TV. I have seen Irish contests on countdown. Lots UK TV shows have an Irish (NI) contestant so if you use NI address chances of getting picked may be higher

biko

Home Advantage quiz show, bring the family.

VG31

There was a contestant from Wexford IIRC on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire a while ago.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: To take part in the show...

You must be of 18 years of age or over by the 14th November 2021.
You must be a British citizen or have the right to reside in the UK.

That makes it sound like an Irish person could apply since we have the right to UK residency.

https://speuk.etribez.com/ag/speukm/millionaire8/welcome.html

Hamsterchops

dark crystal wrote: »

Are there any quiz shows that allow Irish contestants on?

No, Irish contestant are internationally banned from appearing on quiz shows because their accents are impossible for outsiders to understand. Also, the damage Jedward inflicted on so may shows has contributed to the ban on Irish contestants.

It's all very sad.

Zebra3

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Get Henry Kelly's career resuscitated and Going for Gold uncancelled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0pvFulUd98

That show was way ahead of its’ time!!

Would be great to have a pan-European quiz show now!!

Love The Chase and would be great to be on it!

dark crystal

VG31 wrote: »

There was a contestant from Wexford IIRC on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire a while ago.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: To take part in the show...

You must be of 18 years of age or over by the 14th November 2021.
You must be a British citizen or have the right to reside in the UK.

That makes it sound like an Irish person could apply since we have the right to UK residency.

https://speuk.etribez.com/ag/speukm/millionaire8/welcome.html

Thanks for that! I never copped the second part. I'm filling out the registration now - it's quite detailed!

Question: What is something surprising about you that people may not know?

There's nothing surprising about me at all (that I'd admit in public). Should I make something up to make myself seem interesting and stand out?

Hercule Poirot

dark crystal wrote: »

Thanks for that! I never copped the second part. I'm filling out the registration now - it's quite detailed!

Question: What is something surprising about you that people may not know?

There's nothing surprising about me at all (that I'd admit in public). Should I make something up to make myself seem interesting and stand out?

Tell them you were the first family in Ballymackbackward to get the internet

dark crystal

Hercule Poirot wrote: »

Tell them you were the first family in Ballymackbackward to get the internet

I was thinking more along the lines of 'I swam the English channel once' or 'I like to take part in murder mystery weekends on the Orient Express' or some such ****.

Not sure exposing myself as an Irish stereotype would work. Or maybe Jeremy Clarkson might get a kick out of it. Hmmm.

Hangdogroad

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

There's a new family quiz called Home Advantage hosted by Jennifer Zamparelli. The top prize is €5000 and it'd probably be terrible but I'll give it a watch. "You don't need to be a hard-core quizzer". I don't like the sound of that!!

I like quizzes myself but would never go on the telly for one (I'm a shy lickle boy), which makes it more frustrating, considering I always know all the answers!

I like quizzes but no way am I watching anything with that gobshyte Zampereli involved.

km991148

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I remember watching the £1 Million Pound drop a few years ago and they said the contestants were from Southern Ireland but they were probably in the UK with a bit. Last I heard it was called the £100,000 drop tough.

I was curious about why sometimes we see Irish contestants on UK shows.

Looks like some shows don't specify and others only specify 'right to reside' in UK (Which all Irish have anyway of course). Ch4 seems to be most flexible in this regard.

I guess because a lot of channels broadcast here in some form there is no harm to have the odd Irish contest.

Edgware

Bring back Bullseye! "Look what you might have won"!

katiek102010

I would seriously love to go on the chase. There is a new Irish chaser on itm

We should have something like that here.

Pandiculation

Channel 4 is officially available on cable and satellite in Ireland.

You’d potentially have more issues with ITV or possibly BBC, more so where there is money involved in prizes.

Most of the satellite channels that run ads aimed at Irish viewers would consider themselves to be broadcasting here.

dark crystal

dark crystal wrote: »

Thanks for that! I never copped the second part. I'm filling out the registration now - it's quite detailed!

Question: What is something surprising about you that people may not know?

There's nothing surprising about me at all (that I'd admit in public). Should I make something up to make myself seem interesting and stand out?

Tell them you once sang with U2.

It was just you, Bono, the lads and 100,000 other people in Croke Park.

Schwiiing

What would be the craic tax wise with trying to get the million home if you won it?

Wheety

Schwiiing wrote: »

What would be the craic tax wise with trying to get the million home if you won it?

I don't think it's paid in cash.

That's not it dropping from the ceiling when you win £1m and you have to pick it all up and stick in a suitcase.

Schwiiing

Wheety wrote: »

I don't think it's paid in cash.

That's not it dropping from the ceiling when you win £1m and you have to pick it all up and stick in a suitcase.

No **** Sherlock.


At some point the euro equivalent of 1 million sterling will appear in your account. Bound to raise red flags. How much would you lose in tax? Capital gains rate?

Montage of Feck

Cgt is 33%.

.anon.

ax530 wrote: »

I believe regulations here around prize money do not support the quiz show format we see on UK TV. I have seen Irish contests on countdown.

I wouldn't be worrying too much about prize money if I appeared on Countdown. I remember Richard Whiteley appeared on The Mrs Merton Show years ago, alongside Jimmy Tarbuck. She introduced them as the hosts of "Winner takes All" and "Winner takes bugger all".

BalcombeSt4

Didn't Eamon Dunphy do an Irish version of one of the big British quiz shows years ago either Who Wants To Be A Millionaire or Weakest Link?

cj maxx

Give a northern/ gb address.

cj maxx

I got the chase app. Its very good , but I'm not as smart as I thought
Won £6000 though!!

Bobblehats

BalcombeSt4 wrote: »

Didn't Eamon Dunphy do an Irish version of one of the big British quiz shows years ago either Who Wants To Be A Millionaire or Weakest Link?

Weakest Link. “You have no guile.... no panache!”

Only kidding; never materialised.

dark crystal

dark crystal wrote: »

I love quizzes and I love quiz shows. I had a notion the other day that I might try and enter 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' or maybe 'The Chase'.

There is an Irish Chaser, Darragh Ennis, who was invited to the role after appearing as a contestant on the programme. I think he might have been living in Oxford at the time though.

A lot of the questions seem to be British-focused anyway — like minor aspects of British pop culture and history that wouldn't necessarily be part of the general knowledge in this country.

Sleepy

I got pages into the application for Bear Gryll's The Island before coming across the stipulation that you had to be a British citizen (presumably simplifies the paperwork since it's usually filmed in British territories).

Zebra3

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

There is an Irish Chaser, Darragh Ennis, who was invited to the role after appearing as a contestant on the programme. I think he might have been living in Oxford at the time though.

A lot of the questions seem to be British-focused anyway — like minor aspects of British pop culture and history that wouldn't necessarily be part of the general knowledge in this country.

Yeah, lots of questions about British monarchs from 500 years ago or so.

jhegarty

Edgware wrote: »

Bring back Bullseye! "Look what you might have won"!

It's a speedboat. It's always a speedboat, especially if the contestant lives on a council estate 300 miles from the nearest body of water.

ShatterAlan

dark crystal wrote: »

I love quizzes and I love quiz shows. I had a notion the other day that I might try and enter 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' or maybe 'The Chase'. I could do with a few thousand to boost the aul bank account. Imagine my dismay as my dreams fell cruelly down around my ears when I realised that no one from the Republic of Ireland is welcome to apply. For anything. I was devastated.

Then it dawned on me that we don't have any quiz shows based in this country. No more 'Where in the World' or 'Know your Sport'. Nothing. You can't count 'Winning Streak', as that's a Lottery game you have to buy a scratchcard for and I never buy scratchcards. Even if you manage to get on it, it's just about spinning a wheel and hoping for the best. Any idiot can do that.

I remember we had our own version of 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' back during the Celtic Tiger years with Uncle Gaybo, but that only lasted about 3 weeks. The licence fee revenue probably couldn't withstand paying out the prizes. Now that I think back on it, I'm almost sure when of my ex's friends was on it, but was fairly useless and left with €1,000 or something. I'm almost sure they let Irish people on 'Bullseye' back in the day and that was during the troubles.

So why have we been shunned from British game shows? Has anyone ever been on a TV quiz show (expecting at least one person to mention Blackboard Jungle). Tell us how you did it!

There was Crossfire with Sean Moncrief back in 2013.

lertsnim

Zebra3 wrote: »

Yeah, lots of questions about British monarchs from 500 years ago or so.

The British contestants never know those questions anyway so it would make no difference if it was an Irish person being asked.

ShatterAlan

Edgware wrote: »

Bring back Bullseye! "Look what you might have won"!

Jim: "So Eddie, what do you do for a living? Unemployed? Super, smashing, great.


Any prospects? None? Smashing, super, great.


So you've won £20, smashing. How much did it cost you to come down on the train
from Rochdale? £40? Great, smashing, super."


:pac:

swimming in a sea

I'd say they don't want many above average intelligence, they certainly don't want some University Challenge contestant winning the million in 10 minutes.

dublinman1990

dark crystal wrote: »

I do like Scrabble...

However, I'm fairly sure none of those have cash prizes. Or do they?

The Fifteen to One prize money is £40k when you win the series finale.

YFlyer

How about Blankety Blank?

Hamsterchops

YFlyer wrote: »

How about Blankety Blank?

Terry Wogan was Irish and he was the host.

Loved Les Dawson too, great show, light entertainment & very silly, but great fun

YFlyer

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Terry Wogan was Irish and he was the host.

Loved Les Dawson too, great show, light entertainment & very silly, but great fun

You get a cheque book and pen. OP that be ok?