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Take the Money and Run
A high stakes reality game show for ABC - produced in association with Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram Van Munster and Warner Bros.
Two contestants have one hour to hide a briefcase containing £100,000. A team of investigators have 48 hours to find it.
Watch the trailer here.
Secret Fortune
Hosted by Nick Knowles, this is a high-tension Saturday Night BBC One quiz show. To win the top prize and take home £100,000, contestants must answer a series of questions, but there is a twist – each question has more than one answer - and some answers are more correct than others. Choose the best answers and bank the big amounts. Choose the worst answers and you’ll be playing for peanuts.
Secret Fortune is represented internationally by DRG.
Dara O Briain: School Of Hard Sums
In this brand new popular science show, comedian and presenter Dara O Briain, attempts to use high-level mathematical theories to solve ‘everyday problems'. Brainbox Dara studied maths and theoretical physics at University College, Dublin and now he’s on a mission to use that knowledge. In each episode Dara teams up with Oxford University maths professor Marcus du Sautoy and a variety of comedy guests including; Alex Horne, David O’Doherty and Jason Byrne, to dissect each problem and find ways to solve them.
The David Meade Project
University lecturer and Mentalist, David Meade, uses his staggering abilities to perform mind bending experiments on random members of the public. The results are so spectacular you won't believe your eyes. David appears to use those unique abilities to make someone smarter in a flash, change a person's luck from good to bad and back again, and even conjure up a ghost!
Watch David on iPlayer, like him on Facebook, and follow him on Twitter.
Just for Laughs
The world's most succesful hidden camera format was an immediate smash hit on Saturday night prime time BBC One. Featuring ordinary members of the public in extraordinary situations it ran for five succesful series. Now also a major hit on UK cable and satellite, you can catch it on Comedy Central and Fiver.
Check out some clips on the JustForLaughsUK YouTube page.
Get Smarter in a Week
Hosted by Michael Aspel and Sian Williams, this BBC One prime time interactive special proved that anyone can boost their brain-power in just seven days - simply by following our Get Smarter Guide.
Try it yourself.
Represented internationally by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Find Me the Funny
This BBC reality series gives American comedy guru Kurtis Matthews just eight weeks to find and train six brand new comedians for a sell-out show at the Edinburgh Festival. Can he find the funny in time?
Check out the show on YouTube
The Big Bumper Science Quiz
Hosted by Eammon Holmes and Christine Bleakley and broadcast live on BBC One from the W5 Science Centre – this interactive quiz show took science out of the lab and into the living room. Complete with big explosions, brain-teasing questions, and even a talking owl – the Big Bumper Science Quiz was a test for the entire family to enjoy.
Take our online quiz to see if your science skills are up to scratch.
Would You Pass the 11+?
Hosted by Eamonn Holmes and Christine Bleakley, Would You Pass The 11+ is an interactive television quiz that allows the grown-ups to take the same school test as the eleven year olds.
Dust down your old school books and take our online test to see how much you remember.
A Day in the Westlife of Shane
A no holds barred behind the scenes look at the UK’s number one boy-band, Westlife, for Channel 4. Told through the eyes of frontman Shane Filan - with full access to his home life, his backstage preparations, and his onstage performance in front of 30,000 fans.
All Mixed Up
It’s the simple ITV format that became the most successful local game show in the UK. With Eamonn Holmes playing quizmaster, we gave the contestants the questions - and the answers, but they were "all mixed up". All they had to do was put them together again.
McKeever
Sketch comedy format featuring the multi-talented Nuala McKeever - Ireland's leading comedienne. Nuala played a breathtaking array of comedic characters in this hugely popular local hit that ran for four seasons on ITV.
Happy Ever After
An access driven, one hour Valentines’ Day special for ITV1 which revealed the "secrets" of celebrities’ long lasting marriages & relationships. Highlights include Les Dennis and Amanda Holden before their breakup, Neil and Christine Hamilton before the libel trial, and the oldest married couple in the world. Who said romance was dead?