GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup ISBN 9780748627530 Despite its enduring popularity with both broadcasters and audiences the quiz show has found itself marginalised in studies of popular television This book offers a unique introduction to the study of the quiz show while also revisiting updating and expanding on existing quiz show scholarship Ranging across programmes such as Double Your Money The 64 000 Dollar Question Twenty One The Price is Right Who Wants to be a Millionaire and The Weakest Link to the controversial Quiz TV Call phenomenon the book explores programmes with a focus on question and answer Topics covered include the relationship between quiz shows and television genre the early broadcast history of the quiz show questions of institutional regulation quiz show aesthetics the social significance of games ordinary people as television performers and questions of quiz show reception from interactivity to on line fandom Key FeaturesRepresents one of few book length studies of the quiz showOffers an accessible introduction to the genre for undergraduate studentsDraws upon new archival research in order to contribute to knowledge about the early history of the quiz showDemonstrates why the quiz show matters to Television StudiesBrings together key approaches in the field with new interventions and areas of study such as the quiz show in the multi platform age and the study of ordinary people as performers