The Awful Allure of Phone-in Tv

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Quizmania is not really a television programme at all - not even by the standards of old-style TV quiz shows, which at least used to mandate some component of justice, personality, suspense or meaningful prize money. The Mint even makes a passing pretence to be a proper programme, with "celebrity" guests and an approximation of an actual studio set, but the overheads are never allowed to get out of hand.

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The Awful Allure of Phone-in Tv

The first time I ever came across Quizmania I thought my television was playing up. The screen said ITV1, but the channel numbers had obviously got muddled, because this had the jangling, amateurish feel of a pilot for a new, low-budget cable sta...

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