ITV to air back-to-back quizzes for four hours all week in schedule shake-up as new show joins daytime line-up
The channel will have quizzing enthusiasts chomping at the bit with the addition of a FOURTH quiz show to its afternoon line-up.
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From this week, quizzes will take over from 2pm and will dominate the scheudles right through until the ITV Evening News.
It's good news for fans of Celebrity Catchphrase with the primetime show now being aired at 2pm each afternoon.
ITV will be airing a slew of re-runs of the programme fronted by Stephen Mulhern before its usual three quiz mainstays.
As usual, Adil Ray 's Lingo will then follow at 3pm before This Morning star Ben Shephard swoops in with Tipping Point at 4pm.
The four-hour marathon will then be closed out by ITV's quizzing juggernaut, The Chase, at 5pm.
It means fans will have a total of four hours worth of quiz shows to keep them entertained.
This schedule shake-up comes shortly after ITV launched its very own dedicated quiz channel to purely focus on their quiz outputs.
ITV Quiz replaced ITVBe known for airing hit reality shows and programmes from across the pond.
Much-loved shows such as TOWIE and Real Housewives moved to ITV2 as a result of the massive shake-up.
When announcing the move earlier this month, bosses said ITV Quiz will feature the broadcaster's "market-leading UK quiz and game shows".
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Wheel of Fortune, Tipping Point, Lingo, Tenable, the rebooted and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? all appear on the channel.
Elsewhere, The Chase has its own dedicated channel on ITVX.
Episodes are screened 24 hours a day via a special channel created for the online streaming service.
Hardest Quiz Show Questions
Would you know the answers to some of quizzing TV's hardest questions
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Earlier this year, fans were left outraged after what they described as the "worst" question in the show's history. Host Jeremy Clarkson asked: 'From the 2000 awards ceremony onwards, the Best Actress Oscar has never been won by a woman whose surname begins with which one of these letters?' The multiple choice answers were between G, K, M and W. In the end, and with the £32,000 safe, player Glen had to make a guess and went for G. It turned out to be correct as Nicole Kidman, Frances McDormand and Kate Winslet are among the stars who have won the Best Actress gong since 2000.
The 1% Club - Viewers of Lee Mack's popular ITV show were left dumbfounded by a question that also left the players perplexed. The query went as follows: "Edna's birthday is on the 6th of April and Jen's birthday falls on the 15th of October, therefore Amir's birthday must be the 'X' of January." It turns out the conundrum links the numbers with its position in the sentence, so 6th is the sixth word and 15th is the fifteenth word. Therefore, Amir's birthday is January 24th, corresponding to the 24th word in the sentence.
The Chase - The ITV daytime favourite left fans scratching their heads when it threw up one of the most bizarre questions to ever grace the programme. One of the questions asked the player: "Someone with a nightshade intolerance should avoid eating what?" The options were - sweetcorn, potatoes, carrots - with Steve selecting sweetcorn but the correct answer was potatoes.
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