7 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
ITV to air back-to-back quizzes for four hours all week in schedule shake-up as new show joins daytime line-up
ITV look set to air back-to-back quizzes all week for a four-hour quiz takeover in the afternoon.
The channel will have quizzing enthusiasts chomping at the bit with the addition of a FOURTH quiz show to its afternoon line-up.
Advertisement
5
ITV daytime looks set to air four hours of back-to-back quizzing
Credit: ITV
5
Celebrity Catchphrase is joining mainstays such as The Chase
Credit: Rex
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
As usual,
Advertisement
Read More on ITV
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.
Advertisement
Most read in News TV
Much-loved shows such as
When announcing the move earlier this month, bosses said ITV Quiz will feature the broadcaster's "market-leading UK quiz and game shows".
All Saints' Mel Blatt struggles with £5k riddle on Celebrity Catchphrase - but could you have got it right?
Wheel of Fortune,
, 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.
Advertisement
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,
The 1% Club
- Viewers of Lee Mack's popular ITV show were left
The Chase
- The ITV daytime favourite left fans scratching their heads when it threw up
5
The show usually airs in primetime
Credit: ITV
5
Tipping Point makes up one of the four major shows
Credit: (c) ITV.
5
Lingo will remain in its 3pm slot
Credit: ITV
Advertisement