A television programme in which people compete to win prizes.
as modifier‘game show contestants’
‘a game show host’
‘In this view, networks, from the beginning of television time, should have programmed lots of prime-time game shows.’
‘According to reports in the Chinese media, even the hugely popular local soap operas and game shows have had to give way to extended coverage of the Games.’
‘It would also have music and game shows as also news bulletins in Telugu and Urdu while plans are in the offing to have news in English too.’
‘Visit your local library or music store and collect music from television programs, game shows, and movies.’
‘Over the summer months Brenda hosted a television game show, Get Flirting, that she devised herself.’
‘Daytime television, when not featuring soap operas or game shows, is about embarrassing yourself and your family and friends in public.’
‘There's a game show on television in North America in which contestants answer questions to win cash.’
‘I am interested in finding out how to get a list of television game shows airing between the years 1998-2002.’
‘I know over the 43 years that I've been on television, game shows have been like the stock market.’
‘Then I jumped up and down in front of the sensor, waving my arms in the air, like someone who had just won a week in Ibiza on a television game show.’
‘Inside there are cups of tea on the dining room table and the sounds of a game show from a television.’
‘Indeed, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is not just a game show but a dumbed-down game show.’
‘The venture is working on a sitcom as well as game shows and general entertainment shows.’
‘Japanese TV programmes, which subject contestants in game shows to gruesome and painful experiences in front of their audiences, are a growth industry.’
‘In most game shows, the prize is a trip to Hawaii, a million dollars, or a new television.’
‘In studio-based game shows, for example, the studio director controls the multiple in-studio cameras and camera-operators.’
‘The prime time slots serve up a steady diet of game shows and quiz shows, garnished with leggy models in skimpy clothes.’
‘Three-To-One was one of those lively dating game shows where contestants try to make a love match in the midst of an unusual group date.’
‘I was directing a game show on CBS and had health coverage but no life insurance.’
‘Also, why do modern game shows have to explain the rules of the game every two minutes?’
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