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Cast

Sam Reich profile

Sam Reich

Self - Host

Episode count (70)

Brennan Lee Mulligan profile

Brennan Lee Mulligan

Self - Contestant, Self (archi...

Episode count (18, 4, 1, 1)

Grant O'Brien profile

Grant O'Brien

Self - Contestant, Self - Cont...

Episode count (15, 2, 2, 2, 1)

Ally Beardsley profile

Ally Beardsley

Self - Contestant, Self - Gues...

Episode count (16, 2, 2, 1)

Lily Du profile

Lily Du

Self - Contestant, Self - Gues...

Episode count (16, 2, 1, 1)

Rekha Shankar profile

Rekha Shankar

Self - Contestant, Self (archi...

Episode count (15, 2, 1, 1)

Katie Marovitch profile

Katie Marovitch

Self - Contestant, Self - Gues...

Episode count (12, 3, 1, 1, 1)

Jessica Ross profile

Jessica Ross

Self - Contestant, Self (archi...

Episode count (12, 2, 1)

Tao Yang profile

Tao Yang

Self - Contestant, Self - Runn...

Episode count (11, 1, 1, 1)

Mike Trapp profile

Mike Trapp

Self - Contestant, Self - Gues...

Episode count (10, 1, 1)

Raphael Chestang profile

Raphael Chestang

Self - Contestant, Self (archi...

Episode count (10, 1, 1)

Zac Oyama profile

Zac Oyama

Self - Contestant, Self (archi...

Episode count (8, 2, 1)

Isabella Roland profile

Isabella Roland

Self - Contestant, Self (archi...

Episode count (8, 1, 1, 1)

Lou Wilson profile

Lou Wilson

Self - Contestant, Self (archi...

Episode count (7, 2)

Jacob Wysocki profile

Jacob Wysocki

Self - Contestant, Self (archi...

Episode count (8, 1)

Erika Ishii profile

Erika Ishii

Self - Contestant, Self (archi...

Episode count (6, 1, 1)

Ify Nwadiwe profile

Ify Nwadiwe

Self - Contestant, Self - Team...

Episode count (6, 1, 1)

Vic Michaelis profile

Vic Michaelis

Self - Contestant, Self - Pitc...

Episode count (7, 1)

Josh Ruben profile

Josh Ruben

Self - Contestant, Self (archi...

Episode count (5, 1, 1)

Carolyn Page profile

Carolyn Page

Self - Contestant, Self - Gues...

Episode count (5, 1)

Becca Scott profile

Becca Scott

Self - Contestant, Self - Team...

Episode count (4, 1, 1)

Zach Reino profile

Zach Reino

Self - Contestant, Self (archi...

Episode count (3, 2)

Jeremy Culhane profile

Jeremy Culhane

Self - Guest, Self - Contestan...

Episode count (2, 1, 1, 1)

Siobhan Thompson profile

Siobhan Thompson

Self - Contestant, Self (archi...

Episode count (2, 1, 1)

Adam Conover profile

Adam Conover

Self - Contestant, Self - Jury...

Episode count (2, 1, 1)

Anna Garcia profile

Anna Garcia

Self - Contestant, Self - Pitc...

Episode count (3, 1)

Christine Medrano profile

Christine Medrano

Self - Contestant, Production ...

Episode count (2, 1)

Ross Bryant profile

Ross Bryant

Self - Contestant, Self (archi...

Episode count (2, 1)

Deborah O'Brien profile

Deborah O'Brien

Self - Guest, Self (archive fo...

Episode count (2, 1)

Pheonix Askani profile

Pheonix Askani

Self - Guest / Contestant, Sel...

Episode count (2, 1)

Details

Status

Returning Series

Original language

en

Countries

US

Number of seasons

7

Number of episodes

70

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Overview:

The Generation Game was a British game show produced by the BBC in which four teams of two competed to win prizes. The programme was first broadcast in 1971 under the title Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game and ran until 1982, and again from 1990 until 2002. The show was based on the Dutch TV show Een van de acht, "One of the Eight", the format devised in 1969 by Theo Uittenbogaard for VARA Television. Mrs. Mies Bouwman - a popular Dutch talk show host and presenter of the show - came up with the idea of the conveyor belt. She had seen it on a German programme and wanted to incorporate it into the show. Another antecedent for the gameshow was 'Sunday Night at the London Palladium' on ATV, which had a game called Beat the Clock, taken from an American gameshow. It featured married couples playing silly games within a certain time to win prize money. This was hosted by Bruce Forsyth from 1958, and he took the idea with him when he went over to the BBC. During the 1970s, gameshows became more popular and started to replace expensive variety shows. Creating new studio shows was cheaper than hiring a theatre and paying for long rehearsals and a large orchestra, and could secure a similar number of viewers. With less money for their own productions, a gameshow seemed the obvious idea for ITV. As a result many variety performers were recruited for gameshows. The BBC, suffering poor ratings, decided to make its own gameshow. Bill Cotton, the BBC's Head of Light Entertainment, believed that Bruce Forsyth was best for the job. For years, The Generation Game was one of the strong shows in the BBC's Saturday night line-up, and became the number one gameshow on British television during the 1970s, regularly gaining over 21 million viewers. However, things were about to change. LWT, desperate to end the BBC's long-running ratings success on a Saturday night, offered Forsyth a chance to change channel to host The Big Night.