2000s British game shows

My New Best Friend

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2003 IMDB Rating: 8.9

Could you pass off a complete stranger as your new best friend for one short weekend to win £10k, even if your 'friend' was actually a brilliant actor hell-bent on humiliating you?

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QI

Series Age rating: 13 Year: 2003 IMDB Rating: 8.6

Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.

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Friends Like These

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Friends Like These is a British game show that was broadcast on BBC One from 6 November 1999 until 1 March 2003. It was presented by Ant & Dec from 1999-2001 and later by Ian Wright until 2003.

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Would I Lie to You?

Series Age rating: 13 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 8.2

A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrage...

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Only Connect

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 8

The fiendishly difficult quiz show in which two teams of three contestants have to find the connection between seemingly unrelated clues, where patience and lateral thinking are as vital as knowledge.

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Have I Got News for You

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1990 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.

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Mock the Week

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Mock the Week is a British topical celebrity panel game hosted by Dara Ó Briain. The game is influenced by improvised topical stand-up comedy, with several rounds requiring players to deliver answers...

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8 Out of 10 Cats

Series Age rating: 13 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 7.7

8 Out of 10 Cats is a British television comedy panel game produced by Zeppotron for Channel 4. It was first broadcast on 3 June 2005. The show is based on statistics and opinion polls, and draws on p...

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Scrapheap Challenge

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1998 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Scrapheap Challenge is an engineering game show produced by RDF Media and broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. In the show, teams of contestants had 10 hours in which to build a working machi...

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Robot Wars

Series Age rating: 19 Year: 1998 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Teams of amateur robot fighting enthusiasts battle it out over a series of rounds in a huge purpose-built arena aiming to become the Robot Wars Champion.

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