Screen trivia
Name a British TV show
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a British TV show”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 452 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
Right, but shallow: 12 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Doctor Who
- Downton Abbey
- Peaky Blinders
- Sherlock
- Fawlty Towers
- Only Fools and Horses
- The Office
- Line of Duty
- Coronation Street
- EastEnders
- Blackadder
- Top Gear
The next answers people reach for
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- The Crown
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Mr. Bean
- Love Island
- Strictly Come Dancing
- The Great British Bake Off
- Black Mirror
- Skins
- The IT Crowd
- Father Ted
- The Vicar of Dibley
- Dad's Army
- Porridge
- Last of the Summer Wine
- Keeping Up Appearances
- Are You Being Served?
- Open All Hours
- 'Allo 'Allo!
- Yes Minister
- Red Dwarf
- Absolutely Fabulous
- Little Britain
- The Inbetweeners
- Gavin & Stacey
- Peep Show
- The Thick of It
- Shameless
- Derry Girls
- Fleabag
- Ghosts
- The Royle Family
- Men Behaving Badly
- The Young Ones
- Spitting Image
- Have I Got News for You
- Top of the Pops
- Blue Peter
- Question Time
- Britain's Got Talent
- The X Factor
- I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
- Big Brother
- Gogglebox
- Countdown
- Antiques Roadshow
- Planet Earth
- The Apprentice
- Dragons' Den
- Midsomer Murders
- Inspector Morse
- Broadchurch
- Luther
- Happy Valley
- Bodyguard
- Killing Eve
- Poirot
- Call the Midwife
- Casualty
- Emmerdale
- Hollyoaks
- Brookside
- The Bill
- Life on Mars
- Torchwood
- Merlin
- Spooks
- Thunderbirds
- The Avengers
- The Prisoner
- Minder
- Steptoe and Son
- The Good Life
- One Foot in the Grave
- The Two Ronnies
- The Benny Hill Show
- The Fast Show
- I'm Alan Partridge
- The League of Gentlemen
- Mrs Brown's Boys
- The Chase
- Pointless
- Taskmaster
- QI
- Would I Lie to You?
- Mock the Week
- The Blue Planet
- Grand Designs
- The Traitors
How deep does “Name a British TV show” go?
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsDoctor Who · Downton Abbey · Peaky Blinders
- Below the Surface88 answers · 25 ptsThe Crown · Monty Python's Flying Circus · Mr. Bean …
- The Deep219 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss132 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 219 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W and Z. The Abyss has 132 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 452 answers in total, 327 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “QI”. Longest: “Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps”.
- T, S and B are the most common first letters; together they start 38% of the answers.
- 7 answers can be typed more than one way: “House of Games” counts as Richard Osman's House of Games.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with T: 101 of the answers begin with it.
- Doctor Who, Downton Abbey and Peaky Blinders are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Older entries in a long series are often forgotten.
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Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name a British TV show”?
- The usual first answers are Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Peaky Blinders, Sherlock and Fawlty Towers. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a British TV show”?
- 452 in all: 12 on The Tip, 88 Below the Surface, 219 in The Deep, 132 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a British TV show” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “QI” and the longest is “Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps”.
- How hard is “Name a British TV show”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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