The Price Is Right (British game show)
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The Price Is Right is a British television game show based on the US version of the same name. It originally aired on ITV from 24 March 1984 to 8 April 1988 and was hosted by Leslie Crowther. The show later briefly moved to Sky One for one series as The New Price is Right from 4 September 1989 to 31 August 1990 with Bob Warman as the host.
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Also known as | The New Price Is Right Bruce's Price Is Right |
Genre | Game show |
Created by | Bob Stewart |
Presented by | Bruce Forsyth Leslie Crowther Bob Warman Joe Pasquale Alan Carr |
Voices of | Simon Prebble Bobby Bragg Al Sherwin Peter Dickson Mike Hurley Tony Hirst John Sachs |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 5 (Leslie Crowther) 1 (Bob Warman) 7 (Bruce Forsyth) 1 (Joe Pasquale) |
No. of episodes | 100 (Leslie Crowther) 350+ (Bob Warman) 116 (3 unaired) (Bruce Forsyth) 124 (Joe Pasquale) 1 (Alan Carr) |
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Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) (1984–88, 2006–07, 2017) 30 minutes (inc. adverts) (1989–90, 1995–2001, 2006) |
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Network | ITV |
Release | 24 March 1984 (1984-03-24) – 8 April 1988 (1988-04-08) |
Network | Sky One |
Release | 4 September 1989 (1989-09-04) – 31 August 1990 (1990-08-31) |
Network | ITV |
Release | 4 September 1995 (1995-09-04) – 16 December 2001 (2001-12-16) |
Release | 8 May 2006 (2006-05-08) – 12 January 2007 (2007-01-12) |
Network | Channel 4 |
Release | 30 December 2017 (2017-12-30) |
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The show returned to ITV, as Bruce's Price is Right, from 4 September 1995 to 16 December 2001, with Bruce Forsyth hosting for seven series consisting of 116 episodes. Another series aired from 8 May 2006 until 12 January 2007, this time hosted by Joe Pasquale. Two one-off specials aired as part of ITV's Gameshow Marathon in September 2005 and April 2007. On 30 December 2017, it was revived for a one-off pilot hosted by Alan Carr on Channel 4.
In June 2019, it was announced that The Price Is Right had been chosen as one of the country's five all-time favourite game shows to be "supersized and rebooted" in new series Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow commissioned by ITV. A seven-episode series was filmed at dock10 studios and broadcast in May 2020.[4]