Gameshow

Word GAMESHOW
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What do we mean by gameshow?

(games) A radio or television programme that involves members of the public or celebrities, whether as individuals or as part of a team, playing a game, especially involving the answering of quiz questions, for cash or prizes.

A phrase used to describe something chaotic, hectic, or difficult to understand. Thought to have originated in lower Alabama, perhaps in Baldwin or Mobile county. Urban Dictionary

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The word "gameshow" in example sentences

A new British gameshow is giving trips into space (in cooperation with the Russian space agency) as the grand prize. ❋ Unknown (2001)

This doesn't come across at all which takes the gameshow aspect away from the TV gameshow, which is what Buzz essentially is. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some of your students seem to think that you maintain a cumulative total, like some kind of gameshow "Who Wants to Graduate"? ❋ Angry Professor (2005)

And the best way they know to do this - because it is the lesson they've learned since they were old enough to admire their first lefty butcher - is to use one of the magic words that, through a social and media consensus, they've come to be able to rely upon as kind of gameshow lifelines. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fronted by Ant and Dec and a joint venture with Cowell's Syco, the gameshow with a £1m prize will be filmed in Wembley Arena and around the UK, and is due on ITV1 in the autumn. ❋ Unknown (2011)

BBC1 could use a new Saturday night gameshow format after Don't Scare the Hare – which featured a robotic hare and voiceover by Miranda Hart – failed to catch on with viewers and was swiftly cancelled. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Hours before he was due to jet out to Hollywood, Simon Cowell did his best to face down a tabloid storm and expressed confidence his gameshow Red or Black? will get a second series despite being dogged by controversy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Like Home For The Holidays Sun, 8pm, Channel 4, a live gameshow where an engaged couple will be forced to live with their entire extended families in the run-up to Christmas. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Still, wouldn't it be nice to return to the good old days of Sonic the Hedgehog where you could die horribly by drowning but before that happened, you got bright colours and a gameshow countdown timer to bring it about, rather than horrifying orchestral music and 8 shades of gray? ❋ Ben Abraham (2009)

It also started a pan-African TV gameshow about football pitched at drinkers of Guinness stout. ❋ Ruth Bender (2011)

Now Channel 4 is bringing back its sister show, The Bank Job– a new gameshow set in a City of London vault – for an extended run from 17 February. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Cloned is an exciting new format which pushes the boundaries of production and gameshow mechanics, said Karl Warner, executive editor for entertainment commissioning at the BBC.The BBC says that while the pilot is not destined for broadcast at this stage it will nevertheless be evaluated by Danny Cohen, the controller of BBC1, with the very real possibility that it might be commissioned as a series for the channel. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Pubegate bubbles on over the entire episode of the guest-house gameshow where three sets of owners stay in each other's establishments, before revealing what they think the room is worth per night in the hope of winning a framed certificate. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A former English teacher with little experience in the TV industry has had a pilot of a hi-tech Saturday night gameshow commissioned by BBC1 - after learning about the industry from a training course run by the corporation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Gavin also likes wholesome, fresh-faced Zivile, who keeps telling us all she's a virgin, waiting to give herself to the "right man", taking the lofty moral high ground of a woman being filmed by a Channel 5 film crew, discussing donating her hymen to Charlotte Church's leftovers on a gameshow. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The second law of science on TV says any attempt to make a subject more accessible by turning it into a gameshow will end in disaster. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Fraternise with free thinkers ranging from punk potter Carrie Reichardt to "socialist magician" Ian Saville, be inspired by the Empty Shops Network's use of reclaimed spaces, or spend cash with a conscience at The People Speak's "democratic gameshow", where the audience choose how to invest the evening's takings. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Only the bland finished product will do, and everyone has to walk around beaming like an inoffensive gameshow host. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Simon Cowell has revealed that gameshow Red or Black? will get a second series. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"[College] is such a Turkish Gameshow" Girl 1: "How is the [trip] so far?" [Girl 2]: "It's like a Turkish Gameshow. My family is so crazy." ❋ FbgLyre (2010)

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