100% (1997)

Genre

game show

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 30 episodes

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Contestants answer questions read by an unseen voiceover host. The show was recorded in batches to keep costs down. It aired daily for thirty minutes.

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What happens

100% is a British television game show that was shown in the United Kingdom every weekday at 5.30pm from 31 March 1997, the day after the inception of its host television station Channel 5, until 24 December 2001, running for over 1,000 editions. Each show ran for 30 minutes with one commercial break. A Reg Grundy production, it was often billed as "The game show without a host", as viewers only saw the contestants, although a voiceover was provided by Robin Houston, who also presented One To Win, another daily quiz show on the same channel. He read the questions off-screen throughout the show and was never seen by the viewers nor, indeed, by the contestants. To keep production costs down, the shows were pre-recorded "as live" and in batches, normally over a weekend. The maximum number of shows that were recorded in one day was twelve, although the normal recording day saw ten shows being produced. There was a weekday afternoon spinoff series called 100% Gold which featured older contestants and was presented by Melinda Walker, plus a late-night series called 100% Sex which had questions of a more adult nature. An edition broadcast on Christmas Day 1997 about ABBA was presented by Alex Leam. All editions were recorded at Pearson Television's studios in Stephen Street, London. In its original format, three players had three seconds to push buttons on the set corresponding to the multiple-choice answers of 100 general-knowledge questions. During its run, a number of one-off specials were produced, usually to tie-in with a themed day or evening by the broadcaster, Channel 5. Although pulling in reasonable ratings for the channel, it was dropped as part of a station revamp just before 2002. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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