Top 10 Game Shows

If like me you grew up in the 70s and 80s, this is the show that you would have been watching round the TV with your mum and dad come Saturday night. It featured Bruce Forsyth presiding over contestants (usually mother/son or father/daughter duos) as they stumbled their way through a series of tasks in a bid to reach the final and nab the prizes on the 'conveyor belt'. The early 70s version was the original and best; later versions with Larry Grayson and Brucie's briefly revived version several years later just weren't the same.

This is a Game show about amounts of money in golden balls and the 4 contestants lying or telling the truth about the amounts of money in their balls.

this is a funny game show where a team of 3 fave a wall which have shapes to fit through.

Quite possibly the best gameshow ever made, Deal Or No Deal works because it not only throws normal gameshow conventions - such as quiz questions - out of the window, but because it's so brilliantly compelling. Who'd have thought the simple task of opening boxes to see what money is inside them could provide such edge-of-the-seat viewing and so many shout-at-the-screen moments? Because it does. Frequently.

This is a non competing show hosted by Davina Mccall when you have to try and keep as much money as they can throughout the 8 questions.

One of those shows which has nigh legendary status on US TV (there was also a short-lived British version), Jeopardy's concept is thus: we'll tell you the answer, you tell us what the question is. Which is a bit silly, yet somehow it works. And it's been working since 1964, when the series first aired on US screens - to this day, it's still going strong.

This is another example of a brilliantly simple idea which somehow manages to be compulsive viewing; there's something very compelling about watching the contestants on this show inching their way further towards the magic million mark (especially when they're puzzling over a question and you're shouting the answer at the screen). It's also the only show on this list to have inspired a movie, namely the Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire - which built a whole movie around the Indian edition.

The ultimate mad escapist gameshow, The Price Is Right has been through several incarnations in the UK, from the 80s version hosted by Leslie Crowther right through to the Joe Pasquale-helmed 21st century remake. The US version is infinitely more entertaining however since it provides a golden opportunity for its lucky contestants to shriek, whoop hysterically and generally make everybody see how thrilled they are that they're on TV and face the prospect of winning a dishwasher. Or something along those lines.

Originally hosted by the late, great Bob Monkhouse, I do love this show even if some of the actual 'surveys' featured in it are a tad daft (you're left wondering half the time if they really did ask 100 people some of those questions.....). It's not quite the same since Vernon Kay took over and it became All Star Family Fortunes but underneath it's still the same old fun gameshow it always was.