Top 10 Game Shows

Pointless

The million pound drop

The Crystal Maze

The Generation Game

Deal or no Deal

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.

Eggheads

Strike It Lucky

Oldie but a goody! :D

Countdown

Weakest Link

Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?

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.