What happened to Night Time TV?

Yes the ones on ITV and ITV Play were generally of a higher standard, even the non Quizmania shows, than some of the other channels.

You generally didn’t get the ridiculous one impossible question all night where nobody wins with no entertainment just the host standing there, like you did on some channels.

I remember a low budget effort called Play DJ which had Nigel Mitchell and Look North's Amy Garcia with music played against interactive games.

The Coronation Street Quiz was decent too.

Of all the quiz TV, ITV Play were one of the fairer ones...I won about £15,000 - £20,000 overall as a poor 18 year old college student, still have a folder full of winner letters somewhere! (Back in those days it was a lot of cheques in the post!).

I won mainly via the free web entry route (which they later tightened up) never got sucked in to the premium rate line, except for playing the Rover Return Pub Quiz which I spent roughly £2,000 of mobile phone calls on but there was a reason in that I was consistently getting one of the higher scores in the quiz (I didn't have a laptop with Google open next to the TV at any point of course...) and hence getting through so, so often

If you got through you won a few hundred quid each time and a free go at 'Newton or Ridley' which was basically you guess the correct sequence of 5 bottles hidden behind each either 'Newton' or 'Ridley' and you won a bonus £500, then you could gamble up to £2,500 or something. I won the £500 quite a few times on that too but never gambled because that would be stupid as you would lose the £500 after that point if you guessed wrong so it was no longer a 'free' shot! They once invited me to be in the studio as they had someone pull out at the last minute but sadly I couldn't make it

The advantage was during the day not that many people were watching ITV Play on the Freeview channel, it was rather pointless bothering once they joined ITV1 as the audience and punters trying to get through was obviously much higher. I did however manage to get through to Make Your Play just after midnight on ITV1 once for a simple anagram (it was as simple as P A L P E) for a straight £3,000!

In fact just the other day I was having a clear out and found a Quizmania frisbee and some signed ITV Play postcards from the presenters of This Morning Puzzle Book, I'll take some pictures and upload them at some point! I also had a ITV Play t-shirt and ITV Play slinky at one point but sadly seem to have lost those!

Happy memories and I would like to thank ITV for paying the bills whilst I was a poor student!

Anyone remember the 'Come On' lady on Quiz Call? They had her sat there in a bikini for the whole evening and all she could say was 'Come on' They mocked her on Quizmania the day after and had Greg and Debbie saying it during a speed round and Greg shouted "Come on" when the next caller hung up on them.

Come on!

And they're giving the impression nobody's calling, when in reality the lines are probably jammed and they're refusing to let people through while pocketing the cash.

She sounds pi55ed...

I think you need to be to do that job

Haha!! Just watched that clip!! Good to see your website getting a well deserved plug by Greggles!!

Jackpot 247's contract ends at some point in the new year; I'm not sure when they're going off air, but as far as I know, there's still a little while left for them.

SuperCasino is going off air in a week's time, and the unbranded Live Roulette service from the same studio is likely going to go at the same time. The plan is for the entire Battersea complex to close and its operations moved to Malta in 2019.

Are we just going up with a lot of nightscreen like channel utv and stv or a lot of TELESHOPPING or just random repeats of the chase etc as filler?