Korean kids interact with some TV quiz shows via cell phone, guessing at answers over the air.

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They are clearly under-worked when they have time to appear on daytime TV quiz shows.

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Like other Russian channels, it mostly broadcasts the usual pap of quiz shows and Hollywood cast-offs.

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The department has enjoyed similar success with the quiz shows Dog Eat Dog and The Weakest Link.

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He spent the late 1980s and early 1990s on ITV's early morning station TV-am and hosting game and quiz shows.

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He went on to be a regular feature of prime time television in the 1970s and 1980s, hosting a number of quiz shows, including Winner Takes All and Full Swing.

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Quiz shows have been around since the 1950s, but prizes of such magnitude are a relatively new phenomenon, thanks to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, which debuted on The Walt Disney Co.

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Now, with a diet of soaps, pop music and quiz shows pouring out on Mr Berlusconi's TV channels, Italy's great opera composers of the 19th and 20th centuries Verdi and Puccini are no longer flavour of the month.

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Icstis has also announced new rules which force quiz-based TV shows like Brainteaser to tell viewers their chances of getting through, and how much it will cost.

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