Quizmania (Euro Republics)

Quizmania is a British interactive game show. The show was devised by Chuck Thomas, Debbie King, and Simone Thorogood and is produced by Fremantle Media for TV3, and it’s sister channels, Fox, Five and Channel 6. Similar to other premium-line call-in shows, viewers on Quizmania are encouraged to phone a premium-rate number in order to provide an answer to a quiz question.

Background
The original run of Quizmania was broadcast from 10pm to 1am, weeknights on ZTV. In order to win money, viewers had to ring in at a cost of 75c from a ET1 landline (previously 60c). If they were successful they would be placed on hold, then transferred live to the studio if they were selected, where they went on to deliver their answers. Prizes usually ranged from €50 to £500,000. The biggest prize to be won was £458,000 on 22 March 2006. Once £1m was available as a prize, but was not won. According to an article in The Times, Quizmania earned TV3 over £1.2million during the first two weeks of transmission on the the main network.

Broadcast times
Quizmania originally began broadcasting on 8 September 2005 on ZTV and eventually moved to the main TV3 network from 16 December 2005 to 30 March 2006. The series began airing overnight on Channel 6 from 1 April 2006. On 26 May 2006, Quizmania returned to ITV, airing on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights from midnight until around 4am. The programme also appeared on Spark and ZTV during weekday afternoons from 3pm until 6pm. On 27 August 2006, Quizmania began airing on V5 in 2008 and remained until the 2020 closure.