Only Connect is a great quiz show that many people may miss as it is shown on BBC Four and tucked away. It was first aired in 2008 and is presented by Victoria Coren. I think it is quite challenging and the game involves teams competing against one another trying to find connections to puzzles with clues that seem quite unrelated altogether. It does appear to need a lot of patience and thinking outside the box from the contestants involved. Each week there are two teams comprising of three team members playing against one another. One of the things that is good about this game apart from the host who is professional, is that they get on with the quiz rather ...  Read the complete review

Hidden discretely away on BBC4 is a fabulous little quiz show that most people will probably not have heard of but it is well worth seeking out if you want to give your brain a bit of a workout! It is a clever show for clever people - probably far cleverer than I could hope to be but I still really enjoy watching it. The show is hosted by Victoria Coren and each week two teams of three pit their wits against each other. No one on the teams is a celebrity of any sort - just clever people who want to see just how clever they are (but not in any condescending way!) You can tell that the people are going to be very clever by the names that they give their teams - ...  Read the complete review

I first started watching Only Connect at the beginning of series 2. It's now about 7 episodes into the 15-part series 3, so there is definitely time for you to get addicted to this quirky quiz show too! Only Connect is presented by Victoria Coren and new episodes are on at 8.30pm Mondays on BBC Four, plus it is repeated three further times during the week. It feels to me like one of the intelligent radio quiz shows, though this has been written for TV and I think would only work well in this format. The idea behind the rounds on the show is working out the connections between things that on the surface seem unrelated. Two teams of three people ...  Read the complete review

Only Connect is a quiz show, shown on BBC4 and in my opinion on of the hardest quiz shows I've ever seen. The premise is simple enough. Well, OK, it isn't. The main point of the series is to find connections between clues, through different rounds. The first round is simple: clues are given and the contestants (there are two teams of three, usually groups of friends from some ridiculously hard science degree) have to figure out what the connection between them is. The less clues they need, the more points they earn. The second round works the same: they are given images or words, one at a time, but this time they have to not only figure out the connection, but ...  Read the complete review

Not many people will have heard of this show as it seems to have been hidden away on BBC 4. However, I think it deserves much more coverage and a slot on one of the more watched TV channels. I only found it by accident when it happened to appear on the 'tv highlights' section of BBC iplayer. It's a fantasic new concept of a quiz hosted by Victoria Coren and is based around making connections. It's a real test of the brain! Two teams compete in 4 rounds altogether. In the first round contestants are shown 4 things and have to make a connection between them. The quicker they guess the more points they get e.g. 3 points if they only see 2 pictures, 1 ...  Read the complete review