The mint was a late night interactive quiz show filmed in the set designed with the look of a big mansion. The show dominated the tv on itv1 and itv2 for about 2 years. People watching the show were encouraged to phone a premium rate telephone number to answer the quiz on screen for a cash prize and a chance to open the vault. The money up for grabs was not small amounts, usually into the tens of thousands for a top answer. Once a contestant got an answer right they had a chance at opening the vault, this was a vault of money starting at £100,000 and went up by £1 for every minute the show was on air untill someone guessed the ...  Read the complete review

The Mint is a game show created by ITV. It is shown after midnight. Show runs for several hours. Hosts rotate, main presenters are Brian Dowling Kat Shoob Beverley French Cat Porter Craig Stevens The Mint is an interactive show. People phone to answer a question. Right answer wins them thousands of pounds. The show is a scam though. Not all calls are picked up and answered. Vast number of calls are not picked up by the programme. Callers are told to call back. You can make calls for £500 and not get on. Prizes are encouraging. You can win £10,000 to £30,000 ...  Read the complete review

This is one of those awful shows that prays on peoples basic greed and ignorance to generate income for the TV companies. The show goes out after the pubs have stopped serving and is aired on ITV from about midnight, it is basically a phone in programe whgere viewers phone in to answer questions to win cash prizes however every call is at a premium rate and shows like this have made the news recently as naive people run up large debts by repeatedly phoning in. The show makes it money by the fact that the majority of people fail to even get through and get a message telling them to try again, those that do are left on hold and the number of callers ...  Read the complete review

Welcome To The Mint! It's where your find the money! Yes! You'll find a lot of money at The Mint but it's not going out the door its coming in! For those of you who've had your head in the sand for the last few months, The Mint is part of ITV's new ITV:Play channel. Yes they're so low on idea's they thought they'd come up with a nonstop games channel. Anyway The Mint is set in a big mansion called The Mint mansion. Every night from about 12.30, and now on the weekends from about 2pm on ITV Plays Mint Extra, viewers can call up to win loads of money! The game works like this. On the screen will be some kind of puzzle, e.g. Bank _______ . ...  Read the complete review

At the end of times when the world is about to end and human beings walk the earth as zombies - all television shows will look like this - hour after hour of mindless phone in quiz shows. A multitude of poorly produced, bargain basement phone in quizzes have invaded our late evening schedules. You might arrive in late one evening looking for something interesting to watch, a nice film or little late night entertainment perhaps, but what do you find? The kind of morose, contemptible, low grade, trashy programming that you might expect to find on some obscure dodgy digital tv channel, but on ITV? What ever happened to what used to be one of our best terrestrial tv ...  Read the complete review