The Quiz Show

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Despite its enduring popularity with both broadcasters and audiences, the quiz show is marginalized in studies of popular television. Su Holmes takes a fresh approach to quiz shows while also revisiting, updating, and expanding existing quiz show scholarship. Discussing "Double Your Money, " "The $64, 000 Dollar Question, " "Twenty-One, " "The Price is Right, " "Who Wants to be a Millionaire, " and "The Weakest Link, " Holmes addresses the relationship between quiz shows and the television genre, the early broadcast history of the quiz show, questions of institutional regulation, quiz show aesthetics, the social significance of "games, " "ordinary" people as television performers, and questions of quiz show reception, from interactivity to on-line fandom.