Game shows are often the best thing about the television. Anyone who watches The Chase, Deal or No Deal, Pointless, Golden Balls, Tipping Point, Catchphrase, The Weakest Link; knows. It’s almost like an interactive game you get to play along with at home. It’s less about what you win (clearly) and more to do with the fact that you are getting the answers right out of some sense of pride. They have a strange cult status among the people. A lot like soaps they are often the butt of jokes for their low-budget production and steadying, lukewarm, agreeable sensibilities but also a permanent fixture in the zeitgeist of the 21st century that are strangely irreplaceable. Popular with students, retirees, family units, children and everyone in between, they act as a quirky palette cleanser and joiner of people. So, how’d you get on one? In the UK and abroad you have to be 18, there is no way around that unfortunately only consenting adults get to stand under the warm glow of the neon graphics and blag their way to a few grand. ‘Them’s the rules’. Then it’s a process of writing some answers on a form. The questions being asked ...