The Mint
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Host
Main presenters:
Brian Dowling
Craig Stevens
Beverley French
Cat Porter
Kat Shoob
Mark Rumble
Caroline Feraday
Yiolanda Koppel
Milo McCabe
Broadcast
Ludus for ITV1 (later ITV Play also), 1st April 2006 to 14th February 2007
Synopsis
An attempt to be an upmarket Quizmania, presumably. One of the annoying things about this series was the pretence that it was coming from The Mint Mansion and not a television studio - even to the point that presenters used to get uptight when anyone made reference to a studio.
Trivia
On 12 May 2006, the first jackpot (over £108,000) was won by Diane Bailey who guessed the correct code of 8648. The show had previously told people the code began with 86, and that the last digit was an even number and regularly went through a list of numbers that had already been guessed.
The second jackpot of £130,721 (probably the biggest prize to be given away by a participation TV show) was won by a caller called Keith on 20th October 2006. The winning code was 7012 and was given via a general knowledge question, asked by former ITN newsreader Nicholas Owen.
Broadcast from the Maidstone Studios. For those of you know who don't know, there's no such thing as The Mint Mansion!
See also
Quizmania, Quiz TV, Izzy Wizzy Let's Get Quizzy and so on.
