The Wheel

The wheel is a good family show with lots of famous celebrities in it. I don't know why it's so underrated because it is one of the best gameshows. I'm only 9 but my mum and dad love it as much as I do. Sometimes it can get a bit repetitive if the contestant comes up, fails, comes down, comes up, fails etc but that is only very rarely.

Sometimes the show can have a bit of a sad ending because they don't get the last question right and the money doesn't go to anyone. This show is good for all around (ages) because there is gaming for teenagers, things for slightly older people and just generally anything you'd like to see.

Michael McIntyre has long been searching for other projects besides being a venue filling stand-up comedian.

Being a talent show judge didn't work, neither did being a chat-show host, so the BBC have clearly thought in their wisdom that being a game-show host might be more up his street. He even came up with the format...great.

This isn't a bad show, it's an opportunity to use the seemingly in vogue idea of celebs (cough cough) helping members of the public to win 'big money', but isn't up there with the best game-shows.

It's done well for the BBC so far, so I imagine they'll continue to milk it.

SPIN THE WHEEL! is shouted by the host, and for what seems like thirty minutes, the wheel spins, and spins, and spins. Then the contestant wheel spins, and spins, and spins. And the viewer's brain spins, and spins, and spins.

If this review sounds repetitive and monotonous, that's because this show is repetitive and monotonous. There is very little game play, a lot of shouting. It's a panel show trying very hard to be a game show, but failing on all counts.

Its a good entertaining show. The host is funny and the vibe of the show.is pretty cool.

This bit of fluff is makes reasonable entertainment that I, my mother and grandmother can enjoy.

Macintyre can be a bit much, but he is perfectly cast here, as our guide where responds impeccably to the apparently not funny things the contestants say.

The tone is bombastic and deliberately silly which you just have to be in the mood for. They don't waste time though: there's always someone I have heard of in the celebrity line-up and the questions are usually pretty gettable but of course there is so much I don't know!

The random element of the contestants casts a shadow over the show. Maybe they could have a fastest finger type thing?

It gives irritating (and common) possibility of someone raising all the money themselves and then someone else just takes it at the last.

Often they greedily try and double it and I so want to see them lose everything.

Sentimental and low-brow, sometimes that is just what the doctor ordered.

I get a masochistic joy at seeing the remarkable ignorance of celebrities and the general public.