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Panel show
A
panel show
or
panel game
is a
radio
or
television
game show
in which a panel of celebrities participates. Participants may compete with each other, such as on
The News Quiz
; facilitate play by non-celebrity
contestants
, such as on
Match Game
/
Blankety Blank
; or do both, such as on
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
. The genre can be traced to 1938, when
Information Please
debuted on
U.S.
radio. The earliest known television panel show is
Play the Game
, a
charades
show in 1946. The modern trend of comedy panel shows can find early roots with
Stop Me If You've Heard This One
in 1939 and
Can You Top This?
in 1940. While panel shows were more popular in the past in the U.S., they are still very common in the
United Kingdom
.
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