What The Dickens?

There are plenty of quiz shows on TV so it's nice to see a format where questions can cover just about anything from Die Hard to the bard.

Quip queen Sandi Toksvig hosts this cultural comedy quiz, while captains and reliable comics Chris Addison and Sue Perkins are joined by hand-picked celebrity guests to face quick fire questions from across the arts and serve up plenty of irreverent laughs along the way.

Expect an arched eyebrow and plenty of sardonic quips as Sandi Toksvig reprises her role as literary quizmaster. Filmed at the Hay festival, this tongue-in-cheek series invites the likes of Rick Wakeman, Jan Ravens, John O'Farrell and Frank Skinner to test their know-how: whereupon Toksvig will separate the truly bookish from the blusterers. Also parading their Eng. Lit. credentials will be returning team captains Sue Perkins and Chris Addison.

Panel shows are 'testosterone heavy'

Producer Bill Matthews says he wants to redress the balance by including more female comics than men in his new arts panel show, What the Dickens?

Sandi Toksvig chairs this comedy panel game in which celebrities are given the answer, and they have to come up with possible questions. It sounds like a round of Mock the Week expanded into a full half-hour, but with Chris Addison and Sue Perkins as team captains should be diverting enough.

Sandi Toksvig presents a new cultural quiz show which features regular team captains Tim Brooke-Taylor and Dave Gorman. This opening edition was recorded at the Hay Festival so we're hopeful that guests who don't normally go quizzing may take part. We're promised tests on top plots, naming actors and finishing famous lines from well-known books.

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Sandi Toksvig explains the appeal of Sky Arts literary panel game to The Telegraph.