University Challenge revived in 1994 by the BBC, although still produced by Granada Television (now as part of the ITV Studios), using the original format with minor differences and presented by Jeremy Paxman. During the show's hiatus, a special edition of the show was made, not by Granada but by BBC Television, as part of a themed evening of programmes dedicated to Granada Television. It was presented by Bamber Gascoigne, and screened on BBC2 on 28 December 1992. The teams included one of students from Keble College, Oxford, which had fielded the winning team in the final 1987 season; and a graduates
University Challenge the House of Commons team, who scored 25 in 2003. In the 2014 "Christmas University Challenge" series, a team of alumni from Newcastle University also finished with 25. A all-time record low score for the series was achieved in the final of the 2017 "Christmas" series, when Keble College, Oxford, beat the University of Reading 240-0. The previous year in the "Christmas University Challenge" series in 2016, a team of notable alumni from The University of Nottingham scored 75, five points more than the alumni from Bristol University. Both teams conferred excessively and gave incorrect bonus answers. University College, Oxford,