Just a Minute Just a Minute Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy and television panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Its first transmission on Radio 4 was on 22 December 1967, three months after the station's launch. The Radio 4 programme won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award in 2003. The object of the game is for panellists to talk for sixty seconds on a given subject, "without hesitation, repetition or deviation". The comedy comes from attempts to keep within these rules and the banter among the participants. In 2011 comedy writer David Quantick ascribed "Just a Minute"'s success
Panel show quiz "7 Days" since 2009 and the New Zealand version of "Would I Lie To You?" in 2012. Both air(ed) on TV3. Canadian panel show "The Debaters" has aired on CBC Radio One since 2006, and in 2014, Super Channel ordered 36 episodes of a panel show called "Too Much Information". A revival of "Match Game" aired on The Comedy Network from 2012 to 2014, the news quiz "Front Page Challenge" aired on CBC Television from 1957 to 1995, and the charades show "Party Game" aired in syndication from 1970 to 1981. French panel shows include "" ("Sofa Quiz"), an