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 revived "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", which features improv sketches. In 2014, "Celebrity Name Game" with Craig Ferguson premiered in syndication, in which players and celebrities try to get each other to guess famous names. In 2015, ABC announced primetime revivals for "Match Game" and "To Tell The Truth." Panel shows are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they've found continued success since the BBC adapted its first radio panel shows from classic parlor games. Perhaps the earliest UK panel show is the BBC radio adaptation of "Twenty Questions", which debuted on 28 February 1947. Panel shows can have