God's Gift (TV series)

God's Gift
Genre	Game show
Presented by	Davina McCall Claudia Winkleman
Narrated by	Stuart Hall Jimmy Savile
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	73
Production
Running time	43-44 minutes
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	29 September 1995 (1995-09-29) – 10 December 1996 (1996-12-10)

God's Gift was a British television game show broadcast for two series in 1995 and 1996. It was produced by Granada Television and presented from the studio floor by Davina McCall in series 1 and Claudia Winkleman in series 2. Stuart Hall provided the voiceover for the first series and most of the second, with Jimmy Savile doing the voiceover in later episodes in the last series.

Each week, five male contestants would vie with each other to win the affections and votes of a female audience (or a male audience on "gay specials") by participating in a series of facetious games designed to "test" their sex appeal. The winner's prize would be to take an audience member of his choice out on a date, which was then filmed for broadcast in the following week's show.

The series was broadcast in the early hours of a Thursday morning and was usually repeated in the early hours of Sunday morning on ITV, although not every region took the series. The second series was axed after fewer regions decided to broadcast it.

The show's title came from the phrase "God's gift to women", i.e. an ironic description of a would-be Casanova.

Series guide

• Series 1: 50 editions including 2 best of compilations, first shown from 3 January 1996
• Series 2: 25 editions, first shown from 26 July 1997

External links

• God's Gift at the Internet Movie Database