These responses offer fleeting insights into audience, as well as contestant, relationships with quiz shows. Although academics and press critics also provide evidence of quiz show ‘reception’, audience responses have been all but invisible in academic work on the genre. This is despite the fact that quiz shows might be described as one of the more obvious sites for audience research. Many shows are designed to encourage us to ‘play along’ while viewing, and quiz formats often encode the participatory presence of the viewer into the text itself. Furthermore, in sometimes appearing as contestants and players, quiz show viewers can be visible on screen. The idea of audience visibility has also taken on new connotations with the advent of the internet.