Claudia Winkleman's new Channel 4 show One Question…

Claudia Winkleman's new Channel 4 show One Question has viewers asking one thing

Claudia Winkleman's new quiz show One Question has been met with an onslaught of negative comments after the first episode broadcast on Channel 4 tonight (Friday, June 24), with many viewers wanting to know why it was made.

The show sees contestants presented with one question and 20 possible answers - but the catch is, only one is actually correct. They must eliminate the incorrect answers in order to win the prize of £100,000. Choose the correct answer too soon, and they could lose it all.

Contestants struggling also have the opportunity to receive clues and helping hands, such as removing two wrong answers - this, however, will cost them.

While the six-episode gameshow sounds like a simple recipe for successful TV watching and marks 50-year-old Claudia's first time hosting a quiz or a game show since 1997 when she appeared on Talking Telephone Numbers with Phillip Schofield, it seems viewers were less than impressed with the new quiz show, deeming its hour-long slot long-winded.

@VicsterLS wrote: "Cheap TV, terrible format, poor prize …no redeeming features at all - the ONLY good thing is that it’s followed by Gogglebox #OneQuestion"

@DarkAeon also commented on the show, Tweeting: "#OneQuestion doesn't work when you know what the answer is half an hour before the contestants get it. No suspense. #rumbledethumps", alonside @Macgomez50 who said: "#onequestion That's got to be the biggest pile of pish, I've watched in a long while.... Won't be back absolute drivel......"

And although a number of viewers seem perplexed with how the show turned out, there were some happy watchers in the mix who voiced their approval on Twitter.

@p_kruise said: "@Channel4 Great show! WTG contestants. Well played. #onequestion @ClaudiaWinkle"

@CarolineCann2 said: "Loved watching #onequestion @ClaudiaWinkle should have her own channel, could watch her all day long!"

Meanwhile some were on the fence with how they felt, such as @philipaston44, who wrote on the platform: "#OneQuestion on @Channel4 is actually nowhere near as bad as I thought it was going to be, but once you see a right answer you spend 30 minutes watching in the hope they’ll win the money and run. It’s alright, and has youth appeal, but I don’t think it’ll be enough for Series 2."

Guardian reviewer Stuart Heritage agreed that the show was "one of those slightly generic big money quiz shows that comes saddled with a maddeningly compromised premise" but thought the host herself was more than enough to redeem it. He wrote: "Without her, One Question is nothing. Winkleman’s God-given ability to seem like she’s winging it gives this series almost all of its juice... What she provides, in short, is a spark of humanity... and it turns out that this is all it takes to make a gameshow watchable."

One Question is on every Friday on Channel 4 at 8pm.

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