5 Gold Rings: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

5 Gold Rings sees two teams go head to head over five rounds. One team will be walking away with up to £25,000 whilst the other will leave with nothing. Who wins and who loses is decided in a unique way… using five gold rings.

The teams will have to battle it out against the clock to answer questions by placing gold rings onto a supersized image displayed beneath their feet on a huge circular LED floor. For example, the picture might be a map of the world and teams will attempt the question, ‘Where is the highest mountain on earth?' by placing a gold ring on the image where they think the answer is.

If the contestant correctly encircles the answer, they move onto the next round and more money but if they're wrong they lose that ring forever.

For the contestants, every pixel really does count as state of the art software, specially crafted for this game detects – down to the pixel - exactly where each ring is placed on the floor.

Each round will get decidedly more difficult as after every correct answer is given all of their remaining gold rings will decrease in size – making it even tougher to find and encircle the next correct answer. If they lose all five of their rings, it's game over.

Viewers will also get the chance to play along with the action by downloading the 5 Gold Rings App. They'll be able to answer the exact same questions as the contestants in the studio and also have the chance to see how their scores match up with other players across the country.

Series details

• Title: 5 Gold Rings
• Format: Game Show
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2017-03-05
• Final broadcast date listed: 2020-12-06
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: ITV1
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 24642
• IMDb ID: tt10886618
• TVDB ID: 324792

Cast and credited roles

• Phillip Schofield — Presenter

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2017-03-05; final listed air date 2017-04-16; episode order: 6.
• Season 2: premiered 2018-09-02; final listed air date 2018-10-07; episode order: 6.
• Season 3: premiered 2019-09-01; final listed air date 2019-10-06; episode order: 6.
• Season 4: premiered 2020-11-01; final listed air date 2020-12-06; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from 5 Gold Rings on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.