Tipping Point: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Contestants must answer questions to win turns on an arcade-style machine that releases tokens worth thousands of pounds. Dropping the tokens down a choice of four shoots, they hope to knock piles of them off a moving shelf - and the more they collect, the greater the prize fund. The player who has won the least amount of money is then eliminated, and this continues round by round, until only one player remains. When only one player is remaining, the player is given a special coin which is dropped into the machine. The aim is to get the coin back out of the machine in order to win £10,000. Any coins which drop in the process of trying to get the special coin out are counted, as before, as £50 apiece and should the player not manage to remove the special coin, they will be able to choose whether to keep the money they have accumulated or gamble in order to try three more times to remove...

Series details

• Title: Tipping Point
• Format: Game Show
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2012-07-02
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: ITV1
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 6.3/10
• TVMaze ID: 5960
• TVDB ID: 260434

Cast and credited roles

• Ben Shephard — Host

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2012-07-02; final listed air date 2012-07-27.
• Season 2: premiered 2013-01-02; final listed air date 2013-02-26.
• Season 3: premiered 2013-05-20; final listed air date 2013-11-20.
• Season 4: premiered 2014-02-17; final listed air date 2014-08-29.
• Season 5: premiered 2015-01-05; final listed air date 2015-12-04.
• Season 6: premiered 2015-12-07; final listed air date 2016-10-21; episode order: 150.
• Season 7: premiered 2017-01-02; final listed air date 2017-11-10.
• Season 8: premiered 2018-01-08; final listed air date 2019-05-17.
• Season 9: premiered 2019-01-01; final listed air date 2020-09-11.
• Season 10: premiered 2020-01-01; final listed air date 2021-02-26.
• Season 11: premiered 2021-04-19; final listed air date 2022-06-01; episode order: 163.
• Season 12: premiered 2022-04-11; final listed air date 2022-12-30; episode order: 86.
• Season 2023: premiered 2023-01-02; final listed air date 2023-10-20.
• Season 2024: premiered 2024-01-29; final listed air date 2024-12-20; episode order: 122.
• Season 2025: premiered 2025-03-04; final listed air date 2025-05-30.
• Season 2026: premiered 2026-05-25; final listed air date 2026-05-25.

Source and licence

Adapted from Tipping Point 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.