Only Connect

Only Connect
GenreQuiz show
Presented byVictoria Coren Mitchell
Theme music composerDawson Sabatini
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series20
No. of episodes421 (including 47 specials)
Production
Running time30 minutes
Production companiesPresentable (2008–13)
RDF Television and Parasol (2013–22)
RDF Television (2022–2024)[1]
Remarkable Entertainment (2024–present)
Original release
NetworkBBC Four (2008–14)
BBC Two (2014–)
Release15 September 2008 (2008-09-15) –
present
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Only Connect is a British television quiz show presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell. In the series, teams compete in a tournament of finding connections between seemingly unrelated clues. The title is taken from a passage in E. M. Forster's 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted."[2]

  1. ^ Elmes, John (7 March 2022). "Only Connect co-producer closes amid bumper order". Broadcast. Media Business Insight. Archived from the original on 26 June 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Crossworders v Birkbeck Alumni". Only Connect. Series 1. Episode 2. 22 September 2008. Event occurs at 0:23. Archived from the original on 30 September 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2020. Hello and welcome to Only Connect, the show that takes its title from the passage in E.M. Forster's novel Howards End: 'Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted'.