[Alessi]

Might be seen as "depressing" but ITV has always been seen as a sort of downmarket channel ever since the service launched in the 1950s and 1960s. But that doesn't necessarily mean it has to always be that way - its nice in a way they've done something different, a gameshow that as you say would probably be better on BBC4.

re. it needing to be dumbed down because it's on ITV... Remember Crosswits? The levels of question in that were pitched at a similar difficulty to Jeopardy I'd say, so if Jeopardy feels like it's too high brow now, that's definitely a sign of a dumbing down rather than something that ITV has 'always been'.