The Chase is a British television quiz show broadcast on the ITV network, hosted by Bradley Walsh.

As of 2025[update], the six chasers are Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace, Anne Hegerty, Paul Sinha, Jenny Ryan and Darragh Ennis.

The chaser must attempt to catch each contestant during their chase, eliminating that person from the game and preventing the money from being added to the collective prize fund.

Later, in the final round, contestants who survived their chases play collectively as a team against the chaser for an equal share of the prize fund.

[7] Additionally, The Chase has become a successful international franchise: regional versions have been made in Australia, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Israel, Norway, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, The Netherlands, Turkey and the United States.

After completing the Cash Builder, the contestant enters the "Head-to-Head" round, attempting to move the money down to the bottom of a seven-step board and into the team's prize fund ("home") without being caught by the chaser.

If the contestant reaches home without being caught, they advance to the Final Chase and their money is added to the team's prize fund (or deducted, if they took a negative amount).

In an interview with The Sun's TV Mag, Walsh said that the show was "at least 100 episodes behind schedule" due to lockdown; during the production hiatus, repeats were shown in the programme's regular timeslot.

If the team is caught during the Final Chase, a consolation prize of £1,000 is awarded to the charities for each celebrity who advanced to this stage.

[20] This version follows the same rules as the parent programme, but any winnings in the Final Chase are awarded to the entire family rather than individual members.

It began airing in prime-time on 27 April 2020 and features contestants attempting to beat up to five chasers to win big cash prizes.

[21] A single contestant plays the Cash Builder round, answering a series of multiple-choice questions worth £1,000 each.

[27] The network had originally intended to have all six chasers participate in this series; however, these plans had to be postponed as Paul Sinha was absent due to illness.

This series introduced a "Super Offer", available only to contestants who answered all five of their Cash Builder questions correctly.

The theme tune was composed by Paul Farrer using part of the original 2009 chaser walk-on music.

Between late-May and early-June, the second series was shown across consecutive days and presented by Shaun Wallace.

[33] In November 2020, ITV announced another spin-off in which The Beast, The Dark Destroyer and The Governess go on a road trip around the world.

[38] The video was filmed on the show's set, and also used the on-set cameras and crew whilst using the graphics and music from the TV programme.

Fellow YouTuber Stephen "Stephen Tries" Lawson hosted, while Sidemen members were the Chaser and contestants: Vikram "Vikkstar123" Barn was the Chaser (nicknamed "The 123"), while the contestants competing in pairs were Olajide "KSI" Olatunji, Simon "Miniminter" Minter, Joshua "Zerkaa" Bradley, Tobi "TBJZL" Brown, Ethan "Behzinga" Payne and Harry "WroeToShaw" Lewis.

[39] On 2 September 2024, a spin-off episode of The Chase was aired on ITV to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the popular quiz show.

Episodes of the British version of The Chase air on weekday afternoons at 3:00 pm to good ratings on Seven Network (and sometimes airing double episodes from 2:00 pm), placing it in direct competition with rival Banijay-produced game show Tipping Point on the Nine Network.

[64][65] Seven also considered producing a local version, and filmed a pilot episode on the UK set, but decided not to proceed.

Some critics, as well as the chasers,[5] put the show's success down to Walsh as host and his many memorable moments, some of which come from questions or answers which often leave him in highly contagious hysterics.

[80] On 4 March 2019, an episode was broadcast where Walsh asked a question about which band had the fewest members, with the possible answers being the Proclaimers, the Pretenders, or the Prodigy.

Many viewers criticised ITV for deciding to air the episode hours after it was announced that Prodigy frontman Keith Flint had committed suicide.

[81][82] On 26 January 2022, Labbett lost the final chase and, after briefly congratulating the winners, stormed off the set punching the wall on his way out.

By December 2012, The Chase had become ITV's most popular "teatime" programme since The Paul O'Grady Show in 2005, with over 3 million viewers an episode.

The app features four chasers (excluding Jenny "The Vixen" Ryan and Darragh "The Menace" Ennis, both of whom had not yet appeared on the programme at the time of release) and can be played by up to four people, as in the actual show.

[167] An updated version, The Chase: Ultimate Edition, was released in 2017 and features five chasers (excluding Ennis) and host Walsh.

[168] In 2023, a free app entitled The Chase: World Tour was launched and features Chasers from the British, American and Australian versions of the show.