Big Break is a British game show that aired on BBC1 from 30 April 1991 to 10 August 2002 and was hosted by Jim Davidson with John Virgo as referee.

The programme focuses on teams consisting of a contestant and a professional snooker player competing in rounds that involve snooker, with the best team eventually seeing its player seeking to win prizes for their contestant.

The idea of a snooker-related television game show was first thought of by Mike Kemp in 1984 who was also a keen snooker player around that time.

Kemp and Medcalf both produced a written format in 1987 where it was called Big Break and it went through a number of versions, Kemp then proposed to Medcalf that they should try to get Terry Mardell interested, Mardell was an expert in relation to quiz shows and was another one of Kemp's friends who told him his idea of a snooker game show three years prior, which was also during that year Mardell devised a successful bingo-related quiz show called Bob's Full House.

It was first practised at King's Cross Snooker Club where a week later, the three men met again to work out how the game could be improved with a view to a presentation to the BBC.