History Series / TheWheel

* ElNiñoIsSpanishForTheNiño: Michael asks a contestant on one episode what "Spin the wheel" is in Jamaican patois. The answer is "Spin the wheeeeeeel!".

* GoldenSnitch: It doesn't matter if one contestant clears more categories than the others. The one who clears the last one gets the first chance at the jackpot.

An American version premiered on Creator/{{NBC}} on December 19, 2022 as a two-week event, with [=McIntyre=] hosting and producing. The per-question payouts are set at $5,000 and $10,000 (gold) respectively, the wheel is cut down to six categories/celebrities to accommodate commercial breaks, and the Moneyspinner and the bonus on the final question for landing on an expert that had yet not been selected have been removed.

* HiddenDepths: Most of the experts' chosen categories are based on their professions (e.g. [[{{Series/Countdown}} Carol Vorderman, Rachel Riley and Susie Dent on Maths, Numbers and Words respectively]], Steve Kornacki on U.S. politics) or their location (e.g. [[Series/TheOnlyWayIsEssex Gemma Collins on Essex]]). However, there is the odd occasion you get a celebrity with an unexpected topic, such as [[Series/TheXFactor Dermot O'Leary]] on UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.[[note]]He studied politics at university and loved history at school.[[/note]]

* GeniusDitz: Celebrities who end up at the bottom of the ranking are this, being completely clueless in everything except their chosen category.

* HiddenDepths: Most of the experts' chosen categories are based on their professions (e.g. [[{{Series/Countdown}} Carol Vorderman, Rachel Riley and Susie Dent on Maths, Numbers and Words respectively]], Steve Kornacki on U.S. politics) or their location (e.g. [[Series/TheOnlyWayIsEssex Gemma Collins on Essex]]). However, there is the odd occasion you get a celebrity with an unexpected category such as [[Series/TheXFactor Dermot O'Leary]] on UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.[[note]]He studied politics at university and loved history at school.[[/note]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[TitleThemeTune The Wheel ... the Wheel ... the Wheel!]]\\

* HiddenDepths: Most of the experts' chosen category is based on their profession (e.g. [[{{Series/Countdown}} Carol Vorderman, Rachel Riley and Susie Dent on Maths, Numbers and Words respectively]], Steve Kornacki on U.S. politics) or their location (e.g. [[Series/TheOnlyWayIsEssex Gemma Collins on Essex]]). However, there is the odd occasion you get a celebrity with an unexpected category such as [[Series/TheXFactor Dermot O'Leary]] on UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.[[note]]He studied politics at university and loved history at school.[[/note]]

* BonusRound: In the Cashout final, the experts are ranked based on how many questions they answered correctly throughout the game, and the contestant who answered the final question correctly must then choose either the highest (first) ranked, the middle (fourth, third in the US) ranked or bottom (seventh, sixth in the US) ranked expert as their partner. A question is asked from one of three new categories; clearing it with the middle-ranked expert awards the jackpot, the highest-ranked expert awards half the jackpot, and the lowest-ranked expert awards double the jackpot. Oh, and there is a mere [[TimedMission 30-second time limit]]. If the contestant answers the Cashout question incorrectly, its topic, the chosen expert and their jackpot are all taken out of play, and the contestant wheel is spun again to pick a new player.

* DownerEnding: In the Cashout round, each of the three experts can only be selected once. Thus, it is possible for an episode to end without a winner if the contestants miss questions with all of them. The first time this happened, Michael marked the occasion with [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecation]]:

* BonusRound: In the Cashout final, the experts are ranked based on how many questions they answered correctly throughout the game, and the contestant who answered the final question correctly must then choose either the highest (first) ranked, the middle (fourth, third in the US) ranked or bottom (seventh, sixth in the US) ranked expert as their partner. A question is asked from one of three new categories; clearing it with the middle-ranked expert awards the jackpot, the highest-ranked expert awards half the jackpot, and the lowest-ranked expert awards double the jackpot. Oh, and there is a mere [[TimedMission 30-second time limit]]. If the contestant answers the Cashout question incorrectly; its topic, the chosen expert and their jackpot are all taken out of play, and the contestant wheel is spun again to pick a new player.

* BonusRound: In the Cashout final, the experts are ranked based on how many questions they answered correctly throughout the game, and the contestant who answered the final question correctly must then choose either the highest (first) ranked, the middle (fourth, third in the US) ranked or bottom (seventh, sixth in the US) ranked expert as their partner. A question is asked from one of three new categories; answering it with the middle-ranked expert awards the jackpot, the highest-ranked expert awards half the jackpot, and the lowest-ranked expert awards double the jackpot. Oh, and there is a mere [[TimedMission 30-second time limit]]. If the contestant answers the Cashout question incorrectly, the topic, the chosen expert and their jackpot are all taken out of play, and the contestant wheel is spun again to pick a new player.

* BonusRound: In the Cashout final, the experts are ranked based on how many questions they answered correctly throughout the game, and the contestant who answered the final question correctly must then choose either the highest (first) ranked, the middle (fourth, third in the US) ranked or bottom (seventh, sixth in the US) ranked expert as their partner. A question is asked from one of three new categories; answering it with the middle-ranked expert awards the jackpot, the highest-ranked expert awards half the jackpot, and the lowest-ranked expert awards double the jackpot. Oh, and there is a mere [[TimedMission 30-second time limit]]. If the contestant answers the Cashout question incorrectly, the expert and their jackpot is taken out of play, and the contestant wheel is spun again to pick a new player.

** The first two UK series featured four categories in each Cashout, and those for missed questions were replaced.

** The first two UK series featured four categories in the Cashout, and those for missed questions were replaced.

* BonusRound: In the Cashout final, the experts are ranked based on how many questions they answered correctly throughout the game, and the contestant who answered the final question correctly must then choose either the highest (first) ranked, the middle (fourth, third in the US) ranked or bottom (seventh, sixth in the US) ranked expert as their partner. A question is asked from one of three new categories; answering it with the middle-ranked expert awards the jackpot, the highest-ranked expert awards half the jackpot, and the lowest-ranked expert awards double the jackpot. If the contestant answers the Cashout question incorrectly, the expert and their jackpot is taken out of play, and the contestant wheel is spun again to pick a new player.

''The Wheel'' is a GameShow created and hosted by Creator/MichaelMcIntyre for Creator/{{the BBC}} that involves three contestants battling out to be the first to clear a wheel of seven categories, each containing a celebrity expert of that category. One contestant plays at a time, randomly selected from a pool of three; after they choose a category, they must also choose an expert to "shut down" from the round. The wheel is then spun to randomly select the expert to help them answer the multiple-choice question. Each correct answer adds at least £3,000 to the jackpot (£10,000 should they land on the category's expert -- marked in gold -- and in the final category, £6,000 should they land on an expert that had yet not been selected) and removes the category from the board.

* GoldenSnitch: It doesn't matter if one contestant clears more categories than the others. The one who clears the last one gets first chance at the jackpot.

** "(It's a one-out-of-three...) Who's it gonna be?!"
** "Let's spin the (Contestant) Wheel!"

** "Who's it gonna be?!"