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Adil Ray's mechanical, maniacal delivery just ruins an otherwise decent game show.

His over-the-top laughter at the most mundane of comments, his entirely samey presentation, down to the same phrasing show after show ... his artificially trying to ramp up the tension as the show proceeds ... makes this almost unwatchable.

Do yourself a favour, ITV, get someone half-decent instead.

I could imagine Stephen mulhern hosting this and the show being amazing, but we have Adil Ray who unfortunately wasn't able to show his comedic abilities in this and was a bit boring. Hate to admit it. Although considering schools were shut whilst this aired this was a useful tool as an English lesson for teaching children new vocabulary while being fun too, for them at least. I know enough but I don't express it here haha.

Overall, a really good show but it could've been better. AND ALSO ITS SO ANNOYING WHEN THE WORD POPS UP AND YOU DONT GET IT BECAUSE ITS ALWAYS EXTREMELY OBVIOUS. Happened to me tonnes and I needed to express my anger about that haha.

Lingo is an enjoyable idea for an afternoon game show spoiled by Adil Ray's awkward presentation with hands in pockets or arms folded. This is such bad manners. It is so rude and disrespectful as well as distracting. Also his false loud laugh and repetitive phrases become very grating. His loudly proclaimed "Ooh hello" when anyone gets something right quickly is also very irritating. He makes a huge fuss about the money even if it is a paltry amount. He has relaxed a bit but still just doesn't know what to with his hands and shifts around from foot to foot. But the worst thing are the hands, especially in his pockets or with arms folded.

I cannot for the life of me understand how the heck Adil Ray keeps getting on the tele - unnatural, unfunny, untalented and unlikable making the entire thing unwatchable.

More suited to kids tv. Awful stilted host. Hands in pockets!! Big yawn.

Another game show hosted by a comedian in the hope it will generate some humour, and another format from another country being desperately repacked to make it try and work over here.

Neither works well here.

My husband and I don't normally watch daytime TV but I caught a bit of this whilst in the dentists waiting room. Found it when I got home.

We record and watch later in the evening.

It's a good, light hearted, fun quiz show. Adil Ray is great at presenting it. Very natural. The contestants can usually provide a few laughs.

If you like your wordy puzzles, give it a go. We enjoy it.

Ignore the naysayers. It's an afternoon quiz show. Does what it says on the tin.

The show itself is watchable, but ruined by the presenter's stilted delivery, leaving a pause between each word, as if trying to use up the time.

What a rubbish show. It's the only show l have seen where you have to win the full amount again. Get to the final & have your winnings cut in half & your the winner's.

The show would be great to play along to if not for one of the most annoying hosts on TV (only other equally annoying is Ben Sheppard). Adil Ray stands there annoyingly holding his hand out like some kind of professor presenting a powerpoint on string theory and repeats the same exact phrase of "unlucky" whenever a contestant fails to guess their word! Change it up a bit you ANNOYING DONKEY! Another super annoying trait is him coming up with super annoying quips of the words they guess. For example if their guess is the word "Right" this muppet will 100% announce "is this the 'right' answer??" This happens 99% of the time and combined with his donkey like laugh and failed attempts at witty charisma makes it unbearable to watch!

Right, what is going on in with Adil Ray, he's in sitcoms, he's presenting GMB, and now he's hosting this awful game show?

Adil Ray, funny, clever, and smart, but a presenter, just no, what a waste of his talents.

This is another in the line of terrible quiz shows, nothing new seems to hold a candle to the likes of The Chase and The Weakest link.

The hope is when you watch some of these shows you may learn something, I fear this will encourage the loss of cells. Really though, it's not good. 2/10.

Adil please put your talents to good use, your way better than this.

Watched the show with Partner and we would both end up Screaming answers to TV Screen!

Highly Entertaining!!

Would want to see another Series.

This has the potential to be a good afternoon show (and provide some lockdown relief!). However, it's made difficult to watch because of Adil Ray the presenter - he is far too forced and patronising. If ITV plan to record more episodes and retain viewers, they need a far more natural host (such as Zoe Lyons, host of Lightening on BBC2, launched about the same time as Lingo).

The promise is good. But the host for this season 2 is very dry very scripted and not warm or even remotely human. I feel his script is is too much for him. Kind of painful to watch really. The host looks like he's not having any fun at all as well. Not sure why they want me to put in a whole lot more information but okay. I guess I should watch season 1 with the blue collar comedy guy that hosted it before so I'd actually have a comparison but again I do like the promise of the show and the contestants are great the host is just dry and not entertaining at all will never watch again! Yeah Not fun at all.

I think RuPaul is a good host. He is nice enough and quite eloquent. My issue is it's so easy! It's like...for a chance to win 100k...you'd think it would be a lot harder. But I guess the rules to the game have always been the same. To be honest...I never liked the show. In my opinion...bring back password! Let Jimmy Fallon executive produce it and host! He'll get A list stars and make it so if the contestant doesn't get the money in the quick round...let the $10k or more roll over to the next round so the jackpot grows. Also...the secret word should be for $5,000 and the sane...if it's not solved it rolls over. Make sure stars and contestants do not use hands...only words to describe...remember it's not CHARADES...it's password! But do yourselves a favor...get rid of Lingo...it's sucks!

In a successful re-make of a 1980's American game show; presenter Adil Ray successfully treads the line between admonition and commiseration of contestants as they try to guess the words in a hangman-style endeavour.

With rounds containing either 4 or 5 letter words the producers take a fair approach to what's on offer - with some days producing a lot of double letter words, while others have 3 or more vowels in the mix (curse you ooze!) and you will often find yourself shouting at the TV because you believe the answer to be blindingly obvious (a point that Adil does not fail to point out in a kind manner).

In between these rounds are 9 or 10 letter offerings, with a single clue (that sometimes does not seem ideal for the answer) and a devaluation of cash offered as letters are filled in over the 10 seconds.

Overall this show provides a quality hour of entertainment with a strong cash prize that will keep the attention of both young and old alike.

Please stop Adil Ray from saying 'you are definitely going home with . . .' when contestants complete the 4 letter Lingo in the final round. They could win more money at this point. He should say 'you are definitely going home with AT LEAST . . . '. It's irritating and incorrect!!! After all, this is a word game, so they should get it right. Other than that I enjoy the show; it's lighthearted and good fun. Every episode ends up with me shouting answers at the tv. I'm sure it's easier from my armchair than it is under the lights in the studio. Maybe I should give it a go - test my own personal theory.

I think this is a great show, but I cannot bear the host Adil Ray. Seriously, I don't know how any of the contestants can concentrate on their turn while he's waffling on! He doesn't give them time to think and is constantly barking at them - He is an awful host. The show should definitely have more series, but with somebody else presenting. Stephen Mulhern would be great on this show I think.