Britain's Brightest is a television game show presented by Clare Balding. The show began on 5 January 2013 and is broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC One. It is produced by RDF television and broadcast from MediaCityUK in Salford. The series finished on 9 February 2013, and was won by training consultant Andy Thomas, who had actually been runner-up on his original heat, but made it through to the final in the play-off. The runner-up was backgammon champion Zoe Cunningham.