Show Discussion: The Hit List

By | May 24, 2019
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Once again JLS are on Saturday(s).

Saturday, 7:30pm,
BBC1

Save for the short revival of Mike Read’s Pop Quiz on BBC4 the other Christmas, we’re really struggling to come up the last time there was a proper music quiz on the telly. There’s Beat Shazam which has been quietly getting on with it in the US of course (which is on its third series now IIRC). They’ve certainly tried a few things in the recent past. There must have been something more recent than Name That Tune with Jools Holland, surely? Oh hang on, there was Don’t Forget the Lyrics I suppose. But then it is all just noise these days isn’t it?

Anyway here’s lovely couple Marvin and Rochelle Humes to put people’s musical knowledge to the test. We know pretty much nothing about the format other than that, and there’s £10,000 on offer each week, so we’ll look forward to watching it – we like a good music quiz, us.

Let us know what you think in the comments.

This year’s most anticipated series finale…

By | May 21, 2019
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…the final part of Actual Real TV Developer Ben Justice’s Top 100 UK Gameshows Of All Time is being delayed by a week so he can give it the best possible ending and edit. And he can’t decide the order.

We hope you are not too disappointed and that it should be worth it.

The Crystal Maze is getting a new Zone

By | May 20, 2019
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The disappointing reboot of The Crystal Maze is attempting to get rid of its lacklustre ratings and/or critical analysis by having a new zone! The Radio Times reveals that Medieval is going to be replaced by Eastern.

Interesting choice given that Medieval is probably the most iconic of the four zones. 13 celebrity episodes to get thrown out randomly later in the year, if the previous run is anything to go by.

Funday Monday: Crowdsourced Tenable Edition

By | May 20, 2019
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Chris M Dickson has a challenge for you:

Crowdsourced Tenable

We’ve had Fabricated Pointless, here’s a new thrill: Crowdsourced Tenable. I post a list and between us we work out what the top ten answers are.

What are the ten longest-running TV game shows in the UK that are still running?

Terms of engagement: we’re talking long-running in terms of time since first episode in the current run, rather than in terms of number of series, number of episodes or anything else. You know, intuitively, what the difference is between a show taking a normal break between series and a show going away then coming back later. For instance, that show which has run for lots of years but which used to alternate series with that other show can trace its history back to its first series without interruption. On the other hand, that show which ran for lots of years with one host, then took a long break and came back with a brand new host can only claim to have been still running since the new host brought it back. TV shows only, please, we can do radio shows (and radio shows that had a series or two on TV as well) later.

Special difficulties: for the first two days, we’re going to do this off the top of our heads. You can probably work this out accurately by going to ukgameshows.com, looking up the long-running category and seeing the shows’ actual dates. However, where’s the fun in that? Once we’ve worked out a consensus opinion as to what the top ten might be, then and only then can we actually look the answers up and see if we were right.

University Challenge, Mastermind, Countdown are obvious contenders. Maybe even Only Connect, Pointless and The Chase as well. Anyway, off you go.

One of our videos is missing

By | May 17, 2019
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Those of you expecting Ben Justice’s Top 100 UK Gameshows Part 9 video this Friday morning are in for a disappointment, the Copyright Man is being a twat and so the video is delayed until Ben’s able to re-edit and reupload – hopefully sometime later today! He’s said it’s his favourite so it will be worth looking forward to.

In the meantime, here is some music: