In the week I’m dubbing “boring week” I think we need the super excitement of the Krypton Factor Super Round:
Didn’t mind it, didn’t fit though. Good music. Can’t believe nobody has put up a full episode of Krypton Factor 1995 yet.
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Who agrees that Gordon doesn’t look entirely comfortable in this video?
What the fucking hell was that all about? I barely understood a word of it. This is why Who Wants to be a Millionaire had to happen; it was the Sex Pistols to the Krypton Factor’s Rick Wakeman.
Coming soon to France 3 is Pointless. No mention of who is Cyril’s Pointless ami(e).
http://www.jeanmarcmorandini.com/article-54876-exclu-fr3-va-lancer-un-nouveau-jeu-presente-par-feraud.html
I hope la Republique Centrafricaine maintains its consistently Pointless status on their version.
Interesting, according to that article, there was the choice between a long(er) daily edition for France2 and a 26 minute edition weekly that they’ve gone for on France3.
Still hoping, like others, for the title “Nul Points”. Although I feel that they might go with “Pointless” but make it sound French anyway!
‘Pointleurgh’
No wonder that reboot flopped- I don’t have a good idea as to how many points was needed to buy some of the advantages…
I did read a thing from Gordon Burns when KF 2009 happened that one of the intentions of the 1995 show was to get rid of the assault course. Obviously most of the team felt this was very, very stupid, so instead it was used to open the show.
Didn’t stop them dropping the intelligence test though. And they dropped the intelligence test in 2010 as well. HMMMM.
Is it me… or is the obstacle course a USP…. and so is the intelligence test….
If you were to ask people what Things you associate with the Krypton Factor, I would predict the top three would be:
1) The Assault Course
2) Flying a Plane
3) The intelligence test
And maybe if the people answering were erudite, the general knowledge set-up.
Flying a plane has obviously earnt its way onto the list, given it wasn’t there for about ten years.
Why not the Mental Agility test? And the General Knowledge round was my favorite part of the show, as I enjoyed the twist about linking each correct answer to the next question. It was a memorable feature that distinguished it from other Q & A shows.
In other news, Ed Forsdick has passed away:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/08/gallowgate-chief-ed-forsdick-dies
Never easy to find words when unexpected and terrible news like that is reported, but..
[quote] The ITV controller of entertainment, John Kaye Cooper, said: “In recent years he has steadily grown Gallowgate into one of the leading entertainment indies, and I will really miss his passion for creating new shows..
Creating new shows?
Saturday Night Takeaway – ITV format, repainted by Gallowgate.
Pokerface – OK. That was new and original (and strangly abandoned quickly by ITV)
Duel – Brought the rights.
All Star Golf – Not a new idea.
Beat The Star – Brought the rights (although much kudos to sell the format back Raab TV who as we know created the original)
Push The Button – Argueable, it’s Saturday Night Takeaway minus the coachload of celebs turning up each week, and a slightly better show narrative.
To say they are a powerhouse indie is overstating a little, but excusable when asked for a quote by a hack, and the full impact of Ed’s untimely death probably hasn’t sunk in yet.
Of course, I express my condolances to his family, friends and those who have worked with him – some of whom I guess, graze over this site occasionally.
It is never any fun to have someone close suddenly pass away especially (as I gather) they were of no age at all, so my condolensces indeed to family, friends and colleagues.
Goodness, that is terrible news.
My best wishes to Mr. Forsdick’s family, friends and colleagues.
I’ve watched a couple of these videos now, and read YouTube comments, and I still don’t really understand how the rings-maze worked. They all get the same code, but the enter and exit at different points… So they then follow the same route once they’re in? Is it just a case of remembering the numbers or letters in order, then looking for those and following them? Or is there more to it than that?
By the sounds of it half the production team couldn’t work it out either.
However, I believe the idea was to start with the thing in your colour and follow the sequence round. Why on Earth nobody just went to each exit hatch until they found the one in their colour rather than climb all over the place I do not know.
Yeah… as much as anything, that doesn’t seem very hard. And if you forget your sequence, what’s to stop you just climbing down to the level below and keep going until you come out at the bottom? It does just look like a load of rings with ladders in between.
Again, part of the whole problem with the concept – it was never fully explained, and not enough time given over to it so we can see it properly. Similarly, while you can see how the wheel-thing works, we hardly really see people progressing until suddenly they’re done.
What’s to stop you just climbing down to the level below and keep going until you come out at the bottom?
Actually I believe in this case evidently finding the right hatch also gave you some sort of log-in to your computer. Although I don’t know.
Was The Big Ask a one-off? I have a memory of that somewhere in my head.
Ah. So it was. I hope it gets a full series in the future.
It looks like Your Case or Mine with Stephen Mulhern has been put back to late August, which is great as it means I’ll be able to go.
Ba-ding! That sound means that because this is a boring week, it’s time to break out an emergency Question Too Esoteric For Only Connect. By necessity, the clues may fly fairly quick and fast on this one.
For five points:
qetiuyouyt
This is a connection, presumably?
It is a connection, and the typo of “quick and fast” for “thick and fast” was not a clue.
For three points:
u yui o iui y
(With apologies to Iain Weaver, who I have probably inadvertently excluded from playing.)
No takers?
For two points, getting seriously famous:
q t rwy i o ppopop p[o
(…if the [ key worked, which it doesn’t under the circumstances, but the context should be clear…)
I mean, I get they’re all on the top row but I’m baffled by the significance.
They don’t appear to mean anything converted into alpha numeric, the numbers above them, or the letters below. Then again all of those fall apart with the third clue.
You’re most likely to be able to solve this today in particular. The chances of being able to solve it after today appear, almost, less appealing.
For one point:
w ty outeiy w ty outeiy e yu o
(…and the next key would have to be i sharp, if such a thing existed.)
If this is what I think it is, then it’s evil and the fourth clue references Knightmare. But I’m struggling to find one that primarily uses the top row.
Have you Googled it yet?
Found it, now alas I am let down by my knowledge of the particular sequences in question and lack of skills needed to render them. Been wondering what that little button did all day!
Nope, I don’t recognise any of the others no matter how I input them. I’m going to settle on ‘found the connection’and therefore one point but ‘no knowledge of subject matter’ and therefore a scornful look from Victoria Coren.
I’m happy to spill the beans but I imagine people will have fun working this out until midnight when it changes to something else. Maybe a rainbow for Judy Garlands Birthday.
Ah, getcha.
Three is Blockbusters.
But I can’t work out 1 and 2.
You may be able to backsolve them if you can work out the connection. 1 is pretty obscure, 2 is not.
Ah GOT IT. I was thinking too broad.
Well done! One point. I shall spill the beans before I go to bed if nobody blurts out the solution.
Very good, You should go on New Faces with that Derek Hobson.
I have to say I’m totally stumped by these clues as well
As Chris says, try Googling it… or not even that far!
Very clever connection – can’t work out the first 2 either though.
As Chris says, you can back work them out if you know what you’re looking at/for. I don’t think 1 is as obscure as Chris thinks it is, or at least it’s readily findable.
Wrapping up: the “Ba-ding!” with which I introduced the items was the clue that this was in fact a sound connection.
The connection is that the four sequences are representations of the initial lines of four works of Bar favourite Ed Welch via the medium of today’s Les Paul-themed Google Doodle.
1. That’s My Dog.
2. Catchphrase.
3. Blockbusters.
4. Knightmare.
You can’t do a lot with what is less than an octave and a half and no accidentals, but I just like linking to http://www.davidc.net/sites/default/files/Quiz%20Wizard.pdf (sheet music of an arrangement of Blockbusters) and
http://www.knightmare.com/fan-stuff/miscellaneous/1241-knightmare-ringtones.html (including MIDI equivalents so you can program your mobile phone yourself).
Looking again at those Super Round advantages, there must have been limits as to how many of each a contestant could buy.
For instance, if you had 30 points, you couldn’t have been allowed to buy all six of your batons in the Response Revolve (worth 5 points each), could you?
‘Cause that would have pretty much meant that you could go straight from the Laser Matrix to the Krypton Mountain – and that would have been just plain wrong.
I saw the clip on Sunday and the first advantage (which no player bought in the clip) was to get a direction arrow for the ‘Kryptic Rings’. Could that be worth 10 points?
We do know, thanks to Gordon’s intro, that it was 10 points for a word on the computer, 15 for the easier path through the lazers, 5 each for a Response Revolve baton (up to three – note three of the players bought all three available batons) and 10 points per ladder piece for the final mountain.
And that was why the yellow player in the clip eventually won: Not only did he look like someone who would win on a level playing field, but he spread his advantages around: with 36 points, he went for the three batons (15), one ladder piece (10) and one word on the computer (10).
It was the bought word that made the difference (as nobody else bought words there). One thing I wanted to see was time-checks (especially for the woman in second – was her time on the Super Round good enough to give her the ‘lucky loser’ place in the semifinal?
I can definitely recall in another heat, the leader after the Rings then completed three words but had not bought the fourth, set off down the lazers and went on to complete the course ‘first’… before Penny told him he was disqualified. I can even recall Gordon’s commentary of that heat: ‘All that training gone to waste.’