Doubtless you’ve noticed this already, but despite the BBC deciding to rerun the “Olympic” “specials” from last Summer in the current Saturday evening slot, which is certainly a choice, on Tuesday night at 23:35 (in England and Wales, do check your local listings) on BBC1 an unbroadcast episode from series one is going out which probably doesn’t have much different to it to the ones that have been going out other than a lack of Moneyspinner round.
Allegedly there may have been “a talent issue” (knock yourselves out, McIntyre haters!), the listing is suggesting Shirley Ballas, Jo Whiley and Chris Packham appearing but the other guests are a mystery. Barrowman?
There’s also a 19th December 2020 date on it, interestingly.
Radio Times says Chris Packham, Ranj Singh, Jo Whiley, Fallon Sherrock (the darts player), Ainsley Harriott, Shirley Ballas and Mark-Francis Vandelli.
No idea. Wondered if it might have been around the time of Jo Whiley’s disabled sister not getting the Covid vaccine but the dates don’t match.
If you remember, when the official site started when the first episodes were airing, Episode 1 was 1 of 10 and then all the episodes aired, we got to episode 9 and then I checked the next week and did not see a listing for 10- of 10. After Episode 9 aired, they announced the renewal for Series 2, which was 16 episodes and a couple days later the official site updated Series 1 and it was 9 of 9. I thought the final episode was a special CIN or charity episode but they just glossed over that one.
I gather since the first 3 episodes of Series 2 first aired during the postponed Summer Games, they are doing the same for the Winter Olympics as they are close together. I don’t know why they just didn’t show a repeat of Saturday’s ep and wait until the end of the Olympics to air on the regular Saturday, I’m stumped. I just don’t like doing it at the same time that we have one more Series 2 episode that is left to air. Are they now going to postpone that Series 2 episode or will they actually air that one after the Olympics?
A bit odd to run a late night new episode and repeats on Saturdays but the BBC seem to find it impossible to run complete series of game shows on Saturday nights, which makes the episode numbering almost impossible to follow. Recent runs of The Hit List and The Wall have both been made up of left over episodes from last series and the first few from this, before disappearing again mid-series. Think they often did this with the lottery shows too.
Just curious – was the episode new/first-run after all?
It was, I’m completely baffled as to why it wasn’t shown first time round. The floor seemed some frames-per-second issues occasionally but I’d be amazed if that’s the reason.
Thanks for confirming,; very puzzling indeed!
So I can I answer the question as I was the contestant on it!
The episode was the very first to be filmed and took nearly y6 hours so presumed that it didn’t air with first series due to the editing time required as was only filmed a few weeks prior to airing. There was a lot of hiccups throughout and it was a long day to say the least! And actually informed that it wasn’t going to air so was surprised when it did.
It does look like we are not going to see the final Series 2 episode after the Olympics, as seen on the Official BBC Site and Digiguide. So that episode will replace the last Series 1 episode as “The missing episode” I have no idea who couldbe in that episode. I am just puzzled as to why they decided to schedule the missing Series 1 episode when they did at the “end of the series” rather than somewhere in the middle.