The Mirror reporting that TV institution, well, a show that has been on for fifty years anyway A Question of Sport has been axed.
The Paddy/Ugo/Samantha refresh, one of several to try and appeal to younger audiences throughout the years, failed to catch fire.
I’m not a sports sort of person, I can’t say AQoS is something I ever really loved, but I appreciated its wide variety of rounds and ideas, some more successful than others, frequently, er, inspired by more successful relevant formats, mainly I’m sad they never found an arrangement of the theme tune better than the one they had in the eighties (and some of them since have been absolutely turgid).
The other defining thing about A Question of Sport, most shows increase the stakes as they progress, A Question of Sport gave out about 70% of its points in the first round. Incredible.
At 24 years, is Sue Barker the longest running female host of a quiz?
About a decade ago you couldn’t watch A Question of Sport on iPlayer. Did anyone get to the bottom of why that was?
A Question of A Question of Sport, there.
I’d imagine not being on Iplayer might be to do with rights for the sports clips they showed.
One of my favourite moments was this Captains Challenge involving a Piano, dodgy playing and the QoS theme being one of the answers!
https://youtu.be/VZgtI3p-_xQ