Yes yes, we’ll deal with Big Brother tomorrow.
@Totaltvguide has suggested at a Sky press briefing earlier Challenge are preparing a remake of a teatime classic for Challenge. Any ideas?
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Yes yes, we’ll deal with Big Brother tomorrow.
@Totaltvguide has suggested at a Sky press briefing earlier Challenge are preparing a remake of a teatime classic for Challenge. Any ideas?
Blockbusters?
Yeah. I would stake money on Blockbusters (although have no specific “insider” knowledge, so may well be wrong).
Maybe that mooted and then forgotten revival of Give Us A Clue is actually going to happen. Though I think Blockbusters is more likely.
Blockbusters would be the obvious one, although it’s never really found its feet in any revival, which is a shame since the game had never changed so evidently it was some Factor X that made it popular – and Bob Holness just isn’t going to be doing it.
Blockbusters was my immediate thought too. What other tea time classics have we had? Can’t think of anything else I’d consider classic.
15-1??
Was this tea-time? I thought it used to be on just before countdown.
Huge ratings drop for Take The Money and Run yesterday, down to only 3.63m. It’s Worth What? with 4.07m was more popular.
…but still thrashes IWW in the only rating that matters (1.4 vs 1.0 if you’re playing along at home)
Let’s cut to the chase Joe, where’s the BB Live feed you promised?
I’m sorry about BB live feed. What can I say? I was misinformed. Apologies.
Hmm. You seem misinformed about a lot of things Joe, do you see why we don’t take you too seriously?
OK 🙂
Blockbusters has done quite well for Challenge but i can’t help but think it maybe Weakest Link. However i hope it is The People Versus.
Just had a further thought, could it be Robot Wars? Sky1 were very close to picking it up after Five axed it. Robot Wars would also fit in quite well with the action shows and TNA.
i suppose robot wars was technically tea time, so quite possible. is it old enough to be deemed a classic though? that said, sky compared gladiators come back as bigger than take that’s, so anything is possible in press talk (and im a huge glads fan)!
Teatime classic? For Challenge? Add my name to the Blockbusters pile, not least because it does very well in repeats.
What other teatime classics are there? Masterteam (1) with the Pot Pourri, First Class the video quiz, er, The Weakest Link, er, er, 100% and Move On Up. Oh, and Gamesmaster.
Was Knightmare late enough on Friday afternoon’s to be considered teatime?
…Does Televirtual even exist anymore (Things went to hell last I was on a Knightmare forum), and if not who now owns the rights to it?
But, yeah, add me to the Blockbusters hexerie.
Goldenballs?
Does anybody know when we will find out?
Just had a look at BARB and the 2 Challenge shows that have been in the top 10 just about every week since the start of the year
Family Fortunes & Catchphrase, wonder if that is a clue.
Funny how we’re all assuming it’s a weekday teatime classic, when the weekend teatime classics were probably more interesting. If we stick to weekdays, I’m hoping for Masterteam, but would settle for Connections… though, really, Blockbusters really was the teatime classic, wasn’t it?
The important thing we have all discovered on Twitter this afternoon is that Richard Osman, Adam Wood (Cash Cab) and David Young all worked on platinum age Games World. I’m pulling for that. It won’t be that.
Games World was the one with the Aztec setting, right? If so, HELL YES. That made my mid-90s.
Although to be honest you can’t really get a good gaming show nowadays.
Well, I’d suggest Platinum Age Games World was Carnival and then Post-apocolypse with Bob Mills hosting, but yes in the last few years it had an Aztec setting with Andy Collins hosting.
Ah, yes. Bob Mills came to mind, but I was too young, and didn’t have cable, at that time.
Would pay for a 2011 revival of Videogame Slaporama.
I bet most of the original Videators could still do with the work.
I’d be intrigued if that was the case actually, loads of them went into the industry proper and everyone else did commentary on GamesMaster.
My sister bought her house off Big Boy Barry – completely true fact.
I’d suggest that’s “Verrey” good.
100%? Fun and frivolity for all the family!
And it even had a Gold version.
…And a sex version, butt it was Channel Five after all…
A sex version which was won by CJ De Mooi, indeed… and I think that and the Weakest Link Bad Losers Special may be the only things he ever took away a prize from.
Back when his webpage had his television quiz appearances listed on it I distinctly recall there being an awful lot of things he didn’t win on there, yes…
With Ratings Bear doubtless a little woozy after eating most of ITV’s summer schedule, I think I’m left to provide some ratings facts. The below are selected facts about television ratings, on Channel 5 unless stated. Facts below are completely free of opinion, and are facts.
* Launch rating for on Channel 4, 3 January 2010: 6.28m
* Highest rating on Channel 5: 4.95m for , 14 November 2004.
* Launch rating for on Channel 4, 9 June 2010: 4.89m
* Highest rating for an entertainment programme on Channel 5: 4.53m for , 13 February 2005.
* Highest rating for a recent series launch on Channel 5: 4.25m for , 11 October 2009.
* Highest rating under Richard Desmond’s ownership: 3.18m for on 21 December last year.
* Highest rating this year: 3.16m for on 8 January.
* Average rating for the weekly number 1 programme: 3.00m.
* Average rating for the weekly number 1 programme in week 34: 2.79m.
* Highest rating for something that might have been a game show: 2.18m for , 14 November 2004.
* Highest rating for something that was certainly a game show: 2.13m for , 6 January 2006.
* Average rating for all franchise episodes (original and repeat) shown since 2002: 2.13m.
* Rating for on 25 May 2003: 1.71m.
* Average rating for the weekly number 10 programme: 1.64m.
* Average rating for since 2002: 1.61m.
* Average rating for the weekly number 10 programme in week 34: 1.55m.
* Average rating for since February 2008: 1.37m.
* Rating for on 11 October 2010: 1.06m.
* Average rating for the weekly number 30 programme: 0.94m.
* Average rating for the weekly number 30 programme in week 34: 0.84m.
All figures are for the present BARB rating system, including timeshift by up to one week, for the panels since 31 December 2001. Figures prior to this date are not comparable with current data. With data for the week ending 17 July 2011 still missing, this is a total of 500 weeks.
Got to be Blockbusters I think, the other titlethat leaps to mind is Bullseye, which they’ve already had a go at relaunching. I did hear once that Justin Lee Collins had been vaguely linked with Bullseye while under his Channel 5 contract, but since every he did for them became snack food for Ratings Bear, I can’t see Sky dropping him in.
If we’re looking at weekends, perhaps a modern, ‘ironic’ 3-2-1? Stick Keith Lemon in as compere, find some young variety acts, keep the riddles and mild misogyny and you could probably get a cheap hour out of it.
As for Robot Wars, I thought that Dave were testing the water for that, showing the exhibition “Extreme” shows as summer holiday fodder. Not sure how that would work though, I think the Extreme series have been chosen because they were done under the auspices of BBC Worldwide rather than for Robot Wars LLC, otherwise they’d use the last UK championship which was pre-edited for commercial television.
Was First Class on at teatime? That was great and Hypersports has been off our screens for too long. “It’s the tricky spring and vault game”.
It was, and there’s no chance of EUGENE appearing any time soon I don’t think, sadly.
Dick & Dom’s Ask The Family, right?
I’m sure I read somewhere that Bullseye was being revived for a tour of some kind, but I would most definitely love to see a revived Blockbusters as well. I’ve seen a fair few mock-ups of the opening titles on YouTube and they’ve all been brilliant.