Bit quiet, so here’s some Just a Minute from Carlton television, 1994. This was the first version of JAM I saw on television and went out after the local 10:30pm news, it includes a mystery object round.
Doesn’t Graham Norton look young?
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all the news on twitter, total wipeout is axed. apparently endemol have something lined up to replace it. £50 pounds says its not 101 ways.
Just confirmed in Het Grauniad:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/mar/29/total-wipeout-dropped-bbc1?newsfeed=true
Looks like costs were a factor.
Thanks for linking to Just A Minute – the Carlton years, Brig.
Some observations.
It had the feel of one of those very cheap early Channel 5 panel shows. I think it was the set, and general direction.
And how could they not use the minute waltz for the opening music?
Adding the visual round didn’t work. It smacked of a production meeting where someone decided they should do something ‘telegenic’. Bad idea.
Ann Bryson – now there’s someone who was occasionally everywhere and then dissappeared. The normal careear curve is to go silent for a few years, and then turn up on Casualty playing a manic neurosurgeon for three episodes. One suspects she retired from public life to count the cash from flogging creme cheese in every ad break for a couple of years around 1993.
Considered on it’s own merit – bad 4/10.
Compared against to the 2012 incarnation – really bad 1/10.
Nicholas deserved much better when topping up his pension…
It did well enough to get a second series, London (represented by Tony Slattery and guest) vs Birmingham (Dale Winton and guest). No idea if the first series was shown in the Central area.