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RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - Ash101 - 14-02-2023
(14-02-2023, 01:50 PM)JAS84 Wrote:(14-02-2023, 10:39 AM)iloveTV1 Wrote: Ninja Warrior and The Masked Dancer both axed. Fair enough for the latter as it seems unlikely that they’d have space for it this year due to the Rugby World Cup, but it makes you wonder what the point of bringing back Ninja Warrior was considering it got dumped at 5.30 (and a couple of episodes aired even earlier if I remember correctly).
Source please? I just Googled "Ninja Warrior cancelled" and all I got was news from last September about Australian Ninja Warrior being cancelled, and news from earlier last year about the UK version being UNcancelled.
It's being reported by The Sun, who seem to have a pretty good track record with TV stuff:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/21379300/itv-axes-show-ninja-warrior-gutted-sport/
RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - Brekkie - 14-02-2023
The right call on both. Masked Dancer can always be bought back at a later date if needs be - it was always on a suicide mission against Strictly. It would probably have held up OK as summer filler, but ITV seem to have backed out of summer content now.
The Ninja Warrior revival was a poor production compare to the original - just didn't work at all. Indeed scheduling wise both might have benefitted from switching around - although Masked Dancer would have been a bit early at 5.30pm having it largely out of the way before Strictly would have offset the early start, then Ninja is more of an alternative to Strictly at 7pm. What I found odd with Ninja Warrior though was how it was often at 5.30pm on the Saturday then repeated at 5.30pm on the Sunday too.
RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - eyeTV - 14-02-2023
It doesn't help that since the demise of X Factor that they don't have any show to anchor the schedule at weekends in the Autumn.
So they float in and out things that have had some minor success with like Masked Dancer, The Voice, The Cube, Ninja Warrior, Celebrity Chase etc.
The Autumn needs a fresh focus and either the return of a big show (XF?) or some new formats. Probably not for this year as Rugby is going to take over, there are effectively 6 home nations games scheduled on Saturday nights in September / October.
RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - JAS84 - 14-02-2023
(14-02-2023, 02:02 PM)Ash101 Wrote:(14-02-2023, 01:50 PM)JAS84 Wrote: Source please? I just Googled "Ninja Warrior cancelled" and all I got was news from last September about Australian Ninja Warrior being cancelled, and news from earlier last year about the UK version being UNcancelled.
It's being reported by The Sun, who seem to have a pretty good track record with TV stuff:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/21379300/itv-axes-show-ninja-warrior-gutted-sport/
Cancellation not confirmed. That article says
Quote:A show insider told The Sun: "Ninja Warrior has been axed for this year, but could return in 2024."In other words, that they just didn't make a series for this year because the rugby will pre-empt it.
Ditto Masked Dancer.
Quote:A show insider told The Sun: "Fans will be gutted, but The Masked Dancer is being rested for 2023."https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/21377901/huge-itv-show-axed-2023-two-series/
"Instead, ITV are showing the Rugby World Cup over the autumn," they added.
"This doesn't mean it can't come back in 2024, and ITV have plans for other specials like The Masked Singer I'm A Celeb show."
RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - Score - 14-02-2023
It's very rare that unscripted shows are outright "cancelled" these days. More often than not they're "rested", although 90% of shows that are "rested" never return.
They obviously want to keep their options open for 2024 and it doesn't hurt to keep things in the back pocket but my guess is neither will return.
As others have said they have the Rugby World Cup this Autumn which will cover Saturdays 9th September to 28th October, assuming they show all the Saturday evening matches on ITV1, which I'm guessing they will as they're all either home nation or knockout stages.
So they'll only really be looking to fill the Saturdays in November and December this year, and of course I'm a Celebrity will be on some of them. My guess is other than IAC they'll just have a mix of one offs like Queens For The Night (which has been reported as likely to return), movies and things like Catchphrase and Celeb Chase which can come and go. Maybe The 1% Club for post-8pm as they've filmed extra episodes of that this year so it'll need more slots than just the post-BGT slot in Spring.
The Voice is coming back but I'm not sure they'll be able to squeeze that into Nov/Dec around I'm a Celeb, so I guess that might air over the Summer this year (they filmed the auditions before Christmas so it'll easily be ready in time).
RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - AJB39 - 14-02-2023
(14-02-2023, 03:40 PM)JAS84 Wrote:Was The Masked Dancer ever hugely popular as that article suggests? It did ok but was never hugely popular. Tabloids just can’t resist exaggerating everything,(14-02-2023, 02:02 PM)Ash101 Wrote: It's being reported by The Sun, who seem to have a pretty good track record with TV stuff:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/21379300/itv-axes-show-ninja-warrior-gutted-sport/
Cancellation not confirmed. That article says
Quote:A show insider told The Sun: "Ninja Warrior has been axed for this year, but could return in 2024."In other words, that they just didn't make a series for this year because the rugby will pre-empt it.
Ditto Masked Dancer.
Quote:A show insider told The Sun: "Fans will be gutted, but The Masked Dancer is being rested for 2023."https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/21377901/huge-itv-show-axed-2023-two-series/
"Instead, ITV are showing the Rugby World Cup over the autumn," they added.
"This doesn't mean it can't come back in 2024, and ITV have plans for other specials like The Masked Singer I'm A Celeb show."
RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - Brekkie - 14-02-2023
(14-02-2023, 05:00 PM)Score Wrote: It's very rare that unscripted shows are outright "cancelled" these days. More often than not they're "rested", although 90% of shows that are "rested" never return.
They obviously want to keep their options open for 2024 and it doesn't hurt to keep things in the back pocket but my guess is neither will return.
As others have said they have the Rugby World Cup this Autumn which will cover Saturdays 9th September to 28th October, assuming they show all the Saturday evening matches on ITV1, which I'm guessing they will as they're all either home nation or knockout stages.
So they'll only really be looking to fill the Saturdays in November and December this year, and of course I'm a Celebrity will be on some of them. My guess is other than IAC they'll just have a mix of one offs like Queens For The Night (which has been reported as likely to return), movies and things like Catchphrase and Celeb Chase which can come and go. Maybe The 1% Club for post-8pm as they've filmed extra episodes of that this year so it'll need more slots than just the post-BGT slot in Spring.
The Voice is coming back but I'm not sure they'll be able to squeeze that into Nov/Dec around I'm a Celeb, so I guess that might air over the Summer this year (they filmed the auditions before Christmas so it'll easily be ready in time).
I can't see The Voice being in the summer - they've 6-7 weeks before Christmas so I suspect they'll just add one or two Sunday editions and air it in those latter weeks, and they'll always be a gameshow format they can air in the hours before.
They could easily have bought the Saturday editions of I'm a Celeb forward a bit on Saturday nights since The X Factor finished and aired 90 minute editions but the fact it's generally remained airing later than 9pm and generally been kept as an hour long editions, even once the rest of the week is 90 minutes, suggests that using it to plug a gap for 3-4 weeks in the Saturday schedules has never really been on ITV's agenda.
ITV is clearly missing that big autumn tentpole fixture though now The X Factor has gone - and though that has been offset in recent years by being far stronger than the BBC in Q1/Q2 in the last year or two there has clearly been a bit more investment in Saturday nights again from the BBC - although perhaps to ITV's relief much of that seems to end up scheduled as lead-in or lead-out programming from Strictly.
RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - tellyblues - 14-02-2023
https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/icsyv-axedrep1
Like TMD, this merely did OK, part of the problem being it was another performance guessing show and derivative of what Saturday night TV is/was.
Commissioners should be looking at why shows like The Wheel and The 1% Club have been "hits" but sadly we'll probably get carbon copies which is really not why the examples given have performed better than expected.
RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - eyeTV - 14-02-2023
Presumably clearing the way for 'Clear the Dance Floor' (presented by Alison Hammond), another dancing show.
RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - tellyblues - 15-02-2023
Catchpoint is another getting dumped this Valentine's Day.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/21387889/bbc-shows-axed-paddy-mcguinness/