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RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - Ash101 - 15-11-2023

(15-11-2023, 10:54 PM)Nobby Wrote:  I think Sarah Greene needs to be a little more careful when writing the questions if The Finish Line comes back for a second series. She should also change the rules so that the contestants just need to say A, B or C to identify which two answers are correct rather than have to say both answers.

Nice to see you’re working through the series too. It’s on my Sky Q box and I’m chipping away when I can. It’s a good show & I agree about the A/B/C answering, it’s very time consuming as is. 

Looks like it’s coming back for a second series as a contestant call opened this week.

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RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - RhysJR - 15-11-2023

On the subject of The Finish Line, it was commissioned for a second series today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/finish-line-series-two 

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RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - Nobby - 16-11-2023

(15-11-2023, 11:20 PM)James2001 Wrote:  I doubt anyone would think of Dad's Army or Porridge as 21st century sitcoms. The Porridge remake flopped and vanished without a trace.

Dad's Army was just a remake of the three lost episodes for Gold, not a full on reboot/remake, wouldn't be suprised if most people didn't even realise it had been made.

It all hinges on the definition of "21st Century Sitcom". I don't think my simple definition of a sitcom that was made in the 21st century is an unreasonable one. I wouldn't be surprised if there are people around your age (22 if my maths is correct) but with less of an interest in television than you or I who happened to see Porridge in 2016 and didn't know it was a remake.

Anyway, isn't that the whole point of a quiz show? To test knowledge of things that less than 100% of people would know? I wouldn't be surprised if most people didn't know about the New York subway system or amphibians of the British Isles but they are both specialist subjects in the current series of Mastermind. Should we allow ambiguous amphibious or substandard subway questions just because most people won't notice?

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RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - JMT1985 - 16-11-2023

(15-11-2023, 10:54 PM)Nobby Wrote:  Turns out that despite Dad's Army and Porridge both being remade in 2019 and 2016, that wasn't the two answers that The Finish Line was looking for.

I think Sarah Greene needs to be a little more careful when writing the questions if The Finish Line comes back for a second series. She should also change the rules so that the contestants just need to say A, B or C to identify which two answers are correct rather than have to say both answers.

The question is from this episode, by the way. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001q948  Watch it while you still can as the BBC are likely to remove it from iPlayer and never broadcast it again once Tim Davie sees this post.

The Finish Line is 100% coming back in 2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/finish-line-series-two 

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RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - tellyblues - 16-11-2023

Popmaster returns for More4, a 16x60 run, two of them celebrity specials.

https://tellymix.co.uk/tv/680979-popmaster-tv-renewed-for-second-series-on-more-4.html 

Well deserved recommissions for both it and The Finish Line, bright lights in a year where hopes have been pinned on reality shows doing the business.

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RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - Nobby - 16-11-2023

When the history books are written, it must surely be noted that while Joel Dommett and Alan Carr were fighting to make identifying pictures a success, Roman Kemp snuck in and quietly did it in daytime. And it wasn't even his main gimmick!

The 21st Century gameshow Ask the Family ("Identify this object from an unusual angle") should also get a mention in a footnote.

What about Catchphrase though? Does it fall within the remit that I just made up?

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RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - Neil Jones - 16-11-2023

(15-11-2023, 11:20 PM)James2001 Wrote:  I doubt anyone would think of Dad's Army or Porridge as 21st century sitcoms. The Porridge remake flopped and vanished without a trace (god knows why the BBC chose that one out of the 4 pilots rather than Goodnight Sweetheart), and Dad's Army was just a remake of the three lost episodes for Gold, not a full on reboot/remake, wouldn't be suprised if most people didn't even realise it had been made.

Just to jump in here, Gold have picked/remade animated versions of the three missing Dad's Army episodes, and they're shoving them out under the same presentation banner as the 2018 recreations. Not sure if these are the same ones that were on the BBC store:
https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/fyi/359/animated-dads-army-on-gold/ 

Not that this leads any credence to the original point about 21st century sitcoms, of which Dad's Army is not one, though it is still on air today so you can tenaciously argue its only 21st century by the fact its never been off the air since it was made.

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RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - Brekkie - 16-11-2023

There is often the odd bad question in gameshows. I don't think many would say that is one of them.

Moving on to other BBC daytime shows and think Nish Kumer was actually pretty decent on Pointless and Andi Oliver had a good first episode too. The guest host thing probably works better than I thought.

Otherwise is it just Bridge of Lies left in the BBC daytime line up quiz show now, along I think with some unaired episodes of Unbeatable. A shame Impossible got axed but it seems to be in regular repeats on BBC2 now - I didn't realise so many episodes hot made with over 200 editions over 9 series, including a covid series with just 12 contestants which didn't particularly work. Indeed arguably it is a format which might have worked over Zoom.

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RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - James2001 - 16-11-2023

(16-11-2023, 12:17 AM)Nobby Wrote:   I wouldn't be surprised if there are people around your age (22 if my maths is correct) 

I'm not 22, or anywhere near, I'm 37.

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RE: The TV Gameshow Thread - Brekkie - 16-11-2023

Production of Bridge of Lies has gone out to tender. It was produced by STV Productions but guessing it's not their format.

https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/bbc/top-indies-set-to-tussle-for-bbc-daytime-quiz/5187936.article?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1700134366 

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