[Happy2001]

Scrapheap Challenge's final airing is on 24th December at 4am. Leads me to wonder what Challenge has got planned for 2023

And it's 5pm Sunday repeats finished today with a double bill.

[BlueFrog]

Celebrity Blockbusters (with Simon Mayo) is currently airing on Challenge with a huge black-bar at the bottom

[BlueFrog]

The 'Merry Quizmas' promotion they had a few days ago promoted The Chase, 5 Gold Rings and specials of Bullseye and Millionaire as part of the lineup, although as far as I'm concerned I don't see any listings of 5 Gold Rings in the schedule.

[Happy2001]

The 'Merry Quizmas' promotion they had a few days ago promoted The Chase, 5 Gold Rings and specials of Bullseye and Millionaire as part of the lineup, although as far as I'm concerned I don't see any listings of 5 Gold Rings in the schedule.

3 episodes of 5 Gold Rings are on the 29th December 9am - 12pm.

[Happy2001]

Scrapheap Challenge's final airing is on 24th December at 4am. Leads me to wonder what Challenge has got planned for 2023

Which was the out of sequence episode 5 of Series 10 which was skipped eariler in the run.

[Brekkie]

Or ITV stop selling Sky the rights to air it.

If it makes ITV enough money, I can't see it happening. Any concerns they might have about the Chase brand being oversaturated simply won't exist if they haven't existed before. ITV are no stranger to relying on a repeat during a late afternoon/early evening if schedules are up in the air.

The Chase has enough episodes in the archive they can afford to be across more than one channel - it might be a case ITV hold on to more recent repeats for longer but they might as well sub-licence the older episodes that are far more noticeable as repeats due to less Chasers, the more basic set and of course the nature of the questions.

[Neil Jones]

If it makes ITV enough money, I can't see it happening. Any concerns they might have about the Chase brand being oversaturated simply won't exist if they haven't existed before. ITV are no stranger to relying on a repeat during a late afternoon/early evening if schedules are up in the air.

The Chase has enough episodes in the archive they can afford to be across more than one channel - it might be a case ITV hold on to more recent repeats for longer but they might as well sub-licence the older episodes that are far more noticeable as repeats due to less Chasers, the more basic set and of course the nature of the questions.

Yeah well that's Early Instalment Weirdness for you. Happens to all long running game shows in due course when some major rule or set change comes along. One question shootout suggests they've done nearly 2100 Chase episodes since 2009 (which is everything Chase related. The daytime only episodes alone are near enough 2000 in total)

[Worzel]

Came into possession of this today. I remember them appearing on Prize Time in the 90s so a nice find.

Next I need to see if I can track down a Tumble Game. Did they have anything else branded though?

[James2001]

As long as you don't mean a Tumble Tower!

(what's the channel code for Challenge? )

[Neil Jones]

As long as you don't mean a Tumble Tower!

(what's the channel code for Challenge? )

For anybody not in on the joke, have a look at this (but not if you're of a nervous disposition):
tvforum.uk 

And in particular this, bearing in mind it dates from 2007.:
tvforum.uk 

And if you haven't lost the will to live by then, this will probably finish you off:
tvforum.uk 

(for our younger viewers, a classic example of why it wasn't necessarily better "back in the day".  It's also a good example of how to get 17 pages out of what was complete drivel in the first place)