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The Inside No 9 team at it again - have pushed an On the Buses spoof with Robin Askwith as the episode of the series and replaced "the current episode" with a Lee Mack quiz format called 3 by 3. Been changed on the EPG but should still be caught on the series link. iPlayer description refers to the quiz show replacement.
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The 1% Club has obviously had a few budget cuts since the last series!
What does that say about a channel if it scares fish? Just talk me through that.
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Brilliant - one of their best.
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Anyone know why the episodes were shifted around? Or was that part of it too? I have to take any pres with a pinch of salt when Inside No. 9 is involved...
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(18-05-2023, 10:43 PM)Larry the Loafer Wrote: Anyone know why the episodes were shifted around? Or was that part of it too? I have to take any pres with a pinch of salt when Inside No. 9 is involved...
I think it was almost certainly part of it. They’ve played a similar trick with the live episode I seem to remember.
Some flaws in the format, what happens if a team loses two members and that team gets to the final?
I liked the Pointless inspired set, although think the backdrop was green screen, considering that it looked quite authentic.
Interesting that Shelia Reid is the the next episode. I thought it was strange she’d not been in one yet considering her previous work with Pemberton.
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(18-05-2023, 10:33 PM)Brekkie Wrote: Brilliant - one of their best.
Hmm - I can’t agree with this. It was such a well-observed example of a daytime quiz show that it didn’t feel especially funny to me, nor was the plot especially exciting or unexpected. I actually felt like I watched a 30 minute quiz show to watch a 30 second twist that I’d seen coming for ages!
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(18-05-2023, 11:32 PM)Joe Wrote: (18-05-2023, 10:33 PM)Brekkie Wrote: Brilliant - one of their best.
Hmm - I can’t agree with this. It was such a well-observed example of a daytime quiz show that it didn’t feel especially funny to me, nor was the plot especially exciting or unexpected. I actually felt like I watched a 30 minute quiz show to watch a 30 second twist that I’d seen coming for ages!
I think it just depends whether you fall for it as as a live viewer. I read this thread first so before using live rewind (it wasn’t coming up for me on iPlayer right away) , so was constantly waiting for the twist. Although had I been watching live I’d imagine I’d have known it wasn’t real.
I imagine some of the more casual TV viewers may have fallen for it though.
Lee Mack was brilliant as always.
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(18-05-2023, 11:32 PM)Joe Wrote: (18-05-2023, 10:33 PM)Brekkie Wrote: Brilliant - one of their best.
Hmm - I can’t agree with this. It was such a well-observed example of a daytime quiz show that it didn’t feel especially funny to me, nor was the plot especially exciting or unexpected. I actually felt like I watched a 30 minute quiz show to watch a 30 second twist that I’d seen coming for ages!
Completely agree that it wasn’t the most exciting of plots and was basically a standard quiz show until the very end, but I found it weirdly quite a satisfying watch based on how well-observed a clone of the quiz format it was.
They nailed every element of a TV quiz show, down to the promo photo they’re using on iPlayer of Lee Mack on the ‘set’ of the show holding branded question cards. The whole thing was done with a knowing wink to the tropes of the genre and I appreciate the effort that must go into pulling something together that seems so authentic - it’s the kind of thing that I imagine people in the industry will enjoy hugely.
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(18-05-2023, 11:16 PM)Jon Wrote: (18-05-2023, 10:43 PM)Larry the Loafer Wrote: Anyone know why the episodes were shifted around? Or was that part of it too? I have to take any pres with a pinch of salt when Inside No. 9 is involved...
I think it was almost certainly part of it. They’ve played a similar trick with the live episode I seem to remember.
Some flaws in the format, what happens if a team loses two members and that team gets to the final?
I liked the Pointless inspired set, although think the backdrop was green screen, considering that it looked quite authentic.
Interesting that Shelia Reid is the the next episode. I thought it was strange she’d not been in one yet considering her previous work with Pemberton.
Indeed the set was all green screen
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(18-05-2023, 11:44 PM)Critique Wrote: Completely agree that it wasn’t the most exciting of plots and was basically a standard quiz show until the very end, but I found it weirdly quite a satisfying watch based on how well-observed a clone of the quiz format it was.
They nailed every element of a TV quiz show, down to the promo photo they’re using on iPlayer of Lee Mack on the ‘set’ of the show holding branded question cards. The whole thing was done with a knowing wink to the tropes of the genre and I appreciate the effort that must go into pulling something together that seems so authentic - it’s the kind of thing that I imagine people in the industry will enjoy hugely.
I certainly understand that reaction to it, and I’m glad you enjoyed it! It just didn’t do it for me as an episode of Inside No. 9. It was certainly not a difficult or dull watch, and it was cleverly done.
I think this is the first episode where neither Pemberton nor Shearsmith have appeared at all?