27-05-2023, 02:51 PM
The Crystal Maze revival had potential but was ruined by constant celebrity specials, something that the original never had.
(27-05-2023, 02:17 PM)tellyblues Wrote: Bar Changing Rooms which wasn't a C4 original anyway, compared to similar shows on other channels they could be seen as edgy. A problem is that the reboots were all stuck in silly timeslots where people don't want to watch those types of shows and it was probably forgotten/disregarded that a large part of the audience who these shows appealed to back in the day were young people - under 16s in the case of The Crystal Maze.TFI worked OK in the 9pm timeslot (I recall the original run having a post-watershed repeat anyway)- the timeslot was the least of that revival’s problems. The revival of TFI lacked edge and spontaneity… I loved the summer 2015 pilot of the show, that was a fun trip down memory lane, but the fun of the revival’s pilot didn’t translate to the revival series proper.