[Neil Jones]

I think in short they probably relied too much on the nostalgia, especially in the scheduling of it, rather than making it for today's audience.

It also didn't seem to get much of a life beyond it's original airings and any narrative repeats - indeed going back to the original and IIRC I became a fan by watching the summer holiday repeats rather than the original airings.

I don't remember seeing the summer repeats, I saw the show first time round, when it went out at 8:30pm.

There was too much wrong with the revival to be honest to be plausible, it was too rigid a format. The original show worked because if you were super smart and burnt through games like there was no tomorrow, it just freed up time for another game or two at the end and made it look more realistic. Which is what happened in at least one episode. Most teams got 14/15 games, one got 16. Not that it helped them in the dome but...

Though that argument falls down because they faffed around with the format when Ed Tudor-Pole came along, and those teams just got 13 games each. So I have to presume when it was revived they thought that's what they'll carry on.