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• 13:49, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Food Glorious Food ‎ (→Champion: as a sort of trade-off, removed the now-dead link to the white chicken korma dish. It's on the Wayback Machine, though, if anyone still wants to try it ;))
• 13:44, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Food Glorious Food ‎ (→Web links: I doubt there are people who have been meaning to watch the final and still haven't gotten round to it ten years later... ;))
• 13:42, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Food Glorious Food ‎ (Not universally approved, but here's a Wayback Machine link. If such links *are* more trouble than one bargained for, then remove them by all means - but keep the original URLs without linking to them)
• 13:17, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Popstar to Operastar ‎ (Meat Loaf's name is usually two words, and Vanessa-Mae's name is usually hyphenated... right?)
• 12:26, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Popstar to Operastar ‎ (It's probably neater to put Myleene and Titchy on separate lines - while still making clear that Titchy only co-hosted the first series, of course)
• 12:20, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Popstar to Operastar ‎ (Not universally approved, but here's a Wayback Machine link. If such links *do* wreak havoc one way or another, then by all means remove them - while keeping the original URLs without linking to them)
• 22:17, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers ‎ (→Edit queries - November 2023: I am and always have been a big fan of the Wayback Machine - though I respect the opposite view)
• 12:42, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Cleverdicks ‎ (Wayback Machine to the rescue - if nothing else, to maintain visual proof that Cleverdicks had its own pages on the old Sky Atlantic site)
• 12:33, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers ‎ (→Edit queries - November 2023: another reminder of the Wayback Machine)
• 01:56, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers ‎ (→Edit queries - November 2023: is there any way of increasing the character limit for edit summaries?)
• 01:32, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone ‎ (→Synopsis: at least *this* edit can be explained in less than 200 characters... replaced {{notaired}} with {{expand}} as a full series has now aired)
• 01:28, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone ‎ (→Trivia: from 1 September: https://web.archive.org/web/20230901061407/https://www.channel4.com/programmes/alone. Five eps up, but only the first four had been broadcast on TV at this point, right?)
• 01:28, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone ‎ (I only put that text there because I wanted to quickly pore over my rewrite before adding it, and I wanted to explain everything but had to work around the 200-character limit for these summaries...)
• 01:14, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone ‎ (→Trivia: I'd like to considerably rewrite this bit, as it appears from the Wayback Machine that C4 put *every* episode after the first on its catch-up service first and broadcast it on TV later...)
• 01:41, 23 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Into the 21st century: may as well point out the move from Quay Street to Dock10, and the accompanying change of set - this fourth Paxman Era set being both the last and the longest-lasting)
• 01:07, 23 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream ‎ (Replaced {{notaired}} with {{expand}} as five episodes have now aired)
• 01:04, 23 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream ‎ (...AFAIK, this show *hasn't* bombed and been pulled from the schedules, and ITV have not yet said that there won't be another series. Unless I'm stuck in the past while everyone else is in the future?)
• 00:47, 23 November 2023 (hist) (diff) A League of Their Own ‎ (Wayback Machine to the rescue again. I don't think you can watch the videos (they're probably all on YouTube anyway), but you can certainly look at the pictures... ;))
• 00:37, 23 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Odd One In ‎ (Don't disregard the Wayback Machine, folks. It's free, it's easy - and it provides good snapshots in time, too (cor, remember when ITVX was simply the ITV Player?))
• 01:25, 19 November 2023 (hist) (diff) All Time Winners List ‎ (→£100,000 Winners: Mollie King's more than just a Saturday now, isn't she? Radio 1 presenter, cricket WAG...)
• 02:16, 16 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions ‎ (Perhaps it is more accurate, and less contradictory, to say that 2way bought Celador's international division - formats like Mr and Mrs, and You Are What You Eat, appear to remain CPL's property today) (top)
• 02:04, 16 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions ‎ (And I'm fairly sure Celador International wasn't *just* Millionaire... The People Versus sold to a few Eastern European countries; wouldn't Celador International have handled that too?)
• 01:56, 16 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions ‎ (You know, Simon, Talking Telephone Numbers isn't on CPL's production archive page either (yet Winning Lines is), and nor is Magic Numbers...)
• 16:20, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions ‎ (2waytraffic was altijd een Nederlands bedrijf - voordat het Millionaire en meer overnam, en nadat het door Sony werd overgenomen ;))
• 16:03, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions ‎ (To be fair, when 2way bought Celador International's format library, Millionaire immediately became the company's biggest show by far. That's the Question was never going to be quite as big...)
• 15:57, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions ‎ (Restored Weaver's edit, but added "in turn" since there were only 18 months between 2way buying the rights of Millionaire *and more*, and the company being acquired by Sony)
• 15:48, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions ‎ (Sorry, Simon, but this looks like being another of your classic rushes of blood to the head. 2way didn't buy *just* the rights of Millionaire; it bought Celador International's entire format library)
• 01:41, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (Following a reconsideration, replaced "host the show" with "ask the questions". Avoids "host" being repeated twice in quick succession, and also corresponds with the announcer's traditional intro)
• 00:39, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Enter Amol: the time between Paxo announcing his departure and Amol being announced as his replacement was pretty short, too)
• 00:35, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (Thanks to the show returning to its traditional July start, the gap between Paxo's last ep and Amol's first was pretty short... I'm assuming that Paxo *did* watch Amol's first ep with us ;))
• 00:26, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Enter Amol: may as well add Paxo's final sign-off, which was short, sweet and gracious)
• 23:39, 14 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Enter Amol: it's quite true that the 2022 Christmas final was the last Paxman ep recorded, and the 2022-23 student final was the last Paxman ep broadcast. Here are their respective air dates)
• 23:27, 14 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Enter Amol: pointed out when Paxo's Parkinson's diagnosis was, just in case anyone's wondering. No disrespect intended, of course)
• 23:13, 14 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Enter Amol: the Paxman Era lasted 29 years and, by my reckoning, 1,180 episodes. Obviously, he announced his departure *before* his final episodes were recorded and broadcast)
• 23:04, 14 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (New host, new era... why not new sub-section too? ;) (The title isn't intended as a play on "Endemol"; it's simply the first one that came into my head. Feel free to replace it with a better one))
• 16:09, 5 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Never Had it So Good ‎ (→Trivia: tricky, isn't it, when it's in 16:9 but you're having to minimize the amount of black space at the top, bottom and sides, and at the same time keep your caption reasonably centred?)
• 16:03, 5 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Never Had it So Good ‎ ("A non-broadcast pilot was filmed on the Countdown set..." Blimey-o-flip, it really did happen. Greggles won't mind the video being added to this site, will he?)
• 15:45, 5 November 2023 (hist) (diff) On the Spot (1) ‎ (Dam it, the video's no longer available... :()
• 00:54, 4 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:HTV Productions ‎ (The specific day in November 1982 on which HTV Wales's programmes yn y Gymraeg were transferred to S4C. This was, of course, the day before Channel 4 began everywhere else in the UK)
• 00:47, 4 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:HTV Productions ‎ (Logos reduced to 130px. This is a change I've made to several other production company category pages, as I think 150px is just a little *too* big. Could reconsider, of course... ;))
• 00:41, 4 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Full House (1) ‎ (1959... wasn't TWW the ITV station for (South) Wales then?)
• 18:26, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: here is the other special episode in which 12, 37, 62 and 87 were the four "large" numbers. All four were drawn this time, with Rachel again getting to make the selections)
• 18:06, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: only 12 and 37 were drawn in this episode, but Rachel did indeed outdo Bevins and Davies by easily spotting 37 x (5 + 3) = 296 ;))
• 17:53, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: also, Rachel got to make the selections in these numbers games instead of Bevins and Davies ;))
• 17:46, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: there was actually another special episode, later in 2010, in which 12, 37, 62 and 87 were the "large" numbers instead of 25, 50, 75 and 100. I'll get to that one in a bit)
• 17:15, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: clarified that Bevins and Davies were, at the time, the two most recent series champs)
• 17:09, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (Bevins v Davies officially *wasn't* episode 4999 - it did immediately follow episode 4998, but it was the 26th episode in the separate "special" sequence. The official episode 4999 aired a week later)
• 02:39, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: may as well point out too what colours the tiles were on Calendar Countdown)
• 01:15, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: the end of 1990 saw the start of the fifth Championship of Champions (preceding series 21 proper), and with it, the introduction of the letter tile font that is still used today)
• 01:05, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (Probably worth pointing out the rather thick font that was used on the letter tiles in series 19 and 20 - here it is in action in an early series 20 ep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJFXjgZfBA)

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