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• 23:25, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Champions: no post-1992 university has yet reached the semi-finals of the regular series - but one has won the Christmas series just ended)
• 18:55, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) The Getaway Car ‎ (→Trivia: I note, too, that Ivor Baddiel - David's brother - was the writer. What would any of us do without YouTube? ;))
• 18:49, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) The Getaway Car ‎ (→Inventor: I'm of the belief that developers should be mentioned as well as devisors - but feel perfectly free to disagree :))
• 18:43, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) The Getaway Car ‎ (The heading here is usually "*theme* music", too... isn't it?)
• 18:42, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) The Getaway Car ‎ (When the credit is plain "Music", that usually means that the composer(s) did the full score. And Mr Jacques' name *before* Mr Sylvan's; did he do more of it or was this simply to break from the norm?)
• 17:11, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Bazal Productions ‎ (Endemol bought half of Broadcast Communications in 1998; "part of GMG Endemol Entertainment" was subsequently added below the Bazal logo on production captions) (top)
• 17:04, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Bazal Productions ‎ (Before Bazal became an Endemol property, it was effectively owned by the Grauniad: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/aug/12/media.executivepay)
• 15:45, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) We've Got Your Number ‎ (The second part of the featured ep is on YouTube, including the credits - which aren't easy to read due to their speed and the video's resolution, but Deadly *is* credited as the Voice of the Balls ;))
• 15:37, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) We've Got Your Number ‎ (Think about it - real-life objects shot on camera; theoretically more time and effort than computer graphics. Ends with the 49 ball coming out during a draw, just to confirm this is a Lottery show ;))
• 15:24, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) We've Got Your Number ‎ (Well, *I* think WGYN's title sequence is rather brilliant - and I thought it was brilliant as an 11-year-old in '99, too. (Holy molasses, a quarter of a century ago now...))
• 17:14, 30 December 2023 (hist) (diff) TMi ‎ (May I swap Going Live and Motormouth round? Two reasons: (1) so each one is BBC vs ITV in that order, and (2) ITV didn't actually beat the BBC until 1999, when SM:TV came good and L&K started to slump)
• 14:09, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Celebrity Juice ‎ (The Wayback Machine may not be universally approved on here - but I *do* feel there should be some sort of reminder that there was a section of the ITV site dedicated to Celeb Juice until it ended)
• 13:34, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice ‎ (Holly's future on DOI *did* go up in the air, of course, when she left This Morning and took a hiatus from ITV. Now she'll be reunited with Stephen full-time, 20 years after they first did MoM... ;))
• 13:20, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice ‎ (I reckon Stephen was odds-on for DOI from the very moment Phil had to leave ITV - especially as he had, of course, filled in for Phil on one episode in 2022. Why it took ITV seven months, who knows)
• 13:09, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice ‎ (→Host: first of all, it *is* finally confirmed that Stephen will replace Phil, and that Holly will stay on)
• 13:08, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice ‎ (Oh dear, oh dear... needless edit warring going on here by the looks of things, and Hydes being displayed rather than Jekylls. I may not be a mod, but I think we need to start all over again here...)
• 12:58, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Champions: time to add the Series 88 champ. It'll be fun rearranging this table again in six months' time... ;))
• 17:09, 24 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice ‎ (If we really *do* need to acknowledge speculation by one or more certain tabloids (however fanciful), then I would rather these tabloids were not named. These papers do tend to quote each other anyway)
• 17:05, 24 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice ‎ (Sorry, but f**k the Sun. I don't mean to be disrespectful to those who *do* trust this paper, but there *are* plenty of folks too who don't and never will give it a yoctogram of trust, myself included)
• 18:42, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice ‎ (→Host: there *were* 17 years between when the show began and when Phil had to, er, go away - but of course, the show wasn't on in 2015, 2016 or 2017 ;))
• 18:36, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice ‎ (It certainly is true, though, that the revival has not had separate announcers and commentators like in the original run, and that Sam Matterface does far more commentating than announcing)
• 18:32, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice ‎ (No disrespect intended here... but the Sun is *not* a paper I readily trust, and nor are the Mail and the Express. I'm far more inclined to trust the Guardian, the Telegraph, and other broadsheets)
• 18:22, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone ‎ (No disrespect, but the last revisions by TS and JT *are* good, IMO ;))
• 18:08, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ ("And/or" means these eps were either shown on both channels (the "and") or on only one of them (the "or"). And readers can work out when these situations applied when they click on the Trivia pointer)
• 12:17, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ (...so perhaps the ITV Prods eps *can* be combined, since the first four aired on ITV1 only, the next thirteen on both ITV1 and CITV, and the last four on CITV only. Good idea to point to the Trivia)
• 12:01, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ (→Trivia: a bit more about the ITV1/CITV arrangement, with the help of the It's A Stampede! blog: https://itsastampede.com/2022/08/11/revisiting-and-re-watching-ministry-of-mayhem/)
• 11:03, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ (And the same with the Granada/ITV1, ITV Prods/ITV1 and ITV Prods/CITV eps of Showdown. I *know* this makes the infobox long, but sometimes there's no easy *and* elegant way round things like this...)
• 11:00, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ (No disrespect, but I'm of the belief that the Carlton and Granada eps of MoM should still be kept separate, even if these were just brands by '04 and there were no major changes in the production crew)
• 10:48, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone ‎ (→Trivia: ahem... :))
• 10:10, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (No, 1st Jan '91 was when the IBA was replaced by the ITC, and the ITC did not abolish the limits immediately. Why else did WoF's jackpot remain at £4k, Fam Fortunes' and Strike it Lucky's at £3k, etc?)
• 16:23, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (Sometimes *two* cars would be on offer with the £10k. Before Raise the Roof (and not counting the Lottery), this must have been one of the biggest prize packages offered on a British TV game show...)
• 15:59, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Jackpot!: in 1994, solving the final puzzle won you a car *and* £10,000, which was brilliant. And wasn't it 1 January 1993 when the prize limits were abolished?)
• 01:54, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Jackpot!: the "Big Wheel Jackpot" was £4k in the second, third and fourth series, and £5k in the fifth series. And of course, another incarnation of Lingo has arrived on our screens since... ;))
• 01:48, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Jackpot!: clarified that it was in the first five series, 1988-93, that solving the final puzzle won you a car, a holiday or, in Steve Hamilton's own words, the "Big Wheel Jackpot")
• 00:14, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: one last bit of tidying up, I'm hoping ;))
• 23:59, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: at least the last two weeks were straightforward, with the Batons put away. The final being a best-of-three was a tradition in the Bamber Era, of course)
• 23:36, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: if how the Batons worked was difficult to get one's head around, then so was how it was determined which two teams joined the six weekly winners in the QFs...)
• 14:57, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: again, only in 1986 were the teams really seated one above the other - it was back to the usual split-screen effect in 1987, though of course the Batons remained)
• 14:44, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: standard game on Monday, baton game on Tuesday, standard game on Wednesday, baton game on Thursday - and then the weekly final on Friday ;))
• 14:40, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: still more tidying up (hopefully), including the removal of superfluous parentheses and of repetition of the Baton having six lights)
• 14:26, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: further tidying up (I hope), plus clarification that when a contestant got two right, the Baton passed on to the next contestant in the team)
• 11:06, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: well, it *was* a rather different format, wasn't it? Also, in both series, the Baton only featured in the first six weeks of the eight)
• 09:49, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Pass the Baton: "Two series from the Bamber era (1986/87)" - well, specifically, the final two series of that era ;))
• 15:33, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) UK Game Show Records ‎ (→Longest running: and indeed, it's now aired its 8000th ;))
• 15:27, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) UK Game Show Records ‎ (→Longest running: "Countdown aired its 7000th episode..." That should be 7000th *regular* episode - not counting Masters eps (104 all told), Celebrity eps (14), or other special eps (50 all told))
• 15:12, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) UK Game Show Records ‎ (Bamber's final regular episode of UC aired on Friday 4 September 1987. Of course, there were the three UK v NZ specials at the end of that year, which were made at Quay Street but weren't regular eps)
• 14:56, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) A Question of Sport ‎ (→Host: "1979-1997" -> "1979-97", so that all year ranges within a single calendar century have two digits for the end year)
• 14:53, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) A Question of Sport ‎ (→Host: just to make clear that Sport Relief only took place in even-numbered years, and so three was the number of specials that Stephen Fry hosted)
• 22:05, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ (...and of course, the last four of those *didn't* air on ITV1. Apologies that all this has lengthened the infobox considerably - though adding an image or two to the main text might not go amiss)
• 21:18, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ‎ (→Broadcast: then it was Saturday Showdown for 26 episodes...)

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