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• 20:30, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (Third picture back: the head-to-head. Why "couple" rather than "team"? (1) To match the rest of the text, and (2) as if this hasn't been emphasised enough already, the couples were *engaged*...)
• 20:20, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (→Synopsis: second picture back: the end game. "Everything you need for your perfect honeymoon"... IMHO, not the greatest caption but by no means the worst either, so I'm willing to keep it)
• 20:17, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (→Synopsis: first picture back is the Rick Astley question. I will admit - willingly - that "Rickrolled!" is a good, if obvious, caption)
• 20:15, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (I am so mad and so disillusioned that I am rolling right back to before the pictures were added. I will add them back one at a time, and then another extended break from editing UKGS is in order...)
• 22:59, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Danielle Nicholls ‎ (Danielle still uses she/her pronouns, right? In any case, "they" kind of implies that she *and* Stephen were out of the limelight, when of course he went from CITV to Ministry of Mayhem and beyond ;))
• 22:46, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Simon Amstell ‎ (→Biography: also, I'm fairly sure Simon still uses he/him/his pronouns. Absolutely no disrespect intended towards the LGBTQ+ community, of course :)) (top)
• 22:38, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Simon Amstell ‎ (→Biography: no disrespect, but I don't think TV channel names need to be italicised ;))
• 18:25, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (...but I believe that it *especially* applies to the person who added the writing in the first place, where there was no writing before. And in this case, we're talking you, Simon, and your captions)
• 18:22, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (Also it *does* clearly say, "If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here." I'm well aware that this is a golden rule that applies to everyone...)
• 18:18, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (Simon, you're displaying your Hyde rather than your Jekyll again, and turning this into you vs. everyone else. Can't you accept there might be better captions than yours? (Those are placeholders, BTW))
• 07:16, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (→Synopsis: I am, as one might gather, considerably more in favour of using GFG's lyrics. TS does have a point about not everyone being familiar with this show, however)
• 07:13, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (Also, I am *not* a great fan of captions with unquoted first-person singular pronouns like "I", "my" and "me". My Asperger's may well have something to do with this, I'm more than willing to admit)
• 06:49, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (Sorry, but simply "Eamonn and Ruth, masters of ceremonies" is, IMHO, not as good a caption as one with "already husband and wife" in it (contrasting with the competing couples not being married yet))
• 22:38, 13 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (This ought to be a golden rule: any screengrab with an obvious and natural GFG reference must be captioned with a line from the theme tune. Hans Zimmer would be very pleased, I think... ;))
• 22:22, 13 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (→Synopsis: obviously, the couples weren't married yet, but Eamonn and Ruth were ;))
• 22:19, 13 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (→Synopsis: three *engaged* couples, right? If you weren't fiancé(e) and fiancé(e), you couldn't take part, could you?)
• 01:37, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: definitely can't disagree that the show suffers without a co-host - WoF has always felt like it's tailor-made for two hosts; same with Countdown and Pointless)
• 00:50, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: well, this *is* what people watch WoF for, right?)
• 00:35, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (True that the toss-ups aren't just problematic because they make the wheel something of an afterthought, and the holiday puzzle isn't just problematic because it disrupts the flow of the main game...)
• 00:30, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: re-mention of the padding being the biggest problem of all)
• 00:12, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: re-mention of R, S, T, L, N and E being given to the contestant for the final puzzle, and so on)
• 00:01, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: clarified that the small 24-envelope wheel for the final puzzle has also come over from Stateside, and pointed out the minimum amount that can be won)
• 23:43, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (It's also been mentioned on Bother's Bar that this holiday bonus puzzle disrupts the flow of the main game, and I'm afraid I have to agree. Even the Puzzlers on Paul Hendy's version weren't disruptive)
• 23:32, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: re-mention of the holiday bonus puzzle)
• 23:21, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (Re-mention of the toss-ups, and why having so many of them compared to the US is a problem. Nick Gates says "the wheel's like a guest at its own party" - I hope he doesn't mind me stealing that... ;))
• 23:04, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: re-mention of the audience shouting out the show's name at the start, and of the touch-screen board. And now seems a good time to add the word "trilons" for the first time ;))
• 22:57, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (Well it *is* the case, isn't it, that Graham's following in the footsteps of Nicky and Bradders (and John and Paul), but no-one's following in the footsteps of Carol and Jenny (and Angela and Terri)?)
• 22:49, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: re-mention of Whisper North, the eight-episode commission and Dock10, and clarification that the current revival of Jeopardy! isn't the first)
• 22:43, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Synopsis: the new version has the audience shouting "Wheel! Of! Fortune!" as in the US, and also "Fortune" and "Norton" almost rhyme... so there's a fairly obvious sub-heading ;))
• 22:40, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Synopsis: first of all, re-mention of the Alison Hammond pilot, and clarification that there were three years between this and ITV greenlighting a new version of the show)
• 22:36, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (I can't sugar-coat this, folks... the grammar in that write-up of the new version is terrible. So terrible, in fact, that I'm mad enough to delete this write-up altogether and start a brand new one...)
• 00:02, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Index S ‎ (And Strangers on a Plane is the first of the "Str"s alphabetically, at least for now ;))
• 23:59, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Index S ‎ (Stitch, Please! should precede the "Sto"s and the "Str"s ;))
• 23:13, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Steal ‎ (→Co-hosts: "Voiceover: A. N. Other" is the style these days, isn't it, rather than "A. N. Other (voiceover)"?) (top)
• 23:04, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Steal ‎ (→Inventor: Mr Liddington's surname has two 'd's in it. ;) Might as well point out he was also the producer - even though, of course, he produced almost *every* Central game show in the '90s)
• 22:58, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Steal ‎ (No-one's added the composer even though the video's been up over a decade? Mr Alexander had the same credit as on Fam Fortunes, and as Paul Maguire had on (Leslie's) Price is Right and Fifteen-to-One)
• 22:42, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Bwlletin ‎ (Not being disrespectful, of course, but this is one of the more obvious translations. ;) Quite a few Cymraeg words, in fact, that are the same as in Saesneg but with 'w's substituted for 'u's)
• 22:27, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Index B ‎ (Bwyd ar y Bocs... shouldn't that come *after* the "Bu"s and the other "Bw"s? Diolch yn fawr ;))
• 22:16, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Index T ‎ ("Jeopardy!'s title traditionally has this punctuation mark at the end." "What is an exclamation mark?")
• 19:39, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions ‎ (Got called away just after that last edit... Anyway, the current gold Thames logo again, but at 130px, on a black BG (as per production captions and the site), and at 4:3 (yes, very old school...)) (top)
• 18:53, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions ‎ (A new image of the Thames skyline ident, at 130px (the full height of the original image was just 100px); also increased the size of the image of the 1990 ident accordingly)
• 18:42, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions ‎ (There were three years between Thames being merged with Talkback, and all Thames productions becoming TalkbackThames productions. FremantleMedia had its reasons for all this, I'm sure)
• 18:29, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions ‎ (First of all, fair enough that there's now a TalkbackThames category - this company *did* exist for nine years, and everything was a TalkbackThames production for six, The Bill included)
• 18:26, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions ‎ (Simon, buddy, you *must* understand that there *are* times when people prefer two things: (1) explanations of some sort rather than none at all, and (2) time being taken rather than none at all)
• 18:14, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:Thames2018.jpg ‎ (The current Thames logo, introduced for the brand's 50th anniversary in 2018) (top)
• 18:13, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:ThamesSkyline.jpg ‎ (Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo do-do dooooo... "This is Thames, from London.") (top)
• 23:59, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Broadcast: I should add the end date, too - just in case ITV Studios decides not to make any more Christmas series (unlikely), or reorganises itself again (probably unlikely))
• 23:54, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Broadcast: updated Christmas episode and series counts under Lifted. Are we to know any more about the problem episode, other than why it was such and that it was an Oxbridge affair?)
• 23:46, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (And this is why)
• 23:35, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (How bad is it that the number of participants in the '23 Xmas series that I was already familiar with was just about zero? :( Anyway, Middlesex are the first Xmas champs to have more than four members)

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