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- 13:41, 7 April 2024 (hist) (diff) David Baddiel (→Shows: if I may also point out the specific UC Comic Relief special that David hosted - there were two earlier ones hosted by Angus Deayton, of course ;)) (top)
- 13:39, 7 April 2024 (hist) (diff) David Baddiel (→Shows: technically David *co*-devised Romeo & Duet - just as Anneka Rice co-devised Challenge Anneka with Malcolm Heyworth, and Neil Buchanan co-devised Art Attack with Tim Edmunds ;))
- 13:31, 7 April 2024 (hist) (diff) David Baddiel (Ivor does deserve a mention here, however)
- 13:28, 7 April 2024 (hist) (diff) David Baddiel (According to the credits, The Getaway Car was devised by Charlotte Freinberg and Ross McCarthy, and developed by Leon Wilde - Ivor Baddiel was merely the show's writer. Were these credits wrong?)
- 21:14, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Clement Freud (→Trivia: Clement was also the uncle of Esther Freud, of Hideous Kinky fame. She and Frank Paul are half-sister and half-brother - Lucian fathered children with quite a few women) (top)
- 20:19, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Moneybags (→Trivia: there were two Hall of Fame winners in 2021, and the other one is mentioned only a few lines above... ;))
- 20:11, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap (→Synopsis: nabbed the screenshots of Bobby and Frank from Weaver's review - so that the pattern of two paragraphs, image, two paragraphs, image, etc. is more or less maintained throughout ;)) (top)
- 20:02, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap (→Synopsis: "Part two", "part three"... may I substitute "round" for "part", since it might not be clear to readers outside Britain and Ireland that the show was an hour long?)
- 19:54, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap (→Trivia: The Answer Trap wasn't the sole Hall of Fame winner for 2021 - indeed, it wasn't the only winner for that year that aired on Channel 4 at 3pm... O.o ;))
- 19:43, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap (→Trivia: re-wording as regards the answers, since it's already established that Cheddar is a cheese. I like what's said about McIntyre's wheel ;))
- 19:36, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap ("Care to play along?" Since I've made one bit slightly more negative in tone, I shall balance things out and make this caption slightly *less* negative (if more wordy). Again no disrespect intended ;))
- 19:29, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap (→Synopsis: the image of the cheese/dog breed board, from round one, comes *after* the paragraph about round two - I reckon it makes that bit more sense to have it *before* said paragraph ;))
- 19:16, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap (→Synopsis: Aardman is neither a cheese nor a dog breed, but is famous for a cheese-loving inventor and his dog. "Cracking Trap, Gromit!" ;))
- 19:00, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap (Already clear from the C4 press release at the start of the Synopsis that all the Traps were set by Bobby and Frank - so more re-wording below. Good for all but the team when a Trap was found ;))
- 18:42, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap (No disrespect intended, of course - but since the finding of an Answer Trap was quite dramatic, I've re-worded this bit accordingly, and added an exclamation mark at the end for good measure ;))
- 18:13, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap (→Synopsis: so that every image has a caption (bar the image of the logo, of course). Also makes the paragraph immediately below flow a bit better, IMO)
- 16:54, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap (This "small improvement" will obviously never be made, yet this bit should be kept in the present tense... so re-word without "small improvement". That it makes the tone more negative is unfortunate)
- 01:17, 24 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan (→Web links: updated the link to Neil's IMDb entry (even if it gets his year of birth wrong) and added the link to his Wikipedia entry) (top)
- 01:01, 24 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan (→Trivia: AFAIK, there were no more Media Merchants shows after Art Attack ended. However, the company wasn't liquidated until 2016 according to Companies House - so was it dormant in the meantime?)
- 00:34, 24 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan (→Trivia: Britt Allcroft's company was itself acquired by HIT Entertainment - and Art Attack still had five years to run at that point ;))
- 00:27, 24 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan (→Trivia: The Media Merchants was acquired by Britt Allcroft, who of course brought Thomas the Tank Engine to TV - Neil became a pretty wealthy man as a result ;))
- 23:58, 23 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan (→Trivia: almost forgot about Terror Towers. I guess there were reasons why Neil's Motormouth co-host Steve Johnson hosted that one, rather than Neil himself ;))
- 23:48, 23 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan (→Trivia: Neil founded The Media Merchants with his Art Attack co-creator, Tim Edmunds, and it's not coincidental that two of the other shows produced by this company were also presented by Neil)
- 23:33, 23 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan (Neil did indeed reform Marseille for a short while after Art Attack ended, and I've moved this from the Trivia to his bio. I think he's still involved in TV, too, albeit the other side of the camera)
- 23:24, 23 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan (And not only did he present Art Attack, he co-created it too ;))
- 23:10, 23 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan (Of course, Neil played Smart Arty in ZZZap! - accompanied by that wonderful piece by Boccherini ;))
- 22:58, 23 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan (Although it's unlikely that many people have heard of Marseille, they do have a Wikipedia entry - so it might be worth incorporating them into Neil's bio)
- 22:24, 23 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan (Neil's another great Liverpudlian - and hard to believe he's not far off 70 now...)
- 03:30, 22 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Uh-uh. "A larger, higher-res image of the early and mid-2000s Mentorn logo" - specifically to replace that small (75px), low-res square image, despite a difference in the colour scheme) (top)
- 00:57, 21 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Mastermind (→Who's the greatest?: tidied as regards Anne Ashurst appearing in the 2005 UC Professionals series)
- 00:46, 21 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Mastermind (→Who's the greatest?: just in case anyone wants to know who the reigning UC champs in '97 were, without having to leave this page ;))
- 00:23, 21 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Mastermind (Oversight of Mastermind had transferred to BBC North in Manchester by 1992, along with almost every other Beeb game show at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfvlPwICPzM&ab_channel=TheTVMuseum)
- 00:01, 21 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Mastermind (→Synopsis: passes have always been an integral part of the show, so I'd only put the parentheses around their use in breaking ties)
- 23:53, 20 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Mastermind (...and substitute "contender(s)" for "contestant(s)" where appropriate ;))
- 23:39, 20 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Mastermind (It's so well-known that Mastermind participants are always called "contenders" and never "contestants", that I'd move it from the Trivia to the Synopsis...)
- 23:23, 20 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Mastermind (→Synopsis: it's always been the rule, hasn't it, that ties for first place are broken by the number of passes, then by a five-question tiebreaker? Therefore, no real need for parentheses here :))
- 23:01, 20 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Mastermind (→Synopsis: we're nearing the end of Clive's third series (already), and the fifth in Belfast - so time for some updating here and there. If Salford is "sunny", then Belfast is "brilliant" ;))
- 02:03, 20 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Anna Williamson (→Biography: Toonattik had three Ts ;))
- 01:57, 20 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Rescue Robots (Only the Mentorn name appeared on the endcap, though the show *was* copyrighted to Mentorn Barraclough Carey Productions Ltd. No different, though, to Lifted shows being copyrighted to ITV Studios) (top)
- 01:51, 20 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Rescue Robots (Clarified that the entire series - including the eight unaired eps - can be watched on Mech+. You never know, more people might subscribe as a result... ;))
- 00:33, 20 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Rescue Robots (→Synopsis: midway through *its* run ;))
- 22:54, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Here's the Mentorn Films logo from the mid-90s - which I particularly remember from Today's the Day and Gerry Anderson's Space Precinct (who else remembers that one?))
- 22:48, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:Mentorn1994.jpg (The mid-90s Mentorn Films logo, seen at the end of Today's the Day, Challenge Anneka and Gerry Anderson's Space Precinct) (top)
- 22:42, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Here's Mentorn's current logo)
- 22:40, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:Mentorn2007.jpg (The current Mentorn logo, introduced in 2007 following the takeover by Tinopolis) (top)
- 22:39, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (A larger, higher-res image of the early and mid-2000s Mentorn logo)
- 22:37, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:Mentorn2003.jpg (The Mentorn logo used in the early and mid 2000s, prior to the Tinopolis takeover) (top)
- 20:44, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Traffic Cops is another long-running Mentorn production, having just started its third decade on air)
- 20:35, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Question Time seems to be the show Mentorn is best known for these days. Disappointing, given how nasty QT often is, but unsurprising since Mentorn has now produced it for a quarter of a century...)
- 19:56, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Actually, when exactly did the Barraclough Carey name pass into history? It certainly looks like it happened before the Tinopolis takeover, though I could of course be mistaken ;))
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