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• 17:29, 12 April 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Champions: ...and here are the respective presenters of the trophies in the 2004, 2005 and 2008 series ;))
• 17:24, 12 April 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Champions: according to Sean Blanchflower, in all five Professionals series the members of the winning team each received their own trophy, like in the Reunited series...)
• 17:12, 12 April 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Champions: if I may be real fussy and switch Magdalen and Manchester around, since Magdalen got to four wins first (plus none of theirs were by default)... ;))
• 17:07, 12 April 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Champions: Imperial have won three of the last five series, and reached the semi-finals of a fourth. Manchester were once The Team Everyone Wants To Beat... think that title is Imperial's now ;))
• 16:32, 12 April 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Champions: one does wonder: had UCL won, would there have been a filmed epilogue from *their* rooftop in Bloomsbury to mark what would have been their first-ever series win?)
• 16:27, 12 April 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (I'm rather annoyed that quite a few sources of repute have said "The trophy was presented by Tom Stoppard" and not corrected this, so I'm glad the record's set straight here. May I re-word, however?)
• 13:46, 7 April 2024 (hist) (diff) Angus Deayton ‎ (→Shows: if I may specify the UC Comic Relief specials that Angus hosted - there was another one over a decade later with David Baddiel in the host's chair ;)) (top)
• 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... ;)) (top)
• 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)

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