User contributions

Search for contributions

 Show contributions of new accounts only
 IP Address or username: Namespace: all (Main) Talk User User talk UKGameshows UKGameshows talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk

From year (and earlier): From month (and earlier): all January February March April May June July August September October November December

(Latest | Earliest) View (newer 50) (older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)

• 21:16, 23 February 2025 (hist) (diff) TV Times Star Family Challenge ‎ (→Broadcast: looks like there were six episodes of this, all on Sunday afternoons. Newspapers.com is brilliant ;)) (top)
• 20:49, 23 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Gok Wan ‎ (→Shows: Gok was the barman on Hotel GB too ;)) (top)
• 20:47, 23 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Hotel GB ‎ (→Co-hosts: Gok's got a UKGS profile ;)) (top)
• 20:42, 23 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Pick Me! ‎ (→Co-host: role before name and without parentheses - that's the house style now. Riiiiiiiiight? ;)) (top)
• 20:32, 23 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Index H ‎ (The two Heat is Ons alphabetically follow Hear Hear and Heart Make Me a Millionaire :)) (top)
• 20:28, 23 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Mission Implausible ‎ (→Co-host: removed parentheses around "narrator", capitalised the 'N', and moved the word before Glenn's name - all to fit today's style ;)) (top)
• 14:12, 17 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups ‎ (From the last episode of the 1993 series, just repeated on Challenge. Les: "Whereabouts in Europe were you?" ;)) (top)
• 00:58, 17 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Who Wants to be a Millionaire? ‎ (There was a month, in fact, between the ambiguous question being asked and it being broadcast. And when Tarrant said "you've just lost...", the cue viewers heard wasn't the actual £1m losing cue...)
• 00:05, 17 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Who Wants to be a Millionaire? ‎ ("...we would never want to be accused of misleading anybody, even inadvertently, which is why in order to be perfectly fair, we thought it right to offer them another million pound question.")
• 23:35, 16 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Who Wants to be a Millionaire? ‎ (Tarrant said, rightly, that "E Pluribus Unum" is found on the Great Seal of the US - but merely referred to "In God We Trust" as "a national motto" and not as "the official motto", which it is)
• 23:27, 16 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Who Wants to be a Millionaire? ‎ (No disrespect but I think most people *do* already know that 11 February is not Vallie's Day. ;) Millionaire was a Saturday show in 2006, of course, and 14 February that year was a Tuesday)
• 23:09, 16 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Mind the Gap ‎ (→Trivia: yes, really. There are a few names in the credits that one might be familiar with from Family Fortunes and other Central shows, including floor manager Will Davies ;)) (top)
• 22:53, 16 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Midas Touch ‎ (→Trivia: de-italicised the link to the Knockout article, to suit today's house style :)) (top)
• 22:36, 16 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Call My Bluff ‎ (→Synopsis: well, it *was* one of BBC2's earliest game shows - and it *was* the game show with the longest run on this channel, wasn't it, until overtaken by University Challenge in 2017?) (top)
• 22:25, 16 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Call My Bluff ‎ (→Synopsis: clarified that the episode in 1994 was a special episode. And was it a coincidence that the bluffing returned full-time two years later? I, for one, don't think it was... ;))
• 19:38, 16 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Going for a Song ‎ (→Synopsis: de-italicised the link to the Bargain Hunt article, so as to fit today's house style ;)) (top)
• 19:30, 16 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Call My Bluff ‎ (I do believe this fine old game was made in those wonderfully-named studios in Brum when it was presented by that terrific chap from Blockbusters and that splendid woman from the news... ;))
• 16:42, 16 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Category:S4C Programmes ‎ (BBC Cymru Wales has produced S4C's Newyddion from the outset, too. Remember, *all* Welsh-language productions - including Pobol y Cwm - transferred to S4C on the day it was launched ;)) (top)
• 16:31, 16 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Category:S4C Programmes ‎ (Pobol y Cwm is the oldest soap in the UK besides Corrie and Emmerdale (it turned 50 last year) and I would think is the best-known of all the shows on S4C. So why not mention it here? ;))
• 16:22, 16 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Category:S4C Programmes ‎ (Got the urge to add a bit of hanes. S4C *is* an older TV station than Channel 4, after all... ;))
• 23:30, 9 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Turnabout (1) ‎ (If I may make the two "co-produced by..." credits into one, as per the Mastermind article. *All* game shows under BBC Elstree's auspices came under those of BBC North in 1992/3, unless I'm mistaken :)) (top)
• 23:22, 9 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Turnabout (1) ‎ (Turnabout and GFG moved to Manchester at the same time, unless I'm mistaken. Also, in 1993 it wasn't yet called "BBC Manchester" - that name only came about in the 1997 corporate revamp, UIM ;))
• 23:08, 9 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Turnabout (1) ‎ (→Trivia: just in case anyone isn't sure where Ewart/Capital Studios was... ;))
• 00:40, 7 February 2025 (hist) (diff) The Apprentice ‎ (→Trivia: surely Jennifer Maguire/Zamparelli ought to be mentioned here, since she's gone on to much success as a TV and radio presenter in Ireland (and not just Irish Strictly)?) (top)
• 21:06, 6 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Turnabout (1) ‎ (The series 3 grand final was uploaded to YouTube a few weeks ago, and Ms Hopkins' prize for winning it was not quite dictionaries - it was encyclopedias. Shades of Countdown all the same, though ;))
• 20:52, 6 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Turnabout (1) ‎ (There we are :))
• 20:48, 6 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Turnabout (1) ‎ (The notes about the pond are in the Key Moments... I think the note about it being introduced in the second series should be in the Synopsis, and the others should be in the Trivia :))
• 20:03, 6 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Turnabout (1) ‎ (→Key moments: well, Uni Chal *is* the most famous show in which the camera zooms in on the contestants when they buzz in, right? ;))
• 02:24, 1 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Millionaire Manor ‎ (Dan McGrath and Josh Phillips composed a score for the show, but pop songs and classical pieces were also used for the montages of how the previous ep's winning family spent their week living richly) (top)
• 02:08, 1 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Millionaire Manor ‎ (→Synopsis: Pot Noodle is a brand name... or am I being too pedantic here? ;))
• 02:04, 1 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Millionaire Manor ‎ (Removed duplicate links and added italics as appropriate :))
• 01:50, 1 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Millionaire Manor ‎ (→Synopsis: a bit more detail about the final round, including the prop that gave this round its name. I agree that how the winner was determined was rather lousy)
• 00:13, 1 February 2025 (hist) (diff) Millionaire Manor ‎ (→Synopsis: every episode bar one is up on YouTube, and from these, we learn that the first and second rounds had official names ;))
• 23:09, 31 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Millionaire Manor ‎ (→Co-hosts: if I may move the word "voiceover", sans parenthèses, from after Deadly's name to before - this is more or less the house style now ;))
• 22:57, 31 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Penny Smith ‎ (→Biography: de-italicised the link to the KF article, to fit the house style :)) (top)
• 22:49, 31 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Jet Set ‎ (→Synopsis: and if I may de-italicise the links to the articles for other game shows, too, as this definitely is the house style now ;)) (top)
• 22:44, 31 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Jet Set ‎ (→Co-hosts: if I may remove the parentheses from around "voiceover" and move the word from after Deadly's name to before, as this is more or less the house style now ;))
• 22:31, 31 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Guesstimation ‎ (→Inventor: what it says in the credits, as well as "Licensed by Talpa Content Exploitatie B.V." - so I don't think one can say it's not a Dutch format...) (top)
• 22:19, 31 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Guesstimation ‎ (The Strachans and Celador, Simon Etchell and Action Time, Will Slater and 12 Yard... and Augustin Bousfield and Endemol (mainly Initial). I wonder if it's worth studying at some point, IW? ;))
• 22:08, 31 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Guesstimation ‎ ("Guess what? It's the National Lottery: Guesstimation, with your host, Nick Knowles!" Deadly also announced the details of the holiday for the winning family)
• 18:01, 30 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Win, Lose or Draw ‎ (And may I change "artist" to "drawer"? 'Cause, y'know, Win, Lose or *Draw*... plus with all due respect, it's not as if any of the contestants were Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Picasso or Escher ;))
• 17:48, 30 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Win, Lose or Draw ‎ (→Synopsis: well, "Speed Round" *was* the final round's official name... ;))
• 17:33, 30 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Win, Lose or Draw ‎ (Messrs Boross and Marsh re-recorded their theme and Speed Round tunes for the Late version. You can listen to these in full, without anyone talking over them, on the music library sites :))
• 17:13, 30 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Tomorrow's World Christmas Quiz ‎ (The '87, '88, '89 and '91 quizzes are all on YouTube, and all used the regular TW themes of the time (Paul Hart's, then Chris Blackwell's). Presumably, then, all seven of them used the regular themes) (top)
• 13:26, 29 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Index C ‎ (→People: Barry Cryer is alphabetically the last of the "Cr"s ;))
• 14:45, 26 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Humdingers ‎ (→Trivia: now that I know for sure that italicising show names when linking to their articles goes against the house style... :)) (top)
• 14:44, 26 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Who's Bluffing Who? ‎ (→Trivia: now that I know for sure that the house style is *not* to italicise show names when linking to their articles... ;)) (top)
• 14:33, 23 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Happy Families (2) ‎ (This isn't in Genome, but *is* in the Telegraph and a few local papers (my British Newspaper Archive subscription helps too). Presumably, Tone cranked up one granny while Diddy cranked up the other ;)) (top)
• 13:48, 23 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Happy Families (2) ‎ ("It was an arena-type show" - and it was indeed recorded in an actual indoor arena, but not the NIA. I've my Newspapers.com subscription to thank this time ;))
• 02:05, 23 January 2025 (hist) (diff) Have I Got News for You ‎ (→Host: Alex Horne joined the list of guest hosts in between Phil Wang and Kevin Bridges ;)) (top)

(Latest | Earliest) View (newer 50) (older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)