And 100%. Mind you what was the deal with open house.
Like 100% - ultra cheap schedule filling.
100% was the cheapest show per half hour on TV once. IIRC someone in Broadcast magazine said each 30 min show was made for around £9,000.
Not bad considering the daily prize for the winner was £1,000.
Yes, pretty sure from memory the winner each day got £100 and could keep coming back to win more. At the end of the week or month they got a slightly bigger prize if they stayed on long enough. Didn't someone win around £4,000 on it before oddly disappearing or something?
Yes, pretty sure from memory the winner each day got £100 and could keep coming back to win more. At the end of the week or month they got a slightly bigger prize if they stayed on long enough. Didn't someone win around £4,000 on it before oddly disappearing or something?
That would be Ian Lygo. He lasted around 50 eps as the reigning champion before show bosses changed the rules and booted him because it was having an adverse effect on the ratings.
Yes, pretty sure from memory the winner each day got £100 and could keep coming back to win more. At the end of the week or month they got a slightly bigger prize if they stayed on long enough. Didn't someone win around £4,000 on it before oddly disappearing or something?
That would be Ian Lygo. He lasted around 50 eps as the reigning champion before show bosses changed the rules and booted him because it was having an adverse effect on the ratings.
Yes, pretty sure from memory the winner each day got £100 and could keep coming back to win more. At the end of the week or month they got a slightly bigger prize if they stayed on long enough. Didn't someone win around £4,000 on it before oddly disappearing or something?
That would be Ian Lygo. He lasted around 50 eps as the reigning champion before show bosses changed the rules and booted him because it was having an adverse effect on the ratings.
They did say last year in Edinburgh that they were planning to mark their 20th with a few shows but given that it's tomorrow and no details have been announced I guess it was scrapped?
As a channel it's never really resonated with the public anywhere near the level the other main four have and its programming has varied so dramatically over the years -
the C5 of today is entirely different to what it was back then
.. I think that's why its 10 year celebrations rated so poorly.
It's not just that, it seems to change every five years.
1997 - The Three Fs
2002 - Attempting to go upmarket
2007 - Voyeuristic documentaries pretending to be sensitive - see example 2012 - Reality and Welfare
Channel 5 has focused a lot more on original programming these days - and to think that a decade ago, it was dominated by US drama in the schedule...
However, The Boy With an Arse for a Face skit made me laugh to bits. Thanks for sharing!
My5 is to get its first commission, a panel show called Comedy Bigmouths hosted by Ian Stone. Seems like it'll be recorded on Monday evenings for a Friday TX - starting on the 31st at 10pm.
Did this get pulled? I set Sky+ to record the repeat of the first episode last night but have some 'benefits' documentary instead, and episode 1 isn't available on My5 although it seems it was at somepoint as they tweeted about it yesterday. There's a repeat still showing at midnight on Tuesday.
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My5 is to get its first commission, a panel show called Comedy Bigmouths hosted by Ian Stone. Seems like it'll be recorded on Monday evenings for a Friday TX - starting on the 31st at 10pm.
Did this get pulled? I set Sky+ to record the repeat of the first episode last night but have some 'benefits' documentary instead, and episode 1 isn't available on My5 although it seems it was at somepoint as they tweeted about it yesterday. There's a repeat still showing at midnight on Tuesday.
They are also showing it on Friday 7th - might check it out to be fair.
