Also, the CA aanounced "a jaunt around the Crystal Maze with Richard O'BRien" and then showed Ed's final Xmas special - the 5th xmas special which challenge announced there were only 4 made, just weeks before.Ed's final Christmasspecial - the 5th christmas special which challenge announced there were only 4 made, just weeks before.
Also, the CA aanounced "a jaunt around the Crystal Maze with Richard O'BRien" and then showed Ed's final Xmas special - the 5th xmas special which challenge announced there were only 4 made, just weeks before.Ed's final Christmasspecial - the 5th christmas special which challenge announced there were only 4 made, just weeks before.
Also, the CA aanounced "a jaunt around the Crystal Maze with Richard O'BRien" and then showed Ed's final Xmas special - the 5th xmas special which challenge announced there were only 4 made, just weeks before.Ed's final Christmasspecial - the 5th christmas special which challenge announced there were only 4 made, just weeks before.
Yes, that makes sense.
I was typing on my mobile when I did that - lousy grammar and punctuation I know! Sorry about this.
Another contestant disqualified in tonight's Krypton Factor!? That's 2 already! How many were disqualified in the original series??
I know, especially since it was the equipment not actually doing what it's supposed to!
To be far, she was cheating though pulling them out before the lights came on. Wonder why they didnt let her climb to the top of krypton mountain and then tell her she had been disqualified, like the one last week! So cruel!
It was odd that we never saw her again at all. Do you think maybe she was allowed to finish and then when told she was disqualified, got her bum out and made a dirty protest? They probably would have edited that out.
The animation in the observation round just gets worse. It was really flickery in the second episode today, like a bad Playstation game.
Also, the problem with the CA coming in too early returned near the end of the first episode of Blockbusters.
Also, in every episode of 3-2-1 I have seen recently, Dusty Bin comes on at the beginning and either squirts Ted Rogers with water or causes a small explosion. Today he was dressed as a non-specific member of The Beatles and hit Rogers across the buttocks with a guitar instead. Good to see some variety. Tom O'Connor was on 3-2-1 this evening but instead of doing jokes or crosswords as he is famous for, he sang a song. He came back later and did some comedy though.
On one edition, the contestants were asked, "What 'D' is a rag, usually yellow in colour, that's used for polishing furniture and ornaments?" and one unfortunate young man buzzed in and answered "Dishcloth" (the correct answer was 'Duster', of course). True, the former answer wasn't exactly a brilliant one (although, let's face it, we've all come out with wrong and embarrassing responses in the heat of the moment, whether on TV or not), but Bob, if anything, laughed rather too much at it, to the extent that the whole thing seemed unnecessarily silly and embarrassing for the contestant. Even sillier was the fact that when the latter's younger brother appeared in a later series (and fared considerably better), Bob insisted on showing the clip again - surely it would have been better not to have bothered?
This seems to be describing an incident that happened in one of the episodes shown today. Although the question was worded slightly differently to how it is described above, "What D are the squares of yellow material used by housewives for cleaning?" is how it was asked in the programme. The contestant did answer 'dishcloth' (which doesn't seem like such a bad answer to me when the question is worded like this) but it was the crowd that laughed rather enthusiastically not Bob Holness.
Is ukgameshows.com misremembering something or did Blockbusters recycle questions (or maybe just use very similar questions in this case)?
I might write to ukgameshows.com to find out, unless ukgameshows' Jenny reads this thread and can shed any light on this matter?
The example you mention, the best known example of the opening of Blockbusters, wasn't introduced until 1987, and front-caps had pretty much been phased out by that time anyway, I think they'd stopped using them by 1986.
I'm sure I read somewhere that frontcaps weren't phased out and finished all at once on 1st January 1988 (and transmission would try to avoid them in some way on unaired programmes from that date onwards, such as a delayed mix into Corrie). Children's ITV had not aired them since the launch in January 1983 though.
I didn't know the Blockbusters world was designed to fade directly in from the Central frontcap - shame the effect was lost so quickly!
did Blockbusters recycle questions (or maybe just use very similar questions in this case)?
Well there's at least one recycled question that I've heard twice in the last week; can't remember what it was but it was on last week's Saturday/Sunday helping AND this week's too.
I see Challenge are repeating the 1997 series of Chain Letters with Dave Spikey. It features the rare Tyne Tees endboard from the C3NE era, which was only used on networked shows, and has only the name Tyne Tees on it, with no symbol of any kind.
The example you mention, the best known example of the opening of Blockbusters, wasn't introduced until 1987, and front-caps had pretty much been phased out by that time anyway, I think they'd stopped using them by 1986.
I'm sure I read somewhere that frontcaps weren't phased out and finished all at once on 1st January 1988 (and transmission would try to avoid them in some way on unaired programmes from that date onwards, such as a delayed mix into Corrie). Children's ITV had not aired them since the launch in January 1983 though.
I didn't know the Blockbusters world was designed to fade directly in from the Central frontcap - shame the effect was lost so quickly!
Some regions, notably YTV, continued to show the frontcaps - if they were intact - well into 1989. And yes, they were present on Corrie with the theme tune starting after the cross-fade from the Granada logo into the titles. YTV continued to include their liquid gold ident on programmes produced after January 1988 too, although most regions wouldn't show it.
I've thought for a long time that Challenge were taking the piss with their audio description service.
Takeshi's Castle has had AD for a while, when I first noticed this I assumed Challenge choose this programme as at that point it made up a large percentage of their output so was an easy way to reach any AD targets they may have had. I really can't see how partially sighted people would enjoy hearing someone say "He falls in the water" as much as sighted people would enjoy actually seeing someone fall in the water.
The Crystal Maze has had AD for a while now too. This is interesting because The Crystal Maze is another very visual show which probably doesn't benefit the audience that AD was designed for. I have watched a number of episodes with AD switched on and it makes for very funny viewing (listening). My favourite moment was when the AD person, with that very monotone and emotionless voice that only they can do, described one of the contestants as having "an uncanny resemblance to".... Well, I won't ruin it. The video is at the bottom of this post.
Anyway, the reason for posting is that I notice that Challenge have started broadcasting Catchphrase with AD now. The AD guy quite literally says what he sees. It adds a whole new dimension to the programme.
Can you guess these catchphrases from some AD descriptions used in an episode tonight? It's not as easy as when you can see the catchphrases is it? I'll post the answers later if anyone cares.
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"Several married couples emerge from a church"
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"Three onions and two gold rings"
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"A hunter with a gun emerges from a jungle and approaches a house"
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"Various objects are shown. They all say the word 'lie', except for a camera"
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"The word press is next to Mr. Chips"
Here are my three favourite Challenge AD moments from recent times.
