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[[Mark Durden-Smith|Durden-Smith, Mark]] | [[Mark Durden-Smith|Durden-Smith, Mark]] | ||
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| + | <pick>'''Daytime''' - Department within a television company that deals with those programmes broadcast between breakfast time and teatime (in the UK, approx. 9.30am to 6pm). The daytime department will create or commission light entertainment programmes purely because of the intended time of broadcast.</pick> | ||
| + | <pick>'''Deadball''' - A question that no contestant can answer. If many consecutive questions become deadballs, the production team may decide to stop recording, rewind the tape and try again.</pick> | ||
| + | <pick>'''Desert Forges''' - [[The Desert Forges|This show]] was cancelled after just two programmes on its native French television channel.</pick> | ||
| + | <pick>'''Devisor''' - The creator of an idea and/or paper format for an entertainment concept, such as a TV game show. The producer of a programme will adapt the game to make it work for television, but it is usually the person that initiated the idea that is credited as the devisor.</pick> | ||
| + | <pick>'''Diamond Game''' - [[The Weakest Link]] was not [[Anne Robinson]]'s first game show. She previously hosted [[The Diamond Game]] for BBC2.</pick> | ||
| + | <pick>'''Distributor''' - A company, or department within a company, that sells paper formats, TV formats and ready-made programmes at international TV markets.</pick> | ||
| + | <pick>Don't Forget Your Toothbrush - [[Don't Forget Your Toothbrush|This show]] won the 1995 Golden Rose award.</pick> | ||
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== Shows == | == Shows == | ||
Revision as of 19:22, 5 June 2006
D is for... Devisor - The creator of an idea and/or paper format for an entertainment concept, such as a TV game show. The producer of a programme will adapt the game to make it work for television, but it is usually the person that initiated the idea that is credited as the devisor.
