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- 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) (top)
- 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 ;)) (top)
- 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)
- 22:42, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Here's Mentorn's current logo)
- 22:40, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:Mentorn2007.jpg (The current Mentorn logo, introduced in 2007 following the takeover by Tinopolis) (top)
- 22:39, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (A larger, higher-res image of the early and mid-2000s Mentorn logo)
- 22:37, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:Mentorn2003.jpg (The Mentorn logo used in the early and mid 2000s, prior to the Tinopolis takeover) (top)
- 20:44, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Traffic Cops is another long-running Mentorn production, having just started its third decade on air)
- 20:35, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Question Time seems to be the show Mentorn is best known for these days. Disappointing, given how nasty QT often is, but unsurprising since Mentorn has now produced it for a quarter of a century...)
- 19:56, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Actually, when exactly did the Barraclough Carey name pass into history? It certainly looks like it happened before the Tinopolis takeover, though I could of course be mistaken ;))
- 19:49, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad... ;))
- 19:36, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Probably not relevant since it's a *sports* production company, but I've added that Sunset+Vine was also part of TV Corp (like Mentorn, it remains part of Tinopolis today))
- 19:24, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Barraclough Carey produced documentaries, I believe, prior to the merger with Mentorn. And the TV Corp takeover happened in 2000)
- 18:28, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Pointed out Mentorn's founder, and that the company was Mentorn *Films* prior to the merger with Barraclough Carey)
- 01:10, 15 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Index H (Nine new HIGNFY guest presenters during 2022 and 2023, including Harry Hill)
- 21:17, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Epic Gameshow (→Co-hosts: well, Alan didn't do the scoring in the Bullseye episodes himself, did he? Actually, although he and Little Richard weren't Jim and Tony by any means, their double act wasn't a bad one) (top)
- 21:05, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (→Broadcast: corrected the date of the first Alan's Epic Bullseye episode - an Epic PYCR episode aired on 27 June 2020) (top)
- 20:58, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (→Co-hosts: I haven't seen every Alan's Epic Bullseye episode - but Little Richard Ashdown was the scorer in all five of them, wasn't he?)
- 20:46, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (→Host: ...and "Epic Gameshow episodes" for "specials" in Alan's case, for the same reason ;))
- 20:44, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (→Host: if I may substitute "Gameshow Marathon one-off" for "special" in the case of Messrs McPartlin, Donnelly and Kay, to match the Co-hosts and Broadcast sections... ;))
- 19:42, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Getaway Car (It says in both the Synopsis and the Trivia that the show was filmed on location in South Africa. If it says it in the Synopsis, I don't think there's a need to say it in the Trivia as well... ;)) (top)
- 06:29, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Eurovision Song Contest (→The format and voting changes through recent years: rewording, too, as regards the two big changes in '99. Of course, English has been the dominant language of Eurovision songs ever since)
- 05:56, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Eurovision Song Contest (→The format and voting changes through recent years: rewording as regards televoting being rolled out almost everywhere in '98)
- 05:34, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Eurovision Song Contest (→The format and voting changes through recent years: in case anyone's wondering what the five countries were that trialled televoting in '97... ;))
- 05:23, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Eurovision Song Contest (Mon dieu, no instance anywhere of the word "postcard"? Better put that right... ;))
- 05:16, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Eurovision Song Contest (→The format and voting changes through recent years: ...may I reword as regards the changes for 2024? :))
- 20:28, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Let's Play Darts (→Co-hosts: removed the parentheses around the roles, and moved the roles to the left - as is the style these days ;)) (top)
- 19:55, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (→Are they going to gamble?: and if I may correct the spelling of "de rigueur", s'il vous plaît ;))
- 19:53, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (→Are they going to gamble?: "Announcer Tony Green (a professional darts commentator)". Now that he has a profile on here, I don't think the parenthesized text is necessary any more ;))
- 19:49, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (→Co-hosts: ...and he wasn't the scorer for *just* the original show and the Challenge revival ;))
- 19:45, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) News Archive (→Game show news: well, now that I've created Greeny's profile... ;))
- 19:28, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Gameshow Marathon (→Co-hosts: well, neither Ant nor Dec nor Vernon did the scoring in the Bullseye episodes, did they?) (top)
- 19:22, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Showbiz Darts (→Co-hosts: and now I've created Greeny's profile ;)) (top)
- 19:21, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Let's Play Darts (→Co-hosts: best of order... I've just created Greeny's profile)
- 19:19, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (I've just created Greeny's UKGS profile)
- 19:19, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Index G (→People: "That's the bullseye!" Added Tony Green)
- 19:17, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) N Tony Green (May you rest iiiiiiin peace, Tony) (top)
- 19:05, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:TonyGreen.jpg (top)
- 17:45, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Index S (Penny Smith read the headlines on GMTV, Peter Smith read the headlines on the Big Breakfast... ultimately Penny stayed in her role longer, and her first name precedes Peter's alphabetically)
- 17:09, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Showbiz Darts (No surprise that Greeny, God rest him, was the commentator - unlikely as it was that he would do a show with Sarah Cawood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSkH8MiH9kM)
- 17:00, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (I'm back again... Does Tony Green qualify for a UKGS profile?)
- 21:59, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (And that just about wraps it up (no pun intended). Now I'm off on my latest extended break, but as ever I'll leave the door open, especially for when shows like Countdown crown their next champions :))
- 21:48, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (It *is* true that not everyone *knows* the theme tune, either - but that's why the link's there, right? Me, I honestly didn't know New Faces' "You're A Star" until I was well into my twenties... :))
- 21:37, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (...really do not work as well as lyrics from the theme tune. And I'm well aware the theme tune isn't universally liked - but no-one can deny it was a thing, and Hans Zimmer's still proud of it today)
- 21:25, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (None of us editors can disagree that the caption for the picture of the opening round has to reference GFG in some way. But, IMHO, perspective captions like "Where have I/we/you seen this before?"...)
- 21:09, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (I've willingly changed "husband and wife" to "married to each other". But again, the couples were engaged, the hosts had already tied the knot... If they *do* divorce, just replace "are" with "were")
- 21:03, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (This screenshot, along with the others, was taken from Weaver's Week - and Iain's caption there is, "The hosts are also a married couple." Their names aren't stated, 'cause they don't need to be :))
- 20:57, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (Let's be fair: there is no rule that says "The captions of screenshots of presenters must state the names of these presenters", is there? And pretty much everyone knows who Eamonn and Ruth are, right?)
- 20:52, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (→Synopsis: then the opening round, again with no caption for the time being)
- 20:50, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (→Synopsis: oh, God... now the pictures that brought about this whole unsavoury mess (not the fault of the pictures themselves, of course). First, Mr and Mrs Holmes, with no caption for now)
- 20:43, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (→Synopsis: oopsie doodle - missed that text change. That's all of them now, I believe)
- 20:40, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (Iain, Thomas, Jennifer: if I rubbed any of you the wrong way when I told Simon "accept there might be better captions than yours", it wasn't intended and I can only apologise. I was just so, so mad)
- 20:34, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (→Synopsis: I shall put back text changes too. I wasn't able to say this when I explained why I was rolling right back and what I would do afterwards, because of the 200-character limit...)
- 20:30, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (Third picture back: the head-to-head. Why "couple" rather than "team"? (1) To match the rest of the text, and (2) as if this hasn't been emphasised enough already, the couples were *engaged*...)
- 20:20, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (→Synopsis: second picture back: the end game. "Everything you need for your perfect honeymoon"... IMHO, not the greatest caption but by no means the worst either, so I'm willing to keep it)
- 20:17, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (→Synopsis: first picture back is the Rick Astley question. I will admit - willingly - that "Rickrolled!" is a good, if obvious, caption)
- 20:15, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (I am so mad and so disillusioned that I am rolling right back to before the pictures were added. I will add them back one at a time, and then another extended break from editing UKGS is in order...)
- 22:59, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Danielle Nicholls (Danielle still uses she/her pronouns, right? In any case, "they" kind of implies that she *and* Stephen were out of the limelight, when of course he went from CITV to Ministry of Mayhem and beyond ;)) (top)
- 22:46, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Simon Amstell (→Biography: also, I'm fairly sure Simon still uses he/him/his pronouns. Absolutely no disrespect intended towards the LGBTQ+ community, of course :)) (top)
- 22:38, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Simon Amstell (→Biography: no disrespect, but I don't think TV channel names need to be italicised ;))
- 18:25, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (...but I believe that it *especially* applies to the person who added the writing in the first place, where there was no writing before. And in this case, we're talking you, Simon, and your captions)
- 18:22, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (Also it *does* clearly say, "If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here." I'm well aware that this is a golden rule that applies to everyone...)
- 18:18, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (Simon, you're displaying your Hyde rather than your Jekyll again, and turning this into you vs. everyone else. Can't you accept there might be better captions than yours? (Those are placeholders, BTW))
- 07:16, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (→Synopsis: I am, as one might gather, considerably more in favour of using GFG's lyrics. TS does have a point about not everyone being familiar with this show, however)
- 07:13, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (Also, I am *not* a great fan of captions with unquoted first-person singular pronouns like "I", "my" and "me". My Asperger's may well have something to do with this, I'm more than willing to admit)
- 06:49, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (Sorry, but simply "Eamonn and Ruth, masters of ceremonies" is, IMHO, not as good a caption as one with "already husband and wife" in it (contrasting with the competing couples not being married yet))
- 22:38, 13 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (This ought to be a golden rule: any screengrab with an obvious and natural GFG reference must be captioned with a line from the theme tune. Hans Zimmer would be very pleased, I think... ;))
- 22:22, 13 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (→Synopsis: obviously, the couples weren't married yet, but Eamonn and Ruth were ;))
- 22:19, 13 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (→Synopsis: three *engaged* couples, right? If you weren't fiancé(e) and fiancé(e), you couldn't take part, could you?)
- 01:37, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: definitely can't disagree that the show suffers without a co-host - WoF has always felt like it's tailor-made for two hosts; same with Countdown and Pointless)
- 00:50, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: well, this *is* what people watch WoF for, right?)
- 00:35, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (True that the toss-ups aren't just problematic because they make the wheel something of an afterthought, and the holiday puzzle isn't just problematic because it disrupts the flow of the main game...)
- 00:30, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: re-mention of the padding being the biggest problem of all)
- 00:12, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: re-mention of R, S, T, L, N and E being given to the contestant for the final puzzle, and so on)
- 00:01, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: clarified that the small 24-envelope wheel for the final puzzle has also come over from Stateside, and pointed out the minimum amount that can be won)
- 23:43, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (It's also been mentioned on Bother's Bar that this holiday bonus puzzle disrupts the flow of the main game, and I'm afraid I have to agree. Even the Puzzlers on Paul Hendy's version weren't disruptive)
- 23:32, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: re-mention of the holiday bonus puzzle)
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