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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)
- 23:21, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (Re-mention of the toss-ups, and why having so many of them compared to the US is a problem. Nick Gates says "the wheel's like a guest at its own party" - I hope he doesn't mind me stealing that... ;))
- 23:04, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: re-mention of the audience shouting out the show's name at the start, and of the touch-screen board. And now seems a good time to add the word "trilons" for the first time ;))
- 22:57, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (Well it *is* the case, isn't it, that Graham's following in the footsteps of Nicky and Bradders (and John and Paul), but no-one's following in the footsteps of Carol and Jenny (and Angela and Terri)?)
- 22:49, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: re-mention of Whisper North, the eight-episode commission and Dock10, and clarification that the current revival of Jeopardy! isn't the first)
- 22:43, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Synopsis: the new version has the audience shouting "Wheel! Of! Fortune!" as in the US, and also "Fortune" and "Norton" almost rhyme... so there's a fairly obvious sub-heading ;))
- 22:40, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Synopsis: first of all, re-mention of the Alison Hammond pilot, and clarification that there were three years between this and ITV greenlighting a new version of the show)
- 22:36, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (I can't sugar-coat this, folks... the grammar in that write-up of the new version is terrible. So terrible, in fact, that I'm mad enough to delete this write-up altogether and start a brand new one...)
- 00:02, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Index S (And Strangers on a Plane is the first of the "Str"s alphabetically, at least for now ;))
- 23:59, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Index S (Stitch, Please! should precede the "Sto"s and the "Str"s ;))
- 23:13, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Steal (→Co-hosts: "Voiceover: A. N. Other" is the style these days, isn't it, rather than "A. N. Other (voiceover)"?) (top)
- 23:04, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Steal (→Inventor: Mr Liddington's surname has two 'd's in it. ;) Might as well point out he was also the producer - even though, of course, he produced almost *every* Central game show in the '90s)
- 22:58, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Steal (No-one's added the composer even though the video's been up over a decade? Mr Alexander had the same credit as on Fam Fortunes, and as Paul Maguire had on (Leslie's) Price is Right and Fifteen-to-One)
- 22:42, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Bwlletin (Not being disrespectful, of course, but this is one of the more obvious translations. ;) Quite a few Cymraeg words, in fact, that are the same as in Saesneg but with 'w's substituted for 'u's)
- 22:27, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Index B (Bwyd ar y Bocs... shouldn't that come *after* the "Bu"s and the other "Bw"s? Diolch yn fawr ;))
- 22:16, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Index T ("Jeopardy!'s title traditionally has this punctuation mark at the end." "What is an exclamation mark?")
- 19:39, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (Got called away just after that last edit... Anyway, the current gold Thames logo again, but at 130px, on a black BG (as per production captions and the site), and at 4:3 (yes, very old school...)) (top)
- 18:53, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (A new image of the Thames skyline ident, at 130px (the full height of the original image was just 100px); also increased the size of the image of the 1990 ident accordingly)
- 18:42, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (There were three years between Thames being merged with Talkback, and all Thames productions becoming TalkbackThames productions. FremantleMedia had its reasons for all this, I'm sure)
- 18:29, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (First of all, fair enough that there's now a TalkbackThames category - this company *did* exist for nine years, and everything was a TalkbackThames production for six, The Bill included)
- 18:26, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (Simon, buddy, you *must* understand that there *are* times when people prefer two things: (1) explanations of some sort rather than none at all, and (2) time being taken rather than none at all)
- 18:14, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:Thames2018.jpg (The current Thames logo, introduced for the brand's 50th anniversary in 2018) (top)
- 18:13, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:ThamesSkyline.jpg (Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo do-do dooooo... "This is Thames, from London.") (top)
- 23:59, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Broadcast: I should add the end date, too - just in case ITV Studios decides not to make any more Christmas series (unlikely), or reorganises itself again (probably unlikely))
- 23:54, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Broadcast: updated Christmas episode and series counts under Lifted. Are we to know any more about the problem episode, other than why it was such and that it was an Oxbridge affair?)
- 23:46, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (And this is why)
- 23:35, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (How bad is it that the number of participants in the '23 Xmas series that I was already familiar with was just about zero? :( Anyway, Middlesex are the first Xmas champs to have more than four members)
- 23:25, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Champions: no post-1992 university has yet reached the semi-finals of the regular series - but one has won the Christmas series just ended)
- 18:55, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) The Getaway Car (→Trivia: I note, too, that Ivor Baddiel - David's brother - was the writer. What would any of us do without YouTube? ;))
- 18:49, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) The Getaway Car (→Inventor: I'm of the belief that developers should be mentioned as well as devisors - but feel perfectly free to disagree :))
- 18:43, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) The Getaway Car (The heading here is usually "*theme* music", too... isn't it?)
- 18:42, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) The Getaway Car (When the credit is plain "Music", that usually means that the composer(s) did the full score. And Mr Jacques' name *before* Mr Sylvan's; did he do more of it or was this simply to break from the norm?)
- 17:11, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Bazal Productions (Endemol bought half of Broadcast Communications in 1998; "part of GMG Endemol Entertainment" was subsequently added below the Bazal logo on production captions) (top)
- 17:04, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Bazal Productions (Before Bazal became an Endemol property, it was effectively owned by the Grauniad: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/aug/12/media.executivepay)
- 15:45, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) We've Got Your Number (The second part of the featured ep is on YouTube, including the credits - which aren't easy to read due to their speed and the video's resolution, but Deadly *is* credited as the Voice of the Balls ;)) (top)
- 15:37, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) We've Got Your Number (Think about it - real-life objects shot on camera; theoretically more time and effort than computer graphics. Ends with the 49 ball coming out during a draw, just to confirm this is a Lottery show ;))
- 15:24, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) We've Got Your Number (Well, *I* think WGYN's title sequence is rather brilliant - and I thought it was brilliant as an 11-year-old in '99, too. (Holy molasses, a quarter of a century ago now...))
- 17:14, 30 December 2023 (hist) (diff) TMi (May I swap Going Live and Motormouth round? Two reasons: (1) so each one is BBC vs ITV in that order, and (2) ITV didn't actually beat the BBC until 1999, when SM:TV came good and L&K started to slump) (top)
- 14:09, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Celebrity Juice (The Wayback Machine may not be universally approved on here - but I *do* feel there should be some sort of reminder that there was a section of the ITV site dedicated to Celeb Juice until it ended)
- 13:34, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (Holly's future on DOI *did* go up in the air, of course, when she left This Morning and took a hiatus from ITV. Now she'll be reunited with Stephen full-time, 20 years after they first did MoM... ;))
- 13:20, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (I reckon Stephen was odds-on for DOI from the very moment Phil had to leave ITV - especially as he had, of course, filled in for Phil on one episode in 2022. Why it took ITV seven months, who knows)
- 13:09, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (→Host: first of all, it *is* finally confirmed that Stephen will replace Phil, and that Holly will stay on)
- 13:08, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (Oh dear, oh dear... needless edit warring going on here by the looks of things, and Hydes being displayed rather than Jekylls. I may not be a mod, but I think we need to start all over again here...)
- 12:58, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Champions: time to add the Series 88 champ. It'll be fun rearranging this table again in six months' time... ;)) (top)
- 17:09, 24 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (If we really *do* need to acknowledge speculation by one or more certain tabloids (however fanciful), then I would rather these tabloids were not named. These papers do tend to quote each other anyway)
- 17:05, 24 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (Sorry, but f**k the Sun. I don't mean to be disrespectful to those who *do* trust this paper, but there *are* plenty of folks too who don't and never will give it a yoctogram of trust, myself included)
- 18:42, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (→Host: there *were* 17 years between when the show began and when Phil had to, er, go away - but of course, the show wasn't on in 2015, 2016 or 2017 ;))
- 18:36, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (It certainly is true, though, that the revival has not had separate announcers and commentators like in the original run, and that Sam Matterface does far more commentating than announcing)
- 18:32, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (No disrespect intended here... but the Sun is *not* a paper I readily trust, and nor are the Mail and the Express. I'm far more inclined to trust the Guardian, the Telegraph, and other broadsheets)
- 18:22, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone (No disrespect, but the last revisions by TS and JT *are* good, IMO ;))
- 18:08, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ("And/or" means these eps were either shown on both channels (the "and") or on only one of them (the "or"). And readers can work out when these situations applied when they click on the Trivia pointer) (top)
- 12:17, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (...so perhaps the ITV Prods eps *can* be combined, since the first four aired on ITV1 only, the next thirteen on both ITV1 and CITV, and the last four on CITV only. Good idea to point to the Trivia)
- 12:01, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (→Trivia: a bit more about the ITV1/CITV arrangement, with the help of the It's A Stampede! blog: https://itsastampede.com/2022/08/11/revisiting-and-re-watching-ministry-of-mayhem/)
- 11:03, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (And the same with the Granada/ITV1, ITV Prods/ITV1 and ITV Prods/CITV eps of Showdown. I *know* this makes the infobox long, but sometimes there's no easy *and* elegant way round things like this...)
- 11:00, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (No disrespect, but I'm of the belief that the Carlton and Granada eps of MoM should still be kept separate, even if these were just brands by '04 and there were no major changes in the production crew)
- 10:48, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone (→Trivia: ahem... :))
- 10:10, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (No, 1st Jan '91 was when the IBA was replaced by the ITC, and the ITC did not abolish the limits immediately. Why else did WoF's jackpot remain at £4k, Fam Fortunes' and Strike it Lucky's at £3k, etc?)
- 16:23, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (Sometimes *two* cars would be on offer with the £10k. Before Raise the Roof (and not counting the Lottery), this must have been one of the biggest prize packages offered on a British TV game show...)
- 15:59, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Jackpot!: in 1994, solving the final puzzle won you a car *and* £10,000, which was brilliant. And wasn't it 1 January 1993 when the prize limits were abolished?)
- 01:54, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Jackpot!: the "Big Wheel Jackpot" was £4k in the second, third and fourth series, and £5k in the fifth series. And of course, another incarnation of Lingo has arrived on our screens since... ;))
- 01:48, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Jackpot!: clarified that it was in the first five series, 1988-93, that solving the final puzzle won you a car, a holiday or, in Steve Hamilton's own words, the "Big Wheel Jackpot")
- 00:14, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: one last bit of tidying up, I'm hoping ;))
- 23:59, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: at least the last two weeks were straightforward, with the Batons put away. The final being a best-of-three was a tradition in the Bamber Era, of course)
- 23:36, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: if how the Batons worked was difficult to get one's head around, then so was how it was determined which two teams joined the six weekly winners in the QFs...)
- 14:57, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: again, only in 1986 were the teams really seated one above the other - it was back to the usual split-screen effect in 1987, though of course the Batons remained)
- 14:44, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: standard game on Monday, baton game on Tuesday, standard game on Wednesday, baton game on Thursday - and then the weekly final on Friday ;))
- 14:40, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: still more tidying up (hopefully), including the removal of superfluous parentheses and of repetition of the Baton having six lights)
- 14:26, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: further tidying up (I hope), plus clarification that when a contestant got two right, the Baton passed on to the next contestant in the team)
- 11:06, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: well, it *was* a rather different format, wasn't it? Also, in both series, the Baton only featured in the first six weeks of the eight)
- 09:49, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: "Two series from the Bamber era (1986/87)" - well, specifically, the final two series of that era ;))
- 15:33, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) UK Game Show Records (→Longest running: and indeed, it's now aired its 8000th ;))
- 15:27, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) UK Game Show Records (→Longest running: "Countdown aired its 7000th episode..." That should be 7000th *regular* episode - not counting Masters eps (104 all told), Celebrity eps (14), or other special eps (50 all told))
- 15:12, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) UK Game Show Records (Bamber's final regular episode of UC aired on Friday 4 September 1987. Of course, there were the three UK v NZ specials at the end of that year, which were made at Quay Street but weren't regular eps)
- 14:56, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) A Question of Sport (→Host: "1979-1997" -> "1979-97", so that all year ranges within a single calendar century have two digits for the end year)
- 14:53, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) A Question of Sport (→Host: just to make clear that Sport Relief only took place in even-numbered years, and so three was the number of specials that Stephen Fry hosted)
- 22:05, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (...and of course, the last four of those *didn't* air on ITV1. Apologies that all this has lengthened the infobox considerably - though adding an image or two to the main text might not go amiss)
- 21:18, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (→Broadcast: then it was Saturday Showdown for 26 episodes...)
- 21:15, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (→Broadcast: so it was Ministry of Mayhem for 103 episodes, with the Carlton brand attached to the first 43 of those. Since it was on all year round, I'm guessing the "series" concept didn't apply)
- 21:06, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (Obviously, the show ended 2005 with one name and started 2006 with another. By the looks of things, it was on every single Saturday from when it started till when it ended, except New Year's Eve 2005)
- 15:59, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (I'm still not a fan of "Host A (and Host B in year)", alas. The style I have here is neater, IMO - and still makes clear that Stephen and Holly hosted throughout, while Michael only did the first year)
- 15:44, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Stephen Mulhern (→Shows: it was called Ministry of Mayhem *before* it was called Saturday Showdown. Is this something that one should be strict about, or does it matter?)
- 15:40, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Holly Willoughby (→Shows: it was called Ministry of Mayhem *before* it was called Saturday Showdown. Should one be strict about this, or does it matter?) (top)
- 13:47, 10 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Aled Jones (→Trivia: there's a magical place with toys in their millions all under one roof... it's called Toys "R" Us, with the quotation marks around the 'R' only ;)) (top)
- 13:34, 29 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Popstar to Operastar (→Host: all right, all right... I should have made it a bit clearer that Myleene hosted both series) (top)
- 13:49, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Food Glorious Food (→Champion: as a sort of trade-off, removed the now-dead link to the white chicken korma dish. It's on the Wayback Machine, though, if anyone still wants to try it ;))
- 13:44, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Food Glorious Food (→Web links: I doubt there are people who have been meaning to watch the final and still haven't gotten round to it ten years later... ;))
- 13:42, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Food Glorious Food (Not universally approved, but here's a Wayback Machine link. If such links *are* more trouble than one bargained for, then remove them by all means - but keep the original URLs without linking to them)
- 13:17, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Popstar to Operastar (Meat Loaf's name is usually two words, and Vanessa-Mae's name is usually hyphenated... right?)
- 12:26, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Popstar to Operastar (It's probably neater to put Myleene and Titchy on separate lines - while still making clear that Titchy only co-hosted the first series, of course)
- 12:20, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Popstar to Operastar (Not universally approved, but here's a Wayback Machine link. If such links *do* wreak havoc one way or another, then by all means remove them - while keeping the original URLs without linking to them)
- 22:17, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - November 2023: I am and always have been a big fan of the Wayback Machine - though I respect the opposite view)
- 12:42, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Cleverdicks (Wayback Machine to the rescue - if nothing else, to maintain visual proof that Cleverdicks had its own pages on the old Sky Atlantic site) (top)
- 12:33, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - November 2023: another reminder of the Wayback Machine)
- 01:56, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - November 2023: is there any way of increasing the character limit for edit summaries?)
- 01:32, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone (→Synopsis: at least *this* edit can be explained in less than 200 characters... replaced {{notaired}} with {{expand}} as a full series has now aired)
- 01:28, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone (→Trivia: from 1 September: https://web.archive.org/web/20230901061407/https://www.channel4.com/programmes/alone. Five eps up, but only the first four had been broadcast on TV at this point, right?)
- 01:28, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone (I only put that text there because I wanted to quickly pore over my rewrite before adding it, and I wanted to explain everything but had to work around the 200-character limit for these summaries...)
- 01:14, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone (→Trivia: I'd like to considerably rewrite this bit, as it appears from the Wayback Machine that C4 put *every* episode after the first on its catch-up service first and broadcast it on TV later...)
- 01:41, 23 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Into the 21st century: may as well point out the move from Quay Street to Dock10, and the accompanying change of set - this fourth Paxman Era set being both the last and the longest-lasting)
- 01:07, 23 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream (Replaced {{notaired}} with {{expand}} as five episodes have now aired)
- 01:04, 23 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream (...AFAIK, this show *hasn't* bombed and been pulled from the schedules, and ITV have not yet said that there won't be another series. Unless I'm stuck in the past while everyone else is in the future?)
- 00:47, 23 November 2023 (hist) (diff) A League of Their Own (Wayback Machine to the rescue again. I don't think you can watch the videos (they're probably all on YouTube anyway), but you can certainly look at the pictures... ;)) (top)
- 00:37, 23 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Odd One In (Don't disregard the Wayback Machine, folks. It's free, it's easy - and it provides good snapshots in time, too (cor, remember when ITVX was simply the ITV Player?)) (top)
- 01:25, 19 November 2023 (hist) (diff) All Time Winners List (→£100,000 Winners: Mollie King's more than just a Saturday now, isn't she? Radio 1 presenter, cricket WAG...)
- 02:16, 16 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions (Perhaps it is more accurate, and less contradictory, to say that 2way bought Celador's international division - formats like Mr and Mrs, and You Are What You Eat, appear to remain CPL's property today) (top)
- 02:04, 16 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions (And I'm fairly sure Celador International wasn't *just* Millionaire... The People Versus sold to a few Eastern European countries; wouldn't Celador International have handled that too?)
- 01:56, 16 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions (You know, Simon, Talking Telephone Numbers isn't on CPL's production archive page either (yet Winning Lines is), and nor is Magic Numbers...)
- 16:20, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions (2waytraffic was altijd een Nederlands bedrijf - voordat het Millionaire en meer overnam, en nadat het door Sony werd overgenomen ;))
- 16:03, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions (To be fair, when 2way bought Celador International's format library, Millionaire immediately became the company's biggest show by far. That's the Question was never going to be quite as big...)
- 15:57, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions (Restored Weaver's edit, but added "in turn" since there were only 18 months between 2way buying the rights of Millionaire *and more*, and the company being acquired by Sony)
- 15:48, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions (Sorry, Simon, but this looks like being another of your classic rushes of blood to the head. 2way didn't buy *just* the rights of Millionaire; it bought Celador International's entire format library)
- 01:41, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (Following a reconsideration, replaced "host the show" with "ask the questions". Avoids "host" being repeated twice in quick succession, and also corresponds with the announcer's traditional intro)
- 00:39, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Enter Amol: the time between Paxo announcing his departure and Amol being announced as his replacement was pretty short, too)
- 00:35, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (Thanks to the show returning to its traditional July start, the gap between Paxo's last ep and Amol's first was pretty short... I'm assuming that Paxo *did* watch Amol's first ep with us ;))
- 00:26, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Enter Amol: may as well add Paxo's final sign-off, which was short, sweet and gracious)
- 23:39, 14 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Enter Amol: it's quite true that the 2022 Christmas final was the last Paxman ep recorded, and the 2022-23 student final was the last Paxman ep broadcast. Here are their respective air dates)
- 23:27, 14 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Enter Amol: pointed out when Paxo's Parkinson's diagnosis was, just in case anyone's wondering. No disrespect intended, of course)
- 23:13, 14 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Enter Amol: the Paxman Era lasted 29 years and, by my reckoning, 1,180 episodes. Obviously, he announced his departure *before* his final episodes were recorded and broadcast)
- 23:04, 14 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (New host, new era... why not new sub-section too? ;) (The title isn't intended as a play on "Endemol"; it's simply the first one that came into my head. Feel free to replace it with a better one))
- 16:09, 5 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Never Had it So Good (→Trivia: tricky, isn't it, when it's in 16:9 but you're having to minimize the amount of black space at the top, bottom and sides, and at the same time keep your caption reasonably centred?)
- 16:03, 5 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Never Had it So Good ("A non-broadcast pilot was filmed on the Countdown set..." Blimey-o-flip, it really did happen. Greggles won't mind the video being added to this site, will he?)
- 15:45, 5 November 2023 (hist) (diff) On the Spot (1) (Dam it, the video's no longer available... :() (top)
- 00:54, 4 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:HTV Productions (The specific day in November 1982 on which HTV Wales's programmes yn y Gymraeg were transferred to S4C. This was, of course, the day before Channel 4 began everywhere else in the UK) (top)
- 00:47, 4 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:HTV Productions (Logos reduced to 130px. This is a change I've made to several other production company category pages, as I think 150px is just a little *too* big. Could reconsider, of course... ;))
- 00:41, 4 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Full House (1) (1959... wasn't TWW the ITV station for (South) Wales then?)
- 18:26, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Game equipment: here is the other special episode in which 12, 37, 62 and 87 were the four "large" numbers. All four were drawn this time, with Rachel again getting to make the selections)
- 18:06, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Game equipment: only 12 and 37 were drawn in this episode, but Rachel did indeed outdo Bevins and Davies by easily spotting 37 x (5 + 3) = 296 ;))
- 17:53, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Game equipment: also, Rachel got to make the selections in these numbers games instead of Bevins and Davies ;))
- 17:46, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Game equipment: there was actually another special episode, later in 2010, in which 12, 37, 62 and 87 were the "large" numbers instead of 25, 50, 75 and 100. I'll get to that one in a bit)
- 17:15, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Game equipment: clarified that Bevins and Davies were, at the time, the two most recent series champs)
- 17:09, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (Bevins v Davies officially *wasn't* episode 4999 - it did immediately follow episode 4998, but it was the 26th episode in the separate "special" sequence. The official episode 4999 aired a week later)
- 02:39, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Game equipment: may as well point out too what colours the tiles were on Calendar Countdown)
- 01:15, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Game equipment: the end of 1990 saw the start of the fifth Championship of Champions (preceding series 21 proper), and with it, the introduction of the letter tile font that is still used today)
- 01:05, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (Probably worth pointing out the rather thick font that was used on the letter tiles in series 19 and 20 - here it is in action in an early series 20 ep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJFXjgZfBA)
- 00:45, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Game equipment: obviously, the white-on-blue scheme returned permanently at the start of series 19)
- 00:32, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Game equipment: added Dr Yoga's full name for completeness)
- 00:30, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (According to the Countdown Wiki, several S18 contestants - not just Dr Yoga - were no longer available, so one assumes it wasn't just the finals that had to be broadcast with the problem tiles...)
- 00:14, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (Here's an S18 ep with blue tiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiYcM3y1FGM. Going by the font, they are the tiles that were used from S11 to S17 - good thing YTV held on to them, then)
- 23:51, 24 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Game equipment: so what colours were the letter and number tiles in the first 17 series? Yellow on grey the first 10; white on blue thereafter. Also pointed out the years as appropriate)
- 23:33, 24 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Game equipment: ...and they didn't merely try to introduce it, did they, they actually *did* introduce it. Contestants disliked it, viewers disliked it, Richard disliked it too...)
- 23:28, 24 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Game equipment: the "jazzed-up version of the 30-second vamp"... that was the so-called "extra intensity" version, wasn't it, which was introduced in January 1996 and didn't last the month?)
- 23:14, 24 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Index Y (Undo revision 99669 by Showells (Talk) Pourquoi?) (top)
- 21:45, 23 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Walk the Line (Walk the Line was a singing show, and there is a Singing category... ;)) (top)
- 23:18, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions ("But now on the UTV, who needs Dracula and Frankenstein when you've monster liar Cilla Battersby?" Sorry, but Julian Simmons *is* an absolute legend... ;) Anyway, here's the 1993 UTV logo) (top)
- 23:09, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:UTV1993.jpg (UTV logo used from 1993 to 2000) (top)
- 22:48, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions (Here's the "telly on a stick", which was introduced for Ulster Television's 21st anniversary in 1980 and - for whatever reason - lasted until pretty close to the station's *30th* anniversary)
- 22:40, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:UlsterTV1980.jpg (Ulster Television's "telly on a stick", introduced for the station's 21st anniversary in 1980 and used until 1988) (top)
- 21:26, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Gutted (The Wayback Machine is a godsend ;)) (top)
- 18:28, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions (The 1989 Ulster Television "oscilloscope" ident again, but with everything more centred (both horizontally and vertically). Also at 130px, as 100px is perhaps a little *too* small)
- 18:19, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:UlsterTV1989.jpg (Ulster Television's final "oscilloscope" ident, used from January 1989 to June 1993) (top)
- 04:08, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Great Wall of Comedy ("Title Music" -> "Theme music", for purposes of consistency) (top)
- 04:07, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Great Wall of Comedy (Why delete the official site when it has been archived by the good ol' Wayback Machine? ;))
- 03:53, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions (COVID-19 effectively brought about the end of the UTV brand except for local programming - meaning, of course, the station is now ITV1 like in England, Wales, southern Scotland and the Channel Islands)
- 03:22, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions (And what about its radio business? It belongs to the Murdochs now)
- 03:20, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions (Included in the sale of the TV business were the unsuccessful ROI-only channel UTV Ireland (later passed on to what is now Virgin Media Ireland, and hence now VM3), as well as the UTV brand itself)
- 03:09, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions (Pointed out the date on which the sale of UTV's TV business to ITV plc was confirmed (completion didn't occur until the following February, but that's probably neither here nor there for this site))
- 02:54, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions (ITV plc only bought UTV's television business in 2015. Over the previous decade-and-a-half, UTV developed a media empire, which included Talksport and other radio stations in Britain and Ireland)
- 02:11, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions (Julian Simmons: "But now on the UTV, as Jack Duckworth moves out, what is he gonna do with big Vera's ashes? It's Coronation Street." Pointed out the date on which UTV became the official name)
- 01:57, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions (Pointed out the date on which Ulster Television - as it was officially called for its first 34 years - began broadcasting)
- 01:42, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Freeze Out (→Videos: no disrespect intended... but I'm not sure a caption with a reference to *that* song from *that* Disney film works well. The many times Durders said "slide on", on the other hand... ;))
- 01:19, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Triple Brew Media Productions (Logo reduced to 130px. I've made the same change to a number of other production company category pages, as I think that 150px is just a little *too* big. Could change my mind, of course... ;)) (top)
- 00:56, 16 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:South Shore Productions (Logo reduced to 130px, as I've come to realise that 150px might be just a little *too* big. Could change my mind in the future, though... ;) The seagulls above the 'u' can still be made out) (top)
- 00:47, 16 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Love Productions (Logo reduced to 130px. With respect where it's due, I think 150px is a little *too* big, while 100px might be a little *too* small. I'm well capable of changing my mind, though... ;)) (top)
- 00:44, 16 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Lifted Entertainment Productions (Logo reduced to 130px. With no disrespect intended, I think 150px is a little *too* big, while 100px might be a little *too* small. Might change my mind, of course... ;)) (top)
- 00:36, 16 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Gallowgate Productions (Logo reduced to 130px. There is a case for making the logos on these category pages bigger than 100px, no question about that - but with respect where it's due, I think 150px is a little *too* big) (top)
- 00:32, 16 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Possessed Productions (Logo reduced to 130px. There is certainly a case for making the logos on these category pages bigger than 100px - but with all due respect, I think 150px is just a little *too* big) (top)
- 00:27, 15 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:TVS Productions (Dooo, dooo, do-do-dooo, do-do-doooooo... Here's TVS's first ident again, but larger and 4:3 rather than square)
- 00:20, 15 October 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:TVS1982.jpg (TVS's first ident, used from January 1982 to September 1987) (top)
- 00:17, 15 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:TVS Productions (While there is certainly a case for making the logos on these category pages bigger than 100px, I think - with respect where it's due - that 150px is just a little *too* big. So how about 130px?)
- 23:48, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Border Productions (Here's Border's blue ident used from 1971 to 1989 - probably the station's most famous ident, thanks to it being resolutely static (like Granada's ident of the period) and also, of course, to Mr & Mrs) (top)
- 23:40, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:BorderTV1971.jpg (Border Television's blue ident used from 1971 to 1989) (top)
- 23:24, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Border Productions (While there is certainly a case for making the logos on these category pages bigger than 100px, I think - with all due respect - that 150px is just a little *too* big. So how about 130px?)
- 23:20, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Southern Productions (Increased to 130px, after seeing that 125px messes up the layout of the definition text next to the ABC logo in that station's category page (at least on my laptop)) (top)
- 23:19, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:TWW Productions (Increased to 130px, after seeing that 125px messes up the layout of the definition text next to the ABC logo in that station's category page (at least on my laptop)) (top)
- 23:18, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Westward Productions (Increased to 130px, after seeing that 125px messes up the layout of the definition text next to the ABC logo in that station's category page (at least on my laptop)) (top)
- 23:17, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Twenty Twenty Productions (Increased to 130px, after seeing that 125px messes up the layout of the definition text next to the ABC logo in that station's category page (at least on my laptop)) (top)
- 23:15, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Studio Lambert Productions (Increased to 130px, after seeing that 125px messes up the layout of the definition text next to the ABC logo in that station's category page (at least on my laptop)) (top)
- 23:14, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:ATV Productions (Increased to 130px, after seeing that 125px messes up the layout of the definition text next to the ABC logo in that station's category page (at least on my laptop)) (top)
- 23:13, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:TSW Productions (Increased to 130px, after seeing that 125px messes up the layout of the definition text next to the ABC logo in that station's category page (at least on my laptop)) (top)
- 23:10, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:ABC Productions (150px is, IMO, a little *too* big... but I see that 125px makes a bit of a mess of how the definition text is laid out next to the logo, at least on my laptop. How about 130px, then?) (top)
- 23:02, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Southern Productions (While there *is* a case for making the logos in these category pages bigger than 100px, I think - with respect where it's due - that 150px is a little *too* big. So how about going halfway with 125px?)
- 22:58, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:TWW Productions (While there is certainly a case for making the logos on these category pages bigger than 100px, I think - with respect - that 150px is just a little *too* big. So how about 125px, the midpoint?)
- 22:55, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Westward Productions (While there *is* a case for making the logos in these category pages bigger than 100px, I think - with all due respect - that 150px is just a little *too* big. So how about 125px, the halfway house?)
- 22:47, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Twenty Twenty Productions (There *is* a case for making the logos on these category pages bigger than 100px... but with all due respect, I think 150px is just a little *too* big. So how about going in the middle with 125px?)
- 22:45, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Studio Lambert Productions (There's certainly a case for making the logos in these category pages bigger than 100px... but with all due respect, I think 150px is just a little *too* big. So how about the midpoint, 125px?)
- 22:41, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:ATV Productions (There *is* a case for making the logos on these category pages bigger than 100px... but with respect where it's due, I think 150px is a little *too* big. So how about going halfway with 125px?)
- 22:37, 14 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:TSW Productions (There's certainly a case for making the logos in these category pages bigger than 100px... but with respect, I think 150px might be just a little *too* big. So how about 125px, the halfway house?)
- 01:19, 7 October 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (Being pedantic here, but it's plain Peterhouse - no "College" afterwards ;))
- 01:06, 7 October 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (Hey, the Christmas champions haven't been recorded yet... Since famous people take part and there's no trophy, I've pointed out the members of each team (only three of whom have UKGS profiles, AFAIK))
- 14:10, 3 October 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ("Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 1979 (trophy presented by Stephen Fry)". May I pluralise "trophy" here, since each member of the team got one, as opposed to them all having to share one?)
- 14:05, 3 October 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (The resolution isn't perfect - hence I've set the height at 450px - but here is a picture of the Sidney Sussex team. Taken from Sean Blanchflower's site; I assume he took it from elsewhere)
- 13:50, 3 October 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:SidneySussexReunited.jpg (The Sidney Sussex, Cambridge team of 1979, champions of University Challenge Reunited in 2002, with Jeremy Paxman and Stephen Fry (who presented the trophies). Left to right: Nicholas Graham, David Lidington, Paxman, Fry, John Adams, John Gilmore.) (top)
- 13:31, 3 October 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Into the 21st century: Sidney Sussex beat Somerville 390-90, and Keele 375-185 - who can say they *didn't* deserve the "champion of champions" title?)
- 13:20, 3 October 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Into the 21st century: it *was* pleasing that most of the contestants had gone on to high things, and not so pleasing that only the four highest-scoring teams continued in the competition)
- 13:15, 3 October 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Into the 21st century: obviously, the teams were competing to become the "champion of champions", but that's not all that happened ;))
- 13:03, 3 October 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Into the 21st century: the Reunited series was, of course, done to celebrate the show's ruby anniversary. Also pointed out how many teams took part in it, including how many series champions)
- 20:43, 2 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Strictly Come Dancing (Here are the 2023 participants. One *has* to point out Les Dennis's most famous show; same with Annabel Croft; and is it OK to point out who Bobby Brazier's mother is?)
- 19:42, 2 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Bill Bailey (→Shows: Bill wasn't *merely* a participant on Strictly, of course... ;) And without intending to be ageist, it's not unlikely that he'll remain the oldest champ for a while yet)
- 19:07, 2 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Index G (→People: I've just created Krishnan Guru-Murthy's profile ;))
- 19:05, 2 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Number One (Krish now has his own UKGS profile thanks to Strictly ;)) (top)
- 19:04, 2 October 2023 (hist) (diff) N Krishnan Guru-Murthy (Krish hasn't presented a game show since Number One, 22 (twenty-two!!) years ago - but he does now qualify for a UKGS profile thanks to Strictly ;)) (top)
- 18:57, 2 October 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:KrishnanGuruMurthy.jpg (top)
- 16:41, 2 October 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Into the 21st century: the 2000-04 reddy-brown set *was* very nice, though. The 2004-13 blue-and-purple set was probably a step sideways, though it lasted over twice as long)
- 16:32, 2 October 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ("We're can't say we're fans of the new music." Twenty-odd years on, the BBC Media Centre describes it as "perfect", and the Balanescu Quartet must have made a fair amount of dough...)
- 16:19, 2 October 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (No-one says "the year" 2000 any more, do they? Especially now that - shudder - we're nearly a quarter of the way through the 21st century)
- 14:41, 2 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped (Amazingly, VMTV is *still* repeating Gift Wrapped nearly ten years later (why not The 21st Question in that case?). Does mean, though, that one can add the format developers and the music composer ;))
- 13:40, 2 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Index G (Wasn't Gift Wrapped just a general knowledge quiz? The couples on it were all engaged, of course, while Eamonn and Ruth were already husband and wife - but there was no actual dating, AFAIK)
- 15:08, 30 September 2023 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (The "slave" answer, too - but could a case be made that this *wasn't* a cockup? It *did* score zero, but it got next to no laughs compared to "squirrel", or any of Charlie's bizarre answers) (top)
- 14:23, 30 September 2023 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (→"We asked 100 people to name...": the other "squirrel" answer was in that episode, too. Bit of a shame the question asked for "an animal", rather than the more broad "something"... ;))
- 13:53, 30 September 2023 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (Charlie gave "Sooty" when playing for control of the board; his opponent - no more familiar with Mr Enfield - then gave a bizarre answer of her own. Les: "Harry, I hope you're watching, mate..." ;))
- 13:37, 30 September 2023 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (And what do you want to know, Charlie gave the "Sooty" answer too. *Three* bizarre answers; *surely* he deserves to stand on the same pedestal as Bob "Turkey" Johnson... ;) ;))
- 13:21, 30 September 2023 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (→"We asked 100 people to name...": Les: "We're back to Red Riding Hood again!" xD ;))
- 13:10, 30 September 2023 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (→"We asked 100 people to name...": Charlie: "Porridge." Les: "We've had that as well. So was Goldilocks, I think." It doesn't end there... ;))
- 13:00, 30 September 2023 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (→"We asked 100 people to name...": I *have* seen the Red Riding Hood one, though, which is from 1997. God bless you, Charlie Santer... ;))
- 12:40, 30 September 2023 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (Haven't yet seen the "fish" one either, but that card game is of course *Go* Fish, which of course is two words. Might revisit this one if I come across it on Challenge, or indeed YouTube)
- 12:16, 30 September 2023 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (→"We asked 100 people to name...": stopped "Tin Man" from being rendered in bold, and also italicised and hyphenated "The X-Files". Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-dooooooooo... ;))
- 12:03, 30 September 2023 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (→"We asked 100 people to name...": that's Sooty the bear, right? So no italics required there. Haven't seen this one yet, but I assume the contestant had the wrong Harry in mind... ;))
- 11:57, 30 September 2023 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (→"We asked 100 people to name...": some alphabetical re-ordering (disregarding definite and indefinite articles, i.e. "the" and "a"))
- 11:44, 30 September 2023 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (→"We asked 100 people to name...": italicised "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Doo-do-do-dooooo, doo-do-dooooo, doo-do-do-dooooo, doo-do-do-do-do... ;))
- 11:39, 30 September 2023 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (→"We asked 100 people to name...": from a 2001 episode repeated on Challenge just now. Les: "I'm gonna go down there and look for some nuts..." ;))
- 12:51, 11 September 2023 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (→"We asked 100 people to name...": the same contestant also confused Stan and Ollie with Charlie Chaplin... I'd like to think she enjoyed the experience all the same ;))
- 12:42, 11 September 2023 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (→"We asked 100 people to name...": this was on Challenge just now. When this contestant's family had the chance to steal, Les suggested "tiger" ;))
- 21:36, 5 July 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Champions: a week since the Series 87 final, so time to add the latest champ... ;) Adding the Series 88 winner, which I assume will be around Christmas time, will be much more straightforward ;))
- 21:16, 5 July 2023 (hist) (diff) News Archive (With the very greatest of respect, it *does* pay to press the "Show preview" button, read over what you've typed, and change it if you're not satisfied - all *before* you press the "Save page" button)
- 21:11, 5 July 2023 (hist) (diff) News Archive (...Let's start that again, shall we?)
- 00:40, 5 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (AFAIK, Jeremy Kyle (spit, spit, spit) seldom took a break, and the same with Trisha - even when kids were off school for the summer, she'd be on at 9:25)
- 00:25, 5 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (Trisha's show was very similar to Vanessa's - indeed it could be considered a continuation, as both were made by Anglia in Norwich)
- 23:51, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (...because the 'Sweep was the only one of the remaining 9:25 games to survive. (Of course, Win, Lose or Draw came back six years later, but in a much ruder form and at a time closer to 9:25 at night))
- 23:39, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (Vanessa's show not only replaced the 'Sweep et al, but also The Time, The Place, which was somewhat less trashy a talk show. Perhaps appropriate that a repeat of the 'Sweep should close this era...)
- 23:33, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (I *do* love Vanessa, but even she can't deny how American her talk show was in style - and no-one can deny that it was cheaper than the 9:25 games, in more ways than one)
- 20:59, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (Take two... I've mentioned TV-am, and I've mentioned Thames, so I may as well mention that both had left the network come 1995. Of course, Carlton owned Central by then as well)
- 20:43, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (Undo revision 97859 by Deselmes (Talk) Shit, hit the wrong button before I finished that edit summary...)
- 20:42, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (I've mentioned Thames and TV-am, so I may as well mention that by 1995 they had gonbe)
- 20:41, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (...because the ITV Network Centre was a thing by then, and it almost certainly decided that there couldn't be more than one show from the same company at 9:25 - hence Crosswits moving)
- 20:33, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (Chain Letters came back in '95 after several years away, and displaced Crosswits to afternoons...)
- 20:29, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (So many shows in the earlier years, but by 1995 there were just three - one made by a "Big Five" company, and another by a fairly major company that, of course, also made Wheel of Fortune and Taggart)
- 20:12, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (...and it *is* true that many of the 9:25 shows were made by the smaller ITV companies. One of them was even an Ulster show, when that company hardly ventured across the Irish Sea...)
- 20:08, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (Well, it *is* true that, until the early '90s, the ITV schedules were dominated by the various companies from London, the Midlands and the North of England...)
- 19:42, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (Well, why *not* point out what this cheep 'n' cheerful tat encompassed? I mention Pictionary, because that's what Win, Lose or Draw essentially was... ;))
- 19:25, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (7 September '87 was, of course, when ITV introduced its new morning schedule, which also included The Time, The Place (remember that?). This Morning followed just over a year later)
- 19:09, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (This bit may seem both complicated and irrelevant, but it explains how the 9:25 time (time, that is, not slot) came to be. Jeff Wayne's Good Morning Britain theme playing in my head as I type it... ;))
- 18:44, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) ITV's 9.25 shows (So how, exactly, did the 9:25 slot come about? Here begins a history lesson. ;) 16 October 1972 was also the day on which Emmerdale Farm (as was) first aired, which wasn't a coincidence... ;))
- 16:43, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) A League of Their Own (→Trivia: good thing the 'Pedia has a pretty comprehensive list of ALOTO episodes, including the guests and scores in each one - and the original air dates too ;))
- 16:34, 4 July 2023 (hist) (diff) A League of Their Own (→Trivia: "On Series 3, Episode 3..." This may be my Asperger's talking, but that feels a bit *too* formal, especially capitalising both "series" and "episode")
- 04:29, 1 July 2023 (hist) (diff) Weaver's Week 2023-06-11 (→Ireland's Smartest: if it's all right with Weaver, clarified that the series ended on 4 June, with no extra episodes since) (top)
- 21:32, 29 June 2023 (hist) (diff) The Heat is On (1) (→Key moments: after watching It'll Be Alright on the Night 11 on YouTube, and seeing the AWT outtake, here's a little bit more detail :))
- 14:51, 29 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (Scottish made 14 series, didn't they? One Nicky/Angela, five Nicky/Carol, two Nicky/Jenny, one Bradley/Jenny, three John/Jenny (one primetime, two daytime), one John/Terri, and one Paul/Terri)
- 14:12, 29 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (Losing contestants also took home any prizes they had won for solving puzzles, of course. Possible to win four prizes and still not make the final, in fact, because you didn't have the most points...)
- 14:02, 29 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Synopsis: another screenshot, this time of an as-yet unsolved puzzle in the main game whose answer should be clear as crystal... ;) ;))
- 13:49, 29 June 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:WoFPuzzle.jpg (An as-yet unsolved Wheel of Fortune puzzle. The answer should be clear as crystal, though... *wink, wink*) (top)
- 03:02, 29 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Synopsis: here's a screenshot of a contestant facing the final puzzle, and struggling to solve it - he ultimately failed - after none of the letters he chose were in the famous person's surname)
- 02:52, 29 June 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:WoFFinal.jpg (A contestant tries to solve the final puzzle on Wheel of Fortune in 2000 (the answer was David Hockney)) (top)
- 02:40, 29 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Synopsis: the contestant had 15 seconds to solve the final puzzle, of course, after the letters they had chosen had been put into it)
- 01:22, 29 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Synopsis: the consolation prize for losing contestants was always a watch - and in some series, they received the handheld electronic game too)
- 00:57, 29 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (The last round could be a speed round in its entirety or partly, or not at all - it depended on how much time there was left. The host always gave the wheel one final spin at this point, of course)
- 00:40, 29 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Synopsis: and here's what landing on "Free Spin" meant. Happened more often than not that a contestant earned a "Free Spin" token, then forgot to play it when the opportunity was there...)
- 00:32, 29 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (I take it trying to buy a vowel that wasn't there ended your turn too. And of course, you could land on "Bankrupt" and lose your points, but then get another turn and get some of those points back ;))
- 00:16, 29 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Synopsis: "Can I buy a vowel, please? E for Edward." A vowel always cost 250 points per instance)
- 00:06, 29 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Synopsis: "400." "T for Tommy." "Two of them, that's 800 points." Just clarifying things; if by chance I'm turning this into "Wheel of Fortune for Dummies" it's not intended... ;))
- 23:41, 28 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ("You can't spin the wheel until you've answered a question", Bruce Forsyth might have said. ;) From the fourth series (1992) onwards, one question on the buzzer determined who spun first in the round)
- 23:30, 28 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ("This puzzle has X words, and they make up a well-known phrase / singer and song / actor and film etc." Most series, the host said this - but Angela did it in the first, and Terri did it in the last)
- 23:18, 28 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Synopsis: no images of the true star of the show, the wheel itself? Better put that right... ;) Here it is in its second form, the rainbow one from 1994 to 2000 - which, IMO, was the best one)
- 23:13, 28 June 2023 (hist) (diff) File:WoFWheel2nd.jpg (On second thoughts, "guise" probably isn't the right word... "form" might be better) (top)
- 23:06, 28 June 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:WoFWheel2nd.jpg (The Wheel of Fortune wheel in its second guise, from 1994 to 2000)
- 23:03, 28 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (Starting a rewrite of the format of the game by clarifying how many contestants took part, and describing the wheel itself (spare a thought for the "Free Spin" segment...))
- 12:34, 28 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Grampian Productions (Pointed out the precise date on which Grampian was rebranded on-air as STV; also pointed out that Scottish TV was so rebranded at the same time)
- 11:35, 28 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:STV Productions (Finally, SMG became STV Group in 2008, after it sold off most of its non-television interests (it held on to Pearl & Dean before finally selling it off in 2010))
- 10:49, 28 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:STV Productions (Although Scottish and Grampian were rebranded on-air as STV in 2006, the two companies retain separate licences - and this is reflected in their respective legal names)
- 10:35, 28 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:STV Productions (Scottish TV survived all the ITV franchise rounds, then established SMG to acquire not only Grampian and Ginger Productions but also Pearl & Dean and a number of Glasgow newspapers (since sold off))
- 10:15, 28 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:STV Productions (...the more rural northern and southern parts of the country being served by Grampian and Border respectively, which both took to the air a full four years after Scottish TV)
- 10:11, 28 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:STV Productions (As per all the other ITV companies, pointed out the date on which Scottish TV began broadcasting. Up until it took over Grampian, it only served the mainly urban Central Scotland...)
- 16:51, 27 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:ABC Productions (Pointed out the date on which ABC ceased broadcasting to the Midlands and the North of England; also pointed out that Thames - of which ABC had majority control - began broadcasting two days later)
- 16:38, 27 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:ABC Productions (How ABC came to merge with Rediffusion to form Thames requires *some* explanation of the 1967 ITV franchise round)
- 16:08, 27 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:ABC Productions (Pointed out that ABC was one of the original four ITV companies; also pointed out the respective dates on which it began broadcasting to the Midlands and the North of England)
- 10:41, 25 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Index N (→Shows: Not a Cross Word aired only in Scotland, by the looks of things. Indeed its host, Cliff Hanley, was Glaswegian)
- 10:38, 25 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Not a Cross Word (Digging further, looks like this was only shown in Scotland, with Songs of Praise airing in the rest of the UK at the same time. Indeed, Cliff Hanley was Glaswegian) (top)
- 10:14, 25 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Not a Cross Word (→Broadcast: clarified that there were only six episodes. Thanks once again, BBC Genome ;))
- 09:36, 25 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:BBC Birmingham Productions ("BBC Pebble Mill" (after the studios, of course) gave way to "BBC Birmingham" in the October '97 makeover of the Beeb, didn't it? Just as "BBC North" gave way to "BBC Manchester" at the same time) (top)
- 09:05, 25 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Noel's Telly Years (The video is 665px in width, because any narrower and the unattractive black bars at the top and bottom will be bigger. Again, doesn't help much that it's a 4:3 show within a 16:9 upload)
- 08:49, 25 June 2023 (hist) (diff) The Heat is On (1) (The video is 500px in width, because any narrower and the picture shrinks when not watching in full-screen mode on this page, with unattractive black bars popping up at the top and bottom)
- 05:04, 22 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Z for Fake (As per the Trivia, this was Victor Lewis-Smith's Associated-Rediffusion, rather than the ITV London weekday franchisee of the '50s and '60s. The Rediffusion category should only concern the latter ;))
- 12:34, 21 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Michael Aspel (→Biography: changed "media" to "broadcasting" following a reconsideration) (top)
- 12:32, 21 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Michael Aspel (When Eamonn Andrews died, Aspel believed TIYL would die with him - and he also initially ruled himself out of the running to replace Andrews. See: http://www.bigredbook.info/michael_aspel_feature.html)
- 11:11, 21 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Michael Aspel (Watch this brilliant, brilliant video, and you'll see just why the ITV Telethons are slagged off to this day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0hc-n61WA0&ab_channel=BobtheFishProductions)
- 11:07, 21 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Michael Aspel (The ITV Telethons of '88, '90 and '92 deserve their less-than-sparkling reputations - but Aspel really can't be faulted for his hosting of all three of them, and in fact he deserves some kudos for it)
- 10:56, 21 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Michael Aspel (→Biography: Aspel did the Antiques Roadshow for eight years - has Fiona Bruce already been doing it nearly twice as long? And, of course, he succeeded the great Hugh Scully)
- 10:50, 21 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Michael Aspel (Aspel presented This Is Your Life for fifteen years - on ITV from 1988 to 1994, and then on the Beeb until it ended in 2003. And, lest we forget, Eamonn Andrews surprised him in 1980 ;))
- 09:56, 21 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Michael Aspel (→Biography: clarified that he was a BBC newsreader - ITN was around in those days too, of course - and pointed out two of his colleagues, one of whom has a UKGS profile of his own ;))
- 09:31, 21 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Michael Aspel (→Biography: Aspel turned 90 in January, so I thought I'd expand his biog a bit. He is, of course, one of the more famous WW2 evacuees)
- 09:01, 21 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Wawffactor (→Web links: diolch i'r nefoedd am y Wayback Machine ;)) (top)
- 16:46, 20 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Grundy Productions (Remember the big, turning golden "RG" at the end of GFG, Keynotes, Celeb Squares Mk 2, and other Grundy shows up to around spring 1997? Not ashamed to say it's one of my fave logos - and here it is ;))
- 16:36, 20 June 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:SquareRG.jpg (The golden "RG" logo used by Grundy's international arms (British, American etc.) from 1987 to 1997) (top)
- 16:28, 20 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Grundy Productions (Reg therefore outlived his company *and* his brand, though I'm sure he didn't mind too much. Quoting Weaver in 2016, "he had the privilege of picking his work". Here's his impressive lifespan)
- 16:19, 20 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Grundy Productions (If the 'Pedia is right, then it was 2013 when the German and Italian arms became UFA Show & Factual and Fremantle Italia respectively, and the Grundy brand was finally retired)
- 16:03, 20 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Grundy Productions (...and at once the British arm's remaining shows - Fort Boyard Mk 1, Lily Savage's 'Blank, and Night Fever - became Thames productions, while the Grundy name lived on at the end of Neighbours till '06)
- 15:54, 20 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Grundy Productions (Grundy, Thames, and Pearson's other television assets became parts of FremantleMedia in 2001 (and, of course, the "Media" was dropped seventeen years later)...)
- 15:38, 20 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Grundy Productions (PYCR Mk 2, Bruce's Price is Right and Supermarket Sweep all became Grundy productions in 1999, having been Talbot / Fremantle (UK) productions before then)
- 15:25, 20 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Grundy Productions (Grundy's British arm specialised in game shows, of course - I believe GFG was its first show, and did it produce any other non-game shows besides the BBC's How Do They Do That? in the mid '90s?)
- 15:19, 20 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Grundy Productions (The Pearson *conglomerate*, because in 1995 it had a fair few publishing interests, including Longman Books (which it still owns) and the Financial Times. And it owned Thames by then, of course)
- 15:14, 20 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:Grundy Productions (Quite a bit to say about Grundy, I think... First, I believe Reg had grown it into the world's largest independent production company when he sold it to Pearson)
- 14:01, 20 June 2023 (hist) (diff) The Heat is On (1) (The late, great Victor Lewis-Smith ripped into this show, and Cheggers, in his Evening Standard column - probably the biggest bit of attention the show ever got. So, here's an extract... ;))
- 17:09, 18 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Index T (A tiebreaker usually does take the form of a question - but not on Countdown. ;) (Not on PYCR either - though that show's TB was a whole three-card game, rather longer (usually) than other shows' TBs))
- 16:07, 18 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Harry Hill (Harry became HIGNFY's 126th guest host the Friday before last) (top)
- 16:00, 18 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Index L (Converted "Live show" from italics to bold)
- 00:26, 18 June 2023 (hist) (diff) It's Not What You Know (1) (The credits also reveal that the show was recorded at BBC Television Centre (woo-hoo!), and that Olav Bjortomt and Jenny "The Vixen" Ryan verified the questions ;)) (top)
- 00:16, 18 June 2023 (hist) (diff) It's Not What You Know (1) (→Inventor: he was also one of two exec producers - Mark Wells was the other, for Granada)
- 00:14, 18 June 2023 (hist) (diff) It's Not What You Know (1) (→Inventor: there are three episodes on YouTube, and watching these we see that Kevin Ball's credit was "executive producer & format creator" - the latter being a slightly unusual term, IMO)
- 23:41, 17 June 2023 (hist) (diff) It's Not What You Know (1) (→Broadcast: the show was produced by Granada in association with C*T*TV, which was Tarrant's own production company ;))
- 23:30, 17 June 2023 (hist) (diff) It's Not What You Know (1) (Here's the logo. Why was it done such that it appeared that the emphasis was on the "What", when surely it was supposed to be on the "You"? God only knows)
- 23:27, 17 June 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:ItsNotWhatYouKnowLogo.jpg (The logo for It's Not What You Know (why it was done such that it appeared that the emphasis was on the "What" when surely it was supposed to be on the "You", heaven knows)) (top)
- 22:41, 17 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Noel's Telly Years (And here is a series 1 ep. Not much that can be done about it being a 4:3 show within a 16:9 upload, alas)
- 21:38, 17 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Noel's Telly Years (There are actually quite a few eps of NTY (er, yes) on YouTube - and from these, we now know that the show was made by Unique in association with the Beeb in Birmingham ;))
- 20:23, 17 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Masterchef Goes Large (→Trivia: Elizabeth II's *Golden* Jubilee... wasn't that back in 2002?)
- 19:59, 17 June 2023 (hist) (diff) The Heat is On (1) (And we know who did the music, too. ;) We *don't* know who came up with the format, however - no such credit appears)
- 19:53, 17 June 2023 (hist) (diff) The Heat is On (1) (Now we know what year this aired, and what channel it was on... and also that Carlton were, in fact, not involved at all. Did Transmedia make any other game shows?)
- 19:47, 17 June 2023 (hist) (diff) The Heat is On (1) (YouTube, you've done it again... here's a full episode. ;) This was uploaded by one of the contestants, as seems to be so often the case with obscure shows)
- 17:29, 16 June 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - June 2023: I feel that now is the time for me to make the biggest admission of all about myself)
- 18:18, 14 June 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - June 2023: time, I think, for me to state some observations (with no disrespect intended, of course) and admit a few more things about myself)
- 05:29, 14 June 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - June 2023: images of shows' logos again, but this time it's as regards the sizes at which they're displayed in the shows' corresponding articles)
- 04:59, 14 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Future Food Stars (No offence intended but doesn't displaying the image of the show's logo at 400px perhaps make it a bit *too* big? Actually, another good thing to discuss - the ideal size for displaying such images ;))
- 04:42, 14 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Pump it Up (Images of shows' logos can be positioned and displayed as desired without any obvious need for div tags. Unnecessary edit? Hey, people's mileages *do* vary - and in any case, I intend no offence ;))
- 04:32, 14 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Five Guys a Week (If the image of the show's logo can be positioned and displayed as desired without div tags, then surely there's no need for these tags? Unless, of course, there *is* a need that isn't obvious...)
- 04:26, 14 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Coach Trip (The image of the show's logo can be positioned and displayed as desired without div tags - so these tags are superfluous, right? Unless there *is* a need for them that's not obvious when editing...)
- 04:17, 14 June 2023 (hist) (diff) One and Six Zeros (Re-removed div tags from around the image of the show's logo. Sorry, folks, but if such images can be positioned and displayed as desired *without* these tags, then what need is there for these tags?)
- 19:22, 13 June 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - June 2023: C4 *was* set, not *were* set. Oopsie doodle... ;))
- 19:20, 13 June 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - June 2023: a new discussion on how long before we can declare a show to be dead, when the broadcaster of that show does not make public whether or not it has cancelled the show)
- 18:25, 13 June 2023 (hist) (diff) One and Six Zeros (TVZone: "We understand the show is unlikely to return." Five months later and, AFAIK, C4 is still silent. Actually, there's a good discussion to be had about when a show can be declared dead...)
- 17:10, 13 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Hypothetical (Simon, Jennifer and everyone else, I'm not normally an attention seeker - but I do feel there's mileage left in the discussion on the Staffers page regarding div tags around images of show's logos...)
- 16:50, 13 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Cooking With the Stars (Simon, buddy, I take no pleasure in saying this, but this is another of your legendary rushes of blood to the head... ITV confirmed a third series in April, and even announced the celebs then)
- 01:46, 13 June 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - June 2023: may I hasten to add...)
- 01:30, 13 June 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - June 2023: me being a stickler for consistency once again, alas...)
- 22:49, 12 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Can i Gymru (I added the logo at a time when I wasn't aware that <div> tags weren't necessary in this case... :)) (top)
- 22:11, 12 June 2023 (hist) (diff) On the Spot (1) (Images of shows' logos don't need <div> tags, as it happens :))
- 22:08, 12 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Noel's House Party (I see what JT means about <div> tags not being needed for images of shows' logos... :))
- 21:58, 12 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Noel's House Party (→The Big Pork Pie: Noel's name and questions are italicised; "Victim" and their "no"s are not... I'd be more inclined to have all of these in upright text, with Noel's name and "Victim" in bold)
- 21:33, 12 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Noel's House Party (→The Big Pork Pie: the bits about all the other games (bar NTV, since that's the last game mentioned) end with "NEXT!" So, again, why shouldn't it be the same here? ;))
- 21:22, 12 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Noel's House Party (→Grab-a-Grand: all the other instances of "Next!" are in all caps - why shouldn't this one be the same? ;))
- 21:12, 12 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Noel's House Party (...Not much there, is there? Details of the S1 ep that was repeated on BBC4 last August (which isn't currently available to watch), and that's about it. So is it really worth linking to it at all?)
- 21:03, 11 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Mental! - The Music Quiz (Well, *I* think this anyway - and I'm happy to be corrected. :) AFAIK, only Countdown and HIGNFY were still using such displays by 2003 - and HIGNFY still uses them today, though it isn't alone now ;)) (top)
- 18:50, 11 June 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Broadcast: updated regular episode and series counts under Lifted. No Children in Need special last year; perhaps it was deemed not to be worth the expense)
- 18:36, 11 June 2023 (hist) (diff) TV Guide 2023-06-10 (Entertainment.ie said there'd be another Ireland's Smartest tonight; the RTÉ Player and my Virgin EPG said there'd be something with Nathan Carter. Turns out it was the latter two that were right...) (top)
- 00:46, 9 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Richard Osman (→Web links: here's Richard's Wikipedia entry, to go with his IMDb entry) (top)
- 00:44, 9 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Richard Osman (→Trivia: clarified that while Richard was sitting in Colin's seat, Colin was sitting in Richard's, next to Susie. And pointed out the date that episode aired, because why not? ;))
- 23:20, 8 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (Well, the recommended style for year ranges within single calendar decades on That Other Wiki (copyright Weaver) *is* to use the last two digits, rather than just the last one, of the end year... ;))
- 23:13, 8 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (→Co-hosts: Matt Chapman only announced and commentated on the first episode in 2018, of course, before the public basically told him "go back to horse racing")
- 23:04, 8 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (→Co-hosts: the great Tony Gubba only stopped commentating when he passed away, of course. And didn't Simon Reed commentate on the full 2014 series?)
- 22:39, 8 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (Updated episode and series counts for Lifted, and added the date of the most recent episode (even though the show will almost certainly be back next year, despite everything that's gone on with Phil))
- 22:25, 8 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (→Trivia: tidied the last sentence, so that the rest of that paragraph flows better into it)
- 22:02, 8 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (→Trivia: and in fact it was the second time that series that the FA Cup - and, indeed, Liverpool FC - had gotten in the way, as Sam Matterface was needed to commentate on Pool's fourth-round match)
- 21:53, 8 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (→Trivia: the 2022 final *might* have aired on 20 March as intended, had that Forest v Liverpool match not had a kick-off time of 6pm...)
- 21:27, 8 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (→Trivia: well, despite the double standards, the 2022 series wasn't *quite* as beleaguered as the previous year's, because no celebs withdrew during it... ;))
- 21:18, 8 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (→Trivia: further tidying up - including removing a duplicate link to Oti's article, and pointing out in which episode Arlene appeared on the panel)
- 21:02, 8 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (→Trivia: tidied up as regards the double standards in the 2022 series, also clarifying that it was the semi-final that Holly missed and Phil presented alone)
- 01:52, 8 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Laura Whitmore (Laura and Iain are now married - and they're parents too. ;) Also, a re-wording as regards her Eurovision involvement, following a reconsideration) (top)
- 01:37, 8 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Laura Whitmore (→Biography: and let's not forget her Eurovision involvement in 2014, or her Radio 5 show ;))
- 01:28, 8 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Laura Whitmore (→Biography: yes, it really is *fifteen* years since Laura got her break. She presented ITV2's I'm a Celeb coverage for five series, and (of course) Love Island for three)
- 01:17, 8 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Laura Whitmore (→Biography: ...and she's in pretty good company when it comes to female presenters who started out on MTV ;))
- 01:11, 8 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Laura Whitmore (→Biography: actually, Laura's known for quite a few things at this stage, isn't she? MTV News was the first of those things...)
- 00:10, 8 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Comedians Giving Lectures (Undo revision 97271 by Showells (Talk) No disrespect, but IMO that kind of edit is one for which an explanation might just be necessary...)
- 23:58, 7 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Peter Snow (→Trivia: Peter and Dan have, in fact, worked together on *two* history series for BBC2, both of which made extensive use of CGI. And, of course, Jon left Channel 4 News a year and a half ago) (top)
- 22:47, 7 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Are You an Egghead? (→See also: this might be a better way of styling the links to Weaver's three reviews) (top)
- 22:38, 7 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Are You an Egghead? (→Host: should it be "2008-9" or "2008-09"? Well, That Other Wiki (copyright Weaver) *does* favour the latter style... ;))
- 22:00, 7 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Are You an Egghead? (→Web links: well, the question mark *was* part of AYAE's title... wasn't it????? ;))
- 18:15, 7 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Mike McClean (If anyone wants to order a copy of Mike's book... ;)) (top)
- 17:26, 7 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Mike McClean (→Trivia: may I add who Brent was dressed up as, too? ;))
- 17:23, 7 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Mike McClean (→Trivia: Bubble was in BB2, of course (shit, 22 years ago now...). And Howard's last televised Halifax ad was, I believe, just before the 2008 crash... so perhaps it's time to add his surname ;))
- 17:13, 7 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Mike McClean (→Trivia: well, why not add links to the Blind Date and Big Brother articles when it's possible...? ;))
- 16:58, 7 June 2023 (hist) (diff) TV Guide 2023-06-03 (No, there *were* six heats, and the final *was* this past Sunday. I've watched all ten episodes, and kept stats. And the champion thoroughly deserved the accolade) (top)
- 01:42, 2 June 2023 (hist) (diff) All Star Musicals (→Broadcast: the regular episode in 2021 aired on 21 March of that year. Would have aired on the 28th, of course, but for DOI's troubles) (top)
- 01:33, 2 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (Clarified that the 2021 series was reduced from ten episodes to eight. Also pointed out dates as appropriate, plus the title of the clip show that aired in place of the first scrapped episode)
- 01:03, 2 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (Having clarified that five celebs in all withdrew during the 2021 series, I shall now clarify that across all the previous series just three celebs had had to make mid-series withdrawals ;))
- 00:45, 2 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (→Trivia: clarified, too, that five celebs in all had to withdraw during that 2021 series (while still pointing out which ones were injured and which ones tested positive for Covid))
- 00:31, 2 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (→Trivia: clarified that the show lost its *live* audience - i.e. the one in the arena, as opposed to the viewers at home - when Covid struck)
- 22:10, 1 June 2023 (hist) (diff) On the Spot (1) (The show's logo hardly sat still, but here it is nonetheless ;))
- 22:08, 1 June 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:NationalLotteryOnTheSpot.jpg (The logo for The National Lottery On the Spot) (top)
- 19:18, 1 June 2023 (hist) (diff) On the Spot (1) (→Co-hosts: six and a half years since the draws left BBC1, but Deadly's still the Voice of the Balls - and this was his credit here too ;))
- 18:21, 1 June 2023 (hist) (diff) On the Spot (1) (→Synopsis: thanks for explaining the full rules of the main game, Des ;))
- 18:08, 1 June 2023 (hist) (diff) On the Spot (1) (→Synopsis: added link to the 100% article)
- 18:06, 1 June 2023 (hist) (diff) On the Spot (1) (Actually, why *did* the practice of italicising shows when linking to their articles die out? It probably doesn't matter here or anywhere - but, unfortunately, I *am* a stickler for consistency... ;))
- 17:57, 1 June 2023 (hist) (diff) On the Spot (1) (...and that the music was composed by Dave Arch, in between Wipeout and that big ballroom dancing show. ;) It's not actually mentioned on his site - but there aren't any other Dave Arches, are there?)
- 17:29, 1 June 2023 (hist) (diff) On the Spot (1) (Also on YouTube are the closing credits of the second episode, from 5 August 2000 - which reveal that this was yet another format devised by the Chatterbox Partnership...)
- 17:23, 1 June 2023 (hist) (diff) On the Spot (1) (Yes! A decent slab of an episode on YouTube at last - specifically the fifth episode, from 26 August 2000)
- 17:00, 1 June 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - June 2023: oops - forgot the bullet :))
- 16:59, 1 June 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (A query as regards the three On the Spots)
- 16:25, 1 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Index O (Oops - the Grand Slam with Nicholas Rowe was the second show of that title. (The first one, about bridge, *did* air several years before I was born...))
- 16:17, 1 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Pump it Up (I can't help but be a stickler for consistency... "co-host" is usually hyphenated ;))
- 16:06, 1 June 2023 (hist) (diff) Pump it Up (I think putting Julia and Fearne on separate lines (by means of <br> tags) is neater than having it as "(and Julia in 1999 / Fearne in 2000)". Makes sense too as they both had equal billing with Andy)
- 03:16, 31 May 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (There was a makeover in 2000, and in 2004, and in 2013 - and there'll be one to accompany Amol's arrival too. Perhaps the heading for this section should reflect its content that bit better...?)
- 03:06, 31 May 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Yet another millennium makeover: tidying up as regards the 2009-10 series having more tiebreakers than any other Paxman Era series)
- 02:56, 31 May 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (Cor blimey, the "win twice before you lose twice" quarter-final format has lasted 14 years now (and no indication that it won't continue into the Amol Era). Is this explanation of it any better?)
- 02:17, 31 May 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→The big picture: well, now that the Paxman Era is over...)
- 02:15, 31 May 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Champions: congrats on becoming the fifth member of the Three or More Club, Durham ;))
- 02:08, 31 May 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Champions: "2022-3" -> "2022-23". Though I myself am guilty of going between one digit and two for the end year in year ranges within a single calendar decade... ;))
- 01:59, 31 May 2023 (hist) (diff) New Shows Archive (→2006: again, I don't think The West Wing ever dropped the definite article from its name)
- 01:53, 31 May 2023 (hist) (diff) New Shows Archive (Changed all instances of "Stunt/dare show" to "Stunts and dares", for consistency across this page and to match the name of the corresponding category)
- 02:32, 17 May 2023 (hist) (diff) Strike it Lucky (→Merchandise: "...and each and every one of you will take away with you tonight a copy of the board game, so you can play the game at home." Happened in at least four of the Lucky series)
- 01:50, 17 May 2023 (hist) (diff) Strike it Lucky (Well he said this every episode too, didn't he? I should point out that I've ordered the catchphrases according to when in the episode they'd be spoken, though I accept this probably doesn't matter ;))
- 01:35, 17 May 2023 (hist) (diff) Strike it Lucky (MB: "Nero really struck it lucky when he became the ruler of which empire in 54 AD?" Couple: "Roman!" MB: "Is that your answer?" Couple: "Yes!" MB: "You're going on to tonight's final!")
- 01:23, 17 May 2023 (hist) (diff) Strike it Lucky ("I'll ask you again, and I must have an answer." That was before asking the main Strike it Lucky/Rich question wasn't it? Almost all the time, of course, Barrymore only needed to ask the question once)
- 23:05, 16 May 2023 (hist) (diff) Strike it Lucky (→Synopsis: another better-resolution screengrab, this time of a question category and accompanying answers. The caption... well, I think Richard Whiteley would have been proud ;))
- 23:00, 16 May 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:SILFineCutCategory.jpg (An appropriately-titled question category on Strike it Lucky in 1989) (top)
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