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- 07:15, 2 January 2021 (hist) (diff) Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow (Five does seem to be the official number of series, too. What, however, was the official last-ever show? The last-ever *live* show was on 11th March 2006; what aired on the 18th was a highlights show)
- 07:00, 2 January 2021 (hist) (diff) Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow (→Broadcast: ...and it certainly should be pointed out in some way that the airings on BBC1 and 2 were simulcasts with the CBBC Channel)
- 06:57, 2 January 2021 (hist) (diff) Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow (→Broadcast: there's certainly merit in saying "CBBC Channel" rather than just "CBBC", anyway...)
- 06:54, 2 January 2021 (hist) (diff) Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow (With all the respect in the world, Simon, I feel this is a situation in which you should have explained what you were doing and why, rather than leave the rest of us to work it out for ourselves...)
- 20:47, 19 December 2020 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Champions: is it spoilerific to point out the Series 82 champion a day and a bit after the broadcast of the Grand Final? If so, feel free to delete, then add them back when it isn't)
- 20:44, 19 December 2020 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Champions: added the Series 81 champion. This means a 21st row for this table - hoping my copying and pasting skills haven't let me down here)
- 18:07, 7 December 2020 (hist) (diff) News Archive (→Game show news: we will see Nick hosting Countdown in 2021, but not beyond. I think it's worth pointing out, too, that he's lasted longer in the role than Des, Des and Jeff)
- 18:03, 7 December 2020 (hist) (diff) News Archive (→Game show news: with all due respect, this is probably a less cumbersome way of referring to the best-known Europe song ;))
- 09:29, 3 December 2020 (hist) (diff) Weaver's Week 2020-11-22 (Oui, c'est Banijay :))
- 09:23, 3 December 2020 (hist) (diff) Name That Tune (→The Crown Jools: *four* links to Jools' article in this section? Surely only one is sufficient... I also think "Monarch of the Melody" should be between quotation marks rather than italicised :))
- 13:04, 30 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (→Key moments: pointed out the date of Richard Deeley's game. According to the press, he subsequently claimed that he had intended his actions as a joke - inspired by Chris, no less)
- 07:45, 29 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Jacpot (→Trivia: well, since it was based on the American show Jackpot - and also since just about every Welsh-language word containing 'J' is adopted from English (others: jar, garej, jiraff)... ;)) (top)
- 21:05, 24 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Index G (→Shows: shouldn't all the "Great" shows be listed alphabetically *and* without regard to definite articles? And without regard to hosts' names, too)
- 20:46, 24 November 2020 (hist) (diff) The Great British Bake Off (Ten years - and three months - since the first ever signature challenge)
- 03:01, 24 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Winning Combination (I don't mean to steal David B's job here - but I don't think any of us want to see what Wikipedia terms an edit war. Perhaps the memorability of these moments should be discussed on the Staffers page?)
- 21:01, 23 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Who Dares Wins (→Synopsis: no longer a Lottery tie-in, obvs)
- 20:59, 23 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Who Dares Wins (Interestingly enough, the change occurred *during* the ninth series - the first four episodes of this series went out in October and November '16, and the remaining nine between January and April '17)
- 20:56, 23 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Who Dares Wins (There were three other Lottery shows besides WDW still running at the end of 2016 - and I don't think it's unfair to say that not listing these shows is unfinished business... ;))
- 20:50, 23 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Who Dares Wins (To be pedantic, it was late November 2016 when the Beeb announced that the Lottery draws would no longer be shown on BBC1 - their final airing on the channel being that New Year's Eve, of course)
- 19:59, 23 November 2020 (hist) (diff) 1 vs 100 (→Trivia: with respect, this is probably a better way to describe where each series was filmed)
- 19:50, 23 November 2020 (hist) (diff) 1 vs 100 (All the music was composed by Augustin Bousfield)
- 20:11, 22 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Raise the Roof (→Theme music: clarified that Woolmans composed a full score) (top)
- 20:08, 22 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Don't Try This at Home! (Think it's worth pointing out that Mike Woolmans composed the incidental music, especially as he had an on-screen credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RAEzdog2RU&ab_channel=TonyWiseman (at 52:18)) (top)
- 20:01, 22 November 2020 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - November 2020: in response to David B, I still think we should mention anyone not responsible for a show's main theme but responsible for the same show's incidental music)
- 19:30, 22 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Category:Tiger Aspect Productions (Endemol UK and Endemol Shine Group were not the exact same entity, as far as I'm aware...) (top)
- 15:06, 17 November 2020 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - November 2020: where a composer or composers wrote a full score for a show, should the heading be just "Music" rather than "Theme music"?)
- 14:40, 16 November 2020 (hist) (diff) The Chase (→Catchphrases: of course, there are variations of "Time to face the Chaser" for when (s)he first comes on set, and for the Final Chase)
- 13:07, 15 November 2020 (hist) (diff) News Archive (→Game show news: pointed out the great age that Des was, and how far his career stretched back)
- 16:23, 9 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Herio'r Ddraig (→Trivia: here's the translation of the title)
- 15:57, 9 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Index H (Since HIGNFY has used guest presenters for 18 years, and the number of people to have served as one has reached three figures... Also added Xander and Brucie as the most frequent and best respectively)
- 15:15, 9 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Nick Hewer (→Web links: corrected the link to Nick's Wikipedia article) (top)
- 15:14, 9 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Nick Hewer (→Biography: time for an update, as it's been six years now since Nick sat next to Alan and Karren for the final time. Also added his middle name)
- 14:39, 9 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Index H (→People: no link to Nick Hewer's article? Better put that right ;))
- 14:31, 9 November 2020 (hist) (diff) News Archive (→Game show news: ...juuuuust in case anyone unfamiliar with Countdown wonders "who's Nick?" ;))
- 20:01, 2 November 2020 (hist) (diff) File:StrikeItLucky1989.jpg (Oops - somehow forgot to tell my left from my right there...) (top)
- 19:59, 2 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Strike it Lucky (A higher resolution image of the Strike it Lucky logo, taken from a repeat of a 1989 episode (not much that can be done about the Challenge DOG at the top left, alas))
- 19:55, 2 November 2020 (hist) (diff) N File:StrikeItLucky1989.jpg (The Strike it Lucky logo in 1989. Not much that can be done about the Challenge DOG at the top right, alas.)
- 04:46, 2 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Can i Gymru (Y logo Cân i Gymru)
- 04:41, 2 November 2020 (hist) (diff) N File:Can-i-gymru.jpeg (Y logo Cân i Gymru) (top)
- 04:15, 2 November 2020 (hist) (diff) Concro'r Cwm (Here's one bit of info, anyway - the translation of the title :))
- 04:02, 2 November 2020 (hist) (diff) News Archive (→Game show news: a better image (I hope) of the Sky logo for the Chop story)
- 03:55, 2 November 2020 (hist) (diff) N File:SkyLogoMulticoloured.jpg (The multi-coloured variant of the current (as of 2020) Sky logo) (top)
- 01:35, 30 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Raise the Roof (Call me picky here - but I don't think there's any great need for Action Time's name to be italicised, or for Bob's full name to be stated in three picture captions rather than just the first ;))
- 01:20, 30 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Raise the Roof (Three clips of the end game on YouTube, and in each, the 54 question categories were the exact same - so I'm assuming they were the same for all 17 episodes. Might as well list them in that case ;))
- 01:21, 28 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Weakest Link (Anne almost always picked up on when a team had a chain of nine or more correct answers in a round yet failed to reach the £1,000 target, and usually asked "Who kept banking?" or something similar)
- 04:26, 26 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Index P (→Shows: Pen Campau is the first of the "Pe" shows alphabetically)
- 23:41, 23 October 2020 (hist) (diff) The Family Brain Games (→Broadcast: fewer words, as all eight eps aired in a single calendar month) (top)
- 16:01, 23 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Poll of the Year 2019 (Impossible ----> !mpossible ;))
- 00:25, 14 October 2020 (hist) (diff) The People Versus (→Broadcast: corrected the date on which the show began - it was, of course, around 21 hours before people heard "You are the Weakest Link, goodbye" for the first time)
- 03:19, 12 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Freeze Out (→Title music: Will Slater's credit was a relatively long-winded one, but still not a particularly unusual one like "Musical Director" - hence it's only really necessary to state just his name)
- 03:15, 12 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Freeze Out (→Inventor: corrected the spelling of Stefan Iriarte's surname. The magic of YouTube once more ;))
- 02:58, 12 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Divided (Ten years since the show last aired on ITV, and it probably won't be repeated on Challenge any time soon - so how the theoretical maximum prize could be won can now be described in the past tense)
- 02:47, 12 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Divided (Amazing what you learn from YouTube - that man Sylvan composed the music for this show too ;))
- 02:28, 12 October 2020 (hist) (diff) The Edge (→Theme Music: I also see no real need to state Marc Sylvan's specific credit here, as it wasn't an unusual one like "Musical Director")
- 02:25, 12 October 2020 (hist) (diff) The Edge (Got the urge to make one more caption change. With all due respect, while Going for Gold references just about work here, Bob Monkhouse and $64K Question references feel a little *too* out of place...)
- 01:45, 12 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (On the other hand, "Gareth" Fitzgerald wasn't *that* silly - the GB Public's knowledge of Irish politicians was rather overestimated there (Éamon de Valera was also given as an answer and scored zero))
- 01:32, 12 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (Another silly answer from that "famous Irishman" round...)
- 01:25, 12 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (Ah, Brian Dowling's "les bean" - for me, anyway, the best moment of the Vernon era. Re-ordered it alphabetically)
- 01:19, 12 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (From 1994: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdwOyT9Erso&ab_channel=MrGazMac. "Sheep" would have been a good answer to *this* question, as it was the top answer)
- 01:03, 12 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (Corrected spelling of "accidentally")
- 00:31, 12 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes Cockups (The "sheep" answer was given in Big Money, and its score *wasn't* zero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLna7na23U0&ab_channel=GameshowPlayer3000)
- 23:11, 9 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Golden Balls (→Trivia: and no-one won more on the show than her, AFAIK)
- 23:10, 9 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Golden Balls (→Trivia: darn, Endemol got that video blocked. Fortunately, Sarah's big steal has been uploaded to YouTube more than once)
- 22:39, 9 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Two Tribes (→Trivia: also courtesy of the credits from the eps on YouTube, the first series was recorded at Riverside Studios (shortly before it closed for redevelopment), and the second at Elstree)
- 22:28, 9 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Two Tribes (→Trivia: slightly less cumbersome wording as regards the slot in which the show aired (no disrespect intended, of course))
- 22:14, 9 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Two Tribes (Several full episodes are on YouTube, and from them, we learn that that man Sylvan was responsible for the music ;))
- 21:25, 9 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (→Trivia: "Jim Bowen claimed", of course, now that he's gone to the great TV studio in the sky)
- 21:22, 9 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (The Bullseye theme is pretty well-known, and its composer hasn't been mentioned in this article yet... better put that right :))
- 17:19, 2 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Wait for It..! (Marc Sylvan composed the music for this, too. Thanks once again, YouTube :))
- 17:14, 2 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Wait for It..! (This was a BBC Scotland show)
- 17:04, 2 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Weakest Link (Removed the videos as, unfortunately, they're blocked by BBC Studios on copyright grounds)
- 17:03, 2 October 2020 (hist) (diff) Tara Palmer-Tomkinson (→Biography: pointed out the precise date in February 2017 on which TPT passed away) (top)
- 15:37, 2 October 2020 (hist) (diff) This Time Tomorrow (→Videos: made the frame wider, to increase the size of the picture and remove much of the black from the top and bottom. The show *was* in 16:9, after all ;))
- 16:09, 30 September 2020 (hist) (diff) Gridlock (Here is said video. It's a 4:3 picture in a 16:9 frame, with unremovable black bars either side - so the width and height here are such that the picture isn't too small *and* the frame isn't too wide)
- 15:44, 30 September 2020 (hist) (diff) Gridlock (We also know from this video where the show was recorded, and who composed the music)
- 15:18, 30 September 2020 (hist) (diff) Gridlock (There's a video on YouTube with two full episodes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY67tyk5k48&ab_channel=beauraing); from this, we learn that Clive Doig *didn't* devise this show all by himself)
- 01:59, 29 September 2020 (hist) (diff) Family Fortunes (Marc Sylvan is behind the latest rearrangement of Mike Alexander's theme. As it's the fourth, and similar to the ones in '93 and 2000, it might be worth describing the one used during the Vernon years)
- 00:49, 29 September 2020 (hist) (diff) This Time Next Year (May as well point out who composed the music)
- 00:35, 29 September 2020 (hist) (diff) That Puppet Game Show (→Trivia: slightly less cumbersome wording. And to be pedantic, the first six episodes all aired before 8pm, and the last two at around 3:30pm. No disrespect intended at any point here, of course)
- 16:29, 27 September 2020 (hist) (diff) The Vault (→Trivia: pointed out why Mel left midway through the third series, and corrected the number of episodes that Gabby presented)
- 16:25, 27 September 2020 (hist) (diff) The Vault (→Trivia: I wouldn't *quite* say "a rate of knots", as Mel Sykes hosted precisely half of the 32 episodes. For genuine rates of knots, see Chain Letters, or the first few years of Call My Bluff)
- 19:09, 22 September 2020 (hist) (diff) The Vault (→Trivia: gotta mention the four occasions on which the jackpot was won by a home caller, too - and especially the last of these)
- 16:38, 22 September 2020 (hist) (diff) All Time Winners List (Unless I'm mistaken, Kwan Loo's Vault jackpot win was on the 15th of June 2002, rather than the 19th. The first series of The Vault aired on Saturday nights, and the 19th was a Wednesday)
- 16:32, 22 September 2020 (hist) (diff) The Vault (→Trivia: may as well point out their respective jackpot questions, too - these not being *quite* as well-known as questions about Eleanor of Aquitaine, Quercus robur or the Rank gongman)
- 16:26, 22 September 2020 (hist) (diff) The Vault (→Trivia: the jackpot was won by a studio player on just two occasions - so here are those two winners, the respective dates on which they won, and their respective total prizes)
- 19:47, 19 September 2020 (hist) (diff) Weaver's Week 2012-01-15 (→Raise the Roof: obviously, I wouldn't ever dream of rewriting Weaver's articles - but there is one tiny little change I'd like to make in this one, and that's to correct Mike Woolmans' first name)
- 04:26, 19 September 2020 (hist) (diff) Raise the Roof (→High Five: you could get one question wrong and still win the house, provided you got the other four questions right)
- 04:05, 19 September 2020 (hist) (diff) Raise the Roof (This change is really one for consistency's sake; the trend now is to state only the composer's name (plus their credit if it's an unusual one like "Musical Director", which wasn't the case here))
- 04:00, 19 September 2020 (hist) (diff) Raise the Roof (RTR aired some 17 years before The Bank Job, and they didn't have *that* much in common besides the hosts using question tablets. So here's a shorter, less cumbersome caption for Bob with his tablet)
- 21:04, 13 September 2020 (hist) (diff) Magnus Magnusson (Magnus was diagnosed with cancer on his 77th birthday, and died a little under three months later - hence, and with no disrespect intended, there's no real need to state what age he was when he died) (top)
- 20:57, 13 September 2020 (hist) (diff) Matt Dawson (I probably should say *former* rugby union scrum-half, too. ;) Also added his headshot)
- 20:13, 13 September 2020 (hist) (diff) Matt Dawson (Should probably point out the year in which Dawson became a QoS captain. He is indeed the longest-serving; I presume he's also made more appearances than Ally McCoist (who made 363 in only 11 years))
- 19:55, 13 September 2020 (hist) (diff) Matt Dawson (→Biography: Dawson played for Northampton and Wasps - and, of course, he was a member of England's 2003 World Cup winning team)
- 19:45, 13 September 2020 (hist) (diff) Matt Dawson (→Biography: rugby *union*, of course (it's a very popular sport in my family). Also pointed out his position - but feel free to change to simply "player" if it's too confusing for non-rugby fans)
- 17:05, 13 September 2020 (hist) (diff) News Archive (→Game show news: I suppose "A Question of Split" *is* shorter... ;) Added a link to the new article on Dawson)
- 03:36, 13 September 2020 (hist) (diff) News Archive (→Game show news: whoopsie doodle :))
- 03:29, 13 September 2020 (hist) (diff) News Archive (→Game show news: just come up on the BBC site that Sue, Matt and Phil are all leaving A Question of Sport. Guess the hosting job *wasn't* Sue's for as long as she wanted it, after all...)
- 03:12, 13 September 2020 (hist) (diff) N File:Square QoS.jpg (The current logo for A Question of Sport, introduced in 2017) (top)
- 16:57, 12 September 2020 (hist) (diff) The Vault (Might be worth pointing out that while the first two series aired on Saturday nights, the third aired in what is still a "death slot" for ITV - Tuesdays at 8pm, opposite some big medical drama on BBC1)
- 04:11, 12 September 2020 (hist) (diff) Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (→Trivia: six millionaires now ;))
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