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- 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)
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