The Book Quiz
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| - | + | David Baddiel, gawd bless him. His name is mentioned in practically every development meeting for any intelligence-meets-comedy format, alongside [[Clive Anderson]], Michael Palin, Griff Rhys-Jones, [[Tony Robinson]] and [[Stephen Fry]]. While not the first choice for a quiz show necessarily, he famously has a double-first in English from Cambridge. Lord love a duck, finally someone's come up with a format that makes Baddiel's game show debut possible. | |
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| + | The rounds are various, usually for 2 points per correct answer. There's "What book are these people talking about?" in the [[Child's Play]] style. A bluffing round invites the teams to talk about a book only one of the pair has in fact read, and the other team have to spot who's bluffing. | ||
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| + | The questions themselves revolve around the high-brow bestsellers you usually go past when walking into Waterstone's, and whether they entertain or even encourage you to read a bit more is highly debateable. | ||
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| + | Unfortunately, the entire format comes right off the rails at the very end with a quickfire round of 90 seconds to each team, again for 2 points per correct answer. While fine in principle, it means that for 25 minutes of the show the teams will have scored around 10 points, then all of a sudden they can end up with 36. It's so unbalanced it's the Perpetual Motion Engine of formats. This is very disappointing given that the show is made by much the same production team as [[University Challenge]]. | ||
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| + | The winners get - yes! - a book token each. | ||
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| + | == Theme music == | ||
| - | + | David Ayres and Felix Tod | |
[[Category:Panel Game|Book Quiz, The]] | [[Category:Panel Game|Book Quiz, The]] | ||
Revision as of 22:52, 24 July 2007
Contents |
Host
David Baddiel
Co-hosts
Voiceover: Allan Bardsley
Broadcast
Granada (Manchester) for BBC Four, 17 July 2007 -
Synopsis
David Baddiel, gawd bless him. His name is mentioned in practically every development meeting for any intelligence-meets-comedy format, alongside Clive Anderson, Michael Palin, Griff Rhys-Jones, Tony Robinson and Stephen Fry. While not the first choice for a quiz show necessarily, he famously has a double-first in English from Cambridge. Lord love a duck, finally someone's come up with a format that makes Baddiel's game show debut possible.
The rounds are various, usually for 2 points per correct answer. There's "What book are these people talking about?" in the Child's Play style. A bluffing round invites the teams to talk about a book only one of the pair has in fact read, and the other team have to spot who's bluffing.
The questions themselves revolve around the high-brow bestsellers you usually go past when walking into Waterstone's, and whether they entertain or even encourage you to read a bit more is highly debateable.
Unfortunately, the entire format comes right off the rails at the very end with a quickfire round of 90 seconds to each team, again for 2 points per correct answer. While fine in principle, it means that for 25 minutes of the show the teams will have scored around 10 points, then all of a sudden they can end up with 36. It's so unbalanced it's the Perpetual Motion Engine of formats. This is very disappointing given that the show is made by much the same production team as University Challenge.
The winners get - yes! - a book token each.
Theme music
David Ayres and Felix Tod
