The Weakest Link

Greetings,

I wondered if anyone could shed some light on an album that was supposedly released in Iceland back in 2005, which features several tracks from the television series.

More info can be found by clicking here.

Having contacted Paul Farrer, he tells me that he's "never heard of that album" and that If "it does exist it's certainly illegal".

So, does such an album exist? Do you have a copy of the album either on compact disc or as a download?

I've done some digging and apparently:

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This was a project originally taken up by Australia's Seven Network for their version of The Weakest Link, but was cancelled along with this project. Although, the lyrics were found and re-written by original writer Skye Brooks and performed by Cornelia Frances. This was sent to the Icelandic channel RÚV and Icelandic record label Gramm when they expressed a desire to release a CD album for their version, also hosted by Cornelia Frances. The CD and Download was released on 6th May, 2005.
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So if this is correct it looks like its origins are from Australia and it was repackaged. However those images look incredibly unprofessional and low resolution so I wouldn't be surprised if it was a home made knock-off.

That being said I can find little other source to suggest that Iceland even had a version of Weakest Link, though of course its plausible it could have been imported but even then why the Australian version? Cornelia Frances was in Home & Away at the time too so whether it was a tie-in with that, I presume H&A aired in Iceland...

Yeah, I think whoever wrote that Wikia page is talking utter bowlicks there. The whole thing reads like some demented fantasy.

EDIT: In any case, surely any Icelandic version of The Weakest Link would be in the local language, and presented by local talent? In any case, the whole thing is VERY weird. More than likely it was made up by someone with an overactive imagination.

Well that's what I thought. Frances AFAIK didn't speak Icelandic but a map on Wiki suggests Icelandic isn't the dominant language on the island anyway, its English which is additionally taught as a second language (and other languages). So importing an English show is probably not completely out there but even then the UK version was literally over the ocean!

It’s certainly very plausible that they would have imported one of the English-speaking versions; for all I know, they might well have done. AIUI, what with it being such a small country, there are a lot of imports are shown in Iceland, and I believe they are all subtitled.

As I said in my earlier post, though, that Wikia page linked to in the OP is almost certainly complete bunkum. For starters, the page is hosted on a section of Wikia called ‘Ideas’, which is seemingly home to a bunch of fantasy TV shows and films. Secondly, the Gramm record label (which, incidentally, released Björk’s early work) went bankrupt in 1987. Finally, if you read the celebrity special section on that page, you’ll see that it’s clearly a figment of someone’s imagination. Read this bit, for example:



Now why on Earth would Angelina Jolie, a top Hollywood actress, take time out from her busy schedule to appear on an episode of an Icelandic quiz show? Why would they even do a special on video games, for that matter, when all the other guests listed there would be unknown to the audience?

Anyway, I’m rambling on. We’re obviously being conned by someone with far too much time on their hands. This is what really annoys me about those who do this, which is that intentionally or not, they so often end up misleading people.

Well by them posting it here and us ripping it to shreds it will hopefully pop up in Google at some point. *edit* except it won't because I've just spotted this is in Requests which Google probably can't see unless its logged in

Wikia is very surreal sometimes, much like Yahoo Answers which is full of ridiculous "answers" to questions. At least with Wikipedia you have some base rules and people who are at least trying, whereas Wikia is like no man's land.