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Anne Robinson leaves the Weakest Link

The BBC will take programme off air next spring (April 2011)

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LL
Larry the Loafer
Jon Wells posted:
I don’t watch the Weakest Link, but it would be interesting to try what the Americans did once the show left primetime and use a male comedian.


Unlike the US version, our version is Anne's show, in a similar way to how Blind Date was Cilla's show and Big Brother was Davina's show - for the most part, they're irreplaceable, as they've made their shows their own... saying that, the latter could change within the next few months.
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Brekkie posted:
How many new episodes a year have they been airing anyway - it's a show where they can basically air repeats and people don't particularly notice.


Its been all new episodes for the last couple of years. There are differences - the biggest being that its been shot in HD since moving to Glasgow (I'm not 100% if its played out in HD - I assume so - but nonetheless you can still tell the difference).

10 years since I did my episode in Pinewood. It really does feel that this show has been on forever.

Perhaps she didn't like the commute up to Scotland.
JO
Joe
It is shown in HD - and the difference is extremely impressive, IMO.
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Joe posted:
It is shown in HD - and the difference is extremely impressive, IMO.


Just as well she had all the surgery.
WE
Westy2
There is a god Smile
JA
JAS84
Jon Wells posted:
Maybe Sky could pick up the format for a run on Challenge or even Sky 1.
They're more likely to just show the existing back catalogue on Challenge.
SW
Steve Williams
Gavin Scott posted:
Perhaps she didn't like the commute up to Scotland.


According to the interview in The Guardian where she announced this, she was going to give it up last year but liked the team in Glasgow so much that she decided to carry on a bit longer. I always assumed that now it had moved to Glasgow it would carry on forever so BBC Scotland had a schedule staple.

Currently I think they show three new episodes and two repeats a week, but recently the repeats have been coming from 2006, which is ridiculous, there was one the other week with a question about the Home Secretary, which turned out to be John Reid. That's three Home Secretaries ago! And I don't know why we had to have it five days a week, 52 weeks a year, it's OK doing new episodes but there's no need for repeats in between, it's not that much of a ratings juggernaut and lower ratings there wouldn't drag down the rest of the evening. You don't get Pointless all year round.
NG
noggin Founding member
Steve Williams posted:
You don't get Pointless all year round.


Yet... There were hints from an interview with Liam Keelan that some of the decent BBC Two daytime quiz shows may graduate to BBC One to replace Weakest Link... (That might also mean there's an outlet for Pointless if BBC Two changes tack in daytime as a result of DQF)

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