I love how at the end Aspel says "I know you're a writer and good luck with your film career and all those other artitisc things" probably thinking he'd never hear of him again.
Family Catchphrase wasn't a come-back or a reboot either, nor was it made for Challenge.
I know its tenuous but Family Catchphrase was on ITV first (one episode) it ended and it was then remade with a new presenter for The Family Channel which can be linked via various changes of ownership to the Challenge we all know and love today.
Family Channel US was taken over by Fox, then Disney, and is now ABC Family. But the UK version was always run by Flextech, which later became Virgin Media, until they sold their channels to Sky last year. I think the changeover from Family Channel to Challenge had to do with licensing, as a few months later, the US channel became Fox Family, rendering the Family Channel brand obsolete.
Family Catchphrase wasn't a come-back or a reboot either, nor was it made for Challenge.
I know its tenuous but Family Catchphrase was on ITV first (one episode) it ended and it was then remade with a new presenter for The Family Channel which can be linked via various changes of ownership to the Challenge we all know and love today.
Family Channel US was taken over by Fox, then Disney, and is now ABC Family. But the UK version was always run by Flextech, which later became Virgin Media, until they sold their channels to Sky last year. I think the changeover from Family Channel to Challenge had to do with licensing, as a few months later, the US channel became Fox Family, rendering the Family Channel brand obsolete.
The station come about when TVS was sold on 1 February 1993 to the American Company International Family Entertainment Inc. which included the ownership of MTM Enterprises. IFE subsequently launched a UK version of The Family Channel based in The Maidstone Studios and using some elements of the TVS programme archive. Flextech were a partner in the venture, taking a 39% stake in the business. The Family Channel did produce some UK original programming (see below), but heavily relied upon content from MTM Enterprises/TVS archive and imports from the USA.
In 1996, IFE sold its remaining 61% share to Flextech, giving them full ownership of the venture. On 1 February 1997, Flextech re-branded the channel to Challenge TV, focusing mainly on game shows.
I have yet to found out WHY this deal never included the British Tv Archive ........................................
But the UK version was always run by Flextech, which later became Virgin Media, until they sold their channels to Sky last year. I think the changeover from Family Channel to Challenge had to do with licensing, as a few months later, the US channel became Fox Family, rendering the Family Channel brand obsolete.
Family Channel UK was originally run by a UK arm of International Family Entertainment, which had basically bought out what was left of TVS, they then sold this to Flextech and eventually the channel became Challenge. Family Channel US wasn't sold to Fox until a year after Challenge launched.
Well now that Bullseye has also been announced as coming back for Challenge alongside Blockbusters, perhaps they can finally get around to making The Crystal Maze and be done with it Only without the rumoured Amanda Holden doing it, that would be horrendous.
Also I have to ask DID Central and Anglia create there own series of Blockbusters as well in 1994? Just don't bother with wiki that page is in utter dispute about this ......
Its my belief:
* Central and anglia: 60Ep and then also broadcast the sky-one 120 episodes
* Sky one 120 Ep
* Yorkshire and TT broadcast the 60eps from Central:
No one can disprove it yet no one can get off the backside to help prove there is no reason to this unless there use the old crap of facebook and a random post.
Only without the rumoured Amanda Holden doing it, that would be horrendous.
