Blockbusters

The confusment is also caused at what Central and Anglia Did:

* Anglia Television and Central Television: Monday — Wednesdays 2:50: From 18 April 1994 to 24 May 1995 = 180 Episodes:

* Sky One: Weekdays 18 April to 30 September 1994 (120 episodes in 1 series) 7pm before moving to 18:30.

* Tyne Tees Television and Yorkshire Television also broadcast someone series from July to December 1995, at 18:30 slot Tuesday - Thursday. 60 Epsoides:

Central broadcast an extra 60 episodes, were these the local version or just extra repeats?

Our very own Greggles has sadly been turned down for the role as host, according to his tweets today.

Oh...

It's not Fun House, what did he expect?

I think Greggles would have done well as host. I'd love to see him do the hand jive, if Challenge decide to revive that too.

Eh, I'm not convinced he would, he lacks gravitas to command a quiz show like that. Yes, he did do quiz show stuff before but it's like asking Timmy Mallett if he'd chair Only Connect.

Didn't realise you needed gravitas to present a cheapened version of a word game on Challenge but still...

Blockbusters could just have been a cheap word game, but Bob Holness gave it that extra something. He was almost a stern school master but with just the right sense of humour too. In fact I've been rewatching Blockbusters on Challenge and had forgotten just how good it was. TV comfort food, the kind of thing you could sit down and watch wrapped up in your dressing gown, in your slippers, with a cup of tea and a biccie. Sure Greggles could host it, for the same reason that Vernon Kay can present Family Fortunes. But who here actually cares about watching Family Fortunes?

I really think it needs someone like Bob, if such a person exists in TV land anymore.

As Michael Aspel and Liza Tarbuck showed, there's no substitute for the real thing.

As for a replacement? Well, contestant-wise you need the comforting familiarity of your favourite uncle combined with the need to impress/behave towards your school headmaster and presenter-wise you need the presence of a James Bond combined with a jovial engaging personality. But, you know, like, for da 21st Century, innit bruv.


Here's an interesting suggestion : Danny Baker.

Granted he was brilliant at it in it's format at the time but this isn't the 1980s anymore.



The nearest you'll get is it being hosted by an ex-Big Brother / reality show contestant who happened to be educated at Eton etc

My point entirely.

Is this one of those veiled "the world's gotten dumber since my day" statements?

On the Challenge website it said 'email now to apply', so I emailed my address to Challenge and said thank you, expecting to be sent a form in the post. Further investigation reveals the form has been made available online, at: http://www.challenge.co.uk/APPLICATION%20FORM.doc. I'm in two minds now about applying to be a Blockbusters contestant, as the inept failure to even acknowledge my email is deeply amateurish, and one fears this may reflect the quality of the show.