Bullseye

ITV Productions is the true name of the production company - although they WILL be using the Granada name as it IS going to be shown on Challenge TV.

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So what happened to the story that Ant & Dec were hosting it then!

The moral of the story, Never believe what you read in The Sun, or on Digital Spy

Hmm, I wonder if these people got the idea from reading my posts on this forum?

I think its right that someone like Dave Spikey or Ted Robbins host it. I'd hate Ant and Dec doing it as, although they may be great entertainers, they're too young and its just not their style of show.

Well according to Challenge, the show is definately being hosted by (drum roll)...

Dave Spikey!

Anyone else getting a strange echo in here?

To me, this is terrible news. A show which was hugely popular in it's original run, and hugely popular in repeats does not necessarily lend itself well to a remake. Indeed, the remake is likely to flop and kill off repeats of the original with it.

This happened to Blockbusters - watered down remakes on BBC2 and Sky One which flopped spectacularly did huge amounts of damage to the original too - and only in the past year or so has challenege looked at seriously re-running the original ITV series which was so succesful.

But now we have Flextech doing a cheap remake of Bullseye - which straight away means that the old series will be severely curtailed if not removed from the schedules for fear of what will happen if their brand new production had to compete with it's nemesis on the same channel, and then the resulting flop of a new series will see them steering well clear of rerunning the old Central series for the forseeable future.

I was *glad* when Flextech backpedaled on their idea to remake The Crystal Maze, I hope too that this new version of Bullseye never comes to fruition either - if present day ITV can only make Family Fortunes and Catch Phrase survive in cheaply made teatime formats (when in their heyday they were huge primetime rating pullers) then how on earth is Flextech supposed to recreate Bullseye?

Challenge will do better just rerunning classic quiz shoes, rather than trying to reproduce them.

From Radio 1 Online

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/djs/colinandedith/features/bullseye/1.jpg

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/djs/colinandedith/features/bullseye/7.jpg

Celebs are replacing the professional dart players - hence Edith Bowmen.

while we're here...pics from Chris Moyles' appearance on the new Family Fortunes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles/features/family_fortunes/1.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles/features/family_fortunes/2.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles/features/family_fortunes/3.jpg

The series goes out in the Autumn

I thought that that was to coincide with ITV 50 and ITV's 'Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon', where Bullseye featured?

Isn't that an oxymoron?

after initial scepticism about the new series, i think dave spikey is fantastic. his delivery of the show is very much along the same lines as jim bowen and i think they've managed to keep the spirit of the show by changing very little. this isn't a re-make of a show in the daytime catchphrase/family fortunes sense, where a remixed theme tune, cheap unsuitable presenter and re-hashed set make for a pale imitation of the original.

aside from the slightly too naff nature of the prizes i cant really fault the new series at all.

Hmm, looks like they employed the same people who made the Quizmania set.

Why celebs? Why?