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Relaunch on Challenge TV (February 2006)

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fanoftv
Mr-Stabby posted:
TVArchive posted:
It's a problem that they've had since late November last year. All output appears to be shifted about 15 lines downwards, leaving a virtually huge black bar at the top of all programming. I've e-mailed them more times than they've had Takeshi's on. The response was as good as the UK's chances of winning the Eurovision Song Contest.

enquiries@challenge.co.uk Please feel free to hammer them with enquiries Smile


How do they not notice their own output? Hey ho Smile Might drop them a line.

As people have said, you'd think that since they spent a bit of money commissioning it, that they'd at least say in the info that Dave Spikey was hosting it, and not Jim Bowen Razz


I agree. I presumed that they were showing repeats apart from on Mondays due to the EPG.
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Dunedin
I thought this was a mass production job with a new episode every weeknight at 10pm?

I only caught last night's and thought it was fabulous.

Done with respect for the original- gently poking fun at it without taking it too far.

It actually works better on Challenge- it wouldn't be the same on ITV with thousands of pounds up for grabs and amazing prizes.

The studio also looks massive- quite an impressive job with the decoration etc.

I'm even more impressed that they've gone for an even more stingy approach than the older Bullseye- if you go for the gamble you put both the prizes AND your first round money on the line! It used to just be the prizes.
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Brig Bother
Dunedin posted:

I'm even more impressed that they've gone for an even more stingy approach than the older Bullseye- if you go for the gamble you put both the prizes AND your first round money on the line! It used to just be the prizes.


It used to be that, but they changed it in the early nineties, hence if you lost you got your BFH.
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Steve in Pudsey
Is it just me or were the three darts "players" on tongiht's episode all crap?
LL
Larry the Loafer
My dad was pretty startled when they dropped the Bullseye score from £200 to £150. I'm not complaining...
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Steve in Pudsey
Mr-Stabby posted:
Secondly, why was it filmed in Widescreen when it was going to be shown on challenge? And am i the only person who gets 14:9 letterbox a bit weird on Challenge. It has the picture aligned to the bottom with the big letterbox at the top.


I thought the letterboxing like that was done deliberately, the letterbox cuts the DOG in half. I can't imagine if it was a fault it would have persisted for so long.
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Asa Admin
Steve in Pudsey posted:
I thought the letterboxing like that was done deliberately, the letterbox cuts the DOG in half. I can't imagine if it was a fault it would have persisted for so long.


Nah, looks like a mistake as they try to overlay a dartboard with some website top scorers over the dartboard on the end credits and it's out a bit. It seems someone aligned it up if Challenge had got the letterbox correctly positioned.

As to why it's in widescreen, why not? If YTV have widescreen equipped cameras and equipment, there's no point converting it to 4:3 for the sake of it! Plus it's better for other broadcasters who should pick it up...eh ITV? Wink
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Square Eyes Founding member
I didn't enjoy the new series half as much as I expected to, I don't think it's a format thats really aged well. It didn't help that the darts players I saw were very mediocre (are they actually darts players at all ?).

I don't understand the scheduling either, is 8pm the Jim Bowen version, 8.30pm a Dave Spikey repeat and 10pm a new Dave Spikey episode ?
AM
amosc100
Square Eyes posted:
I didn't enjoy the new series half as much as I expected to, I don't think it's a format thats really aged well. It didn't help that the darts players I saw were very mediocre (are they actually darts players at all ?).

I don't understand the scheduling either, is 8pm the Jim Bowen version, 8.30pm a Dave Spikey repeat and 10pm a new Dave Spikey episode ?


Give the new series a chance - remember how many people actually tuned into the very first series and liked it? Also how many people watched Family Fortunes when it first returned with Les Dennis etc... It takes time to appreciate.

Dave, I must admit does seem to be becoming very relaxed as the series goes along, especially after the very wooden first episode!!!!!!

Only if ITV now decided to show it on Sunday evenings at 6pm again, I am sure that it would be a big hit - not with the nostalgia novelty but because it is getting better and it is different from the original series..

My only complaint is the sterile set - stools instead of couches (like in later Jim Bowen series) when introducing the contestants and the awful buzzer desks what they stand at for the first 2 rounds - eeuugh!
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
TVArchive posted:
Mr-Stabby posted:
Secondly, why was it filmed in Widescreen when it was going to be shown on challenge? And am i the only person who gets 14:9 letterbox a bit weird on Challenge. It has the picture aligned to the bottom with the big letterbox at the top.


It's a problem that they've had since late November last year. All output appears to be shifted about 15 lines downwards, leaving a virtually huge black bar at the top of all programming. I've e-mailed them more times than they've had Takeshi's on. The response was as good as the UK's chances of winning the Eurovision Song Contest.


This only seems to affect programme playout to my mind - the adverts are okay, the trailers and fillers and other stuff are all are okay, even tonight's Eurolottery draw thingy at 10pm was full frame and filled the big gap above the DOG. Although I suppose its more noticeable when something's airing in 14:9.

New Bullseye - hmm, faithful(ish) remake of the original, although I'm not sure if it's got the charm or that "thing" that made the original so popular. I'll have to watch it a bit to see I feel about it.
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littlesmegger
I like it... it's a shame that they're throwing the first series into a few weeks, instead of showing one a week for 15 weeks.

Don't know if it's been said, but series 2 will be showing in September.

Personally I like it, it's new, but not too new if you get me. Dave Spikey is a great sucsessor to Jim Bowen, and isn't attempting to promote himself like Peter Kay would be doing. I've watched it all this week (and DVD'ed it) and show no signs of tiring one bit.
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cromerlad
Dave Spikey is a pleasure to watch on this, he seems so understated, he isn't trying to better Jim Bowen, & I love his pronunciation of 'Dats'.

Shame most of the dart players are pretty crap, probably the fact that most of the contestants in the original series were real darts fans, nowadays it's probably people just looking for their 15 minutes of fame...

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