We should see her modelling the Blockbusters sweatshirt in a few days.
I thought only former winners got to model the sweatshirt....
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What a Strange Hand jive ending full of OAP nice to see. I wish someone can recorded again in hour time
Sky should be praised to the highest level for what there have done for the channel.
What a Strange Hand jive ending full of OAP nice to see. I wish someone can recorded again in hour time
Sky should be praised to the highest level for what there have done for the channel.
I did notice that one old codger totally ballsed up the jive and then shock his head in embarrassment. He was right to be embarrassed. He ruined the whole week of episodes for me.
You are right. Sky has had a surprisingly good affect on the channel.
Check in again in 6 months to see if you're not bored of the very small loops of stuff they have - only a small handful of the series of Catchphrase and Family Fortunes, plus a very limited poole of programming alltogether.
Well with July coming up, I guess after six months people aren't bored with Challenge and are actually looking forward to what is to come!
On a related note, I'd love to see Through the Keyhole again on Challenge.
I don't really like the Krypton Factor (proper). I find it all too slow and stuffy, and I don't understand all the fuss about Gordon Burns; I find him serious (which is fine) and not really charming (like Bob Holness and William G. Stewart).
A lot of the changes to the format are good. Bringing the assault course forward really sets the pace, the short contestant bios are unobtrusive, the short CGI animations make more sense than a short crap 'drama', the new mental agility round was much faster and fairer.
The set is over-elaborate though - the pod they appear from Ready Steady Cook style is needless, the seated podium is disorienting, and the buzzer area is awkwardly tight.
The general knowledge round should have been redone, perhaps they should have tried question or nominate or something.
The super round itself I found quite an interesting finale, but the scoring paying for 'advantages' made it hard to keep track of.
I suppose you have to keep in mind the way TV was changing by this point - you had Gladiators doing the whole physical enurance thing in a much more exciting way than Krypton was, and for a number of years The Crystal Maze looking frankly light years ahead of TKF (even the 1990 series of Crystal Maze still looks good today, whereas the equivalent Krypton episodes have dated very badly). So it's perhaps not surprising that there were changes. Something else that sticks out about the classic Krypton format is that you hardly ever heard from the contestants themselves - Gordon tells you their name and what their job is, but I think I'm right in saying the only time they were allowed to say anything was if they won the thing 13 weeks later. There's an argument that it's gone too far in the other direction now with people's "journey" and all the concentration on emotions but it looks very odd by 1993 to not be even having a brief chat with them, as the 1995 revamp introduced.
Was it still filmed at Quay Street? The studio looks enormous, much bigger than the Granada shows normally did.
I would have thought so, although there's probably a good chance they were in the biggest studio at Quay Street for the final series of Krypton, I think that would be Studio 12, where as currently Studio 8 is used for Countdown and University Challenge, would have probably suited pre-1995 Krypton more.
I haven't seen a studio audience yet (although you can hear them - not sure if it's canned or screened later), that could have created some extra space.
Something that does seem to have carried over into the revamp is Gordon referring to people by their jobs all the way through - "and the winner of round 2 is the assistant cashier from Bolton, Joe Bloggs!". Perhaps intended to keep emphasising how these are ordinary people but it doesn't half grate after a while!
I wonder if the contestants knew about the Krypton Factor changes when they applied? Because it looks like they applied to be on the Krypton Factor and ended up on a completely different show.
Can you imagine the reaction if the internet had been around then.
I was really looking forward to seeing the 1995 series of The Krypton Factor and I am glad that I have now seen it. Although the show is a bit of a mess and difficult to follow as per the information I read online before Challenge started showing it yesterday, the biggest disappointment for me is that the show is the same everyday. They always fly the red arrows over Blackpool, the animations are always rubbish and the Mental Agility round seems to be the same each time too. I suppose the earlier series were the same every week too to some degree but at least we had the different Mental Agility, Intelligence and the live action Observation round each time.
I wonder if the contestants knew about the Krypton Factor changes when they applied? Because it looks like they applied to be on the Krypton Factor and ended up on a completely different show.
Can you imagine the reaction if the internet had been around then.
Those big TVs in the second round look dated!
I wonder why Granada went with those big domestic TV sets rather than monitors, maybe they were surplus from Granada's rental shops!
nice to see. I wish someone can recorded again in hour time
