I think Challenge could make their own version of Catchphrase. They've used Roy Walker in recent times, got to be cheaper than Chris Tarrant, the show can't be any more expensive than shows like The Pyramid Game (which was hosted by Donny Osmond) and Take it or Leave It which required quite a large set.
You could have £2,000 (?) jackpot like on the daytime version, with Mark Curry.
They did (i'm pretty sure), it was called Family Catchphrase...
That was just IFE being cheap pretty much. They'd bought out TVS following the 1993 franchise shake up, and used their sets, IP etc. to create a programme for The Family Channel. Challenge have just inherited it.
I don't believe there are repeat fee for gameshows, I believe the fee is only for the Blooper/cock up shows
What is your source for this? Why would Central have done this? What would they get out of it? Who would administer the repeat fees? Where would the money come from? Etc.
1. Appear on Blockbusters
2. Get bum out during Gold Run
3. ????
4. Profit.
I don't believe there are repeat fee for gameshows, I believe the fee is only for the Blooper/cock up shows
What is your source for this? Why would Central have done this? What would they get out of it? Who would administer the repeat fees? Where would the money come from? Etc.
1. Appear on Blockbusters
2. Get bum out during Gold Run
3. ????
4. Profit.
If there is a repeat fee for the Orgasm outtake, I can't imagine it'd be all that high, if it exists at all. The outtake would have to be aired pretty much full stop 24/7/365 to get any decent return on it. I'd probably argue Bob Holness gets the lion's share of any fee.
A quote from Denis Norden:
http://www.magicdragon.com/Norden.html posted:
"Everyone who appears in a scene gets paid," says Denis who, within a few months, will be stepping forward in that charming, diffident way of his to host the 21st anniversary of It'll Be Alright On The Night. "The only people excluded from this are politicians and royal figures who place themselves at risk by being in the public eye - but if an actor makes a mistake and it gets into an outtake he will get paid wherever it is shown throughout the world. There can be repeat fees. With the paradoxical result that he will get paid more for not doing it right than he would if he had done it right.
Can Orgasm Boy technically be classed as an actor though? I'd argue contributor. Production companies do collect personal details about you if you apply for a show but would they hold them in situ forever and a day because Denis Norden used your outake?
Bob Holness mentioned they got a fee for subsequent repeats when commenting on the 'orga(ni)sm' blooper.
He could have just been wrong, though.
Bob mentioned this on an ITV programme called It shouldn't happen to a gameshow host, which was transmitted in 2000, they showed the clip and he subsequently mentioned that everytime it got shown the contestant got a repeat fee. I'm not sure if or how this works, but not bad if true.
I can't believe Tyne Tees were still knocking out such a shoddy looking programme as late as 1997!
The set is terrible. It's far too big for starters, a massive sign that rotates but serves no purpose whilst the main screen is tiny and often out of shot, contestant podiums which look far too big with screens which distractingly pop up and then lower pointlessly and horrible metallic things everywhere.
The graphics are poor too, even by 1997 standards. Anti-aliasing text wasn't a far-off dream then, yet the text on the aforementioned tellys can be picked out pixel-by-pixel!
Why are all their contestants wearing their outdoor coats too? Looks awkward as hell.
Everything about this series of Chain Letters smacks of something that was being mass produced, presumably they filmed many episodes per day and did a series of hundreds of episodes. Dave seems like he is adlibbing the whole show out of breath and the contestants appear like they haven't had any rehearsal.
Everything about this series of Chain Letters smacks of something that was being mass produced, presumably they filmed many episodes per day and did a series of hundreds of episodes. Dave seems like he is adlibbing the whole show out of breath and the contestants appear like they haven't had any rehearsal.
Was Dave Spikey well known in 1997?
Not hundreds but there did a few:
S5: 85ep with Ted Robbins
S6: 85ep with Vince Henderson
S7: 40Ep with Dave Spikey
I don't think he was, nor was Peter Kay who as mentioned in this thread as being credited as an additional contributor to the Spikey era episodes of Chain Letters. From what I've heard from Dave Spikey on other programmes he was also working in hospital and only gave that up properly to work on Phoenix Nights.
I can't believe Tyne Tees were still knocking out such a shoddy looking programme as late as 1997!
The set is terrible. It's far too big for starters, a massive sign that rotates but serves no purpose whilst the main screen is tiny and often out of shot, contestant podiums which look far too big with screens which distractingly pop up and then lower pointlessly and horrible metallic things everywhere.
The graphics are poor too, even by 1997 standards. Anti-aliasing text wasn't a far-off dream then, yet the text on the aforementioned tellys can be picked out pixel-by-pixel!
Why are all their contestants wearing their outdoor coats too? Looks awkward as hell.
Everything about this series of Chain Letters smacks of something that was being mass produced, presumably they filmed many episodes per day and did a series of hundreds of episodes. Dave seems like he is adlibbing the whole show out of breath and the contestants appear like they haven't had any rehearsal.
Was Dave Spikey well known in 1997?
But some of it can't have been cheap. The massive set for example - and the tellys which pop up and hideaway - just looks bad. And it isn't tricky to get contestants to take their coat off.
Okay, so David Spikey was a novice, but was there nobody with any experience at all involved?
:-(
A former member
Very Nice, especial for Blockbusters, hopeful there will buy the 1994 Sky one version:
Challenge w/e 3 Jul 2011
1 TNA PRESENTS IMPACT WRESTLING (TUE 2202) 236000's
2 BULLSEYE (THU 1730) 161000's
3 CATCHPHRASE (SAT 1830) 159000's
4 CELEBRITY WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE (FRI 2100) 152000's
5 CELEBRITY WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE (THU 2101) 149000's
6 BLOCKBUSTERS (SUN 1731) 144000's
7 TNA PRESENTS IMPACT WRESTLING (SAT 2101) 126000's
8 BULLSEYE (SUN 2302) 125000's
9 CELEBRITY WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE (WED 2100) 118000's
10 BULLSEYE (TUE 1732) 114000's
Challenge TV +1 w/e 3 Jul 2011
1 CELEBRITY WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE (THU 2201) 47000's
2 BULLSEYE (SAT 2130) 44000's
3 THE KRYPTON FACTOR (SAT 2030) 36000's
4 BULLSEYE (SAT 2100) 31000's
5 CATCHPHRASE (SAT 1900) 31000's
6 CRYSTAL MAZE (MON 1902) 28000's
7 CELEBRITY WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE (FRI 2200) 26000's
8 AUNTIES SPANKING NEW BLOOMERS (TUE 2002) 20000's
9 BULLSEYE (SUN 2130) 20000's
10 BULLSEYE (WED 2440) 19000's