PC
I'm certain he got 10 from adding 7 and 3.
Cheers, that would explain it!
Must've been the way it was laid out on the board and I lost track a bit.
Interesting to see the conundrum made no attempt at craftily jumbling the word into something still english-sounding like they often do today.
It wasn't even called the conundrum. When did that start to be used?
I'd have no idea, but on the edition just on it wasn't really called anything at all, apart from "an anagram"!
Philip Cobbold posted:
Paul Clark posted:
nwtv2003 posted:
Paul Clark posted:
The bloke who got the closest to the total in the numbers game was given a point, but he used the 10 twice in his calculations, and you're not allowed to use a number twice - should he really have been given any points?
I'm certain he got 10 from adding 7 and 3.
Cheers, that would explain it!
Must've been the way it was laid out on the board and I lost track a bit.
Interesting to see the conundrum made no attempt at craftily jumbling the word into something still english-sounding like they often do today.
It wasn't even called the conundrum. When did that start to be used?
I'd have no idea, but on the edition just on it wasn't really called anything at all, apart from "an anagram"!
TV
One wonders if Sony have colluded with the broadcasting industry to deliberately disallow pauses in manual recordings, so that people are forced to sit through the ads. Not to mention that having to record them without any right of veto also wastes disc space unnecessarily; that opening episode of Countdown would have been 24 minutes minus the ads but 28 with.
Only four minutes you might argue, but with the ability to pause the ads you could get five "half hour" programmes on a 2-hour disc. With them, only four unless you use a lesser recording mode.
Oh well, at least I have a choice. My two Panasonics which only record in 4:3 but do let me make pauses in recordings, or my Sony which records in true 16:9 but doesn't.
nwtv2003 posted:
My old cheapo Asda DVD recorder could let me Pause the recording, I have since upgraded to a Sony DVD/HDD Recorder which won't allow me to do this! 
One wonders if Sony have colluded with the broadcasting industry to deliberately disallow pauses in manual recordings, so that people are forced to sit through the ads. Not to mention that having to record them without any right of veto also wastes disc space unnecessarily; that opening episode of Countdown would have been 24 minutes minus the ads but 28 with.
Only four minutes you might argue, but with the ability to pause the ads you could get five "half hour" programmes on a 2-hour disc. With them, only four unless you use a lesser recording mode.
Oh well, at least I have a choice. My two Panasonics which only record in 4:3 but do let me make pauses in recordings, or my Sony which records in true 16:9 but doesn't.
BR
Annoying isn't it!
Very interesting launch from Brookside with little more than a cup of tea getting made in the first half - though they get their first dig as Thatcher and co. in before the break!
Andrew posted:
That special montage ident, why does it pause on today's current logo for an unusually long time!
Annoying isn't it!
Very interesting launch from Brookside with little more than a cup of tea getting made in the first half - though they get their first dig as Thatcher and co. in before the break!
AN
Annoying isn't it!
Very interesting launch from Brookside with little more than a cup of tea getting made in the first half - though they get their first dig as Thatcher and co. in before the break!
Indeed, the first 5 minutes was dominated by a milk float
Note all the mild swearing. Was Brookside still broadcast at 8.00/8.30 when it launched?
I wonder, why didn't Channel 4 move it to 9pm so they could have continued the more 'realistic' language throughout it's run. I'm sure Phil Redmond would have prefered this if the last few months of the show where anything to go on
Andrew
Founding member
Brekkie Boy posted:
Andrew posted:
That special montage ident, why does it pause on today's current logo for an unusually long time!
Annoying isn't it!
Very interesting launch from Brookside with little more than a cup of tea getting made in the first half - though they get their first dig as Thatcher and co. in before the break!
Indeed, the first 5 minutes was dominated by a milk float
Note all the mild swearing. Was Brookside still broadcast at 8.00/8.30 when it launched?
I wonder, why didn't Channel 4 move it to 9pm so they could have continued the more 'realistic' language throughout it's run. I'm sure Phil Redmond would have prefered this if the last few months of the show where anything to go on
CO
Channel 4 got into trouble for the swearing in the early days of Brookside, but they eventually toned it down after a few months.
If only Brookie had stayed like this first episode and didn't go OTT on the sensational storylines (and Channel 4 didn't treat it with the contempt it did in its final few years.
Oh dear another ECP over the end credits on Brookside - and are they the actual credits from the first transmission? They are moving very slow - something that would not be tolerated on soaps these days.
If only Brookie had stayed like this first episode and didn't go OTT on the sensational storylines (and Channel 4 didn't treat it with the contempt it did in its final few years.
Oh dear another ECP over the end credits on Brookside - and are they the actual credits from the first transmission? They are moving very slow - something that would not be tolerated on soaps these days.
PC
Could they move any slower do you think? It's like going from one extreme to the other.
BR
Yeah, it did air at 8pm and the language was an issue.
I think even Phil Redmond agrees that Brookside always worked much better in it's 10pm slot on S4C - but although when it was axed it was probably a couple of years too late, I do think it might have been worth trying axing the three half hour editions and instead screening it once a week at 9pm for an hour.
As for the credits - the ECP was actually welcome. Not only slow, but hideous too - actually make the ITV generic credits look nice!
Anyhow, do you think rerunning Brookside from the start on More4 would be an idea - nightly at 11pm would probably be better than a daytime slot.
Andrew posted:
Note all the mild swearing. Was Brookside still broadcast at 8.00/8.30 when it launched?
I wonder, why didn't Channel 4 move it to 9pm so they could have continued the more 'realistic' language throughout it's run. I'm sure Phil Redmond would have prefered this if the last few months of the show where anything to go on
I wonder, why didn't Channel 4 move it to 9pm so they could have continued the more 'realistic' language throughout it's run. I'm sure Phil Redmond would have prefered this if the last few months of the show where anything to go on
Yeah, it did air at 8pm and the language was an issue.
I think even Phil Redmond agrees that Brookside always worked much better in it's 10pm slot on S4C - but although when it was axed it was probably a couple of years too late, I do think it might have been worth trying axing the three half hour editions and instead screening it once a week at 9pm for an hour.
GavBelfast posted:
Just watch for how slow these end titles are .....
As for the credits - the ECP was actually welcome. Not only slow, but hideous too - actually make the ITV generic credits look nice!
Anyhow, do you think rerunning Brookside from the start on More4 would be an idea - nightly at 11pm would probably be better than a daytime slot.
IS
Credits already ran rediculously "slow" up until the 90s - but then the Gulf War put an end to them. No seriously, the amount of constant news updates meant programmes shortened their end credits so they would keep the viewers for the news update and still get the ads in as well.
Isonstine
Founding member
Philip Cobbold posted:
Could they move any slower do you think? It's like going from one extreme to the other.
Credits already ran rediculously "slow" up until the 90s - but then the Gulf War put an end to them. No seriously, the amount of constant news updates meant programmes shortened their end credits so they would keep the viewers for the news update and still get the ads in as well.