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Come On Down: The Gameshow Story

(August 2014)

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SE
Square Eyes Founding member
JAS84 posted:
Nothing else national as far as I'm aware. Probably just Calendar news and the local Last Orders politics programme. Even Countdown isn't done at YTV any more.


Calendar is in the separate building across the street I believe. Was thinking more of the studio buildings - the majority of which now appear to be for Emmerdale (inc. the former Countdown studio).
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
It was interesting to note what they didn't show last night regarding the game shows featured. With the generation game there was very little mention of the Larry Grayson era, and I don't think any mention of the Jim Davidson era. Similarly for Blankety Blank there was no mention of the Lily Savage era, which is slightly surprising considering for the final couple series it jumped ship to ITV.

I also noticed that they chose to caption Ant & Dec as being hosts of PokerFace, as opposed to the more recent game shows they've hosted (e.g. Push the Button, Red or Black).

The programme as a whole though was interesting to watch. Didn't realise Dusty Bin was so expensive due to the then high-tech remote control system used.
DJ
DJGM
Nice to see the old Central studios in Nottingham still in use as a sort of televsion studio, albeit not for broadcast use anymore. I would imagine it's feasible that, even though ITV no longer owns those studios anymore, they could still use them in the future by booking them like they'd book any other 3rd party TV studio.
JA
JAS84
Even Saturday Night Takeaway would count as a gameshow, and is almost certainly Ant and Dec's best known.

They probably used Poker Face on the caption because of the question Bradley Walsh was asked at the end: Which gameshow which Ant and Dec presented shares it's name with a Lady Gaga song? The answer being Poker Face.
BA
bilky asko
JAS84 posted:
Even Saturday Night Takeaway would count as a gameshow, and is almost certainly Ant and Dec's best known.

They probably used Poker Face on the caption because of the question Bradley Walsh was asked at the end: Which gameshow which Ant and Dec presented shares it's name with a Lady Gaga song? The answer being Poker Face.


Not only that, but it would look a bit silly crediting all the shows the various people featured were in - they might as well pick an interesting one.

I did wonder why Nick Knowles was only credited as the host of Perfection at first.
GO
gottago
Countdown's production office is still based in Leeds, as is a branch of Shiver (who made this show) and the ITV archives are just down the road (I think).
WH
Whataday Founding member
JAS84 posted:
Nothing else national as far as I'm aware. Probably just Calendar news and the local Last Orders politics programme. Even Countdown isn't done at YTV any more.


Aren't all the local politics programmes for each region made at the same studio in Westminster?
WH
Whataday Founding member
JAS84 posted:
Even Saturday Night Takeaway would count as a gameshow, and is almost certainly Ant and Dec's best known.

They probably used Poker Face on the caption because of the question Bradley Walsh was asked at the end: Which gameshow which Ant and Dec presented shares it's name with a Lady Gaga song? The answer being Poker Face.


Maybe Poker Face is featured in one of the later shows and that's why it was singled out on their caption.
AN
Andrew Founding member
JAS84 posted:
Nothing else national as far as I'm aware. Probably just Calendar news and the local Last Orders politics programme. Even Countdown isn't done at YTV any more.


Calendar is in the separate building across the street I believe. Was thinking more of the studio buildings - the majority of which now appear to be for Emmerdale (inc. the former Countdown studio).


Calendar moved into the main building, the studio into the former YTV bar and the newsroom in the former YTV network production offices about 18 months ago.

As has been said only Emmerdale is made there now, all studios and scene docks etc were converted into many Emmerdale studios. Countdown's offices and Shiver are based there as well though.

Last Orders is done in London. John Stapleton hosts the Yorkshire one.
BR
Brekkie
This was a great show, as the Talent Show equivalent was last year. The touch of visiting the various studios really made it that little bit more interesting too.
FA
fanoftv
A brilliant programme that all of my family also enjoyed. I'm looking forward to the next three instalments too.

If this was about the game show, and next week is the quiz show, what will the following weeks be based on?
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A former member
http://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep3week35/come-down-game-show-story
The press office says: In episode three, Bradley looks at the role played by contestants in creating game show history across the decades

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