Eggheads

No apology needed.

Given its topicality, a sincere acknowledgement of Mr McQueen's sad passing would have been sufficient.

http://bbc.co.uk/i/qt22f/?t=26m51s

OK - maybe "insensitive" was the wrong word - anyway, it was my dad who flagged it up and thought it was a bit poor they left it in - and he's a 74-year old Times reader rather than the Mail (though he does read the Telegraph sometimes as well!) - he was going to complain until he heard the announcement at the end.

How would they have managed to edit it out, without it looking odd.

Well, it's interesting you say that Jon. I mean, they could just have Judith Keppel glaring at the viewer for the next few minutes accompanied by some Testcard music, in particular 'Sailing', not the Rod Stewart version, but the classical interlude which is of gentle nature to the ears of many a folk inparticular John Beyer of Mediawatch (probably).

Yes, it was something along those lines on network. There was no apology just an explanation stating that the programme was recorded before the death of Alexander McQueen (I think they said 'tragic death' or 'sad death' IIRC), the OP really has been reading the Daily Mail for too long.

It was the last question in the programme. I did wonder if the CA or a director was watching the end of the show and made the announcement off their own bat, the question was probably a couple of minutes from the end so they may have had time to get whatever permission they would need to do this. Maybe the programme notes do mention all questions or at least all subject matters mentioned in the show. I'd like to see programme notes on something like Eggheads if that is the case. What did the nations do BTW?

While we have an active Eggheads thread, does anyone know when the winner of the second series of 'Are you an Egghead?' will appear as one of the Eggheads? When Barry Egghead won the first series, he was on the episode that followed the final. I know this series got messed around a bit. The BBC were showing an old series and stopped mid way through to show the new series but then went back to finish the old series again before resuming the new series so the timings are going to be slightly to cock but 'Are you an Egghead?' finished around November, I think, so I would have thought he should be on by now.

He's already been seen on Celebrity Eggheads which ran for 2 weeks.

He'll be in the regular series when they've shown all the episodes they've recorded before Pat won AYAE, that are yet to be show.

Was that sometime in December? I was away during December, I didn't even know there was any recent celebrity editions.



I wonder why they couldn't time it to the exact day like they did with the first series.

I know Are You An Egghead was filmed in HD but was the current series of Eggheads filmed in HD and just not broadcast?

Perhaps Dermot looks better than Jeremy in HD.

This current series was recorded before Are You An Egghead, I imagine.

Now you've got me wishing that changing their names by deed poll was part of their contract.

David

I think so, it was about 2 weeks after AYAE finished.