The END of Ftn!

No timings - though better without, it wouldn't be so bad if it was in a later slot to the 10pm-1am slot occupied by Quiz Night Live - even just an hour later.


Stupid decision though considering ratings have doubled!

There is no source given on that thread and Radiotimes doesn't list Big Game TV on FTN's schedule for Monday.

it seems all flextech websites are down...
www.flextech.co.uk
www.bravo.co.uk
www.challenge.co.uk
www.livingtv.co.uk
www.trouble.co.uk
Odds on they're designing Virgin style websites (or even new Virgin brands?)

Big Game TV? You are kidding me? I thought that went years ago! If true, how disappointing. Its always the case with FTN - you can't have too much of a good thing.

It's been delightful to watch these old quiz show repeats, especially as they've left them in 4:3 without arsing about with the aspect ratio like they so often do with old shows (e.g. The Story of Light Entertainment on BBC2 where they did that awful letterboxing thing, or whatever it's called).

I loved seeing the viewer's question on Bullseye where Jim Bowen invited us to send our answers on a postcard to Central Television on Broad Street in Birmingham. Well done to FTN for not editing that out. It was a lovely reminder of the days before TV shows screwed money out of their viewers at every opportunity with premium phone/text lines.

I seem to recall that a young and unknown Steve Coogan (with a big mop of curly hair) starred in some of the observation rounds on the Krypton Factor in around 1989/1990, so that's something to look out for.

Are FTN going to show all the finals of 1987 in one go? They haven't shown them yet.

They left out the address caption at the end of Krypton Factor just now when Gordon mentioned applications for the 1988 series.

Great to see all three on there, at last FTN has some decent programmes. It was odd hearing Gordon Burns say the closing date was in December, got a long while then

They're all working for me (even with Ctrl + F5) except FTN which is still displaying a caption.

Ah they're back now! You'll have to trust me on this... they were definitely off before!
EDIT: FTN now back online too. That was extremely quick maintenance...

FTN's back offline for me.

Well, theres definitely no Big Game TV on FTN on Monday according to the official FTN website.
FTN Clicky

It's now on the front page of QuizTelly, so they must be sure it's a true story. Schedules can be changed at the drop of a hat, especially if they're going to scrap the repeats they show post 12pm. It would be ridiculous if they put it in primetime and piss off the viewers they've just re-gained.