End of Quiz TV Nigh?

NJ

Neil Jones Founding member 30 August 2007 10:26am

JasonB posted:

I thought five ditched quiz call from five life and five us? Yet i still see quiz call appear on these channels on some nights.

Quiz Call was abandoned as filler material on Five Life and Five US. That is, it no longer fills Life's 11pm-2am slot and it hasn't filled the 12pm-4pm slot on Five US since the Brainteaser incident. Indeed, Five US now broadcasts programming from 12pm.

Five still runs Quiz Call two or three nights a week which is again simulcast with Five US and Five Life so its now on air for about no more than 13hrs a week. In its previous form it aired seven hours a night seven days a week.

Topic as a whole now, Roulette seems to be in favour at the moment and channels seem to be taking either that virtual roulette wheel powered by TwoWayTV software (I note that there's no sign of Buzzwords, Izit or Space Invaders on any channel at all now) or, increasingly, Live Roulette. Virtual greyhound racing seems to still be favourable but generally Quiz Telly as we used to know it is dead and buried.

NI

Nini 30 August 2007 12:00pm

Hooray for legal gambling simulations! Not better by a long shot (now you really don't require logic, merely luck) but if this creeps into five's late night schedule I won't be feeling it's much better.

At least it's not impossible, just playing the odds.

TV

tvarksouthwest 30 August 2007 12:24pm

djmgpsp posted:

Well it does make sense, they still get around the same volume of calls while giving away less money, its a pure business move and a smart one at that.

Some would call it an out-and-out con.

DV

dvboy 30 August 2007 9:03pm

nwtv2003 posted:

The Hits' Budapest rip off thing looked very shoddy, I was rather surprised it wasn't taken off sooner.

What was that?

NJ

Neil Jones Founding member 30 August 2007 9:27pm

dvboy posted:

nwtv2003 posted:

The Hits' Budapest rip off thing looked very shoddy, I was rather surprised it wasn't taken off sooner.

What was that?

"Cash Call".

Cash Call ran on The Hits overnight for many months until around the time ITV Play underwent internal audits. Cash Call disappeared for a short while, then suddenly appeared again. Then when that channel was axed, up blew the entire Premium Rate scandal and again away went Cash Call and it hasn't been seen since. The Hits started running Buzzwords, Izit and Space Invaders all night but now they've decided to actually run music videos all night and "Wheel Of Love".

Cash Call was regarded as the ultimate cheapness in Quiz Telly programming. Plus it never broadcast in this country, apparently it came from Hungary and nobody who presented could speak English properly. It was a really tatty production when you compared it to the presentation of Quiz Call, for example. Quiz Call, while the aims to suck its viewers dry with impossible puzzles were mostly the same, at least it looked professional. Cash Call always had that slightly dodgy feeling about it that always came across on the screen.

The general standards on this service is highlighted by this YouTube clip in which the presenter does a whole bunch of things that are unprofessional:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7HfeeFvuEg

(August 2007)