ITV commission new Saturday night gameshow

ITV has signed up the rights to a new quiz format based on a "spelling bee" in which contestants sing in the blanks of partial song lyrics.
The show, to be called Singing Bee or Sing in the Blank, was snapped up after executives saw just a paper outline of the idea, according to US trade magazine Variety.

Normally broadcasters insist on seeing a filmed pilot before committing to a show.

ITV is currently developing the show, with a 90-minute broadcast pilot expected to air in a Saturday evening format later this year.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,2049119,00.html

It says it all when apparantly the producers went to ITV and said "Singing Bee" and they replied "Bingo" - and commissioned it on the spot!

and what's wrong with FF? or even spending some money on Catchphrase!

That they are dated and it'd be flogging a dead horse?

who says there dated?

a bunch of Moran TV people who think about reality TV and what other crap not spend money on,

Dama edna is back but she NOT dated, she has moved on and just as good as EVER,

Madonna is dated she been around for the last 25 years but she has also moved on, the same was said for Bob monk house! and he come right back!

there GOOD solid format for a gameshow adn can still work to this day!

It sounds like something from I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue .

"And now, could you please sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to the tune of Titanic - SPONSORED BY POWERGEN !!!"

What's the betting ITV poach John Barrowman to host this.

Hasn't this been (partially) done already on Never Mind the Buzzcocks?

Family Fortunes yes, Catchphrase... well no if it's on once a week only (and if they get back Roy Walker of course)

That's just it, the whole idea sounds like a round from a gameshow not even enough to fill 30 minutes let alone a 90 minute pilot.

The millions of people who deserted them when there were clunking along, battered and bruised, into the century.

that was after ITV muck them up BIG TIME and dumped them in Daytime cut cost's making the cheap & nasty!