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Discussion of all the game shows on ITV Network (January 2010)

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jdav posted:
They should bring back Wheel Of Fortune with that great music! Its amazing when you see videos of Wheel Of Fortune on YouTube, how it kept going downhill over the years. A great atmosphere in the late eighties to no atmosphere in 2001 with poor presenters, studio and opener.


The best part of Wheel of Fortune back in 2000 was watching John Leslie slowly decend into a maniac as he struggled to retain mentality throughout the one hundred episodes series, this series could be why he ended up the way he did (and maybe still is now). It is a shame that the theme tune was changed slightly with the annoying double note at the end of each bar. I do not think I watched the Paul Hendy presented series at all.
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Invent Meridian posted:
jdav posted:
They should bring back Wheel Of Fortune with that great music! Its amazing when you see videos of Wheel Of Fortune on YouTube, how it kept going downhill over the years. A great atmosphere in the late eighties to no atmosphere in 2001 with poor presenters, studio and opener.


The best part of Wheel of Fortune back in 2000 was watching John Leslie slowly decend into a maniac as he struggled to retain mentality throughout the one hundred episodes series, this series could be why he ended up the way he did (and maybe still is now). It is a shame that the theme tune was changed slightly with the annoying double note at the end of each bar. I do not think I watched the Paul Hendy presented series at all.


STV did say there were looking at bring it back, this was just last year as there still own the UK rights to the show.


Whataday posted:
amosc100 posted:
The problem with Nick Weir's version was that the rules changed and although the premise of the show was still there it just was not catchphrase, whilst the Mark Curry version was aimed at a daytime audience and not primetime!


Yes and no one even asked for the original format to be scrapped, or for Roy Walker to lose the host's role.


Challenge did say there were looking at making its own run.


On one can actually made a decent gameshow any more Mad .
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In case anyone's watching Magic Numbers and wondering, you've got a 99.545% chance of being "elligible" to ring in for the prize, or 99.998% if you've got two phones. I like those odds! Rolling Eyes

Edit: okay, got my numbers wrong. It's more like 95%/99.75%, but that still makes the first ¾ of the show a pretense for essentially a free-for-all phone-in compo.

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Last edited by davidhorman on 18 July 2010 12:30am - 2 times in total
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623058 posted:

Whataday posted:
catchphrase!

Challenge did say there were looking at making its own run.


The channel that hasn't even got the money to make trailers? I think it would be better if they didn't touch Catchphrase. It would be very cheap and nasty.

Anyway, it seems that ITV have got a good Saturday night line up on their hands. Odd One in was all right and Magic Numbers was all right bordering on good. I'm not sure they were expecting to give away a grand prize of zero pounds at the end though. It was a bit of an anti-climax. I notice they still dropped confetti at the end of the show, although it was while the credits played so ITV1 viewers didn't really get to see it. I imagine it was meant to be dropped when the caller won big money. Much better than the rubbish on BBC One.
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davidlees posted:
623058 posted:

Whataday posted:
catchphrase!

Challenge did say there were looking at making its own run.


The channel that hasn't even got the money to make trailers? I think it would be better if they didn't touch Catchphrase. It would be very cheap and nasty.

Anyway, it seems that ITV have got a good Saturday night line up on their hands. Odd One in was all right and Magic Numbers was all right bordering on good. I'm not sure they were expecting to give away a grand prize of zero pounds at the end though. It was a bit of an anti-climax. I notice they still dropped confetti at the end of the show, although it was while the credits played so ITV1 viewers didn't really get to see it. I imagine it was meant to be dropped when the caller won big money. Much better than the rubbish on BBC One.


...and ITV's entire schedule tanked in the ratings last night. Every programme on the BBC won comfortably.

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