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ITV's quiz channel on Freeview no. 31 (March 2006)

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Brekkie
Neil Jones posted:
The more practical view is, both shows came to the end of their series, officially. I dare say the bottom's about to fall out of the Quiz TV market what with new regulations, the current sagas being played out in the tabloids, OFCOM in two minds as to whether to classify the channels as Teleshopping, Gordon Brown threatening to take some of the profit if the channels end up being classed as lotteries - the list goes on.



Doesn't Gordon Brown take some of the profit anyway though VAT?

That's one of the reasons why prizes are "tax free", unlike in some countries where you win a car and find yourself with a hefty tax bill at the end of the year!



Re: the idea of enforcing a 20% cut to charity - not a fan of that myself as it's just passing the cost onto viewers.

I've always hated the way how all BBC reality shows, however unrelated to a cause they may be, have that compulsory contribution to whatever charity telethon is just around the corner - rather than giving 50% to charity why not just slash the prices by half!
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
russnet posted:
benr posted:
it happend at 2.20pm. they didn't show string em in because of the problems they had. they were back on air with bonus ball bonanza at 2.26pm


It crashed again after 2.50 - They were playing ident after ident. I gave up at 2.55 - They probably stayed with it until that dodgy new prog started at 3.


This isn't a crash, this always happens in the last ten minutes of any Playalong session. Its because ITV Play want to run promos for about three minutes at 2:57pm and the games on Playalong run for about eight minutes (inc ident, intro, high scores).

The problem is, Playalong is clearly set up to run everything in ten minute blocks, but doesn't seem to have any options to fill the last seven minutes, hence a looping ident. At one point the software used to fire up a mini-quiz to fill the last ten minutes, but it hasn't done this for some time now.
PT
Put The Telly On
JasonB posted:
onetrickpony posted:
The Mint - "rested" But supposed to be coming back later this year, however I'm unsure about that.


QM said the same thing "Last in the current series"


Well near the end they pretty much accepted it wouldn't be coming back. Then again, who knows. Personally I think the quiz bubble is about to burst (well I wish).

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