The Krypton Factor

I reckon Gordon will jump at the chance to be honest. He alwsays strikes me as someone who wants to be there to entertain and to be well known. Maybe its time he gave someone else a chance on NWT, like Fiona Trott or Anabell Tiffin.

They might not want him and he might not want to do it.

I bet they'll have Ian Wright or Graham Norton hosting it with Natasha Kaplinsky reading out the questions.

If they did bring it back lets hope they don't modernise it, no doubt there would be a red button interactive feature where viewers at home get to choose who wins or something!

My chioce is to give the role to Huw Edwards, He does nothing else other than read the news or presenting Pope John Paul III' funrael. Serious personailies should get the role like Huw

The 1995 series was given a Crystal Maze look and it was too virtual, they dropped the assault course and a couple of the other rounds. Plus Penny Smith was added as a co-presenter.

I have very foggy memories of it, but didn't they replace the assault course with something in the studio that looked like it belonged on a children's TV game show?

You could say that, that course reminded me of the whole 'Futuristic' section on The Crystal Maze.

Though if this revival gets the go-ahead it should be good, as the Producer also successfully brought back Come Dancing.

Oh please bring it back BBC! If ITV aren't going to sacrifice an edition of Emmerdale for this classic show, well you should bring it back yourself!

AND WHILST YOU'RE AT IT, BRING BACK THE CRYSTAL MAZE AS WELL!!!!

No, they didn't drop the assault course (in fact it opened the show) but they did drop the Intelligence test. The second half of the show was given over to The Super Round, a giant test that involves all of the key skills needed to win The Krypton Factor. People could buy "advantages" with the points gained to make tough bits a bit easier, basically.

Gordon Burns wasn't replaced by Penny Smith was he? I thought she was just a co-presenter at the time.

Yep, that was the case, Gordon Burns mainly sat there like he used to do while she went and did the walking etc. It was awful and was basically done to update in the style of the Crystal Maze, which just didn't work.

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I interviewed him a year ago for a radio show, and he said if the Krypton Factor came back, he wouldn't present it...of course, he might change his mind.

I remember seeing an episode on Challenge recently where they had to put a map together of all the ITV regions (pre-1993!)