JL
These days the two main ones - Chase and Tipping Point - tend to run all year round, when there isn't any racing on or some other event. The daytime games they've commissions tend to be in blocks of 20 too and also tend to sit in the 3pm slot alternating with everything else.
But yes, back in the 90s things like Family Fortunes and Bullseye were quite often on for weeks on end, albeit on a weekly basis and often in fixed slots both calendar and time (Bullseye of course in a Sunday evening slot without fail and almost always ran September-March, and Family Fortunes eventually settled on Friday nights). I think a lot of the Saturday night gameshows (the likes that LWT used to like making) like Gladiators were your normal 13-16 episodes per series - with thee exception of Blind Date which much like Bullseye ended up in near enough the same slot six months a year for nearly two decades.
3pm slot is mostly Tenable nowadays. It's usually commissioned in blocks of 60, flicking between new episodes and repeats, with occasional tryouts of new shows such as Winning Combination. They've stretched the current run of repeats very well, but I think they run out in the new year, so it will be interesting to see what they air from January onwards (unless they just go back to the start of Tenable)
Probably, although when ITV were truly in the gameshow market back in the 90s most series ran for half the year.
These days the two main ones - Chase and Tipping Point - tend to run all year round, when there isn't any racing on or some other event. The daytime games they've commissions tend to be in blocks of 20 too and also tend to sit in the 3pm slot alternating with everything else.
But yes, back in the 90s things like Family Fortunes and Bullseye were quite often on for weeks on end, albeit on a weekly basis and often in fixed slots both calendar and time (Bullseye of course in a Sunday evening slot without fail and almost always ran September-March, and Family Fortunes eventually settled on Friday nights). I think a lot of the Saturday night gameshows (the likes that LWT used to like making) like Gladiators were your normal 13-16 episodes per series - with thee exception of Blind Date which much like Bullseye ended up in near enough the same slot six months a year for nearly two decades.
3pm slot is mostly Tenable nowadays. It's usually commissioned in blocks of 60, flicking between new episodes and repeats, with occasional tryouts of new shows such as Winning Combination. They've stretched the current run of repeats very well, but I think they run out in the new year, so it will be interesting to see what they air from January onwards (unless they just go back to the start of Tenable)
