If Challenge ever went back to live continuity, Twitter could come in handy. They could read out live tweets from the questions they ask. Right now they asked "Complete the sentence: My favourite show on challenge is...." and read them out live during menu's or like itv2 do with the only way is essex.
Challenge are now claiming there only have 72 episodes of Blockbusters which there have already broadcast twice, and have no further new episodes..... That great!
Challenge are now claiming there only have 72 episodes of Blockbusters which there have already broadcast twice, and have no further new episodes..... That great!
I notice great and increasingly great chunks being chopped out of all four of the Bullseye episodes shown from 7pm tonight. Wouldn't be so bad if the chopped chunks was consistant between episodes but it isn't. Episodes from 1987-1990, when shown over the few months, are pretty much unbutchered.. Episodes dated 1991? Mostly chopped to shreds.
The only upside is that the edits are actually very neatly done and if you'd never seen the show before you'd never have known.
Have Challenge got a new announcer? I heard her this afternoon with a pre-recorded announcement. I'm sure she used to announce on C4 & E4 not long ago (Before that she was at the BBC)
Ha ha!! A Jimmy Saville lookalike just appeared in the Bullseye Xmas Special!! Bad timing...but funny nonetheless!! Also, all the questions asked to Frank Bruno had "Harry" as the correct answer!! Classic stuff!!
Ha ha!! A Jimmy Saville lookalike just appeared in the Bullseye Xmas Special!! Bad timing...but funny nonetheless!!
Great timing surely? Very topical.
Anyway, 3-2-1 starts again in less than half an hour. Sadly it is the 1986 series which although not as bad as the quite boring 1987 series, it has only just been on a few months ago.
Come on, Challenge. Show the series from the start and if you must show the 86/87 series at least leave the viewers competition in this time.
The BBC can do it. Watch this clip of a young Vernon Kaye announcing a write-in competition during a 1976 episode of Top of the Pops...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b016x02p/?t=13m11s (jump to 13:11)
If the BBC can show this uncut, why can't Challenge?
BTW, I've written to the BBC. I've suggested "Legs and Co".
The BBC can do it. Watch this clip of a young Vernon Kaye announcing a write-in competition during a 1976 episode of Top of the Pops...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b016x02p/?t=13m11s (jump to 13:11)
If the BBC can show this uncut, why can't Challenge?
Apart from the fact that isn't Vernon Kay, who would only have been aged two and a half in October 1976 and wasn't quite ready to take over the TV airwaves yet...
And anyway regular BBC Four viewers are intelligent. The clue's in the title of the programme. And technically that postcode wasn't correct anyway:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13751491
The BBC can do it. Watch this clip of a young Vernon Kaye announcing a write-in competition during a 1976 episode of Top of the Pops...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b016x02p/?t=13m11s (jump to 13:11)
If the BBC can show this uncut, why can't Challenge?
Apart from the fact that isn't Vernon Kay, who would only have been aged two and a half in October 1976 and wasn't quite ready to take over the TV airwaves yet...
I think it depends on how long the original episode is. It gets a half hour slot in the week so if the episode was longer than 30 minutes then it gets cut. The repeat is complete and sometimes even continues playing out a few seconds or a few minutes after the endcap has been displayed. I guess the endcap would be where the programme finished originally. In that way, BBC Four is like Challenge when Sky first took over, i.e they would play things out right to the end of the programme even if that meant playing out 15 seconds of an 'End of Part one' caption.
...And we are back on topic. Which episode of 3-2-1 was it where Challenge played out clean footage of the viewer competition prize (a colour TV) after the programme had finished? It was an episode from the series they are showing now (1987) but I bet it won't happen this time around.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1300000/images/_1300654_noel_totp150.jpg In other news, Challenge are showing the first episode of Deal or No Deal tomorrow (Monday at 8pm).
Classic stuff!!