Quiz Call

I haven't seen any open thread concerning this new channel so thought I would start one.

It appears that Channel 4's interactive space on Freeview has now been taken over with another quiz channel called,"QUIZCALL."

As it's not called 9 Quiz Live, which was the name of the E4 varient earlier in the year, we can only assume that it isn't a Channel 4 venture?

Tim Hendy has just been presenting from Stash the Cash and Wheel of Fortune 'fame.'

Seems promising so far with relatively simple questions and people winning very often.

It is a Channel 4 venture.

I've just looked at the Quizcall website (www.quizcall.co.uk) and it doesn't seem to be a Channel4 venture at all.

Ps the web entry seems simple to complete!

Looking in just now it looks like there is a few first day teething problems, with the presenter having to waffle whilst they try and get a new puzzle loaded.

Well they obviously don't want to sully the Channel 4 brand with the tackiness of Quiz Call.

Quiz Call IS owned by Channel 4. Indeed you will find that the quizcall.co.uk domain is registered to 4Ventures at 124 Horseferry Road.

... and the fact that everytime you tune into E4 on Freeview, a banner comes up advertising it... now they wouldn't do that for just any old Quiz Channel would they?

Ooops, Ok I stand corrected.

Why lose the 9 Live Quiz TV brand? The studio and presenters used for that seemed much more polished than this incarnation!

The Quizcall website states that this is part of Participation TV!

Participation TV happens to have been behind 9 Live Quiz TV, more info at http://www.quizmail.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=296&

Heck knows why I care, I can't stand these type of quiz channels.

Has the bloke who looks like Alistair McGowan's impression of Jonathan Creek been on yet?

They have had numerous errors so far tonight.

They gave the wrong answer to the 'count the quadrangles' question but an hour later are now using the question that they gave the answer to earlier!

Also there have been some very poor grammatical mistakes on the wordy-type questions!

Interesting to see Paul Hendy on this channel, he's really doing well for himself these days.

The last time I saw hendy boy was on 'Dear Mr Barker', one of those crummy 'educational' kiddy winkle shows! Anyone but me remember that? Nope...