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Yes, although this came out of an exceptionally poor period in the early nineties when Daytime UK and Anne and Nick were being completely thrashed by This Morning, the Beeb were absolutely miles behind. Can't Cook Won't Cook began in 1995 and it was actually the first show the Beeb had that actually did anything, I think it started beating The Time The Place which previously had never happened. So at the beginning of 1996 they had a revamp and moved it from 10am to 9.20 (with Breakfast News Extra before it) so it could get one jump ahead of ITV who of course started programmes at 9.25.
Then in 1996 there was a radical revamp after Anne and Nick were axed. I remember this all seemed to start when Polly Toynbee did an article in the Radio Times about how bad daytime BBC1 was, which got picked up in all the papers and for a few days the state of daytime telly became a bit of a national talking point. So after Anne and Nick were axed they decided not to have one long This Morning-style show, but lots of half hour and hour long programmes instead, which is where we got things like Change That, Style Challenge and so on. And it took a while but eventually BBC1 turned it round and starting beating ITV.
I'm guessing the demise of Going for Gold in July '96 was part of this radical revamp, too.
GFG is obviously *not* a show that has been forgotten. Don't think the same can be said for Pass the Buck, though:
This show actually had quite a few things in common with GFG, despite being made by Zenith rather than Grundy - not only was it a BBC1 daytime quiz, but it was made in Manchester, it had a system of daily and weekly winners, and even the graphics in the final round bore some similarities to those in GFG's Head to Head.
Ran for three series between October 1998 and June 2000, with Eamonn Holmes hosting the last two; Australia's Nine Network made their own version in 2002. But despite these, and the fact that it was a pretty good show, do you hear many people talking about it now?
The revamped mid-90s daytime on BBC One was pretty successful in that era. Change That, Can't Cook Wont Cook, Going For A Song, Style Challenge, Call My Bluff, The Really Useful Show etc. Almost all of them courtesy of BBC Pebble Mill.
Yes, although this came out of an exceptionally poor period in the early nineties when Daytime UK and Anne and Nick were being completely thrashed by This Morning, the Beeb were absolutely miles behind. Can't Cook Won't Cook began in 1995 and it was actually the first show the Beeb had that actually did anything, I think it started beating The Time The Place which previously had never happened. So at the beginning of 1996 they had a revamp and moved it from 10am to 9.20 (with Breakfast News Extra before it) so it could get one jump ahead of ITV who of course started programmes at 9.25.
Then in 1996 there was a radical revamp after Anne and Nick were axed. I remember this all seemed to start when Polly Toynbee did an article in the Radio Times about how bad daytime BBC1 was, which got picked up in all the papers and for a few days the state of daytime telly became a bit of a national talking point. So after Anne and Nick were axed they decided not to have one long This Morning-style show, but lots of half hour and hour long programmes instead, which is where we got things like Change That, Style Challenge and so on. And it took a while but eventually BBC1 turned it round and starting beating ITV.
I'm guessing the demise of Going for Gold in July '96 was part of this radical revamp, too.
GFG is obviously *not* a show that has been forgotten. Don't think the same can be said for Pass the Buck, though:
This show actually had quite a few things in common with GFG, despite being made by Zenith rather than Grundy - not only was it a BBC1 daytime quiz, but it was made in Manchester, it had a system of daily and weekly winners, and even the graphics in the final round bore some similarities to those in GFG's Head to Head.
Ran for three series between October 1998 and June 2000, with Eamonn Holmes hosting the last two; Australia's Nine Network made their own version in 2002. But despite these, and the fact that it was a pretty good show, do you hear many people talking about it now?
