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- | <div class="square">[[Image:Square Ready steady cook.jpg]]</div> Each week, Iain Weaver gives us his take on the week's game show programmes and related news. | + | <div class="square">[[Image:Square Ready Steady Cook.jpg]]</div> Each week, Iain Weaver gives us his take on the week's game show programmes and related news. |
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| A companion [[TV Guide This Week|guide to game shows on TV]] for the coming week is also published on a regular basis, usually on Thursdays. | | A companion [[TV Guide This Week|guide to game shows on TV]] for the coming week is also published on a regular basis, usually on Thursdays. |
Each week, Iain Weaver gives us his take on the week's game show programmes and related news.
Date
| Topics
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30th September 2007
| Escape for Some
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23rd September 2007
| Who are ya?
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16th September 2007
| Changes in the air
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9th September 2007
| The Eurovision Song And Dance Contest, Without The Singing
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2nd September 2007
| Beat the Temple
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26th August 2007
| Is it all fitting together, in a stupid fashion?
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19th August 2007
| You are in a twisty maze of television studios, all different
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12th August 2007
| Wage seekers
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5th August 2007
| Slightly booked
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29th July 2007
| Challenge, lyrically
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22nd July 2007
| Sorcery Today
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15th July 2007
| Fine, then
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8th July 2007
| Feedback - Tycoon, Golden Balls
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1st July 2007
| Reasons to be grumpy - Brainteaser, People's Quiz, Britain's Got Talent
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24th June 2007
| Starter for Seven - Countdown finals
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17th June 2007
| Going Wild - People's Quiz Wildcard, Payday
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10th June 2007
| Naive? Nincompoop? Numpty?
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3rd June 2007
| Repeat After Three - For the Rest of Your Life, That's the Question
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27th May 2007
| Think Big - Big Brother, Eurovision voting
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20th May 2007
| Flying the flag (upside down)
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13th May 2007
| Peer amid song contests
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6th May 2007
| Quiz Populi
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29th April 2007
| Four Against One Hundred
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22nd April 2007
| Headliners
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15th April 2007
| A brief history of 0898
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8th April 2007
| We Blame Julia Bradbury
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1st April 2007
| Five, Ten
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25th March 2007
| Raising the Standard
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18th March 2007
| Here's one we made up earlier
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11th March 2007
| On the wreck of SS Premium Rate
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4th March 2007
| Checking it out
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25th February 2007
| Fame but no fortune
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18th February 2007
| Stranger and Stranger - also Junior Mastermind final
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11th February 2007
| Sought high and low
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4th February 2007
| Count Des
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28th January 2007
| Bread and Circuses
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21st January 2007
| A clash between pseudo-celebrity and real celebrity
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14th January 2007
| He educated us all - Magnus Magnusson
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7th January 2007
| View From Afar - some European shows
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Date
| Topics
|
31st December 2006
| The Week of the Year 2006
|
24th December 2006
| They think it's all over - Countdown
|
17th December 2006
| Dying off
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10th December 2006
| Learning the hard way
|
3rd December 2006
| X Marks the Code
|
26th November 2006
| That's Numberplace! - Sudo-Q
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19th November 2006
| Star of Fortune
|
12th November 2006
| Eight-one - Unanimous
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5th November 2006
| Charlie Five - In The Grid
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29th October 2006
| Take It or Not
|
22nd October 2006
| Tooning In
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15th October 2006
| Those New Lottery Shows - Everyone's a Winner and 1 vs 100
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8th October 2006
| Desperately Seeking Talent
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1st October 2006
| Bad News and Treasure Maps
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24th September 2006
| Is this entertainment?
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17th September 2006
| Alaunus Held Hostage
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10th September 2006
| Five Years On
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3rd September 2006
| Fore!
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27th August 2006
| Big Brother 7
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20th August 2006
| Marlow and Maria
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13th August 2006
| Reviews in Brief
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6th August 2006
| Fort Boyard
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30th July 2006
| Sports Relief
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23rd July 2006
| ITV In Crisis, part two - Love Island
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16th July 2006
| ITV In Crisis, part one - Poker Face
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9th July 2006
| Full stop, question mark
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2nd July 2006
| Boss-beaters
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25th June 2006
| Scrambled X
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18th June 2006
| Winningest
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11th June 2006
| More long words
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4th June 2006
| Schulze-Condorcet, and other big words
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28th May 2006
| Eurovision Countdown
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21st May 2006
| "We are the winners. Of University Challenge" - also Eurovision semi
|
14th May 2006
| The Price is Right?
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7th May 2006
| The category's still there - Bullseye, Sitcom Showdown
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30th Apr 2006
| Stat and More Stat
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23rd Apr 2006
| School Daze (2) - That'll Test 'Em, Top of the Form
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16th Apr 2006
| School Daze (1) - School's Out
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9th Apr 2006
| History Today - Classic Comeback
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2nd Apr 2006
| Front Page News - Countdown, Mastermind
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26th Mar 2006
| Ready... - The Games, Eurovision draw
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19th Mar 2006
| The West Lothian Question - Just the Two of Us
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12th Mar 2006
| Teenage Kicks - A Song for Europe
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5th Mar 2006
| The worst week of the Week
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26th Feb 2006
| Countdown, Deal, Poll
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19th Feb 2006
| Geekdom's only skin deep - Beauty and the Geek
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12th Feb 2006
| Iced Tea - Dancing on Ice
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5th Feb 2006
| Great shows
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29th Jan 2006
| Great hosts
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22nd Jan 2006
| Whose house is it? - Finders Keepers, Big Brother
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15th Jan 2006
| Do we have to spell it out? - Hard Spell, Spelling Bee
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8th Jan 2006
| The year ahead
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Date
| Topics
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30th Dec 2005
| Weaver's Year 2005
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18th Dec 2005
| Wealthwatch - Golden Lot, Millionaire Manor
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11th Dec 2005
| Question or number - Sudo-Q, Junior Eurovision
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4th Dec 2005
| Factor X
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27th Nov 2005
| Strictly Weekly
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20th Nov 2005
| Channel Four, Daily - Countdown and Deal or No Deal
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13th Nov 2005
| The Mastermind Champion
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6th Nov 2005
| The end of the marathon
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30th Oct 2005
| Congratulations - Eurovision 50
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23rd Oct 2005
| Glycosaminoglycan - it's Star Spell week
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16th Oct 2005
| And now the questions go up - Sale of the Century
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9th Oct 2005
| Hard Hat Area - The Golden Shot
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2nd Oct 2005
| Pick Your Own
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25th Sep 2005
| Old Friends Return - University Challenge, The Price is Right
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18th Sep 2005
| Driving Up That Hill
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11th Sep 2005
| Greatest Games - ITV's history, part three
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4th Sep 2005
| Would Like To Find - ITV's history, part two
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28th Aug 2005
| The Prize is Right - ITV's history, part one
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21st Aug 2005
| The Annual Big Brother Review
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14th Aug 2005
| Ride and win - Cash Cab, Raven
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7th Aug 2005
| Watching Watching the Detectives
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31st Jul 2005
| Poker Nights
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24th Jul 2005
| Wizard Spelling - the Spelling Bee, Harry Potter quiz
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17th Jul 2005
| As easy as 1-2-3 - Sudoku Live
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10th Jul 2005
| Countdown's Finals Week
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3rd Jul 2005
| Richard Whiteley - a national treasure
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25th Jun 2005
| It's for yoo-hoo - The Big Call
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18th Jun 2005
| Mock the Cats - also a Countdown Final Preview
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11th Jun 2005
| The game show review review - Our Survey Said, Back in the Day
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4th Jun 2005
| Europe Votes
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29th May 2005
| One amazing evening
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22nd May 2005
| The Awakening - Junior Mastermind, Eurovision semi
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15th May 2005
| The University Challenge Final
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8th May 2005
| People are coming, everyone's trying - Going For Gold remembered
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1st May 2005
| They came, they had a go
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24th Apr 2005
| It's All Oxford - and Splash Camp
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17th Apr 2005
| Here's one we asked earlier - Perseverance
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10th Apr 2005
| Growing Old Disgracefully (part three) - Ask The Family
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3rd Apr 2005
| Growing Old Disgracefully (part two) - Double Your Money
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27th Mar 2005
| Growing Old Disgracefully (part one) - Old Shows Reborn
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20th Mar 2005
| The University Challenge Meta-Review
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13th Mar 2005
| Something To Sing About - A Song for Europe, and Celeb Fame Academy
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6th Mar 2005
| A new broom - The Apprentice
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27th Feb 2005
| Park -v- Kielty Redux
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20th Feb 2005
| Weaver's Week - Gold!
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13th Feb 2005
| The Sunday Paper Review
|
6th Feb 2005
| Geronimo!
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30th Jan 2005
| A short half hour
|
23rd Jan 2005
| Big Bother
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16th Jan 2005
| Such Is Politics: Vote for Me
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9th Jan 2005
| A new year miscellany
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Date
| Topics
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28th Dec 2004
| Weaver's Year 2004
|
18th Dec 2004
| Tension mounts: Countdown's finals week
|
11th Dec 2004
| Spellcasting: Hard Spell and the Mastermind final
|
4th Dec 2004
| Scrap for All: Scrapheap Challenge, and a preview of the Countdown finals
|
27th Nov 2004
| Nine Live: Four hours of quiz tv
|
20th Nov 2004
| It Could Be Bunnies: Play the Game
|
13th Nov 2004
| Ten Years of the National Lottery
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6th Nov 2004
| Begging the Question: Beg, Steal, and Borrow; and Paxman gets annoyed.
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30th Oct 2004
| Look who's back!: An old friend returns, and we test our spelling
|
23rd Oct 2004
| OFCOM Rules OK: The Big Brother ruling
|
16th Oct 2004
| Spies Like Us: Spy
|
9th Oct 2004
| Let the Scrapping -- begin! Scrapheap Challenge and Jungle Run
|
2nd Oct 2004
| Playing Catchup: Countdown, and an unhappy winner
|
25th Sep 2004
| Scares on Thursday: Scary Sleepover, Mad Mad House
|
18th Sep 2004
| Crisis? What Crisis?: UC returns
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11th Sep 2004
| Bognor? Bust?: Bognor or Bust, Crisis Command
|
4th Sep 2004
| Summer Review: International King of Sports
|
28th Aug 2004
| Ye Weyvere's Weeke: Bullseye, Catchphrase retrospective
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21st Aug 2004
| Games Without Front Ears: House of Games
|
14th Aug 2004
| Let the Challenge - Begin!: Raven II
|
7th Aug 2004
| Big sigh of relief: Big Brother 5 summary
|
31st Jul 2004
| In the box: Dean from Big Brother's book
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24th Jul 2004
| Good enough?: Simply the Best
|
17th Jul 2004
| Saturday Night Passport: Passport to Paradise
|
10th Jul 2004
| More preserve, sir?: Head Jam
|
3rd Jul 2004
| Results week: BB5 comments
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26th Jun 2004
| Countdown Finals
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19th Jun 2004
| Ask me another: The Interrogators
|
12th Jun 2004
| Cramming it in: The Cram
|
5th Jun 2004
| Kat's in the kitchen: More BB5
|
29th May 2004
| Voting procedures: Eurovision breakdown
|
22nd May 2004
| Euro Vision
|
15th May 2004
| A thousand times worse than Jemini: Quarantine
|
8th May 2004
| Looking back with Weaver's Week: Crisis Command, BBC 2 at 40
|
1st May 2004
| Four!: Blank Screen, Win Lose or Draw Late, Totally Top Trumps
|
24th Apr 2004
| Playing games: The Games return
|
17th Apr 2004
| University Challenge grand final
|
10th Apr 2004
| Smart enough?: Come and Have a Go...
|
3rd Apr 2004
| Universities Challenged: UC special
|
27th Mar 2004
| Saturday Night In: Ant and Dec
|
20th Mar 2004
| Still prejudiced?: Without Prejudice?
|
13th Mar 2004
| Don't forget to miss it: Memory Bank
|
6th Mar 2004
| Another song for Eurosong: Making Your Mind Up
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28th Feb 2004
| The annual UC stats pack
|
21st Feb 2004
| Seventeen: 24 Hour Quiz
|
14th Feb 2004
| The Six o'Clock Blues: Traitor, Genies en herbe
|
7th Feb 2004
| Borg, ready: Beat the Cyborgs
|
31st Jan 2004
| Didn't They Do Well?
|
24th Jan 2004
| Stronger: Hercules
|
17th Jan 2004
| Beat the Nation
|
10th Jan 2004
| Stay up late with Weaver's Week: Shattered
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3rd Jan 2004
| Bob Monkhouse tribute
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Date
| Topics
|
27th Dec 2003
| Weaver's Year
|
20th Dec 2003
| Weaver's Finals Week: Countdown
|
13th Dec 2003
| Fifteen to One remembered
|
6th Dec 2003
| University Challenged: UC, Eurovision
|
29th Nov 2003
| A painful read: Distraction, Junior Eurovision
|
22nd Nov 2003
| Eggheads, 19 Keys
|
15th Nov 2003
| All around the planet: Wright Around the World
|
8th Nov 2003
| Catchup already: Mastermind, UC
|
1st Nov 2003
| Thirty: Weaver's favourite gameshows
|
25th Oct 2003
| Revival week: Superstars, Fort Boyard
|
18th Oct 2003
| He is: I'm the Answer
|
11th Oct 2003
| Amazing talent contest shock: Fame Academy
|
4th Oct 2003
| In command of time: Time Commanders
|
27th Sept 2003
| Judgement Square
|
20th Sept 2003
| The Games
|
13th Sept 2003
| Familiar Faces
|
6th Sept 2003
| Journey into Space
|
30th Aug 2003
| Gobbet of the Week
|
23rd Aug 2003
| The FA:Q
|
16th Aug 2003
| Diluting the brand
|
9th Aug 2003
| On target
|
2nd Aug 2003
| Smartass Popularity Survey
|
26th Jul 2003
| Big Brother's Finished
|
19th Jul 2003
| A very hot week
|
12th Jul 2003
| The return of Mastermind
|
5th Jul 2003
| ITV's good night: Judgement Day
|
28th Jun 2003
| Transcontinental adventures
|
21st Jun 2003
| Going down with the ship
|
14th Jun 2003
| We have brains
|
7th Jun 2003
| Big Brother, Little Score
|
31st May 2003
| This Song, That Brother
|
24th May 2003
| Playing catch up
|
17th May 2003
| The Countdown To Big Brother 4
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10th May 2003
| Talking with sausages
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3rd May 2003
| Returning links
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26th Apr 2003
| Dirty Rotten Cheaters
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19th Apr 2003
| Murder, Treasure Hunt (guest reviewer: Nick Gates)
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12th Apr 2003
| UC: Professionals (guest reviewer: Nick Gates)
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5th Apr 2003
| One challenge ends, another begins: The Murder Game
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29th Mar 2003
| A General Viewer writes...
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22nd Mar 2003
| Weaver's Miscellany - HS, B&G, Nicked, Eurovision
|
15th Mar 2003
| Continuing topics
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8th Mar 2003
| Boys and Girls
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1st Mar 2003
| Are you sitting comfortably?
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22nd Feb 2003
| Trading futures
|
15th Feb 2003
| All University Challenge statistics
|
8th Feb 2003
| More for the children
|
1st Feb 2003
| XX
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25th Jan 2003
| Champion Countdown
|
18th Jan 2003
| Here comes the sun
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11th Jan 2003
| No prejudice
|
4th Jan 2003
| Raving about old shows
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Date
| Topics
|
31st Dec 2001
| Weaver's Year 2001
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24th Dec 2001
| Christmas game show guide
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17th Dec 2001
| You Say We Pay, Make My Day
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10th Dec 2001
| Stake Out, Jet Set Departure Lounge
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3rd Dec 2001
| Shafted Shafted, Millionaire Interactive
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26th Nov 2001
| WWTBAM meets Nicked!
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19th Nov 2001
| Mastermind, Hot Property
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12th Nov 2001
| Shafted!
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5th Nov 2001
| No Win No Fee, Nicked!
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29th Oct 2001
| Televised Democracy
|
22nd Oct 2001
| Under Crossfire
|
15th Oct 2001
| The Race begins
|
8th Oct 2001
| Get Lost
|
1st Oct 2001
| Some polite disagreements
|
25th Sep 2001
| Ahem...
|
18th Sep 2001
| Big Game hunting
|
11th Sep 2001
| UC, foreigners and real-life
|
4th Sep 2001
| Countdown goes Mental
|
28th Aug 2001
| Charmless pt. 2, Weakest Link one year on
|
21st Aug 2001
| Reality, Charming, Weak
|
14th Aug 2001
| Countdown rumours, Heat is On, King of the Castle
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7th Aug 2001
| After the storm
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31st Jul 2001
| TPV, UC, Survivor, BB
|
24th Jul 2001
| The week before the storm
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17th Jul 2001
| Forging through
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10th Jul 2001
| Back in the loop
|
3rd Jul 2001
| American vacation
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19th Jun 2001
| BB and Survivor update
|
12th Jun 2001
| Flags on the beach: Survivor flops, BB
|
5th Jun 2001
| Big Brother vs Survivor, ticket call, what's new?
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29th May 2001
| It's all go! BB2, Survivor, Number One
|
22nd May 2001
| Greed, Survivor
|
15th May 2001
| Coming attractions
|
8th May 2001
| Ted Rogers, Big Brother 2, Greed
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1st May 2001
| Familiar formats
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24th Apr 2001
| Coming and over there
|
17th Apr 2001
| Dog Eat Dog, Channel hopping
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10th Apr 2001
| Irene Thomas, Weakest Merchandise, Gopherman
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3rd Apr 2001
| Twister, University Challenge
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27th Mar 2001
| University Challenge semis, Chained
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13th Mar 2001
| UC, Touch the Truck, Celeb Big Brother
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6th Mar 2001
| Hull, Wales, Truck, Mole
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27th Feb 2001
| The Mole gives a winner
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20th Feb 2001
| UC Quarter Finals, Mole
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13th Feb 2001
| Strong Link, UC, Mole
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6th Feb 2001
| Mole, UC, The Weakest Link: US
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30th Jan 2001
| The usual suspects plus Jet Set
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23rd Jan 2001
| Scheduling, UC, The Mole 2
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16th Jan 2001
| Weakest Link, The Mole
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9th Jan 2001
| It's Not the Answer, Millionaire Couples
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