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- 23:53, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Index A (Changed "Action/adventure" to "Action and adventure", again for consistency across the page and to match the name of the corresponding category)
- 23:07, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (The TalkbackThames demerger took place on New Year's Day 2012; Fremantle's non-comedy entertainment programmes have been produced under the Thames brand since then)
- 22:53, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (One sentence, rather than two, regarding Thames's merger with Talkback and where on this site one is to find the programmes made by TalkbackThames)
- 22:47, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (Thames, along with Pearson's other TV interests (Grundy, Talkback, etc.), became part of FremantleMedia in 2001. Fremantle is still owned by RTL to this day, despite dropping the "Media" in 2018)
- 22:25, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (There were, in fact, only months between Thames leaving the ITV network and its acquisition by Pearson - which also owned the Financial Times and half of The Economist, and still owns Longman Books)
- 22:06, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (Here's Thames's final ident, introduced in 1990 and used until New Year's Eve 1992. Thames continued to use the triangle logo for its first few years as an independent production company)
- 21:56, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) N File:Thames1990.jpg (Thames ident used from 3 September 1990 to 31 December 1992 (before only regional programmes at first, then before all programmes from 4 November 1991 onwards). After becoming an independent production company, Thames continued to use the triangle logo un) (top)
- 19:49, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (That programme aired, of course, on the night of 31 December 1992. And it shouldn't be forgotten that Thames lost its franchise to Carlton in an auction)
- 19:45, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (From Thames's final programme as an ITV station: "On Tuesday 30th July 1968, Thames Television went on-air and launched a new era in broadcasting." Worth pointing out this precise date, I think ;))
- 19:21, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Oci Oci Oci! (There's a full episode from the latest series on YouTube, and in the credits it says "Fformat: Ian Melding". I take that to mean he's the creator, though I'm hapus to be corrected ;))
- 17:45, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) 24 Hour Quiz (→Trivia: I may as well add what Richard said about the show in that Grauniad article, because (1) it's funny, of course, and (2) he mentions Don't Scare the Hare as well ;)) (top)
- 17:31, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Richard Osman (→Shows: Richard seemed more than happy to admit in 2012 that he created the abomination that was 24 Hour Quiz... https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/oct/26/uk-tv-worst-ever-gameshows)
- 17:28, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) 24 Hour Quiz (Yes, really, Richard Osman was the creator of 24 Hour Quiz - he seemed more than happy to admit it in 2012: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/oct/26/uk-tv-worst-ever-gameshows)
- 17:07, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) 24 Hour Quiz (→Web links: it's been twelve years since Off the Telly closed down, and since then its pages have been transferred to the URL of sister site TV Cream)
- 16:48, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) 24 Hour Quiz (Thanks to the end of the vid, we can add this to the list of game shows for which Paul Farrer did some or all of the music ;))
- 16:36, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) 24 Hour Quiz (Here's a vid...)
- 14:32, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) News Archive (Without any disrespect intended, I can't fight the urge to rewrite the Eurovision article... Think it's worth pointing out, too, that this will be the first time the UK has hosted it this century)
- 14:18, 25 July 2022 (hist) (diff) News Archive (→Game show news: call me picky, call me pedantic, call me whatever... but when we refer to a person for the second time, don't we usually do so by their surname rather than their Christian name?)
- 00:28, 24 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Main Page (→Site news: well, the WHO and the NHS *do* style it COVID-19, and that's how the "Impact of..." page styles it too ;))
- 00:17, 24 July 2022 (hist) (diff) News Archive (→Game show news: five's the limit innit? ;))
- 18:08, 21 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Category:Carlton Productions (And here's a frame from one of Carlton's brightly-coloured visual pun idents, used from November 1996 to September 1999. I grew up in Ealing in the '90s, so I'm *very* familiar with these idents... ;))
- 17:55, 21 July 2022 (hist) (diff) N File:Carlton1996.jpg (A frame from one of the Carlton idents used from 25 November 1996 to 3 September 1999) (top)
- 17:39, 21 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Category:Carlton Productions (Here's one of Carlton's light-based idents used from September 1995 to November 1996 - a reminder that it only added the star to its logo in September 1999)
- 17:29, 21 July 2022 (hist) (diff) N File:Carlton1995.jpg (One of the Carlton idents used from 4 September 1995 to 22 November 1996) (top)
- 21:37, 17 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Category:HTV Productions (Given the rather complicated history of ITV in North and South Wales prior to 20 May 1968, it's probably better to simply say that Harlech/HTV took over from TWW)
- 21:25, 17 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Iain Stirling (With all due respect, Ian Stirling (with only one I in his first name) *was* most famous for being a continuity announcer on Westward and TSW for many years, even if you didn't live in the South West) (top)
- 21:18, 17 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Russell Davies (And as is customary, here are his That Other Wiki (copyright Weaver) and IMDb entries ;))
- 21:14, 17 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Russell Davies (Of course, there's another famous Welshman named Russell Davies... *Doctor Who theme plays*)
- 21:07, 17 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Russell Davies (Russell's arguably one of the most famous people from Barmouth ;))
- 21:01, 17 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Russell Davies (Surprisingly, not many images of Russell on the interwebs - but this one will do)
- 20:59, 17 July 2022 (hist) (diff) N File:RussellDavies.jpg (top)
- 19:51, 17 July 2022 (hist) (diff) News Archive (I can't fight the urge to simplify the Chris Stuart story, even though it's four days old. Founding the production company behind OC *was* what he was best known for in the game show world, wasn't it?)
- 00:31, 11 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Yung Filly (Here's YF's real name, so that one doesn't have to go looking elsewhere for it ;))
- 19:36, 2 July 2022 (hist) (diff) People's Quiz (→Synopsis: tidied the paragraph about the end game slightly)
- 17:41, 2 July 2022 (hist) (diff) People's Quiz (→Champion: Olav Bjortomt was a finalist too, and of course he and the Beast both took part in Grand Slam)
- 15:30, 2 July 2022 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - July 2022: "http://" or "https://"?)
- 14:44, 2 July 2022 (hist) (diff) People's Quiz (→Web links: http://www.bbc.co.uk/peoplesquiz/ now redirects to a page for the National Lottery Draws (which the Beeb doesn't show any more, of course). Thank heavens for the Wayback Machine :))
- 14:37, 2 July 2022 (hist) (diff) People's Quiz (Worth pointing out that Stephanie beat Mark "The Beast" Labbett, and that Will "Magdalen" Cudmore was one of the other finalists (not often someone goes on UC having already appeared on another quiz))
- 03:46, 2 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Eggheads (Undo revision 91400 by Showells (Talk) With respect, that's a matter of opinion...)
- 04:07, 1 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Winning Lines (→Prize destinations: I misspelled "Mediterranean" there, didn't I? Oopsie doodle :))
- 02:45, 1 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Winning Lines (→Miscellaneous: and is it reasonable to suggest, too, that the cash Wonderwalls were discontinued on cost grounds? Winning Lines *was* one of the more expensive Lottery game shows, after all)
- 02:36, 1 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Winning Lines (→Miscellaneous: there were 22 cash Wonderwalls, and the £5k top prize was won only once - is it reasonable to suggest that the lack of pitstops played a part in this?)
- 02:32, 1 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Winning Lines (A rewrite regarding the midweek cash Wonderwalls of 2001. I believe the teenage me suggested the addition of this bit all the way back in 2006 (with rather different wording back then, of course)...)
- 02:04, 1 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Winning Lines (→Theme music: since the music is mentioned in the third paragraph of the synopsis, and the Strachans were geniuses, perhaps it's better to say that they composed *the* full score ;))
- 02:02, 1 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Winning Lines (→Synopsis: "permanantly" -> "permanently". Also, I think only one link to the Reverend Mayo's article is necessary in the first paragraph)
- 01:13, 1 July 2022 (hist) (diff) Winning Lines (→Trivia: Wonderwalls from all six series - including the third series before and after 9/11 - are currently on YouTube, so we can note *all* the changes that were made to the prize destinations :))
- 23:48, 30 June 2022 (hist) (diff) Winning Lines (→Synopsis: Winning Lines ended *eighteen* years ago (brrrr), so I wonder if Pip should now be described as the *second* host rather than the *new* host?)
- 23:22, 30 June 2022 (hist) (diff) Winning Lines (→Postscript: although Who Dares Wins began some three years after the 'Lines ended, it too lasted longer)
- 23:11, 30 June 2022 (hist) (diff) Winning Lines (I suspect most people already know that the Strachans were responsible for Winning Lines' music - but for those who don't... :))
- 23:01, 30 June 2022 (hist) (diff) Index D (Changed all instances of "Stunt/dare show" to "Stunts and dares", for consistency across this page and to match the name of the corresponding category)
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