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• 15:57, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions ‎ (Restored Weaver's edit, but added "in turn" since there were only 18 months between 2way buying the rights of Millionaire *and more*, and the company being acquired by Sony)
• 15:48, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions ‎ (Sorry, Simon, but this looks like being another of your classic rushes of blood to the head. 2way didn't buy *just* the rights of Millionaire; it bought Celador International's entire format library)
• 01:41, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (Following a reconsideration, replaced "host the show" with "ask the questions". Avoids "host" being repeated twice in quick succession, and also corresponds with the announcer's traditional intro)
• 00:39, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Enter Amol: the time between Paxo announcing his departure and Amol being announced as his replacement was pretty short, too)
• 00:35, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (Thanks to the show returning to its traditional July start, the gap between Paxo's last ep and Amol's first was pretty short... I'm assuming that Paxo *did* watch Amol's first ep with us ;))
• 00:26, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Enter Amol: may as well add Paxo's final sign-off, which was short, sweet and gracious)
• 23:39, 14 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Enter Amol: it's quite true that the 2022 Christmas final was the last Paxman ep recorded, and the 2022-23 student final was the last Paxman ep broadcast. Here are their respective air dates)
• 23:27, 14 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Enter Amol: pointed out when Paxo's Parkinson's diagnosis was, just in case anyone's wondering. No disrespect intended, of course)
• 23:13, 14 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Enter Amol: the Paxman Era lasted 29 years and, by my reckoning, 1,180 episodes. Obviously, he announced his departure *before* his final episodes were recorded and broadcast)
• 23:04, 14 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (New host, new era... why not new sub-section too? ;) (The title isn't intended as a play on "Endemol"; it's simply the first one that came into my head. Feel free to replace it with a better one))
• 16:09, 5 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Never Had it So Good ‎ (→Trivia: tricky, isn't it, when it's in 16:9 but you're having to minimize the amount of black space at the top, bottom and sides, and at the same time keep your caption reasonably centred?)
• 16:03, 5 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Never Had it So Good ‎ ("A non-broadcast pilot was filmed on the Countdown set..." Blimey-o-flip, it really did happen. Greggles won't mind the video being added to this site, will he?)
• 15:45, 5 November 2023 (hist) (diff) On the Spot (1) ‎ (Dam it, the video's no longer available... :() (top)
• 00:54, 4 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:HTV Productions ‎ (The specific day in November 1982 on which HTV Wales's programmes yn y Gymraeg were transferred to S4C. This was, of course, the day before Channel 4 began everywhere else in the UK)
• 00:47, 4 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:HTV Productions ‎ (Logos reduced to 130px. This is a change I've made to several other production company category pages, as I think 150px is just a little *too* big. Could reconsider, of course... ;))
• 00:41, 4 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Full House (1) ‎ (1959... wasn't TWW the ITV station for (South) Wales then?)
• 18:26, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: here is the other special episode in which 12, 37, 62 and 87 were the four "large" numbers. All four were drawn this time, with Rachel again getting to make the selections)
• 18:06, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: only 12 and 37 were drawn in this episode, but Rachel did indeed outdo Bevins and Davies by easily spotting 37 x (5 + 3) = 296 ;))
• 17:53, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: also, Rachel got to make the selections in these numbers games instead of Bevins and Davies ;))
• 17:46, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: there was actually another special episode, later in 2010, in which 12, 37, 62 and 87 were the "large" numbers instead of 25, 50, 75 and 100. I'll get to that one in a bit)
• 17:15, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: clarified that Bevins and Davies were, at the time, the two most recent series champs)
• 17:09, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (Bevins v Davies officially *wasn't* episode 4999 - it did immediately follow episode 4998, but it was the 26th episode in the separate "special" sequence. The official episode 4999 aired a week later)
• 02:39, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: may as well point out too what colours the tiles were on Calendar Countdown)
• 01:15, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: the end of 1990 saw the start of the fifth Championship of Champions (preceding series 21 proper), and with it, the introduction of the letter tile font that is still used today)
• 01:05, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (Probably worth pointing out the rather thick font that was used on the letter tiles in series 19 and 20 - here it is in action in an early series 20 ep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJFXjgZfBA)
• 00:45, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: obviously, the white-on-blue scheme returned permanently at the start of series 19)
• 00:32, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: added Dr Yoga's full name for completeness)
• 00:30, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (According to the Countdown Wiki, several S18 contestants - not just Dr Yoga - were no longer available, so one assumes it wasn't just the finals that had to be broadcast with the problem tiles...)
• 00:14, 25 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (Here's an S18 ep with blue tiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiYcM3y1FGM. Going by the font, they are the tiles that were used from S11 to S17 - good thing YTV held on to them, then)
• 23:51, 24 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: so what colours were the letter and number tiles in the first 17 series? Yellow on grey the first 10; white on blue thereafter. Also pointed out the years as appropriate)
• 23:33, 24 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: ...and they didn't merely try to introduce it, did they, they actually *did* introduce it. Contestants disliked it, viewers disliked it, Richard disliked it too...)
• 23:28, 24 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Game equipment: the "jazzed-up version of the 30-second vamp"... that was the so-called "extra intensity" version, wasn't it, which was introduced in January 1996 and didn't last the month?)
• 23:14, 24 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Index Y ‎ (Undo revision 99669 by Showells (Talk) Pourquoi?)
• 21:45, 23 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Walk the Line ‎ (Walk the Line was a singing show, and there is a Singing category... ;))
• 23:18, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions ‎ ("But now on the UTV, who needs Dracula and Frankenstein when you've monster liar Cilla Battersby?" Sorry, but Julian Simmons *is* an absolute legend... ;) Anyway, here's the 1993 UTV logo) (top)
• 23:09, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:UTV1993.jpg ‎ (UTV logo used from 1993 to 2000) (top)
• 22:48, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions ‎ (Here's the "telly on a stick", which was introduced for Ulster Television's 21st anniversary in 1980 and - for whatever reason - lasted until pretty close to the station's *30th* anniversary)
• 22:40, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:UlsterTV1980.jpg ‎ (Ulster Television's "telly on a stick", introduced for the station's 21st anniversary in 1980 and used until 1988) (top)
• 21:26, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Gutted ‎ (The Wayback Machine is a godsend ;)) (top)
• 18:28, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions ‎ (The 1989 Ulster Television "oscilloscope" ident again, but with everything more centred (both horizontally and vertically). Also at 130px, as 100px is perhaps a little *too* small)
• 18:19, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) N File:UlsterTV1989.jpg ‎ (Ulster Television's final "oscilloscope" ident, used from January 1989 to June 1993) (top)
• 04:08, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Great Wall of Comedy ‎ ("Title Music" -> "Theme music", for purposes of consistency) (top)
• 04:07, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Great Wall of Comedy ‎ (Why delete the official site when it has been archived by the good ol' Wayback Machine? ;))
• 03:53, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions ‎ (COVID-19 effectively brought about the end of the UTV brand except for local programming - meaning, of course, the station is now ITV1 like in England, Wales, southern Scotland and the Channel Islands)
• 03:22, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions ‎ (And what about its radio business? It belongs to the Murdochs now)
• 03:20, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions ‎ (Included in the sale of the TV business were the unsuccessful ROI-only channel UTV Ireland (later passed on to what is now Virgin Media Ireland, and hence now VM3), as well as the UTV brand itself)
• 03:09, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions ‎ (Pointed out the date on which the sale of UTV's TV business to ITV plc was confirmed (completion didn't occur until the following February, but that's probably neither here nor there for this site))
• 02:54, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions ‎ (ITV plc only bought UTV's television business in 2015. Over the previous decade-and-a-half, UTV developed a media empire, which included Talksport and other radio stations in Britain and Ireland)
• 02:11, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions ‎ (Julian Simmons: "But now on the UTV, as Jack Duckworth moves out, what is he gonna do with big Vera's ashes? It's Coronation Street." Pointed out the date on which UTV became the official name)
• 01:57, 20 October 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:UTV Productions ‎ (Pointed out the date on which Ulster Television - as it was officially called for its first 34 years - began broadcasting)

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