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• 19:19, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Index G ‎ (→People: "That's the bullseye!" Added Tony Green)
• 19:17, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) N Tony Green ‎ (May you rest iiiiiiin peace, Tony) (top)
• 19:05, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:TonyGreen.jpg ‎ (top)
• 17:45, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Index S ‎ (Penny Smith read the headlines on GMTV, Peter Smith read the headlines on the Big Breakfast... ultimately Penny stayed in her role longer, and her first name precedes Peter's alphabetically)
• 17:09, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Showbiz Darts ‎ (No surprise that Greeny, God rest him, was the commentator - unlikely as it was that he would do a show with Sarah Cawood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSkH8MiH9kM)
• 17:00, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers ‎ (I'm back again... Does Tony Green qualify for a UKGS profile?)
• 21:59, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (And that just about wraps it up (no pun intended). Now I'm off on my latest extended break, but as ever I'll leave the door open, especially for when shows like Countdown crown their next champions :))
• 21:48, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (It *is* true that not everyone *knows* the theme tune, either - but that's why the link's there, right? Me, I honestly didn't know New Faces' "You're A Star" until I was well into my twenties... :))
• 21:37, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (...really do not work as well as lyrics from the theme tune. And I'm well aware the theme tune isn't universally liked - but no-one can deny it was a thing, and Hans Zimmer's still proud of it today)
• 21:25, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (None of us editors can disagree that the caption for the picture of the opening round has to reference GFG in some way. But, IMHO, perspective captions like "Where have I/we/you seen this before?"...)
• 21:09, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (I've willingly changed "husband and wife" to "married to each other". But again, the couples were engaged, the hosts had already tied the knot... If they *do* divorce, just replace "are" with "were")
• 21:03, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (This screenshot, along with the others, was taken from Weaver's Week - and Iain's caption there is, "The hosts are also a married couple." Their names aren't stated, 'cause they don't need to be :))
• 20:57, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (Let's be fair: there is no rule that says "The captions of screenshots of presenters must state the names of these presenters", is there? And pretty much everyone knows who Eamonn and Ruth are, right?)
• 20:52, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (→Synopsis: then the opening round, again with no caption for the time being)
• 20:50, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (→Synopsis: oh, God... now the pictures that brought about this whole unsavoury mess (not the fault of the pictures themselves, of course). First, Mr and Mrs Holmes, with no caption for now)
• 20:43, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (→Synopsis: oopsie doodle - missed that text change. That's all of them now, I believe)
• 20:40, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (Iain, Thomas, Jennifer: if I rubbed any of you the wrong way when I told Simon "accept there might be better captions than yours", it wasn't intended and I can only apologise. I was just so, so mad)
• 20:34, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (→Synopsis: I shall put back text changes too. I wasn't able to say this when I explained why I was rolling right back and what I would do afterwards, because of the 200-character limit...)
• 20:30, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (Third picture back: the head-to-head. Why "couple" rather than "team"? (1) To match the rest of the text, and (2) as if this hasn't been emphasised enough already, the couples were *engaged*...)
• 20:20, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (→Synopsis: second picture back: the end game. "Everything you need for your perfect honeymoon"... IMHO, not the greatest caption but by no means the worst either, so I'm willing to keep it)
• 20:17, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (→Synopsis: first picture back is the Rick Astley question. I will admit - willingly - that "Rickrolled!" is a good, if obvious, caption)
• 20:15, 15 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (I am so mad and so disillusioned that I am rolling right back to before the pictures were added. I will add them back one at a time, and then another extended break from editing UKGS is in order...)
• 22:59, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Danielle Nicholls ‎ (Danielle still uses she/her pronouns, right? In any case, "they" kind of implies that she *and* Stephen were out of the limelight, when of course he went from CITV to Ministry of Mayhem and beyond ;))
• 22:46, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Simon Amstell ‎ (→Biography: also, I'm fairly sure Simon still uses he/him/his pronouns. Absolutely no disrespect intended towards the LGBTQ+ community, of course :)) (top)
• 22:38, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Simon Amstell ‎ (→Biography: no disrespect, but I don't think TV channel names need to be italicised ;))
• 18:25, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (...but I believe that it *especially* applies to the person who added the writing in the first place, where there was no writing before. And in this case, we're talking you, Simon, and your captions)
• 18:22, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (Also it *does* clearly say, "If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here." I'm well aware that this is a golden rule that applies to everyone...)
• 18:18, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (Simon, you're displaying your Hyde rather than your Jekyll again, and turning this into you vs. everyone else. Can't you accept there might be better captions than yours? (Those are placeholders, BTW))
• 07:16, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (→Synopsis: I am, as one might gather, considerably more in favour of using GFG's lyrics. TS does have a point about not everyone being familiar with this show, however)
• 07:13, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (Also, I am *not* a great fan of captions with unquoted first-person singular pronouns like "I", "my" and "me". My Asperger's may well have something to do with this, I'm more than willing to admit)
• 06:49, 14 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (Sorry, but simply "Eamonn and Ruth, masters of ceremonies" is, IMHO, not as good a caption as one with "already husband and wife" in it (contrasting with the competing couples not being married yet))
• 22:38, 13 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (This ought to be a golden rule: any screengrab with an obvious and natural GFG reference must be captioned with a line from the theme tune. Hans Zimmer would be very pleased, I think... ;))
• 22:22, 13 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (→Synopsis: obviously, the couples weren't married yet, but Eamonn and Ruth were ;))
• 22:19, 13 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Gift Wrapped ‎ (→Synopsis: three *engaged* couples, right? If you weren't fiancé(e) and fiancé(e), you couldn't take part, could you?)
• 01:37, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: definitely can't disagree that the show suffers without a co-host - WoF has always felt like it's tailor-made for two hosts; same with Countdown and Pointless)
• 00:50, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: well, this *is* what people watch WoF for, right?)
• 00:35, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (True that the toss-ups aren't just problematic because they make the wheel something of an afterthought, and the holiday puzzle isn't just problematic because it disrupts the flow of the main game...)
• 00:30, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: re-mention of the padding being the biggest problem of all)
• 00:12, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: re-mention of R, S, T, L, N and E being given to the contestant for the final puzzle, and so on)
• 00:01, 11 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: clarified that the small 24-envelope wheel for the final puzzle has also come over from Stateside, and pointed out the minimum amount that can be won)
• 23:43, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (It's also been mentioned on Bother's Bar that this holiday bonus puzzle disrupts the flow of the main game, and I'm afraid I have to agree. Even the Puzzlers on Paul Hendy's version weren't disruptive)
• 23:32, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: re-mention of the holiday bonus puzzle)
• 23:21, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (Re-mention of the toss-ups, and why having so many of them compared to the US is a problem. Nick Gates says "the wheel's like a guest at its own party" - I hope he doesn't mind me stealing that... ;))
• 23:04, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: re-mention of the audience shouting out the show's name at the start, and of the touch-screen board. And now seems a good time to add the word "trilons" for the first time ;))
• 22:57, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (Well it *is* the case, isn't it, that Graham's following in the footsteps of Nicky and Bradders (and John and Paul), but no-one's following in the footsteps of Carol and Jenny (and Angela and Terri)?)
• 22:49, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Wheel! Of! Norton!: re-mention of Whisper North, the eight-episode commission and Dock10, and clarification that the current revival of Jeopardy! isn't the first)
• 22:43, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Synopsis: the new version has the audience shouting "Wheel! Of! Fortune!" as in the US, and also "Fortune" and "Norton" almost rhyme... so there's a fairly obvious sub-heading ;))
• 22:40, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (→Synopsis: first of all, re-mention of the Alison Hammond pilot, and clarification that there were three years between this and ITV greenlighting a new version of the show)
• 22:36, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) ‎ (I can't sugar-coat this, folks... the grammar in that write-up of the new version is terrible. So terrible, in fact, that I'm mad enough to delete this write-up altogether and start a brand new one...)
• 00:02, 10 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Index S ‎ (And Strangers on a Plane is the first of the "Str"s alphabetically, at least for now ;))

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