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• 20:27, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:PotOfGold.jpg ‎ (People are coming, everyone's trying, trying to be the best that they can, on the ITV show Pot of Gold... well, Grundy were involved in this show too ;)) (top)
• 19:56, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold ‎ (I note that Colin Keyes, who did the Des O'Connor Tonight theme and provided that show's orchestra, was "Musical Associate". Actually wondering now, was *he* PoG's composer with Monk merely arranging?)
• 19:30, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold ‎ (→Trivia: the gradual Carltonisation of Central resulted in The Television House being renamed accordingly, of course, although Pot of Gold had disappeared from the airwaves by then)
• 18:42, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold ‎ (Also, Des appeared "by arrangement with Thames Television". They'd lost their ITV franchise but were still producing Des O'Connor Tonight, so I guess the contract he had with them still applied)
• 18:31, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold ‎ (Central, mid '90s... ergo it was made in Nottingham. ;) Obvious to us game show fans, but of course *not* every reader is a game show fan. Plus, it wasn't produced *solely* by Central)
• 17:59, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold ‎ ("Musical Director" was more often than not the composer's credit on Central's game shows, wasn't it? Mike Alexander was credited as such on FF, and so too Paul Maguire on Leslie's Price is Right...)
• 17:51, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold ‎ (→Synopsis: Ray Monk did this show's theme, and he also did an arrangement of Des's own theme for Take Your Pick. Can't imagine that was a coincidence... ;))
• 17:47, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Robin Houston ‎ (→Shows: add Pot of Gold to the already impressive list of shows for which Robin has provided his voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NerzadYc5Fw) (top)
• 17:45, 27 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Pot of Gold ‎ (There's a full ep on YouTube, even though it has been stretched to fill the 16:9 frame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NerzadYc5Fw. But thanks to it, we can now add this show to Robin Houston's CV)
• 03:59, 6 August 2024 (hist) (diff) Bognor or Bust ‎ (→Co-hosts: "Voiceover: X" is the style these days, rather than "X (voiceover)" ;)) (top)
• 18:12, 29 July 2024 (hist) (diff) News Archive ‎ (Well, not quite *every* event - he started the Wall with "Contenders, you will go on my first whistle; Gladiators, you will go on my second whistle" and the Eliminator with almost the same words ;))
• 19:05, 26 July 2024 (hist) (diff) Mark Curry ‎ (I think there only needs to be one link to the Blue Peter article... Also, isn't "Lego" usually spelled with a capital 'L'? ;)) (top)
• 18:58, 26 July 2024 (hist) (diff) Catchphrase ‎ (→Catchphrase for The New Millennium: I do like his question card pose, though ;))
• 18:58, 26 July 2024 (hist) (diff) Catchphrase ‎ (→Catchphrase for The New Millennium: Mark's time on Blue Peter wasn't *that* long before his time on the 'Phrase, was it? He was on Pointless Celebs relatively recently, too ;))
• 00:47, 21 July 2024 (hist) (diff) Passport ‎ (From the credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFZioH_RQXA&ab_channel=AmmanfordNinja) (top)
• 13:18, 6 July 2024 (hist) (diff) Countdown ‎ (→Champions: time to add the Series 89 champ, and start the 23rd row of this table... Excluding Series 33, there have now been as many champs in the 15-round era as there were in the 9-round era)
• 21:42, 13 June 2024 (hist) (diff) Walk the Line ‎ (→Trivia: https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/versa-london-walk-the-line-studio-1235135913/ and https://tvstudiohistory.co.uk/independent-tv-studios/versa-london-studio-acton/)
• 18:01, 12 April 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (You know what? Let's add the members of each winning team too. ;) The Professionals was effectively a successor to Reunited - and Christmas UC is effectively a successor to The Professionals)
• 17:29, 12 April 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Champions: ...and here are the respective presenters of the trophies in the 2004, 2005 and 2008 series ;))
• 17:24, 12 April 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Champions: according to Sean Blanchflower, in all five Professionals series the members of the winning team each received their own trophy, like in the Reunited series...)
• 17:12, 12 April 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Champions: if I may be real fussy and switch Magdalen and Manchester around, since Magdalen got to four wins first (plus none of theirs were by default)... ;))
• 17:07, 12 April 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Champions: Imperial have won three of the last five series, and reached the semi-finals of a fourth. Manchester were once The Team Everyone Wants To Beat... think that title is Imperial's now ;))
• 16:32, 12 April 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (→Champions: one does wonder: had UCL won, would there have been a filmed epilogue from *their* rooftop in Bloomsbury to mark what would have been their first-ever series win?)
• 16:27, 12 April 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge ‎ (I'm rather annoyed that quite a few sources of repute have said "The trophy was presented by Tom Stoppard" and not corrected this, so I'm glad the record's set straight here. May I re-word, however?)
• 13:46, 7 April 2024 (hist) (diff) Angus Deayton ‎ (→Shows: if I may specify the UC Comic Relief specials that Angus hosted - there was another one over a decade later with David Baddiel in the host's chair ;)) (top)
• 13:41, 7 April 2024 (hist) (diff) David Baddiel ‎ (→Shows: if I may also point out the specific UC Comic Relief special that David hosted - there were two earlier ones hosted by Angus Deayton, of course ;)) (top)
• 13:39, 7 April 2024 (hist) (diff) David Baddiel ‎ (→Shows: technically David *co*-devised Romeo & Duet - just as Anneka Rice co-devised Challenge Anneka with Malcolm Heyworth, and Neil Buchanan co-devised Art Attack with Tim Edmunds ;))
• 13:31, 7 April 2024 (hist) (diff) David Baddiel ‎ (Ivor does deserve a mention here, however)
• 13:28, 7 April 2024 (hist) (diff) David Baddiel ‎ (According to the credits, The Getaway Car was devised by Charlotte Freinberg and Ross McCarthy, and developed by Leon Wilde - Ivor Baddiel was merely the show's writer. Were these credits wrong?)
• 21:14, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Clement Freud ‎ (→Trivia: Clement was also the uncle of Esther Freud, of Hideous Kinky fame. She and Frank Paul are half-sister and half-brother - Lucian fathered children with quite a few women) (top)
• 20:19, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Moneybags ‎ (→Trivia: there were two Hall of Fame winners in 2021, and the other one is mentioned only a few lines above... ;)) (top)
• 20:11, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap ‎ (→Synopsis: nabbed the screenshots of Bobby and Frank from Weaver's review - so that the pattern of two paragraphs, image, two paragraphs, image, etc. is more or less maintained throughout ;)) (top)
• 20:02, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap ‎ (→Synopsis: "Part two", "part three"... may I substitute "round" for "part", since it might not be clear to readers outside Britain and Ireland that the show was an hour long?)
• 19:54, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap ‎ (→Trivia: The Answer Trap wasn't the sole Hall of Fame winner for 2021 - indeed, it wasn't the only winner for that year that aired on Channel 4 at 3pm... O.o ;))
• 19:43, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap ‎ (→Trivia: re-wording as regards the answers, since it's already established that Cheddar is a cheese. I like what's said about McIntyre's wheel ;))
• 19:36, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap ‎ ("Care to play along?" Since I've made one bit slightly more negative in tone, I shall balance things out and make this caption slightly *less* negative (if more wordy). Again no disrespect intended ;))
• 19:29, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap ‎ (→Synopsis: the image of the cheese/dog breed board, from round one, comes *after* the paragraph about round two - I reckon it makes that bit more sense to have it *before* said paragraph ;))
• 19:16, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap ‎ (→Synopsis: Aardman is neither a cheese nor a dog breed, but is famous for a cheese-loving inventor and his dog. "Cracking Trap, Gromit!" ;))
• 19:00, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap ‎ (Already clear from the C4 press release at the start of the Synopsis that all the Traps were set by Bobby and Frank - so more re-wording below. Good for all but the team when a Trap was found ;))
• 18:42, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap ‎ (No disrespect intended, of course - but since the finding of an Answer Trap was quite dramatic, I've re-worded this bit accordingly, and added an exclamation mark at the end for good measure ;))
• 18:13, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap ‎ (→Synopsis: so that every image has a caption (bar the image of the logo, of course). Also makes the paragraph immediately below flow a bit better, IMO)
• 16:54, 30 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Answer Trap ‎ (This "small improvement" will obviously never be made, yet this bit should be kept in the present tense... so re-word without "small improvement". That it makes the tone more negative is unfortunate)
• 01:17, 24 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan ‎ (→Web links: updated the link to Neil's IMDb entry (even if it gets his year of birth wrong) and added the link to his Wikipedia entry) (top)
• 01:01, 24 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan ‎ (→Trivia: AFAIK, there were no more Media Merchants shows after Art Attack ended. However, the company wasn't liquidated until 2016 according to Companies House - so was it dormant in the meantime?)
• 00:34, 24 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan ‎ (→Trivia: Britt Allcroft's company was itself acquired by HIT Entertainment - and Art Attack still had five years to run at that point ;))
• 00:27, 24 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan ‎ (→Trivia: The Media Merchants was acquired by Britt Allcroft, who of course brought Thomas the Tank Engine to TV - Neil became a pretty wealthy man as a result ;))
• 23:58, 23 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan ‎ (→Trivia: almost forgot about Terror Towers. I guess there were reasons why Neil's Motormouth co-host Steve Johnson hosted that one, rather than Neil himself ;))
• 23:48, 23 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan ‎ (→Trivia: Neil founded The Media Merchants with his Art Attack co-creator, Tim Edmunds, and it's not coincidental that two of the other shows produced by this company were also presented by Neil)
• 23:33, 23 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan ‎ (Neil did indeed reform Marseille for a short while after Art Attack ended, and I've moved this from the Trivia to his bio. I think he's still involved in TV, too, albeit the other side of the camera)
• 23:24, 23 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan ‎ (And not only did he present Art Attack, he co-created it too ;))

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