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- 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) (top)
- 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 ;))
- 23:10, 23 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan (Of course, Neil played Smart Arty in ZZZap! - accompanied by that wonderful piece by Boccherini ;))
- 22:58, 23 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan (Although it's unlikely that many people have heard of Marseille, they do have a Wikipedia entry - so it might be worth incorporating them into Neil's bio)
- 22:24, 23 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Neil Buchanan (Neil's another great Liverpudlian - and hard to believe he's not far off 70 now...)
- 03:30, 22 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Uh-uh. "A larger, higher-res image of the early and mid-2000s Mentorn logo" - specifically to replace that small (75px), low-res square image, despite a difference in the colour scheme) (top)
- 00:57, 21 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Mastermind (→Who's the greatest?: tidied as regards Anne Ashurst appearing in the 2005 UC Professionals series)
- 00:46, 21 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Mastermind (→Who's the greatest?: just in case anyone wants to know who the reigning UC champs in '97 were, without having to leave this page ;))
- 00:23, 21 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Mastermind (Oversight of Mastermind had transferred to BBC North in Manchester by 1992, along with almost every other Beeb game show at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfvlPwICPzM&ab_channel=TheTVMuseum)
- 00:01, 21 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Mastermind (→Synopsis: passes have always been an integral part of the show, so I'd only put the parentheses around their use in breaking ties)
- 23:53, 20 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Mastermind (...and substitute "contender(s)" for "contestant(s)" where appropriate ;))
- 23:39, 20 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Mastermind (It's so well-known that Mastermind participants are always called "contenders" and never "contestants", that I'd move it from the Trivia to the Synopsis...)
- 23:23, 20 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Mastermind (→Synopsis: it's always been the rule, hasn't it, that ties for first place are broken by the number of passes, then by a five-question tiebreaker? Therefore, no real need for parentheses here :))
- 23:01, 20 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Mastermind (→Synopsis: we're nearing the end of Clive's third series (already), and the fifth in Belfast - so time for some updating here and there. If Salford is "sunny", then Belfast is "brilliant" ;))
- 02:03, 20 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Anna Williamson (→Biography: Toonattik had three Ts ;)) (top)
- 01:57, 20 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Rescue Robots (Only the Mentorn name appeared on the endcap, though the show *was* copyrighted to Mentorn Barraclough Carey Productions Ltd. No different, though, to Lifted shows being copyrighted to ITV Studios) (top)
- 01:51, 20 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Rescue Robots (Clarified that the entire series - including the eight unaired eps - can be watched on Mech+. You never know, more people might subscribe as a result... ;))
- 00:33, 20 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Rescue Robots (→Synopsis: midway through *its* run ;))
- 22:54, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Here's the Mentorn Films logo from the mid-90s - which I particularly remember from Today's the Day and Gerry Anderson's Space Precinct (who else remembers that one?))
- 22:48, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:Mentorn1994.jpg (The mid-90s Mentorn Films logo, seen at the end of Today's the Day, Challenge Anneka and Gerry Anderson's Space Precinct) (top)
- 22:42, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Here's Mentorn's current logo)
- 22:40, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:Mentorn2007.jpg (The current Mentorn logo, introduced in 2007 following the takeover by Tinopolis) (top)
- 22:39, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (A larger, higher-res image of the early and mid-2000s Mentorn logo)
- 22:37, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:Mentorn2003.jpg (The Mentorn logo used in the early and mid 2000s, prior to the Tinopolis takeover) (top)
- 20:44, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Traffic Cops is another long-running Mentorn production, having just started its third decade on air)
- 20:35, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Question Time seems to be the show Mentorn is best known for these days. Disappointing, given how nasty QT often is, but unsurprising since Mentorn has now produced it for a quarter of a century...)
- 19:56, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Actually, when exactly did the Barraclough Carey name pass into history? It certainly looks like it happened before the Tinopolis takeover, though I could of course be mistaken ;))
- 19:49, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad... ;))
- 19:36, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Probably not relevant since it's a *sports* production company, but I've added that Sunset+Vine was also part of TV Corp (like Mentorn, it remains part of Tinopolis today))
- 19:24, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Barraclough Carey produced documentaries, I believe, prior to the merger with Mentorn. And the TV Corp takeover happened in 2000)
- 18:28, 19 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Mentorn Productions (Pointed out Mentorn's founder, and that the company was Mentorn *Films* prior to the merger with Barraclough Carey)
- 01:10, 15 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Index H (Nine new HIGNFY guest presenters during 2022 and 2023, including Harry Hill)
- 21:17, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Epic Gameshow (→Co-hosts: well, Alan didn't do the scoring in the Bullseye episodes himself, did he? Actually, although he and Little Richard weren't Jim and Tony by any means, their double act wasn't a bad one) (top)
- 21:05, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (→Broadcast: corrected the date of the first Alan's Epic Bullseye episode - an Epic PYCR episode aired on 27 June 2020) (top)
- 20:58, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (→Co-hosts: I haven't seen every Alan's Epic Bullseye episode - but Little Richard Ashdown was the scorer in all five of them, wasn't he?)
- 20:46, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (→Host: ...and "Epic Gameshow episodes" for "specials" in Alan's case, for the same reason ;))
- 20:44, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (→Host: if I may substitute "Gameshow Marathon one-off" for "special" in the case of Messrs McPartlin, Donnelly and Kay, to match the Co-hosts and Broadcast sections... ;))
- 19:42, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) The Getaway Car (It says in both the Synopsis and the Trivia that the show was filmed on location in South Africa. If it says it in the Synopsis, I don't think there's a need to say it in the Trivia as well... ;)) (top)
- 06:29, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Eurovision Song Contest (→The format and voting changes through recent years: rewording, too, as regards the two big changes in '99. Of course, English has been the dominant language of Eurovision songs ever since)
- 05:56, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Eurovision Song Contest (→The format and voting changes through recent years: rewording as regards televoting being rolled out almost everywhere in '98)
- 05:34, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Eurovision Song Contest (→The format and voting changes through recent years: in case anyone's wondering what the five countries were that trialled televoting in '97... ;))
- 05:23, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Eurovision Song Contest (Mon dieu, no instance anywhere of the word "postcard"? Better put that right... ;))
- 05:16, 14 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Eurovision Song Contest (→The format and voting changes through recent years: ...may I reword as regards the changes for 2024? :))
- 20:28, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Let's Play Darts (→Co-hosts: removed the parentheses around the roles, and moved the roles to the left - as is the style these days ;)) (top)
- 19:55, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (→Are they going to gamble?: and if I may correct the spelling of "de rigueur", s'il vous plaît ;))
- 19:53, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (→Are they going to gamble?: "Announcer Tony Green (a professional darts commentator)". Now that he has a profile on here, I don't think the parenthesized text is necessary any more ;))
- 19:49, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (→Co-hosts: ...and he wasn't the scorer for *just* the original show and the Challenge revival ;))
- 19:45, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) News Archive (→Game show news: well, now that I've created Greeny's profile... ;))
- 19:28, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Gameshow Marathon (→Co-hosts: well, neither Ant nor Dec nor Vernon did the scoring in the Bullseye episodes, did they?) (top)
- 19:22, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Showbiz Darts (→Co-hosts: and now I've created Greeny's profile ;)) (top)
- 19:21, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Let's Play Darts (→Co-hosts: best of order... I've just created Greeny's profile)
- 19:19, 7 March 2024 (hist) (diff) Bullseye (I've just created Greeny's UKGS profile)
- 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)
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