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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)
- 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 ;)) (top)
- 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 ;))
- 23:59, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Index S (Stitch, Please! should precede the "Sto"s and the "Str"s ;))
- 23:13, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Steal (→Co-hosts: "Voiceover: A. N. Other" is the style these days, isn't it, rather than "A. N. Other (voiceover)"?) (top)
- 23:04, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Steal (→Inventor: Mr Liddington's surname has two 'd's in it. ;) Might as well point out he was also the producer - even though, of course, he produced almost *every* Central game show in the '90s)
- 22:58, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Steal (No-one's added the composer even though the video's been up over a decade? Mr Alexander had the same credit as on Fam Fortunes, and as Paul Maguire had on (Leslie's) Price is Right and Fifteen-to-One)
- 22:42, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Bwlletin (Not being disrespectful, of course, but this is one of the more obvious translations. ;) Quite a few Cymraeg words, in fact, that are the same as in Saesneg but with 'w's substituted for 'u's)
- 22:27, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Index B (Bwyd ar y Bocs... shouldn't that come *after* the "Bu"s and the other "Bw"s? Diolch yn fawr ;))
- 22:16, 9 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Index T ("Jeopardy!'s title traditionally has this punctuation mark at the end." "What is an exclamation mark?")
- 19:39, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (Got called away just after that last edit... Anyway, the current gold Thames logo again, but at 130px, on a black BG (as per production captions and the site), and at 4:3 (yes, very old school...)) (top)
- 18:53, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (A new image of the Thames skyline ident, at 130px (the full height of the original image was just 100px); also increased the size of the image of the 1990 ident accordingly)
- 18:42, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (There were three years between Thames being merged with Talkback, and all Thames productions becoming TalkbackThames productions. FremantleMedia had its reasons for all this, I'm sure)
- 18:29, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (First of all, fair enough that there's now a TalkbackThames category - this company *did* exist for nine years, and everything was a TalkbackThames production for six, The Bill included)
- 18:26, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Thames Productions (Simon, buddy, you *must* understand that there *are* times when people prefer two things: (1) explanations of some sort rather than none at all, and (2) time being taken rather than none at all)
- 18:14, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:Thames2018.jpg (The current Thames logo, introduced for the brand's 50th anniversary in 2018) (top)
- 18:13, 7 January 2024 (hist) (diff) N File:ThamesSkyline.jpg (Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo do-do dooooo... "This is Thames, from London.") (top)
- 23:59, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Broadcast: I should add the end date, too - just in case ITV Studios decides not to make any more Christmas series (unlikely), or reorganises itself again (probably unlikely))
- 23:54, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Broadcast: updated Christmas episode and series counts under Lifted. Are we to know any more about the problem episode, other than why it was such and that it was an Oxbridge affair?)
- 23:46, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (And this is why)
- 23:35, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (How bad is it that the number of participants in the '23 Xmas series that I was already familiar with was just about zero? :( Anyway, Middlesex are the first Xmas champs to have more than four members)
- 23:25, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Champions: no post-1992 university has yet reached the semi-finals of the regular series - but one has won the Christmas series just ended)
- 18:55, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) The Getaway Car (→Trivia: I note, too, that Ivor Baddiel - David's brother - was the writer. What would any of us do without YouTube? ;))
- 18:49, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) The Getaway Car (→Inventor: I'm of the belief that developers should be mentioned as well as devisors - but feel perfectly free to disagree :))
- 18:43, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) The Getaway Car (The heading here is usually "*theme* music", too... isn't it?)
- 18:42, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) The Getaway Car (When the credit is plain "Music", that usually means that the composer(s) did the full score. And Mr Jacques' name *before* Mr Sylvan's; did he do more of it or was this simply to break from the norm?)
- 17:11, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Bazal Productions (Endemol bought half of Broadcast Communications in 1998; "part of GMG Endemol Entertainment" was subsequently added below the Bazal logo on production captions) (top)
- 17:04, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) Category:Bazal Productions (Before Bazal became an Endemol property, it was effectively owned by the Grauniad: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/aug/12/media.executivepay)
- 15:45, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) We've Got Your Number (The second part of the featured ep is on YouTube, including the credits - which aren't easy to read due to their speed and the video's resolution, but Deadly *is* credited as the Voice of the Balls ;)) (top)
- 15:37, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) We've Got Your Number (Think about it - real-life objects shot on camera; theoretically more time and effort than computer graphics. Ends with the 49 ball coming out during a draw, just to confirm this is a Lottery show ;))
- 15:24, 1 January 2024 (hist) (diff) We've Got Your Number (Well, *I* think WGYN's title sequence is rather brilliant - and I thought it was brilliant as an 11-year-old in '99, too. (Holy molasses, a quarter of a century ago now...))
- 17:14, 30 December 2023 (hist) (diff) TMi (May I swap Going Live and Motormouth round? Two reasons: (1) so each one is BBC vs ITV in that order, and (2) ITV didn't actually beat the BBC until 1999, when SM:TV came good and L&K started to slump) (top)
- 14:09, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Celebrity Juice (The Wayback Machine may not be universally approved on here - but I *do* feel there should be some sort of reminder that there was a section of the ITV site dedicated to Celeb Juice until it ended)
- 13:34, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (Holly's future on DOI *did* go up in the air, of course, when she left This Morning and took a hiatus from ITV. Now she'll be reunited with Stephen full-time, 20 years after they first did MoM... ;))
- 13:20, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (I reckon Stephen was odds-on for DOI from the very moment Phil had to leave ITV - especially as he had, of course, filled in for Phil on one episode in 2022. Why it took ITV seven months, who knows)
- 13:09, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (→Host: first of all, it *is* finally confirmed that Stephen will replace Phil, and that Holly will stay on)
- 13:08, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (Oh dear, oh dear... needless edit warring going on here by the looks of things, and Hydes being displayed rather than Jekylls. I may not be a mod, but I think we need to start all over again here...)
- 12:58, 29 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Countdown (→Champions: time to add the Series 88 champ. It'll be fun rearranging this table again in six months' time... ;)) (top)
- 17:09, 24 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (If we really *do* need to acknowledge speculation by one or more certain tabloids (however fanciful), then I would rather these tabloids were not named. These papers do tend to quote each other anyway)
- 17:05, 24 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (Sorry, but f**k the Sun. I don't mean to be disrespectful to those who *do* trust this paper, but there *are* plenty of folks too who don't and never will give it a yoctogram of trust, myself included)
- 18:42, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (→Host: there *were* 17 years between when the show began and when Phil had to, er, go away - but of course, the show wasn't on in 2015, 2016 or 2017 ;))
- 18:36, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (It certainly is true, though, that the revival has not had separate announcers and commentators like in the original run, and that Sam Matterface does far more commentating than announcing)
- 18:32, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Dancing on Ice (No disrespect intended here... but the Sun is *not* a paper I readily trust, and nor are the Mail and the Express. I'm far more inclined to trust the Guardian, the Telegraph, and other broadsheets)
- 18:22, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone (No disrespect, but the last revisions by TS and JT *are* good, IMO ;))
- 18:08, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown ("And/or" means these eps were either shown on both channels (the "and") or on only one of them (the "or"). And readers can work out when these situations applied when they click on the Trivia pointer)
- 12:17, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (...so perhaps the ITV Prods eps *can* be combined, since the first four aired on ITV1 only, the next thirteen on both ITV1 and CITV, and the last four on CITV only. Good idea to point to the Trivia)
- 12:01, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (→Trivia: a bit more about the ITV1/CITV arrangement, with the help of the It's A Stampede! blog: https://itsastampede.com/2022/08/11/revisiting-and-re-watching-ministry-of-mayhem/)
- 11:03, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (And the same with the Granada/ITV1, ITV Prods/ITV1 and ITV Prods/CITV eps of Showdown. I *know* this makes the infobox long, but sometimes there's no easy *and* elegant way round things like this...)
- 11:00, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (No disrespect, but I'm of the belief that the Carlton and Granada eps of MoM should still be kept separate, even if these were just brands by '04 and there were no major changes in the production crew)
- 10:48, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone (→Trivia: ahem... :))
- 10:10, 23 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (No, 1st Jan '91 was when the IBA was replaced by the ITC, and the ITC did not abolish the limits immediately. Why else did WoF's jackpot remain at £4k, Fam Fortunes' and Strike it Lucky's at £3k, etc?)
- 16:23, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (Sometimes *two* cars would be on offer with the £10k. Before Raise the Roof (and not counting the Lottery), this must have been one of the biggest prize packages offered on a British TV game show...)
- 15:59, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Jackpot!: in 1994, solving the final puzzle won you a car *and* £10,000, which was brilliant. And wasn't it 1 January 1993 when the prize limits were abolished?)
- 01:54, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Jackpot!: the "Big Wheel Jackpot" was £4k in the second, third and fourth series, and £5k in the fifth series. And of course, another incarnation of Lingo has arrived on our screens since... ;))
- 01:48, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Wheel of Fortune (2) (→Jackpot!: clarified that it was in the first five series, 1988-93, that solving the final puzzle won you a car, a holiday or, in Steve Hamilton's own words, the "Big Wheel Jackpot")
- 00:14, 18 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: one last bit of tidying up, I'm hoping ;))
- 23:59, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: at least the last two weeks were straightforward, with the Batons put away. The final being a best-of-three was a tradition in the Bamber Era, of course)
- 23:36, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: if how the Batons worked was difficult to get one's head around, then so was how it was determined which two teams joined the six weekly winners in the QFs...)
- 14:57, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: again, only in 1986 were the teams really seated one above the other - it was back to the usual split-screen effect in 1987, though of course the Batons remained)
- 14:44, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: standard game on Monday, baton game on Tuesday, standard game on Wednesday, baton game on Thursday - and then the weekly final on Friday ;))
- 14:40, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: still more tidying up (hopefully), including the removal of superfluous parentheses and of repetition of the Baton having six lights)
- 14:26, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: further tidying up (I hope), plus clarification that when a contestant got two right, the Baton passed on to the next contestant in the team)
- 11:06, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: well, it *was* a rather different format, wasn't it? Also, in both series, the Baton only featured in the first six weeks of the eight)
- 09:49, 17 December 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Pass the Baton: "Two series from the Bamber era (1986/87)" - well, specifically, the final two series of that era ;))
- 15:33, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) UK Game Show Records (→Longest running: and indeed, it's now aired its 8000th ;))
- 15:27, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) UK Game Show Records (→Longest running: "Countdown aired its 7000th episode..." That should be 7000th *regular* episode - not counting Masters eps (104 all told), Celebrity eps (14), or other special eps (50 all told))
- 15:12, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) UK Game Show Records (Bamber's final regular episode of UC aired on Friday 4 September 1987. Of course, there were the three UK v NZ specials at the end of that year, which were made at Quay Street but weren't regular eps)
- 14:56, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) A Question of Sport (→Host: "1979-1997" -> "1979-97", so that all year ranges within a single calendar century have two digits for the end year)
- 14:53, 16 December 2023 (hist) (diff) A Question of Sport (→Host: just to make clear that Sport Relief only took place in even-numbered years, and so three was the number of specials that Stephen Fry hosted)
- 22:05, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (...and of course, the last four of those *didn't* air on ITV1. Apologies that all this has lengthened the infobox considerably - though adding an image or two to the main text might not go amiss)
- 21:18, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (→Broadcast: then it was Saturday Showdown for 26 episodes...)
- 21:15, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (→Broadcast: so it was Ministry of Mayhem for 103 episodes, with the Carlton brand attached to the first 43 of those. Since it was on all year round, I'm guessing the "series" concept didn't apply)
- 21:06, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (Obviously, the show ended 2005 with one name and started 2006 with another. By the looks of things, it was on every single Saturday from when it started till when it ended, except New Year's Eve 2005)
- 15:59, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Saturday Showdown (I'm still not a fan of "Host A (and Host B in year)", alas. The style I have here is neater, IMO - and still makes clear that Stephen and Holly hosted throughout, while Michael only did the first year)
- 15:44, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Stephen Mulhern (→Shows: it was called Ministry of Mayhem *before* it was called Saturday Showdown. Is this something that one should be strict about, or does it matter?)
- 15:40, 13 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Holly Willoughby (→Shows: it was called Ministry of Mayhem *before* it was called Saturday Showdown. Should one be strict about this, or does it matter?)
- 13:47, 10 December 2023 (hist) (diff) Aled Jones (→Trivia: there's a magical place with toys in their millions all under one roof... it's called Toys "R" Us, with the quotation marks around the 'R' only ;)) (top)
- 13:34, 29 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Popstar to Operastar (→Host: all right, all right... I should have made it a bit clearer that Myleene hosted both series) (top)
- 13:49, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Food Glorious Food (→Champion: as a sort of trade-off, removed the now-dead link to the white chicken korma dish. It's on the Wayback Machine, though, if anyone still wants to try it ;))
- 13:44, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Food Glorious Food (→Web links: I doubt there are people who have been meaning to watch the final and still haven't gotten round to it ten years later... ;))
- 13:42, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Food Glorious Food (Not universally approved, but here's a Wayback Machine link. If such links *are* more trouble than one bargained for, then remove them by all means - but keep the original URLs without linking to them)
- 13:17, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Popstar to Operastar (Meat Loaf's name is usually two words, and Vanessa-Mae's name is usually hyphenated... right?)
- 12:26, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Popstar to Operastar (It's probably neater to put Myleene and Titchy on separate lines - while still making clear that Titchy only co-hosted the first series, of course)
- 12:20, 28 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Popstar to Operastar (Not universally approved, but here's a Wayback Machine link. If such links *do* wreak havoc one way or another, then by all means remove them - while keeping the original URLs without linking to them)
- 22:17, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - November 2023: I am and always have been a big fan of the Wayback Machine - though I respect the opposite view)
- 12:42, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Cleverdicks (Wayback Machine to the rescue - if nothing else, to maintain visual proof that Cleverdicks had its own pages on the old Sky Atlantic site) (top)
- 12:33, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - November 2023: another reminder of the Wayback Machine)
- 01:56, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) UKGameshows:Staffers (→Edit queries - November 2023: is there any way of increasing the character limit for edit summaries?)
- 01:32, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone (→Synopsis: at least *this* edit can be explained in less than 200 characters... replaced {{notaired}} with {{expand}} as a full series has now aired)
- 01:28, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone (→Trivia: from 1 September: https://web.archive.org/web/20230901061407/https://www.channel4.com/programmes/alone. Five eps up, but only the first four had been broadcast on TV at this point, right?)
- 01:28, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone (I only put that text there because I wanted to quickly pore over my rewrite before adding it, and I wanted to explain everything but had to work around the 200-character limit for these summaries...)
- 01:14, 24 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Alone (→Trivia: I'd like to considerably rewrite this bit, as it appears from the Wayback Machine that C4 put *every* episode after the first on its catch-up service first and broadcast it on TV later...)
- 01:41, 23 November 2023 (hist) (diff) University Challenge (→Into the 21st century: may as well point out the move from Quay Street to Dock10, and the accompanying change of set - this fourth Paxman Era set being both the last and the longest-lasting)
- 01:07, 23 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream (Replaced {{notaired}} with {{expand}} as five episodes have now aired)
- 01:04, 23 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream (...AFAIK, this show *hasn't* bombed and been pulled from the schedules, and ITV have not yet said that there won't be another series. Unless I'm stuck in the past while everyone else is in the future?)
- 00:47, 23 November 2023 (hist) (diff) A League of Their Own (Wayback Machine to the rescue again. I don't think you can watch the videos (they're probably all on YouTube anyway), but you can certainly look at the pictures... ;)) (top)
- 00:37, 23 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Odd One In (Don't disregard the Wayback Machine, folks. It's free, it's easy - and it provides good snapshots in time, too (cor, remember when ITVX was simply the ITV Player?)) (top)
- 01:25, 19 November 2023 (hist) (diff) All Time Winners List (→£100,000 Winners: Mollie King's more than just a Saturday now, isn't she? Radio 1 presenter, cricket WAG...)
- 02:16, 16 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions (Perhaps it is more accurate, and less contradictory, to say that 2way bought Celador's international division - formats like Mr and Mrs, and You Are What You Eat, appear to remain CPL's property today) (top)
- 02:04, 16 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions (And I'm fairly sure Celador International wasn't *just* Millionaire... The People Versus sold to a few Eastern European countries; wouldn't Celador International have handled that too?)
- 01:56, 16 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions (You know, Simon, Talking Telephone Numbers isn't on CPL's production archive page either (yet Winning Lines is), and nor is Magic Numbers...)
- 16:20, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions (2waytraffic was altijd een Nederlands bedrijf - voordat het Millionaire en meer overnam, en nadat het door Sony werd overgenomen ;))
- 16:03, 15 November 2023 (hist) (diff) Category:2waytraffic Productions (To be fair, when 2way bought Celador International's format library, Millionaire immediately became the company's biggest show by far. That's the Question was never going to be quite as big...)
- 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) (top)
- 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)
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