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- 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)
- 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)
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