Comments on: Krypton back-tor! http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896 Contemporary and classic British TV Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:09:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Nick Gates http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896&cpage=1#comment-253 Nick Gates Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:30:02 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896#comment-253 Bloody thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1pey5bK8q8

]]> By: Nick Gates http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896&cpage=1#comment-252 Nick Gates Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:28:49 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896#comment-252 Ruck Zuck? Bruce Forsyth’s Hot Streak!

]]> By: Rob Williams http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896&cpage=1#comment-251 Rob Williams Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:24:03 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896#comment-251 Some other formats from Europe would do enough. Its just they have not been explored, how about Dhalli Dhalli or Ruck Zuck anyone?

]]> By: Nick Gates http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896&cpage=1#comment-250 Nick Gates Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:49:15 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896#comment-250 Oh no, French gameshows are almost uniformly great – they had a cracking version of Deal or No Deal as well, much less serious than ours, although also actually quite a bit meaner – their banker is more of a bastard than ours. It was axed but they’re bringing it back. And Fort Boyard is still going almost twenty years after it started and is massively important and influential (albeit less so these days).

]]> By: Terry Hayward http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896&cpage=1#comment-249 Terry Hayward Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:34:56 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896#comment-249 I’m not sure that Going for Gold needs to be live but it was a good quiz all in all, a version of which is still running in prime time on French TV, complete with the same buzzer sounds and broadly similar graphics that we were used to back in the late 1980s.

Mind you, they also had a cracking version of Wheel of Fortune every night at 7pm which was a much more free-wheeling version that run to 45 minutes and had a host who was happy to play around with the format and give the contestants some more air time without it being too annoying.

Can you tell where I went on holiday last week? I did get out as well but a quick blast of La Roue de la Fortune while getting ready to go out of an evening became a bit of a habit.

]]> By: Nick Gates http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896&cpage=1#comment-170 Nick Gates Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:51:04 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896#comment-170 Krypton Factor’s not the only thing coming back – Five are bringing back Going for Gold in October, apparently going out live.

]]> By: Zokko http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896&cpage=1#comment-169 Zokko Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:16:17 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896#comment-169 Bet loads of youngsters tune in thinking its a spin-off of ‘The X Factor’.

]]> By: Steve Williams http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896&cpage=1#comment-160 Steve Williams Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:39:01 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896#comment-160 Says in the paper that Ben Shepherd’s going to do it, thanks to his combination of “brains and good looks”. Hmm.

]]> By: ljones http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896&cpage=1#comment-159 ljones Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:13:34 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896#comment-159 “21st Century Makeover”. Uh oh, that sound ominous right from the start. x.x

As for the presenter, if they can’t get gordon burns how’s about gordon brown hehe :) !

ljones

]]> By: Nick Gates http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896&cpage=1#comment-155 Nick Gates Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:40:56 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2896#comment-155 Mmm, it’s great news, but I think it says something about the state of ITV that we’re all suggesting it’s likely to be rubbish before they’ve even done anything yet…

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