"Greatest game show on Earth" returns to Britain, on The Beeb

[Bob Jersey]

20-some years after its original appearance there at itv, Remarkable Entertainment (firm better known as a producer of live-stage properties) takes up "Survivor"... details "in due course"...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/survivor-reboot-bbc-britain-1235212447/ (link)     B

[Mark Jeffries]

Not directly related to Remarkable Television, another division of the French format factory Banijay that produces "Pointless," the BBC1 quiz show that has been in mortal combat for over a decade with its 5 p.m. weekday quiz competition on ITV "The Chase."  And for some reason Channel 4 has tried to get into the fray lately at 5 p.m. with the second season of its game show "Moneybags."  Remember, friends, C4 is supposed to be the home of alternative commercial TV programming in the UK.

PS:  Banijay owns the overseas rights to the "Survivor" format.

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On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 8:34 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

20-some years after its original appearance there at itv, Remarkable Entertainment (firm better known as a producer of live-stage properties) takes up "Survivor"... details "in due course"...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/survivor-reboot-bbc-britain-1235212447/ (link)     B

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[Brad Beam]

From: tvor...@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvor...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Jeffries

>Not directly related to Remarkable Television, another division of the French format factory Banijay that produces "Pointless," the BBC1 quiz show that has been in mortal combat for over a decade with its 5 p.m. weekday quiz competition on ITV "The Chase."  And for some reason Channel 4 has tried to get into the fray lately at 5 p.m. with the second season of its game show "Moneybags."  Remember, friends, C4 is supposed to be the home of alternative commercial TV programming in the UK.

 

If OnTVTonight.com is accurate – which in this case, it isn’t – Channel 4 has found a new host for “Countdown”: Keith Olbermann.

https://www.ontvtonight.com/uk/guide/listings/programme?cid=69035570&pid=21737663&tm=2022-09-05+06%3A10%3A00

 

[Adam Bowie]

Someone's weird database driven website doesn't work.

Countdown is Channel 4's longest running show - it was the first show on-air when the channel launched in 1982. Its new presenter - at least new in July - is Colin Murray, who is very much not Keith Olberman. That said, I bet Murray knows who Olberman is, as he's a big US sports fan, and longtime presenter of Fighting Talk on BBC Radio which is based on those daft ESPN shows where people score points based on sports stuff.

I'm not sure why Channel Four are running a quiz at that time - as you say, quizzes are well catered for at 5pm. But I suspect Moneybags is just filling in space between seasons of Come Dine With Me (if you don't know what it is, I wouldn't bother looking it up).

It seems to me that daytime TV these days is mostly for people who still haven't come around to streaming, or just want something on in the background while they do other things. I guess you can look up occasionally and answer a quiz question if that's your bag.

Now if some US network took on "Only Connect", then I'd be interested!

Adam

[Kevin M.]

It seems to me that’s what all broadcast and cable networks have been reduced to: background noise. Procedural shows or formulaic reality shows that are easy and cheap to produce. Something innocuous to have on in a doctor’s waiting room. 

Now if some US network took on "Only Connect", then I'd be interested!

Adam

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[Jon Delfin]

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Now if some US network took on "Only Connect", then I'd be interested!

I'm pretty sure that interest would vanish before the end of the first episode. (You saw the US "Would I Lie to You?," right?)

[Ben Scripps]

I shudder to think what would replace the hieroglyphs.

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[Mark Jeffries]

Best we can hope is that PBS buys it, produces it in Cardiff, flies the contestants over and has Victoria Coren Mitchell hosting it.

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[Bob Jersey]

Would that, then, be the first property the Peeb backed that might not be seen in the States?     B

Mark Jeffries, to Carlton Doerner et al, Sept 5th:

[Brad Beam]

From: tvor...@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvor...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Jeffries

>Best we can hope is that PBS buys it, produces it in Cardiff, flies the contestants over and has Victoria Coren Mitchell hosting it.

Would I send my demo-questions-as-writers’-room-application directly to Cardiff, or to my local PBS station downtown? (I come to work for Mr. Waley-Cohen, not to bury him.)

[Adam Bowie]

I'm curious about where people are watching this? Is it buried away on Britbox or something in North America? It didn't strike me as having widespread international appeal.

That said, it's usually one of the most watched shows on BBC2. Looking at yesterday's overnights, it was the most watched BBC2 show with 2.1m viewers watching live or on-demand the same day. To put that into perspective, Eastenders got 2.6m viewers on BBC1 half an hour earlier.

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[Mark Jeffries]

YouTube.  And neither the BBC nor Banijay blocks it (as Banijay--or, as the screen puts it, Endemol BV (Banijay acquired Endemol Shine last year--has started blocking the person who was posting the Saturday night celebrity edition of "Pointless" on YouTube).  As so much TV appears on YouTube, a good number of UK game shows show up being posted, usually from BBC iPlayer or the equivalents.  The networks and producers have pretty much let it go, with the exception of above and "The Chase," which ITV seems to clamped down enough for their own clips packages on the show's YouTube account.

Of course, now that I've blabbed this to a BBC employee...

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[Adam Bowie]

Don't worry - I won't be running to any of our legal teams anytime soon.

I think they're more worried about things that they can otherwise sell to another broadcaster somewhere, or appear on an ex-UK BBC platform that earns cash. So ensuring episodes of The Capture, an NBC/Universal coproduction that appears on Peacock, don't end up there. That sort of thing.

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[M-D November]

That's Numberwang!

[Kevin M.]

Last year I started posting pilot episodes of TV series I liked but aren’t otherwise available on my YouTube channel. I’ve stated if they ever do stream or become commercially available, I’ll remove them from my channel. So far that’s not occurred. And most of the posted pilots have comments begging me for the rest of the series, so there is a market for obscure TV. 

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[Brad Beam]

From: tvor...@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvor...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Adam Bowie

>I'm curious about where people are watching this? Is it buried away on Britbox or something in North America? It didn't strike me as having widespread international appeal.

There is an American quasi-version online on da Toob where 2000 Jeopardy! College Champion Pam Mueller is the host.

 

In the Season 3 USA Grand Final linked below, the glyphs were: T.rex, unicorn, puffer fish, hedgehog, fire, and the trans-rights flag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-C4wgW7Gsc

 

>That said, it's usually one of the most watched shows on BBC2. Looking at yesterday's overnights, it was the most watched BBC2 show with 2.1m viewers watching live or on-demand the same day. To put that into perspective, Eastenders got 2.6m viewers on BBC1 half an hour earlier.

As a shoutout, Eastenders – or more specifically, STN DRS – was a clue last night.