The TV Thread

[Futtocks]

4 minutes ago, JohnM said:

Don't think its like that on Pointless.

That's the way the show is structured - nobody can predict what the panel of 100 people will know or not.

But when a celeb version doesn't finish with a pointless answer, they still give a standard amount to the players' charities. I think it is £1,000.

[Exiled Townie]

2 hours ago, Moose said:

Have you ever been suspicious that the questions asked on celebrity episodes of quiz shows are easier than normal.

A question on today’s Celebrity Tipping Point

Which large animal can suffer from ‘floppy trunk syndrome’

A question from the 'ordinary' version of Tipping Point last week, "Which European city is surrounded by an orbital motorway called the Berliner Ring," Answer "Germany".

Now I haven't been on a televised quiz show, so don't know if your brain melts when it's your turn to answer, but there seems to be a lot of contestants that have little or no general knowledge and 'chance it' on these shows.  Don't know if they are brave or just greedy bu99ers.

 

[JohnM]

12 hours ago, Exiled Townie said:

A question from the 'ordinary' version of Tipping Point last week, "Which European city is surrounded by an orbital motorway called the Berliner Ring," Answer "Germany".

Now I haven't been on a televised quiz show, so don't know if your brain melts when it's your turn to answer, but there seems to be a lot of contestants that have little or no general knowledge and 'chance it' on these shows.  Don't know if they are brave or just greedy bu99ers.

 

Or even how they qualify. Surely there has to be some contestant selection criteria. There's quite a process behind University Challenge, you can see from Mastermind what happens when a contestant's concentration is broken, and from Only Connect what a twisted brain is needed to get even one question right. 

 

[graveyard johnny]

1 hour ago, JohnM said:

Or even how they qualify. Surely there has to be some contestant selection criteria. There's quite a process behind University Challenge, you can see from Mastermind what happens when a contestant's concentration is broken, and from Only Connect what a twisted brain is needed to get even one question right. 

 

to qualify for tipping point i think you have to sit on a farm gate with a length of straw in your mouth and wait for a car to come through the village  and the driver to ask you if you want to be on tv.

[graveyard johnny]

we always make sure we catch the first 5 mins of the chase so we can do our customary 

"WHAT?-he's only 48?

"NEVER!"- she says she's only 50!

"CHUFF!"- that bloke in the blue shirt said he was only 41!

etc etc 

[Jasper]

On 14/02/2021 at 07:48, JohnM said:

Or even how they qualify (for quiz shows). Surely there has to be some contestant selection criteria. 

Couple of good ones on yesterday. On Tipping Point the question was " What genre of books did John Le Carre write? Were they about Farming, Spying or Sailing?"

Contestant, "Well I've never heard of him, but  he sounds posh, so I'll guess at Spies."

And on Richard Osman's House of Games, question "Which US state is the Devils Tower in, that featured in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?"

Contestant "Never heard of Devils Tower or that Close Encounters thing... is it a film or a book or something?"

 

[Shadow]

1 hour ago, Jasper said:

Couple of good ones on yesterday. On Tipping Point the question was " What genre of books did John Le Carre write? Were they about Farming, Spying or Sailing?"

Contestant, "Well I've never heard of him, but  he sounds posh, so I'll guess at Spies."

And on Richard Osman's House of Games, question "Which US state is the Devils Tower in, that featured in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?"

Contestant "Never heard of Devils Tower or that Close Encounters thing... is it a film or a book or something?"

 

Only Connect had a team last night that had never heard of the film Barbarella

[JohnM]

6 minutes ago, Shadow said:

Only Connect had a team last night that had never heard of the film Barbarella

[graveyard johnny]

2 hours ago, Shadow said:

Only Connect had a team last night that had never heard of the film Barbarella

they couldn't identify johnny cash on university challege- saddos 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

1 hour ago, graveyard johnny said:

they couldn't identify johnny cash on university challege- saddos 

My God I wanted to punch that cocky little s**t! Blonde captain with glasses, forgot what uni it was. 

[graveyard johnny]

1 minute ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

My God I wanted to punch that cocky little s**t! Blonde captain with glasses, forgot what uni it was. 

village of the damned university i think

[DavidM]

Some of the stupidest people I’ve met were at university . Folk often think it automatically means you’re dead clever but a lot of times they know a lot about a little but nowt about general stuff

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Something that really bugs me on quiz shows and particularly pointless these days is how they offer extra info on top of the question. Like today on pointless the question was please and thank you in different languages, they gave you the words but then the first initial of the language, very unnecessary, made it far too easy. The question after, children's books set in London, gave a description of the book but then the author and initials of the title, far too easy and somehow, even with all this info, some of the 100 people they ask still can't get the answers. The British public are getting generally thicker. 

[Gerrumonside ref]

Can recommend ‘The English Game’ on Netflix. 

[Futtocks]

I'm watching Indoor Athletics on the iPlayer, and the venue's mascot is a piece of toast!

You don't believe me?

 

[DavidM]

56 minutes ago, Gerrumonside ref said:

Can recommend ‘The English Game’ on Netflix. 

Yeh I watched that in the first lockdown and enjoyed it . 

[Futtocks]

 

[graveyard johnny]

its come down to watching repeats of "one foot in the grave" on a saturday night- richard wilson was only 54 in the first series! "i don't believe it"

[Wiltshire Rhino]

Watching Lupin on Netflix. Enjoying it so much I spent a whole 99p on Kindle to buy the collection of novels. 

 

[Futtocks]

8 minutes ago, Wiltshire Rhino said:

Watching Lupin on Netflix. Enjoying it so much I spent a whole 99p on Kindle to buy the collection of novels. 

 

I just put that on my watchlist, but haven't started it yet. What are the books like?

My only experience of the Lupin character is an early Hayao Miyazaki anime, which is pretty good fun.

Edited February 21, 2021 by Futtocks

[Wiltshire Rhino]

9 hours ago, Futtocks said:

What are the books like?

I've only read the first few chapters of the first book but I'm enjoying it. They seem to be written so younger readers can enjoy them too but I'm enjoying getting back in touch with my younger self.

[gingerjon]

10 hours ago, Wiltshire Rhino said:

Watching Lupin on Netflix. Enjoying it so much I spent a whole 99p on Kindle to buy the collection of novels. 

 

It's tremendous fun, isn't it?

Like if they made Sherlock but had a clue what they were going to do with all the narrative arcs they kept setting up.

[glemiln]

12 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

It's tremendous fun, isn't it?

Is the full Lupin series now available?  I was enjoying the first episodes.

[gingerjon]

3 minutes ago, glemiln said:

Is the full Lupin series now available?  I was enjoying the first episodes.

Netflix are promising to email me when 'part two' is available. So I think it's still the first five.

[voteronniegibbs]

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Edited August 6 by voteronniegibbs