29-07-2022, 12:40 PM
(28-07-2022, 06:16 PM)Aplus1 Wrote:(28-07-2022, 05:12 PM)KK! Wrote: Even if Challenge don't want to spend the money on further original content, there is plenty of stuff from the 'heyday' that is effectively timeless and could easily be repeated. Defectors and TV Scrabble, anyone?
Question is not "Do we have it?/Could we show it again?" but "Would enough people watch it?". If only a tiny number of people would watch an old gameshow which they haven't heard of, but a much larger number of people would watch something they recognise and know they like - such as The Chase, Pointless, Millionaire, Bullseye - then the choice for any commercial business is sadly going to be the more lucrative (if less interesting) option.
Mind you on and off 2019 and through to 2020 Challenge repeated their 30-episode set of "Stake Out (2001)" on a 10AM slot but I don't think many were bothered with that.
(28-07-2022, 08:28 PM)Gary Baldy Wrote:(27-07-2022, 06:33 PM)Neil Jones Wrote: 8 out of 10 cats is not a gameshow. It is a comedy panel show. If you had suggested 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown then while it is still a panel show (effectively) it is one with a gameshow wrapped (albeit loosely) around it.
Everything on that list you've posted (aside from Shooting Stars, Impossible, The Wall and possibly The Mole)) has already been through the Challenge mill. This includes Fun House, Finders Keepers (STV version because of... reasons) and Impossible Games is probably bit too niche and 50/50 is out of their target audience. As for Buzzococks, well Sky picked that up last year as a new series.
Shooting Stars and Impossible have both aired on Challenge before.
So had The Mole.