The Game Show Thread

[eyeTV]

Has that thing he did with Holly (I can't remember the name either) been recommissioned?

Take Off with Bradley & Holly. There has never been an announcement after the delayed run was broadcast last summer.

Since that was filmed Bradley got Blankety Blank, so maybe that's it for the other show.

[CameronYoung]

It was called 'Take Off'. Wikipedia refers to it in the present ("Take Off with Bradley & Holly is a British television game show"), although having said that, the last edit was made in September last year. I think it'll certainly be a while before they consider a new series, though because Covid.

[JAS84]

They won't be filming any more Take Off as long as holidays are impossible. Wouldn't surprise me if it was just quietly dropped.

[Ash101]

Are holidays impossible?

I would argue it’ll probably be quietly dropped because the BBC don’t really have a need for it. They’ve found Bradley Walsh a returning Saturday night show. Holly Willoughby is filming a new show for them too. Plus with Weakest Link, The Wheel & I Can See Your Voice they have plenty of shows to slot around on a Saturday now.

[eyeTV]

Holidays are possible, but maybe Covid is too much of an added liability for broadcasters?

I wonder if the Ant & Dec SNT winners have had their holidays yet?

[iloveTV1]

Speaking of Saturday Night Takeaway, it will be interesting to see what their big prize is during the series, as surely they won’t manage a finale abroad with hundreds of tourists.

[Neil Jones]

Speaking of Saturday Night Takeaway, it will be interesting to see what their big prize is during the series

An all expenses paid two night stay at Flat 25, Western Tower Block, Wolverhampton, with catering provided by CrispyCatering ("when its black its done") and nightly entertainment provided by Tom & Jerry.

[HEW2343]

Are holidays impossible?

I would argue it’ll probably be quietly dropped because the BBC don’t really have a need for it. They’ve found Bradley Walsh a returning Saturday night show. Holly Willoughby is filming a new show for them too. Plus with Weakest Link, The Wheel & I Can See Your Voice they have plenty of shows to slot around on a Saturday now.

Also I don't think the show ratings were that good at all.

[Johnr]

Speaking of Saturday Night Takeaway, it will be interesting to see what their big prize is during the series, as surely they won’t manage a finale abroad with hundreds of tourists.

Probably the same as the last series, a 'Takeaway Getaway'

According to TUI who provide it the holiday can be taken up until April 2023 (for winners of the 2021 series anyway), wouldn't be surprised for them to extend that date slightly though

https://www.tui.co.uk/saturdaynighttakeaway/

[JasonB]

Speaking of Saturday Night Takeaway, it will be interesting to see what their big prize is during the series

An all expenses paid two night stay at Flat 25, Western Tower Block, Wolverhampton, with catering provided by CrispyCatering ("when its black its done") and nightly entertainment provided by Tom & Jerry.

Accompanied by the audience clapping in unison so loud you can't even hear the prize description.

[Brekkie]

Runs of new episodes of Pointless seem to be getting shorter and shorter, now back to repeats after less than 3 weeks.

[mccanmat]

Runs of new episodes of Pointless seem to be getting shorter and shorter, now back to repeats after less than 3 weeks.

Perhaps with all the political ongoings and possible briefings they are pre-empting being moved to bbc2 and not plan to lose new episodes in “which channel is it on?”

[Brekkie]

I think they're just rationing even further as sadly we'll likely see even more of on daytime BBC TV in the near future. Pointless has never had overly long runs of new episodes but usually you're talking 6-8 weeks rather than 2-3. They were certainly impacted more in terms of rationing episodes in the first year of the pandemic than The Chase for example was but even since then the runs of new episodes have been so stop start it doesn't suggest they've filmed anywhere near as many episodes as Richard Osman has filmed for House of Games for example, which at least managed a fairly lengthy run before switching back to repeats.

This run of episodes ran from September to Wed 27 Oct before going back to repeats, with 13 more new episodes than airing this month. They might as well have just aired them in early November really and stuck with the repeats after Christmas.

[XIII]

I don't think they film that many episodes of Pointless a year compared to Tipping Point and The Chase but TBH it's rates about the same whether it's new episodes or repeats.

[Neil Jones]

Like most game shows it'll be block-recorded and I think they record four episodes a day. The most recent commission was something like 226 episodes, so at four episodes a day that's 56 filming days a year, though I've seen somewhere that suggests they have Wednesdays off (as a contestant blog/experience somewhere went said, they went down on the Tuesday, didn't get to film and got to stay in a hotel until filming their episode on the Thursday), so if that's right that's that's eight episodes a week.