Why no quizzes on RTE?

rusty cole wrote: »

for 100 euro yes!! in general no, but come on warm the brain up a bit.
what's the 50 grand one gonna be like then!!!

at the time people wrote in about it.
it was a hard first question I've no shame in saying, for 100 quid!!

bleedin gaybo, he'd lick emself to death so he would!!

Do you think the host of a quiz show writes the questions?

They cost too much to make

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Blackboard Jungle! I was on it, school captain and all.

Challenging Times, the University Challenge rip off was also decent.

Good man, I was a "sub". :rolleyes:

Guy that took the last spot on the team got two sport questions wrong that I knew :mad:

Challenging times was good. It really wouldn't kill RTE to air something like that.

But instead, it's the likes of Winning God Damn Streak that is on our screens ad nauseum. :mad:

They should do something like Numberwang.

Actually, now that I think of it, this is remarkably similar to Winning Streak:

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Tipping Point and The Chaser are both quizzes - I think they're on TV3.

They're not Irish quizzes, though.

I'm surprised that not more people remember It's Not The Answer - it ran for four series in the early 2000s, was dubbed "TV's Toughest Game Show" (and justifiably so, in fact), and even found its way to Britain:

http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/It%27s_Not_the_Answer

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

I was trying to remember the name of that one! As far as I can remember it was shown on weeknights at 6.30 when the RTE news is cut back to half an hour (cos we all know that news doesn't happen during the summer )

Indeed - a slot that these days is more or less permanently occupied by repeats of Reeling In The Years.

And whatever became of its host, Bryan Smyth? Well, here's his LinkedIn profile:

http://ie.linkedin.com/in/bryansmyth

brian_t wrote: »

I think Tipping Point is generally referred to as a Game Show.

In my opinion 30 minutes is about the right length for a quiz.

When they are stretched out to an hour long then I would consider them a Game show.

I don't really make the distinction. When there's questions being asked - it's a quiz in my mind!

Anyway, back on topic.

Not one but two quizzes found their way onto RTE1's Sunday evening schedules in the mid-2000s - Delegation and Last One Standing.

Delegation, made by Adare Productions and hosted by Tom Ó Brannagáin, featured three teams, each consisting of a captain and four of his/her friends, workmates or family members. And when a team was asked a question, the captain had to "delegate" the answering of that question to one of his/her team-mates.

The best-scoring team went through to the end game, in which the roles were basically reversed as the captain had to do the answering in order to win prizes for his/her team-mates and for himself/herself. Naturally, there was an all-or-nothing gamble at the end.

Tom was a capable host, even if his catchphrase "Delegate well" was destined to be remembered by just about no-one, and even if he raised his voice quite a lot: "At the end of that round, you have scored... TWO POINTS!"

At least two series were made, and it did well enough to warrant a celeb episode (inevitably featuring a team of Fair City stars and a team of GAA legends). After it ended, Tom resorted to being the "evil" judge on almost all of TG4's talent shows.

Last One Standing, meanwhile, was made by Mind The Gap Films and hosted by Jon Slattery - who always looked like he'd had a pint or two before recording.

In it, four contestants answered multiple-choice questions in rounds of 100 seconds. When a contestant was being asked a question, they were deemed to be in control - which they kept if they got the question right, or passed over to the next contestant if they got it wrong.

Points were given for right answers, but the aim wasn't to obtain the highest score - it was to be in control when the 100 seconds expired. If you were, you were "still standing" and hence through to the next stage of the contest. Thus, it was possible to obtain a huge score and still lose, simply because you weren't in control when the time was up...

The last two contestants went through to an end game that was played in much the same way as before, except that there were 200 seconds on the clock. And the contestants sat on some sort of turntable, for whatever reason. Anyway, whoever was in control when the time expired was the "Last One Standing", and won a holiday - determined by combining their score with that of their defeated opponent. Again, it was possible for that opponent to have the higher score...

With all due respect to Jon, it's probably fair to say that he wasn't quite as capable a game show host as Tom was - even if he didn't look like he had a few jars on board. That said, I still consider it a shame that Last One Standing lasted just one series.