Worst quiz show ever?

patmac

Just Tuned into ITV+1 to watch 'The Chase' and see it being replaced by 'Tipping Point'. Whose idea was this? Do you remember those push halfpenny games when you went to the seaside, unbelievably dull, worst one since they tried to make a game show out of Sudoku, be amazed if it got a second series.

Go Harvey Go

Think this belongs in the Gameshows & Quizzes section...

Skid

patmac wrote: »

Just Tuned into ITV+1 to watch 'The Chase' and see it being replaced by 'Tipping Point'. Whose idea was this? Do you remember those push halfpenny games when you went to the seaside, unbelievably dull, worst one since they tried to make a game show out of Sudoku, be amazed if it got a second series.

Shame to see a good quiz like The Chase replaced by rubbish like that. Especially when Pointless is also off air (for Wimbledon).

T.C.O.B

Skid wrote: »

Shame to see a good quiz like The Chase replaced by rubbish like that. Especially when Pointless is also off air (for Wimbledon).

Are you really holding up Pointless as a good quiz show? Seems a remarkabley tedious show me.

Is that Deal or No Deal still on the telly? I know tis more of a gameshow than a quizshow but one things for sure twas a load of rubbish.

Skid

T.C.O.B wrote: »

Are you really holding up Pointless as a good quiz show? Seems a remarkabley tedious show me.

Pointless is an excellent programme.

It has two key elements. Firstly, A good format where you can play along at home and shout out the answers. Secondly, it has terrific presenters (Alexander and Richard)who consistently make it one of the most entertaining shows on Television.

After more than 300 episodes it is still pulling in big ratings.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/18/primeval-pointless-celebrities

And it will be around for a long time yet

http://www.endemoluk.com/news/remarkable-television-scores-pointless-two-series

I'd definitely take The Chase over Pointless but Pointless is good with both the hosts and the time you get to torture yourself trying to think of answers.

gubbie

I was up in a friends for a while who had Challenge TV on Sky.

There was one show, Golden Balls, that used to infuriate me. It's half luck and half being an ass.

My worst is Eggheads. Not because the questions are tough, but because the Eggheads are the most unlikable people ever.

donegal_man

Agree that Pointless is good quiz but I do think that there is rather too much padding. Golden Balls and Deal Or No Deal both unwatchable to me

tvercetti

Gotta love Golden Balls, even if only for moments like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Uos2fzIJ0

T.C.O.B

Skid wrote: »

Pointless is an excellent programme.

It has two key elements. Firstly, A good format where you can play along at home and shout out the answers. Secondly, it has terrific presenters (Alexander and Richard)who consistently make it one of the most entertaining shows on Television.

After more than 300 episodes it is still pulling in big ratings.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/18/primeval-pointless-celebrities

Ratings does not equal quality. The viewership figures for Mrs Browns Boys, Winning Streak, When the Wistle Blows etc etc demonstrate this.

Being placed in a primetime slot on a Saturday on BBC1 basically guarentees a show a couple of millions viewers.

All that been said, Pointless certainly isn't one of the worst quiz shows ever (had to check to the title of this thread again!), just for me it's a bit staid, in the 6 or 7 eps I've seen there was only one memorable bit of banter between the hosts. On the plus side at least there is some skill and knowledge on show so that does elevate about half the quiz/game shows out there!

T.C.O.B

gubbie wrote: »

My worst is Eggheads. Not because the questions are tough, but because the Eggheads are the most unlikable people ever.

I think that's the idea! The more unlikeable they are, the more you wanna see them beaten.

CJ is a particularily annoying ***** (insert whatever expletive you deem appropriate!), he only seems to know stuff about tennis and some pop music. The Irish guy is also really annoying, I hate the way that before he answers a question he tells us a little story about each of the possible answers in order to make us aware of his genius!

Like the show tho!!

geneyuss

the weakest link is pure scutter, i don't know how its still on the telly, and you have to answer what seems like a hundred questions for rubbish prize-money.

I could do without seeing the cube whenever im flicking channels aswell.

le la rat

Noel Edmunds is a mangina

Go Harvey Go

patmac wrote: »

'Tipping Point'. Whose idea was this? Do you remember those push halfpenny games when you went to the seaside, unbelievably dull, worst one since they tried to make a game show out of Sudoku, be amazed if it got a second series.

Well, guess what - it has...

As proof, here's the contestant call on UKGameshows.com:

http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Contestant_Calls

Skid

Richard Osman (from Pointless) had a good article in the Guardian this week about some of the UK's worst Quiz Shows

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/oct/26/uk-tv-worst-ever-gameshows

I have made some terrible TV shows in my life. I am honestly blushing just thinking about them. I've never actually intended to do this, but from time to time you lose control of the steering and can only watch as your project drives into a brick wall. We all make mistakes, right? But not all of our mistakes end up being presented by Nick Knowles on primetime TV.

goose2005

Who could forget Gridlock? Answer a question, and you get to make a move in some incomprehensible boardgame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuYK0MS1AcI

Go Harvey Go

How about 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show?

http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Weaver%27s_Week_2010-07-25

Or The Bank Job?

http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Weaver%27s_Week_2012-01-22

harry Bailey esq

rte had some musical quiz a couple of years back,hot milk and potatoes i think,worst ever quiz show.painful to watch.

Go Harvey Go

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

rte had some musical quiz a couple of years back,hot milk and potatoes i think,worst ever quiz show.painful to watch.

Are you sure you're not thinking of the Lyrics Board?

jill_valentine

I ran here from the other side of the internet just to scream Gridlocked, a thousand times Gridlocked.

harry Bailey esq

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

Are you sure you're not thinking of the Lyrics Board?

you could be right,eitherway it was pure drivel.i think Linda Martin could have been the presenter

Go Harvey Go

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

you could be right,eitherway it was pure drivel.i think Linda Martin could have been the presenter

Then it was definitely the Lyrics Board.

Neeson

It was hot milk and pepper. Brendan o Carroll presented it. There was and maybe still is an episode on the rte player.

Achtung Maybe

The worst is Eggheads (as with Gubbie) as the panel consists of smug egotistical individuals. Now while the likeability factor is not essential to a quiz show it does help.

For me Pointless is my favourite at present

BTW honourable mention for Mike Murphy's Murphys Micro Quizm show as the worst Irish show

ShaunC

Without a doubt, the worst ever game show has to be "Going for Gold" presented by Henry Kelly.

le la rat

ShaunC wrote: »

Without a doubt, the worst ever game show has to be "Going for Gold" presented by Henry Kelly.

Who am I.... I loved going for gold when I was younger

wilddarts

Anyone remember that goon Alan Hughes of Ireland AM doing a show called Talk About on RTE??

Here's a promo clip from YouTube to jog the ''memories''.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjcO4lRmKGg

Go Harvey Go

I know I'm digging up an old thread here - but Tipping Point, which the OP had in mind, has now been on the air nearly four years.

That must mean it's successful - and thus not the worst game show ever. And I've got to admit, it has become a guilty pleasure of mine...

It is a game of chance more than anything else, though. Because at the end of the day, it's all about how those counters fall.

Indeed, I've seen two episodes recently where the contestant playing the end game put the maximum 21 counters into the machine - answering all six questions correctly for three counters each, then playing the three trade counters - and still couldn't get the jackpot counter further than halfway along the bottom shelf. (Fortunately, in both cases, the trade counters were hypothetical - both contestants had taken their banks from around £1,500 to over £3,000 during the six questions, and would you be willing to risk that amount unless the jackpot counter was hanging over the edge of the bottom shelf?)

And I've seen this clip of a contestant needing just five counters to win the £10k:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvvct91Esk4

Of course, quite a few new game shows have popped up in the three years since the last post on this thread - and some of these have been genuinely naff.

Face the Clock certainly cannot be described as Rory Bremner's finest hour, as Iain Weaver on UKGameshows.com makes clear:

http://ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Weaver%27s_Week_2013-01-20

Take on the Twisters can't be described as Julia Bradbury's finest hour, either. (Shame, because I like her a lot.)

http://ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Weaver%27s_Week_2013-08-04

"Dull" wouldn't be a bad description for Gift Wrapped - and did it really need Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford hosting together? (The couples that took part were all engaged, and Eamonn and Ruth have of course been husband and wife since 2010 - but even so...)

http://ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Weaver%27s_Week_2014-09-07

And then there's The Almost Impossible Gameshow. It airs on ITV2, it's hosted by the Rubberbandits, it features a lot of supposedly "almost impossible" challenges - and Weaver hates, hates, HATES it.

http://ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Weaver%27s_Week_2015-10-11

Yamanoto

More of a game show, but Beat the Crusher with Freddie Starr was spectacularly bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPEYRluIw7w

feargale

Achtung Maybe wrote: »

BTW honourable mention for Mike Murphy's Murphys Micro Quizm show as the worst Irish show

No, no. Peter Murphy's shows take that title. In deference to Dan Enright ( whose machinations in the Twenty One Show inspired the film Quiz Show ) I cannot name him world champion, but Irish champion without a doubt.

Peter Murphy wrote quiz books and went around the country to parish halls asking only questions that appeared in his books. He made no secret of the fact that if you wanted to do well in his quiz show you had to read his books. Of course there were some who read his books and nothing else, and were very happy with his modus operandi. They were well aware that " Peter likes correct answers." When there were only two or three contestants left standing late at night and Peter wanted to hurry home, to finish it off he would throw in one or two questions that he had never asked before. And then a big, loud piece of tin would be presented as a trophy to the winner. Since most of the audience would see him just once or twice in a lifetime they didn't twig what was going on. Those who followed him around the country were either too dumb to cop it or, most likely as contestants, too perverse to care.

It was a foolproof refinement of the Quiz Show scam. On second thoughts, maybe he should be named world champion.

Go Harvey Go

From 2005, Dick and Dom's Ask the Family:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq1Bx7q-TPk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KduleGVXLeg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mE5Ug8-y2I

Admittedly, more "worst revival of a quiz show ever" than "worst quiz show ever, full stop". Because, of course, the original show with Robert Robinson was brilliant - as was the short-lived UK Gold version with Alan Titchmarsh, a mere six years before D'n'D and their donkey masks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjprLNd9BCk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vWmIAKuKj8

So bad was "Flaky Kiddo Mismatches", though, that some members of the original show's production team expressed their displeasure in the Telegraph - and even Dick and Dom themselves called it "the biggest load of tat that we've ever, ever done".

Candlewick

I heard there was one years ago on RTE with Bunny Carr. Lots of older people answering multiple choice questions. When he was asking the questions, he usually put much more emphasis on the correct answer apparently. Kind of ageist / insulting, if you ask me.

dubguy2017

Tipping Point.. Most boring show to watch

Mutant z

Deal or No Deal a tedious show with an even more tedious presenter.

Mutant z

The know it all Eggheads also get up my skin.