That Puppet Game Show - BBC1

artful_codger

Has anyone seen this? It's hard to believe it's going out on air. Puppets doing a quiz show, canned laughter, Gary Linker and Freddie Flintoff look like they're waiting for Ant and Dec to jump out and tell them it was all an elaborate setup.

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Skerries

it was awful, had to turn it off
a very poor man's Muppet show

Chareth Cutestory

I saw perhaps, 2 minutes of this, last week. Absolutely brutal, couldn't watch any more. The jokes aren't funny and it all looks very awkward.

GTR63

This sounds so bad I am too mortified to look it up.

expectationlost

is paddy mcguiness doing the voice of the host puppet?

dmcg90

I actually don't think its too bad, it has some charm.

The puppets are from the same people behind 'The Muppets' so they're quite good. I think it probably needs another series to bed in.

All the same, its nice to see something like this on television.

Banjo

The "muppets" segments - where behind the scenes the show is falling apart - are dire, with unengaging characters, no jokes and soul-sucking canned laughter, but (based purely on the Jonathan Ross episode) the actual game show bits are very funny, considering it's a show for kids.

They're clever little games that entertain young children - reading out an acceptance speech from autocue that's full of redacted trivia and maths questions you have to fill in on the fly without losing track of the speech; putting on a boilersuit covered in push-lights, then having 30s to try and turn them all off; being presented with a surreal scene involving anthropomorphic sausages that you can only see by jumping on a trampoline and peeping over a wall, then having to answer questions about the scene against another contestant.

Those segments look like they're completely separate to the rest of the show though, enabling them to export it round the world, slot in local celebrities and keep the back-office stuff as-is.

Skid X

dmcg90 wrote: »

I actually don't think its too bad, it has some charm.

The puppets are from the same people behind 'The Muppets' so they're quite good. I think it probably needs another series to bed in.

All the same, its nice to see something like this on television.

I think that's a fair assessment. It doesn't really come together but there is potential. Some of the quizzes are good fun. It is nice to see some family entertainment on Saturday evenings.

statesaver

Terrible, terrible stuff.

Also hate that I Love My Country or something show. You'd expect a show like that from TV3 or RTE not BBC

BlaasForRafa

expectationlost wrote: »

is paddy mcguiness doing the voice of the host puppet?

Vernon Kaye I believe.

I saw some of the first episode and it was awful, really cringeworthy stuff, it made Noel's House Party look good, that's how bad it was.

Jim Henson's kids should be ashamed for having produced this heap of crap, they're obviously trying to play off the muppet connection but sold the rights to disney a few years ago and are desperately still trying to stay in the puppet game.

dfx-

It's not going to change the world but it's more watchable than Strictly Come Whatever On Ice or Dr Who or the likes

artful_codger

Banjo wrote: »

considering it's a show for kids.

They're clever little games that entertain young children

Is it a gameshow for kids? It was on after Match of the Day, and there was some light swearing during the backstage segment.

Banjo

...it's a gameshow for *my* kids didn't notice the swearing and assumed - given that it went out at 6 or 7pm on a saturday - that it was going to be family friendly. Maybe they "spice" things up for the late-night re-run?

Incidentally my daughters are 2 and 4 and even they didn't laugh at the back-stage bits... They laugh at jelly, or if I deliberately don't move my face. They were laughing when I told them I was about to switch over to a show with puppets. Those backstage bits really are dire.