Why no quizzes on RTE?

darkdubh

I'm wondering why RTE hasen't done a proper general knowledge quizz since Gaybo hosted Who Wants To Be A Millionare all of fourteen years ago?I don't count that one that Ann Doyle did during the summer with questions a five year old could answer.BBC always has a flagship quizz show such as Eggheads,it reflects very poorly on us that the national broadcaster seems to have given up on GA quizzes.They seem more preoccupied with cookery programmes,reality shows about fat people losing weight and talent contests.

squonk

Happy memories of Where In The World with Theresa Lowe!

darkdubh

darkdubh wrote: »

I'm wondering why RTE hasen't done a proper general knowledge quizz since Gaybo hosted Who Wants To Be A Millionare all of fourteen years ago?I don't count that one that Ann Doyle did during the summer with questions a five year old could answer.BBC always has a flagship quizz show such as Eggheads,it reflects very poorly on us that the national broadcaster seems to have given up on GA quizzes.They seem more preoccupied with cookery programmes,reality shows about fat people losing weight and talent contests.

god that was awful!! more like horse betting as you could get to the final without answering one question. Plus I'm convinced they were actors trying to be purposefully annoying!!
yes I agree, eggheads is great to watch on BBC, then you have the chase on ITV and million pound drop on Channel 4 etc, ad nauseam!

I love quiz shows.
I remember a 100 pound question by gaybo on who ants to be a millionaire was as follows!!

The word archipelago relates to a group of which?

Architects
Arch bishops
Islands
I forget the last one though it was plausible!!


For 100 quid!!!!! you'd swear it was coming out of his own wages!!!

Jellybaby1

Do you mean the question was too difficult?

Jellybaby1

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Do you mean the question was too difficult?

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!!

Jellybaby1

Better bring back Quicksilver then! I had to set the questions for a local quiz many years ago. I felt I had kept it relatively simple and threw in some difficult questions here and there. A woman came up to me later and told me all the question were far too hard. You can't please everyone I suppose.

colinod0806

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?

Lovely Bloke

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

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

darkdubh

So is it a policy of RTE dumbing down?Surely the demand is there for a quality general knowledge quizz show so why don't they deliver?

Thoie

Because they'd have to pay prize money.

There are a few of the daytime British quizzes that are not really about money, but if you're going with a flagship quiz show, you'd want to have decent prizes. A top prize of "your bus fare home" doesn't really cut it.

I'd have to think about it some more, but I really think the top prize would have to be a minimum of €5k. It would be up against the national lottery scratchcard shows, which while obviously not quizzes, have access to much larger prize funds.

colinod0806

colinod0806 wrote: »

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

eh no!! the gaybo remark was based on his smugness at the time.
He had said he was finished with TV after the late late then jumped all over the millionaire show!! hungry fecker!!

the actual questions are written by elves who deliver them thrice monthly under the cover of darkness!! obviously!

squonk

Murphy's Micro Quiz'm used to give away a car. Usually a Ford Escort or Orion. Not many people won the car every season but it made for good viewing. I think Where In The World gave away holidays but my attention span on that show never quite extended to the actual quiz. I'm sure a lot of companies would still put up prizes for exposure. Heck, even winning aniPad or something would be decent enough with a Mastermind type round system were the winner picked up €50,000 for instance. I'm sure they'd easily make the cost up in advertising along the way.

efb

They cost too much to make

mikom

Anne doyle/sheds.

squonk

squonk wrote: »

Murphy's Micro Quiz'm used to give away a car. Usually a Ford Escort or Orion. Not many people won the car every season but it made for good viewing. I think Where In The World gave away holidays but my attention span on that show never quite extended to the actual quiz. I'm sure a lot of companies would still put up prizes for exposure. Heck, even winning aniPad or something would be decent enough with a Mastermind type round system were the winner picked up €50,000 for instance. I'm sure they'd easily make the cost up in advertising along the way.

ah the video game round on that show!! memories! ha ha ha, yeah they often gave away opel corsas etc.

mikom

rusty cole wrote: »

ah the video game round on that show!! memories! ha ha ha, yeah they often gave away opel corsas etc.

Ford Orion was usually the main prize.
Rarely won though.

flazio

TV3 try and fail to get the quizzes going, The Weakest Link, Mastermind (which I thought was quite good) and those two new ones The Lie and Crossfire, just aren't bringing in the ratings.

Stevecw

Know Your Sport with George & Jimmy was a great show. Remember as a kid watching that and wanting to be on it when I was older. Now I am a lot older, it's not on anymore! It had some good prizes too from what I remember.

keith16

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:

Skerries

keith16 wrote: »

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:

and you're still not bitter about it

Money is probably the main thing. Production costs are the same as elsewhere but they won't get the advertising revenue ITV would.

At the same time a full filming schedule for a couple of quizzes could work out cheap enough. As long as the questions aren't at the level of the last few TV3 efforts.

keith16

Skerries wrote: »

and you're still not bitter about it

Ha! Just as I hit "submit reply" I thought, that sounds really bitter.....

BUT I AM BITTER DAMN IT, THE GUY ROBBED MY ONE CHANCE AND THEN BALLSED IT UP.

Like France robbing Irelands place at the 2010 World Cup and also making a balls of it.

So yes, I am bitter AND I DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS IT :pac:

Sorry for shouting.

EDIT: Are you talking about Winning Streak? Either way, I am bitter about that too.

Harry Angstrom

I'd settle for a remake Rapid Roulette at this stage

I can't really understand why RTE don't have a weekly quiz show. They're relatively cheap to make. Challenging Times was good, apart from Kevin Myers. I got the feeling that RTE were obliged to have Myers as question master because of the Irish Times tie-in. Nora Owen was woeful as presenter of Mastermind on TV3, as was Eamon Dunphy on their version of The Weakest Link.

Challenging Times and Mastermind would be cheap as chips to make, if only they could find half-decent presenters for them.

flazio

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Challenging Times and Mastermind would be cheap as chips to make, if only they could find half-decent presenters for them.

I think that's the crux of the problem, there isn't anybody on RTÉ, TV3 or TG4's books that would make a decent game show host.

Harry Angstrom

flazio wrote: »

I think that's the crux of the problem, there isn't anybody on RTÉ, TV3 or TG4's books that would make a decent game show host.

I don't know about that. I reckon somebody like Bryan Dobson or Mary Wilson would make a good fist of something like Mastermind or Challenging Times.

Thoie

I'd make a great quiz host, but I've a face best suited to radio.

I've got a school marmish way about me, and I wouldn't be having with any of that crap chit chat "Now Mary, you have a funny story about the time you ran over a dog with a tractor - tell us more about that? And who did you bring with you tonight, are all those hairy yokels in row 3 related to you? Do they want to wave at the camera? Why? It looks like the whole fecking village is here, who's left at home to wave to? Oh, you left your eldest chained up in the basement with the telly on for company - that's lovely."

keith16

They should do something like Numberwang.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOZtWZ56lc

darkdubh

keith16 wrote: »

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:

I just don't get why that show is so popular.Its all chance theres no skill involved,I find it very boring to watch the tv equivilant of bingo.I'd only tune in if there was someone I knew on it.

Harry Angstrom

darkdubh wrote: »

I just don't get why that show is so popular.Its all chance theres no skill involved,I find it very boring to watch the tv equivilant of bingo.I'd only tune in if there was someone I knew on it.

It's not a quiz show. I'm not sure why it's even mentioned on this thread. The contestants might as well be flipping coins to see how much money they'll win. There's no test of skill whatsoever.

FloatingVoter

The lottery raffle shows are like the Rose of Tralee. They're left on in the background in pubs and hotels nationwide. Nobody is watching but the TV is on. Maybe the voting for the rose and the spin the wheel bit on the gameshow.
As for a proper quiz. Well get a chair, a table and a man / woman / talking dog to ask questions on say a specialist subject then some general questions. Call it SuperMind and give the winner €5000 and a shiny hat. It would be in profit from day one.

darkdubh

darkdubh wrote: »

the tv equivilant of bingo.

That's Telly Bingo you're thinking of.