whats the worst game show we have

Ted Plain · 06-03-2018 10:12PM

Used to love 3-2-1 with Ted Rogers and The Price is Right with Leslie Crowthers (Phil Lynott's father-in-law) back in the day.

Here's some game show trivia that I recently found out... back in the 60s a struggling actor by the name of Dickie Dawson was married to Diana Dors, an English blonde bombshell of the time. He went on to become a famous game show host in America in the 70s. I only know him as Damon from The Running Man, where he parodied his TV self.

The worst shows are anything with that beardy ****er Noel Edmonds.

RockDesk · 06-03-2018 10:17PM

Ted Plain wrote: »

The worst shows are anything with that beardy ****er Noel Edmonds.

Telly Addicts was deadly!

imme · 06-03-2018 10:28PM

Collie D wrote: »

Hate to break it to you but...

Only a few months ago aged 84.

aaahhh
thanks Collie D

He was class was W G Stewart
Great presenting style and commanding presence
He lived a full life

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/sep/24/william-g-stewart-obituary

callaway92 · 06-03-2018 10:33PM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Bullseye was a great tv show. I’d suggest that now darts has become so popular again that some canny tv producer brings it back.

They tried that a few years ago when darts was booming and at its peak with the comedian Dave Spikey hosting and it completely bombed.

My favourite is The Chase. Also have a guilty liking for Tipping Point even though Ben Shephard is v cardboard.

dublinman1990 · 06-03-2018 10:41PM

Noel Edmond's Cheap Cheap Cheap on Channel 4 is I think the worst game show I have watched in several years. It's a pointless & dreck format with people winning very little money from it at all unless they were lucky. Another one is Million Euro Challenge with Nicky Byrne on RTÉ. That was another one that was rubbish done by our very own National Lottery. I have to admit that it was a very boring show. The games featured in it were also rubbish.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 07-03-2018 12:21AM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Bullseye was a great tv show. I’d suggest that now darts has become so popular again that some canny tv producer brings it back.

It was already brought back in 2006 with the terrible Dave Spikey hosting. It just didn't work, I think the time and era made Bullseye more than anthing.

Sky produced a darts based quiz show called 180 a couple of years ago which was diabolical. I think it was cut after one season.

donegaLroad · 07-03-2018 12:31AM

anyone remember Murphy's Micro Quiz-M on RTE1?

There is a full episode available on Youtube but dont torture yourselves.

foxy farmer · 07-03-2018 12:37AM

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057077593/4
Anyone remember this? Hardly I'd say because it didn't last.
My abiding memory will be 2 groups of people going into steeltech garden sheds to discuss a plan of action. Woeful sh1te altogether.

Nettle Soup · 07-03-2018 12:44AM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Fifteen to one.

I loved that show in the 80s - is it still on?

William G Stewart died I think.

rainbowtrout · 07-03-2018 02:01AM

Yes it's hosted by Sandy Toksvig now.

tupenny · 07-03-2018 02:16AM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Bullseye was a great tv show. I’d suggest that now darts has become so popular again that some canny tv producer brings it back.

So popular? Few nights over Christmas watching fat bald lads

Know your sport was good.. worst has to be winning streak

tupenny · 07-03-2018 02:17AM

Is telly bingo still on the go?

PTH2009 · 07-03-2018 02:35AM

would university challenge count as a quiz show?? always looks so depressing

one thing I don't get is people going to quiz shows to be in the audience and watch. I'd say there is so much jealousy going on. Imagine been on WWTBAM and you pick ask the audience and they end up losing the game for u.

speaking of winning streak is Mike Murphy still alive ?? he must be a fair age

quintana76 · 07-03-2018 03:21AM

imme wrote: »

ahhh

15-to-1 is class, a classic
If only they could bring back William G Stewart, the former presenter.

I don't think he's dead, at least I hope not.

Tipping Point, as has been mentioned is pure desperate.
It is a sad excuse of a game show/quiz programme.

Sadly, he died last September. No reprise.

Yer Da sells Avon · 07-03-2018 03:26AM

PTH2009 wrote: »

speaking of winning streak is Mike Murphy still alive ?? he must be a fair age

He's still alive and according to Wikipedia, he's 76. He returned to RTE a couple of years ago with a nostalgia-based quiz show called 'Play it by Year'.

Sephiroth_dude · 07-03-2018 09:42AM

cliggg wrote: »

Tipping Point.

TV Executive: "Let's make a large version of a money grabbing carnival game and build a show around it. People will lap it up!"

And sadly they do

I hate that show, the chase is the only game show worth watching on t.v .

Chrongen · 07-03-2018 09:59AM

the_pen_turner wrote: »

what is the worst the tv game show we have

i think it is the chase
there is very little chance of the contestants winning anything
everything is biased towards the chaser by not having to buzz in just answer .
and the speed you can lock in your answer and put the other person under pressure
then you have the controvery over the timer when it stretched out to let the chaser catch

what do you think is the worst and why

The Chase is a quiz show. There's no "game" involved. It's just that the format is that you have a certain number of "lives".

valoren · 07-03-2018 10:57AM

RockDesk wrote: »

This will probably be an unpopular pick, but I don't like Pointless.

Not unpopular. It's absolutely awful.

And what makes it awful is how tediously it is dragged out.
Alexander Armstrong reading out very quickly the interminable list of options, then reading them ALL out again as if you have neither the ability to read what he just said yourself or capable of hearing him the first time. It's a masterclass in dragging the arse out of their time slot.

And when the contestant gives an answer he also draws that out as well which is particularly irritating for viewers when it's immediately obvious that their answer is not a pointless answer e.g.

"Ok....Men's Olympic Gold medal in swimming.....so you're saying Michael Phelps is a pointless answer?...our category is Men's Olympic Swimming Gold medal winners... and you're guess is Michael Phelps....ok...so let's see if Michael Phelps is a pointless answer....." :rolleyes:

And having gone through the bones of an hour of that crap what are they playing for? The jackpot of £1,000!!

What a load of bollox that show is.

Give me The Chase or Catchphrase any day.

ohnonotgmail · 07-03-2018 11:31AM

EPAndlee wrote: »

Only Connect. My mind can't comprehend how the contestants make the connections to get a question right

the best quiz show on tv. The question setters are fantastic and Victoria Coren Mitchell doesnt hurt either.

TomSweeney · 07-03-2018 11:34AM

hehe up on Twitter
https://twitter.com/boards/status/971331053678931968

But God this winning streak show is terrible, crrrriinnnngggeee!!!

07-03-2018 12:24PM

Recently discovered this. It's the hardest quiz in existence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ts5trM8kZo

ohnonotgmail · 07-03-2018 12:39PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Recently discovered this. It's the hardest quiz in existence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ts5trM8kZo

I watched that episode last night (i'm a bit behind) and the wall rounds were just impossible. they really know how to ramp up the difficulty. I did get a couple in the first two rounds which i was quite pleased with. And i'm usually screaming answers at the tv during the missing vowels round.

07-03-2018 12:44PM

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

I watched that episode last night (i'm a bit behind) and the wall rounds were just impossible. they really know how to ramp up the difficulty. I did get a couple in the first two rounds which i was quite pleased with. And i'm usually screaming answers at the tv during the missing vowels round.

Is that the one with the 4x4 grid? I found that the easiest somehow. And by easiest, I mean still very, very hard.

ohnonotgmail · 07-03-2018 12:47PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Is that the one with the 4x4 grid? I found that the easiest somehow. And by easiest, I mean still very, very hard.

yeah the one with the 4x4 grid. Are you speaking in general or specifically about the one in that episode? In general i get a good shot of them right. I got nothing for either wall in that episode. In fairness neither did the contestants.

ligerdub · 07-03-2018 12:57PM

Grayson wrote: »

I showed that to an american housemate once. She was completely confused by it.

Why? Are Americans somehow not familiar with chance based games? It's probably the least complicated gameshow on television. Your friend could perhaps look up a little known place called Las Vegas!

I don't get the hate towards Winning Streak, sure it's pure luck based, but that's the very nature of how the contestants got there in the first place. The entertainment is in their chance to win big bucks. It's not like it's a game of chance and one person walks away after an hour with 2 grand in their pocket, and the rest bus it back with nothing.

It doesn't advertise itself as anything but that either, not like other shows where contestants have "strategies" and the like.

07-03-2018 01:01PM

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

yeah the one with the 4x4 grid. Are you speaking in general or specifically about the one in that episode? In general i get a good shot of them right. I got nothing for either wall in that episode. In fairness neither did the contestants.

I haven't watch all of that episode yet. I'll give it a look now.

Vladimir Poontang · 07-03-2018 01:18PM

Whatever about the worst the best game show on the planet is Takeshi's Castle

As Craig Charles said frequently in his voice-over - "Happy Clappy Jappies"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5N6jFX2_Rc

Vladimir Poontang · 07-03-2018 01:19PM

ligerdub wrote: »

Why? Americans.

There's your answer.

07-03-2018 01:26PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I haven't watch all of that episode yet. I'll give it a look now.

I got none :pac:

ohnonotgmail · 07-03-2018 01:28PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I got none :pac:

I know right. And it is only the quarter finals i think. they will get worse.

whats the worst game show we have

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