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Post by wildjackmonroe on Nov 23, 2016 21:25:48 GMT -5
I've noticed that there are a number of American fans in the fandom who are like me in the sense that they enjoy a good British game show so I thought there should be a thread for them. There also seems to be more and more episodes of UK game shows being uploaded to YouTube on the regular so I thought this would be a good place than any to share some links. Here's a channel that has a bunch for example: www.youtube.com/channel/UCojzqoGCkbMgESTWJ_SBLlQ/videosAnyone have any favorites? Mine are The Chase, Blockbusters, Play Your Cards Right, Wheel of Fortune, Blankety Blank, and Bruce's Price is Right. |
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Post by Mandoli on Nov 24, 2016 9:12:37 GMT -5
I don't know if I like Price in the UK (or if we're going further, Australia). The final round just seems... Difficult. I think it's just me, but if I had to watch an episode, I'd just finish pre-final.
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Post by S_SweepFan3 on Nov 24, 2016 16:11:39 GMT -5
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Nov 25, 2016 0:08:08 GMT -5
I don't know if I like Price in the UK (or if we're going further, Australia). The final round just seems... Difficult. I think it's just me, but if I had to watch an episode, I'd just finish pre-final. It took me a while to get used to the way they do the showcase round myself. It's the only real issue I have with it. It's funny, I love the UK version but I could not get into our 1994 syndicated version of TPIR back then and I can't even today. A better host in Bruce Forsyth helps, I guess. Plus some of the small things like keeping contestants' row. |
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Dec 15, 2016 10:09:57 GMT -5
After watching some more episodes recently of the British version, I just have one thing to ask people who take negative offers on The Chase: WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!
I understand that on a show like The Chase, everything is essentially a team effort in the end and the more people who get to go to the final round the better. The more people in the round, the more steps you create for the chaser, which makes it difficult for him or her to answer questions when it's time for their final round.
I also get that there's tons of pressure when you're going up against any of the chasers. Taking the offer of the money you earned in the round is also totally acceptable. Even taking smaller positive money amounts I get to an extent. It's the easy way out. But I get it.
But taking minus offers? There's NOTHING that warrants that. NOTHING. One, it's not even money! Obviously! Secondly, if I took a negative offer, won my round against the chaser, took money away from my team's pot, not only would I be walking back over to them with no money to contribute for us to win; but I'd take away already hard earned money my other teammates have won for us or for any remaining ones who are about to go. Not to mention, if we beat the chaser, I will have contributed nothing good to a pot that I'd have a share in. That's just wrong!
/rant
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Post by Mandoli on Dec 15, 2016 11:13:40 GMT -5
Not to mention, if we beat the chaser, I will have contributed nothing good to a pot that I'd have a share in. That's just wrong! If a team wins and a negative offer comes up, then that player should have that much subtracted from their share of the winnings. |
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Mar 18, 2017 17:47:15 GMT -5
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Aug 19, 2017 11:57:38 GMT -5
Legendary UK game show host Bruce Forsyth has died at the age of 89. |
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Post by Kaos on Aug 21, 2017 23:35:41 GMT -5
Legendary UK game show host Bruce Forsyth has died at the age of 89. Bruce, it truly has been nice to see you... TO SEE YOU... |
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Jul 4, 2018 3:15:35 GMT -5
I knew that Classic Concentration got some airplay in the UK when it was still airing here, but I did not know that they had a version of their own around the same time.
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Jul 31, 2018 7:10:18 GMT -5
I ordered this Blockbusters mug from Redbubble last week. It came yesterday!
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Post by The Game Show Channel on Aug 4, 2018 3:19:54 GMT -5
I am planning to upload some UK game shows (both classic and modern) sometime this weekend with ads included. For this weekend, I plan to upload episodes from Challenge UK. Should I upload these UK gameshows on YouTube or Dailymotion? I want to know because I want to avoid a copyright strike.
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Post by couponboy on Aug 5, 2018 4:47:52 GMT -5
You're definitely better off using dailymotion. YouTube has really cracked down on the posting of game shows recently, whereas dailymotion is a lot more lax on posting old episodes as long as the show isn't currently in prodiction or has old episodes available on a streaming service.
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Post by vahan on Sept 1, 2018 18:08:21 GMT -5
A 1994 episode of Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game in its original 50fps broadcast.
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Sept 2, 2018 2:00:18 GMT -5
I found an old used Blockbusters DVD game from amazon a while back. It's from 2006 and features the late great Bob Holness walking potential players through the game, and also an updated saxophone version of the classic theme tune by Ed Welch. There's also a Price is Right DVD game that was released from around the same time. If I can find that I'll post a video montage of it as well. Just a heads up, if you find a copy somewhere and want to play it, you will need either a region free player or you can just play it on your PC's DVD drive.
ETA: I found the UK Price is Right DVD game just now on amazon. Used from the same seller I bought the Blockbusters game at the same price! 98 cents plus about 4 bucks shipping. Now to wait for it to get here.  |
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