It's game show heaven on television right now. Not only do we have all sorts of new formats making their way to screen, but some old favourites are getting a second lease of life, too - from Fifteen to One (airing daily on Channel 4) to the second series of the revived Catchphrase (Sundays on ITV.) But it got us thinking - what other game shows would we like to see return to our living rooms?
Well, we asked that very question to Fifteen to One's Sandi Toksvig and Catchphrase's Stephen Mulhern - and then had a bit of office debate about our own favourites...
You Bet! - Stephen Mulhern (Host, Catchphrase)
"This is an easy question: You Bet! It was one of my favourite TV shows and Matthew Kelly was one of my favourite presenters. I love it.
"I can give you some great examples that still amaze me to this day.
Well, we asked that very question to Fifteen to One's Sandi Toksvig and Catchphrase's Stephen Mulhern - and then had a bit of office debate about our own favourites...
You Bet! - Stephen Mulhern (Host, Catchphrase)
"This is an easy question: You Bet! It was one of my favourite TV shows and Matthew Kelly was one of my favourite presenters. I love it.
"I can give you some great examples that still amaze me to this day.
- 4/8/2014
- Digital Spy
Broadcaster Geoffrey Wheeler has died, aged 83.
The presenter was best known for hosting Songs of Praise and quiz show Top of the Form among others.
His son confirmed that he passed away at a care home in Prestbury, Cheshire, after a long illness on December 30.
Wheeler also created the ITV game show Winner Takes All, hosted by Jimmy Tarbuck from 1975 to 1986.
He later presented the show himself for a year in 1987, having previously provided the voiceover.
He also made appearances on Call My Bluff and Jackanory.
"He was an absolute gentleman and that's the conclusion that everybody who dealt with him came to," his son Robin told BBC News.
Wheeler started his broadcasting career on BBC Radio in the 1950s, producing around 200 programmes while studying law at Manchester University.
In 1954, he made a host of radio variety programmes featuring stars including Benny Hill, Morecambe & Wise and Ken Dodd.
Geoffrey Wheeler is survived by his son,...
The presenter was best known for hosting Songs of Praise and quiz show Top of the Form among others.
His son confirmed that he passed away at a care home in Prestbury, Cheshire, after a long illness on December 30.
Wheeler also created the ITV game show Winner Takes All, hosted by Jimmy Tarbuck from 1975 to 1986.
He later presented the show himself for a year in 1987, having previously provided the voiceover.
He also made appearances on Call My Bluff and Jackanory.
"He was an absolute gentleman and that's the conclusion that everybody who dealt with him came to," his son Robin told BBC News.
Wheeler started his broadcasting career on BBC Radio in the 1950s, producing around 200 programmes while studying law at Manchester University.
In 1954, he made a host of radio variety programmes featuring stars including Benny Hill, Morecambe & Wise and Ken Dodd.
Geoffrey Wheeler is survived by his son,...
- 1/2/2014
- Digital Spy
Outstanding actor of stage and screen who made his name as Bri in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
The British theatre changed for ever when Joe Melia, as the sardonic teacher Bri, pushed a severely disabled 10-year-old girl in a wheelchair on to the stage of the Glasgow Citizens in May 1967 and proceeded to make satirical jokes about the medical profession while his marriage was disintegrating. The play was Peter Nichols's A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, which transformed the way disability was discussed on the stage. It made the names overnight of its author, the director Michael Blakemore, and Melia. Albert Finney took over the role of Bri on Broadway.
Flat-footed, slightly hunched, always leaning towards a point of view, Melia, who has died aged 77, was a distinctive and compassionate actor who brought a strain of the music hall to the stage, a sense of being an outsider.
The British theatre changed for ever when Joe Melia, as the sardonic teacher Bri, pushed a severely disabled 10-year-old girl in a wheelchair on to the stage of the Glasgow Citizens in May 1967 and proceeded to make satirical jokes about the medical profession while his marriage was disintegrating. The play was Peter Nichols's A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, which transformed the way disability was discussed on the stage. It made the names overnight of its author, the director Michael Blakemore, and Melia. Albert Finney took over the role of Bri on Broadway.
Flat-footed, slightly hunched, always leaning towards a point of view, Melia, who has died aged 77, was a distinctive and compassionate actor who brought a strain of the music hall to the stage, a sense of being an outsider.
- 11/7/2012
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
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