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Tipping Point is the worst quiz show
Ray_Smith
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It's utter crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just wanted to get that off my chest.
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It's utter crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just wanted to get that off my chest.
Thank you. Now er.. you can go back to the other posts.
No, seriously, go. I've stopped posting. It's over. I've stopped. You can go back to the main board. Oh go on. Please? Pretty please? Thanks. Okay. Bye. You gone? You sure? Good. I can see you're still here! You naughty munchkin, you. Oh you are a tease! Now go. Shoo! Thanks.
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It's what Ben Shepherd is made for, though. Game shows like this. He is completely out of place on Sky Sports fronting a football show!
I watch this programme via V+ so I can then move it forward (usually on 2) past all the talking so I only look at the questions then it speeds up the counter dropping bit. So I can get through an episode in about 15 minutes.
I would never watch one of these 'live' it would be too boring.
Plus, the speeded up version shuts out the irritating oohs and aaah the contestant comes out with during the drop bit.
So I enjoy my version of it, which doesn't need sound at all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgAFMb4XnsY
Have you not seen the latest Nick Knowles Lottery travesty, Take on the Twisters or that Puppet thing from the weekend?
Tipping Point's the Downton Abbey of daytime quizzes at the moment, at least until new Pointless and Chasers appear!!
When you base a gameshow on a game which is probably THE most pointless futile game you could play in the whole of Blackoool then the show isn't exactly gonna be a whole lot more exciting.
It doesn't help by the fact that the questions are so stupidly easy even a child could answer them. Same goes for that Twisters show they put on after it. Not only are the questions ridiculously dumbed down they even give you the answer and 2 other options to choose from. It's almost as pointless as opening random boxes with cash in them. Now there's an idea
Typical low intelligence ITV trash aimed at their usual audience of dumbed down couch potatoes.
Julie Bradbury is a conundrum. Her walking programmes are simple and non-taxing television in a relaxing completely-switch-the-brain-off kind of way, and apart from those all I really remember her doing were Holiday type shows in her early days. So, short bon mots to camera in the great outdoors.
Why, then, would anyone think she was suitable for this kind of thing - studio-bound, a live audience (presumably), asking questions, making the contestants feel relaxed with humour and warmth etc? In the Old Days (TM) quiz shows were given to people with years of experience in comedy and light entertainment as a matter of course as they had the chops to cope, even to excel. It's the equivalent of giving Anneka Rice a prime time game show on the back of Treasure Hunt and Challenge Anneka.
Is she married to or related to the show's producers?
At least the questions on Break the Safe are remotely taxing and there's actually an ounce of skill involved unlike TP where brains nor skills are required.
I wouldn't say the questions are much dumbed down, and multiple choice appears in a lot of these shows.
It would be better if there was an actual safe, and the contestants didn't know if they'd won or not until they actually tried to open the door.
It's like someone bought a job-lot of whizzy LED screens and then thought "what can we do with these"?
And as for the contestants trundling backwards & forwards on their little podiums...!!