The Link (quiz show with Mark Williams)
JeffG1
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The Link, with Mark Williams as host, returns for a second series on Monday 26th Jan at 3 o'clock on BBC1.
Seeing as it's up against Tipping Point, it will be interesting to see which wins in the ratings.
Seeing as it's up against Tipping Point, it will be interesting to see which wins in the ratings.
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It's nice to have a more accessible version of Only Connect. Plus, I don't rate Victoria Coren-Mitchell as a presenter.
I it pretty similar to Only Connect, although a lot easier.
The final round seems more easier than the initial links. I'm surprised players don't come away with a large amount every time but yesterday they only got £500.
The problem is that it takes longer than 10 seconds for 10 clues to come up in the final round. They need to get 6 right to win the top prize, but there are only 60 seconds.
You normally don't need the full 10 seconds to solve every one though, so winning the top prize is possible (and I'm sure was done at least once in the last series).
Also those criticising the prize money, it's a low budget show, they could give at least £4,000 a day, obviously this isn't going to happen, the quiz is set that way, Pointless and Eggheads themselves don't give away much more when you consider they add £1,000 a day, more or less.
And as for the criticism of the host, it's his first gig of this nature, I'm enjoying him as a host personally, Richard Osman himself even gave him his endorsement the other day, to the chagrin of Victoria Coren.
I know it can be done but it just doesn't seem very fair.
Richard Osman is hardly the standard of presenter to go by. Did you see Two Tribes? I think you can tell when someone is suited to this or not pretty quickly. How many goes should he get at 'a gig of this nature'?
My one complaint would be how they accept certain answers but not others. One link had " "Plumber", "Mushroom", "Pipe". When the contestants gave the answer "The Mario video games" it wasn't accepted. But once the last clue of "Coins" was revealed the answer "Super Mario" was accepted. Really? They also didn't accept "ships" because the correct answer was "battleships" yet they quite happily accepted "German towns" even though they were all cities. That would get me infuriated if I was on there.
I think Mark said something like "They were all towns before they were cities" as to why it was accepted.
Perhaps with the Mario answer there's another game or games that feature a character called Mario so they needed the clarification.
They did have one last week where they rejected "Cluedo" until they said "Cluedo characters" which was a bit bemusing...
Fabulous boobs though.