A Question of Sport
bananaman_007
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Just found out this had a new series and was on at 10:35 on a Monday, weird choice.
However it does not appear to be on iplayer, does anybody know why?
However it does not appear to be on iplayer, does anybody know why?
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A cynic might think that the Beeb want to get rid of QoS and so have dumped it in a graveyard slot so the reduced viewing figures will help to explain the forthcoming cancellation
If you haven't watched this series yet, it has a new set with a very off-putting shifting electronic display behind the contestants - and another innovation seems to be the introduction of two "celebs" in place of two of the actual sports people :mad: - thus they appear to be finally trying to morph it into They Think It's All Over.
The second episode of the series is monday and repeated on friady at 7.30. I think that's the schedule from then on. Not sure why the first episode wasn't repeated though.
There is a another thread about it here
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1287714&page=3
I hope not. I'll admit that a decade ago I saw QoS as old-fashioned in comarison, but now it seems like an oasis of normality in a BBC full of idiotic celebrity quiz shows.
I think I like basic quiz shows peopled by ordinary guests, i.e. not comedians.
It's rather sad to see an old institution being run down like this.
Have to agree - the new set has clearly been designed to make the programme unwatchable. And WTF does QoS need random "celebs"?
I had to laugh when they did the home or away round and went to the celebs, how can they have a home subject when they are not even sports stars.
Paddy Mcguinness is a Karate black belt and Olly Murs played semi-professional football for Witham Town.
But didn't Paddy McGuinness have football as his home subject?
I don't like the new format of having non-sports people at all, there are enough 'celebs' on other quiz programmes without dumbing down this one. I'd rather see less well know sportsmen and women take part.
Viewers were moaning that the set was too loud & the fact that you couldn't see the audience.
Apparently it's all being changed this week as a result.
Shame one of those changes isn't Matt Dawson
If ONLY :sleep:
Paddy McGuiness only gets work cos he's a pal of Peter Kay
If it has to be put-down, I hope they do it very quietly and don't tell us anything about it.
It may have been boring and predicatable when it was a mere sports quiz but I preferred it to the glitzy celeb mime games they have now. They've tried too hard to change it and either messed around or added too many new rounds.
Total show kills for me. Part of the reason I liked AQoS was that often you had people on there that would rarely surface otherwise, a place where genuine sportsmen and women could have their moment in the sun.
I'm surprised at that, I would have have thought the whole series will already have been recorded.
I didn't see the first episode, but in this week's you could make out the audience in the background, is that different to the first week?
That was my first thought too. I thought they always recorded a few of these programmes back to back. At least they turned off the strobe lighting - it needed a health warning to watch it - and brought the audience nearer but they've still kept another part of the set which is very distracting.
I think the problem is the BBC employs these trendy arts graduates and then lets them play around with programmes. Crimewatch is another disaster. All those glass walls with writing on them and people in front of the presenters.