University Challenge (also featuring Only Connect and other BBC quiz shows)

Is there any evidence that the BBC bears any responsibility at all for disqualifying Corpus Christi? It's not as if the BBC makes the show.

sadly Jo "dogshit thru BNP letterboxes" Brand is still allowed to do her awful dance routines for charity. did we lose a war??

http://www.oregonlottery.org/projects/responsiblegambling/images/coin_flip.gif

It depends.

What's on the other side?

im surprised that

1) the 'story' didn't emerge sooner
2) they keep the final result secret for three-odd months. in this day and age.

― Judd Nelson (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 11:27 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

1) makes sense to wait until the winner is revealed and cause a bigger fuss. nothing wrong with that imo.
2) as with the apprentice, i don't think papers even make an effort to find out - they'd expect a viewer backlash against spoiling a popular series. (a while back the sun got offered a leaked copy of the new harry potter and shopped the guy to the police.)

"Papers" ha. I assume by "day and age" Enrique was talking about web leaks.

lol sorry i'm old media

yea, all those audience members keeping shtum

xp haha now i'm picturing the old style young lad on the street corner shouting "extra extra" with astonishing UC disqualification headline on the front page.

I suppose plenty of rumours are "out" in the sense that not everyone has kept quiet, but aren't contagious enough to really spoil it for a large number of people. If I heard who won University Challenge ahead of air date, I wouldn't be that tempted to pass it on. It's not like a "ooh, Jimmy Savile keeps his mum stuffed in his living room" type rumour.

Next time the Apprentice is on, I'll see if I can dig out the winner from some obscure Digital Spy forum thread or something. Actually, I won't. That would spoil things for myself.

i don't watch the apprentice so might try and do that.

Ah yes, The Apprentice, won last year by someone who was caught lying on his CV.

Double standards? The BBC's got plenty!

So the Paul Weller lookylikey won.

The moral?

The bully wins.

The liar wins.

The cheat wins.

What a great and inspiring message to convey to impressionable young viewers. Don't bother learning to spell; look where it gets you.

Or was this a sort of Closet Socialist Sugar Trojan Horse exercise?

― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:22 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's a quiz show.

It's light entertainment.

It's not the Olympics (even though we all know about the tedious hypocrisy going on there).

Yet again, no one would have known or been bothered by it had not some hopeless loser of a whinger gone and talked to the Meejah.

Why don't we just get rid of all programmes on the BBC and have 24-hour Songs Of Praise with Aled Jones and Myleene Klass if we want "purity"?

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, March 3, 2009 10:58 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The promotion of morons as role models vs. the demotion of talented, intelligent people for fear of meejah criticism - no conflict of opinion there.

Makes you think.

http://shazam.econ.ubc.ca/flip/

Clever people - do what you like. "Morons" - know your place.

Someone needs to Photoshop Carlos Tevez into that Corpus Christi team...

Marcello being very cynical on this thread or just being honest

Quite agree, Dorian.

I think Dorian's comment was summing up your position.

And I was agreeing with his comment.

Classic thread.

Inimitable

No LJ though : (

Keen to hear his thoughts.

do they have tasers?

― bitch hooligan, pussy ass nobrain dårk (country matters), Monday, 2 March 2009 18:06 (Yesterday) Bookmark

irl lol

hahah

i hope this doesn't mean Trimble now takes the Nuts offer

rules of the game and filming schedule are made pretty clear at the audition stage and teams have a reserve player so these guys have no excuse

oh except they're the master race of course

I am interested in the opinion of Fabio Capello, Pavel Nedved, Fabio Cannavaro and a few members of the Bullingdon Club for good measure.

teams have a reserve player so these guys have no excuse

Do they? That, then.

teams have a reserve player so these guys have no excuse

Do they? That, then.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 13:02 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, they do. Believe this rule was introduced when one team had a fundamentalist Christian in the team who wouldn't go to recordings on a Sunday.

This Corpus Christi mob also changed their captain in the course of the series - which I've never seen happen before

and they're all Satanists

I get the impression you're not taking this matter very seriously

i hope this doesn't mean Trimble now takes the Nuts offer

I hope it does - time to put all those morons in their place. Or something.

The Unionist bias on this thread is shocking.

Actually, bowler hats and sash would make good props for a Nuts photoshoot

What I would give for a suggest ban every time someone uses the term 'Meejah'.

You can have one for free if you like.

Buy one get two free

average age 30? fack off.

york's main girl was some kind o' something.

Kinda sorta.

We've thrashed thru the idea of a handicapping system for oldsters before but this wd discriminate against the Open University and presumably there's the odd Oxbridge college for the menopausal and time rich too?

she was hot.

st georges' team leader looked like the bastard offspring of paxo and lady di.

this was average age 30 vs 19.

lol i mean im a 29-y-o postgraduate student, and if i went on (with some science dudes lol) i'd rock the shit. but i wouldn't go on!

so maybe my compromise position is allowing mature students, i.e. doing their first degrees.

xpost

I agree the age ish is a problem but wd allow one post-grad per team so I don't have to give up my dream of killing on this one day.

Unless they do a "The Unprofessionals" special series.

yeah watching this just thinking average of 30 a bit of a swizz and then they had all they anatomical questions and that too. a bit much