Question of Sport RIP

[J.G.Blue.]

something like that

they were comparing weights of objects v sportsman , and that was one of the better rounds.

What like half a tonne of cow shit V luke shaw?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

something like that

they were comparing weights of objects v sportsman , and that was one of the better rounds.

I’ve watched one of the new series. It’s not for me. It wasn’t really when Sue Barker presented it either.

Once they started inviting minority sports where any questions on that subject could only be answered by that person, not the audience, then I tended to switch off. No one outside the sport knows who was European BMX freestyle runner up in 2013.

 

[Big Swifty]

Not sure there needs to be a massive investigation into "what's gone wrong" with Question of Sport. It's been on the air for 50 years and has aired over 1,000 episodes. Long-running shows like this (reality, magazine, quiz) go stale and they go through phases of interest and disinterest with the public. Can you remember the last time someone mentioned The X Factor to you, or Big Brother, or Supermarket Sweep? It's always the case for shows like this to go in and out of style. Never Mind the Buzzcocks is apparently coming back after years off the air - the public are fickle!

Viewing figures ebb and flow. Presenters change, studios change, formats change, audiences change. It's all about adapting - sometimes shows adapt, sometimes they don't.

Just as an example, to compare it to another BBC quiz show, Mastermind has gone through all sorts of issues over the years - it was dropped in 1997 and ran exclusively as a radio show until 2000, then it was a Discovery Channel show until 2003, when it got picked back up by the BBC and they got John Humphrys in to present. To make it a bit more modern they allowed more popular culture categories for the specialist round, it's generally a chattier and more informal show than it used to be as well and it's currently posting solid viewing figures.

QoS will either bounce back or it won't. If it does, fair play. If it doesn't, it's probably because it's hard to hold peoples' attention for 50 years.

A young person won last night's Mastermind first round by by answering questions on Buffy the sodding Vampire Slayer.
I give up.
And all this "David, you've scored 8 points..." or "Hayley, you totalled eleven points" etc.
It's a kiddies game show now, not the quiz it once was.
A little more gravitas would not do any harm.

 

[youngbob]

A young person won last night's Mastermind first round by by answering questions on Buffy the sodding Vampire Slayer.
I give up.
And all this "David, you've scored 8 points..." or "Hayley, you totalled eleven points" etc.
It's a kiddies game show now, not the quiz it once was.
A little more gravitas would not do any harm.

To be fair, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was one of the most popular television shows of its time and arguably kickstarted the massive young adult fantasy entertainment boom that's still going strong today. The Lord of the Rings movies, the Harry Potter books and movies, the Twilight books and movies, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire, even the latest iterations of the Star Wars saga - no matter how good or bad you think those respective properties are, I don't think of any of them would have ended up anywhere near as popular without shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and Charmed, to a degree) getting in there just before the turn of the millennium. Joss Whedon's a piece of shit and the work of his that I've seen mostly bores the life out of me, but his work on Buffy resulted in him eventually making The Avengers in 2012 which (for better or worse) absolutely influenced the next decade of blockbuster cinema. It's not a TV show that's ever interested me personally, but to dismiss it completely, as though it's something frivolous or somehow unworthy of Mastermind, is very unfair. It had a major impact on Western society's cultural development and it deserves to be taken seriously.

 

[manchester blue]

Just put an episode on from iPlayer as can’t sleep.

Really terrible. Host and captains have zero personality. More boxes ticked though. The games are really poor. Putting a counter on a board on the floor? What’s that about?

At least Tufnell and the other guy knew their sport even though they were irritating.

Garbage.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

A young person won last night's Mastermind first round by by answering questions on Buffy the sodding Vampire Slayer.
I give up.
And all this "David, you've scored 8 points..." or "Hayley, you totalled eleven points" etc.
It's a kiddies game show now, not the quiz it once was.
A little more gravitas would not do any harm.

There’s nothing wrong with having the Specialist Subject round on anything they want. To progress through the series they have to have a different specialist subject on each episode.

It’s not about the subject matter, it’s about being able to recall answers in a specialist subject. One episode could Buffy, next episode could be programmes on CBeebies, then Manchester City in the 1990s…

They still have the General Knowledge round in the second half of the show.

And now it’s presented by a City fan!


As for QoS, I watched the first episode of this new format and didn’t like it, caught the tail end of one of the episodes recently and the questions seemed stupid and weren’t necessarily about sport which I thought made it pointless (no, not the Pointless). And I’ve never liked that Quek, she’s a typical gobby Liverpool fan who thinks that talking about football means it’s 100% “bantz” and she’s an arsehole when it comes to City, so I’m put-off already.

I’ve watched QoS for years. Always liked it right up to Sue Matt and Phil. Used to always watch the Friday episode with an ex-girlfriend and we’d play against each other. This is after I’d already watched the same episode on the first showing late on a Tuesday night (which she never knew about) when she’d already gone to bed so I knew all the answers by the Friday episode and always beat her!

Don’t think I’ll bother anymore though.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Not been the same since David Coleman was host and Botham and Beumont were team captains.

Load of SHITE.

 

[Big Swifty]

To be fair, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was one of the most popular television shows of its time and arguably kickstarted the massive young adult fantasy entertainment boom that's still going strong today. The Lord of the Rings movies, the Harry Potter books and movies, the Twilight books and movies, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire, even the latest iterations of the Star Wars saga - no matter how good or bad you think those respective properties are, I don't think of any of them would have ended up anywhere near as popular without shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and Charmed, to a degree) getting in there just before the turn of the millennium. Joss Whedon's a piece of shit and the work of his that I've seen mostly bores the life out of me, but his work on Buffy resulted in him eventually making The Avengers in 2012 which (for better or worse) absolutely influenced the next decade of blockbuster cinema. It's not a TV show that's ever interested me personally, but to dismiss it completely, as though it's something frivolous or somehow unworthy of Mastermind, is very unfair. It had a major impact on Western society's cultural development and it deserves to be taken seriously.

So Buffy is responsible for all that tosh, then. It might have appealed to pre-teens, I suppose. It would perhaps be OK as a jokey "Celebrity" or junior version of MM, but not on the supposedly adult version. Magnus Magnusson will be turning in his grave. Have it as a subject on another quiz or game show, but not on this, please.

It would not have been admitted as a specialist subject in the old days.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Had the telly on BBC1 (watched the 6pm news and then did things around the house) and then QoS came on.
Thought I'd see who the quests are and couldn't believe one of them was a strictly come dancing contestant and another a "star" of Love Island.
Is there a shortage of sports personalities that could go on it?
Telly switched off......

 

[Bluemanc100]

Absolute garbage now… And don’t get me started on Top Gear

 

[Protein Junkie]

Had the telly on BBC1 (watched the 6pm news and then did things around the house) and then QoS came on.
Thought I'd see who the quests are and couldn't believe one of them was a strictly come dancing contestant and another a "star" of Love Island.
Is there a shortage of sports personalities that could go on it?
Telly switched off......

I bet Joe Swash is available!

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

Absolute garbage now… And don’t get me started on Top Gear

Flintoff is an abomination. Unfunny, irritating ****.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Absolute garbage now… And don’t get me started on Top Gear