DS reporting Total Wipeout returning for two more series, new course for the fifth one.
I’m a bit bored of the US one. I wonder how it will stack up here.
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DS reporting Total Wipeout returning for two more series, new course for the fifth one.
I’m a bit bored of the US one. I wonder how it will stack up here.
As long as they get more than one voice-over commentator then they should be fine…
New course for 5th is obviously going to be based on series 3. Which means series 4 is going to be 90% the same as last one. Greeeeeeeat.
That doesn’t mean they will revert back to using the Sweeper and Dreadmill for the other rounds.
Round 2 will likely still be (King of the) Crash Mountain, though. Every sodding time.
That, and I haven’t gotten to skipping the Wipeout Zone obstacles yet. NOT COOL.
quick observation.
new series of copycats, one of last years genius television innovations.
unfortunatly, series 2 to series one is almost the exact same as hole in the wall series one to 2, money has been put in, it has lost the fun. its a surreal change.
also, alan dedicote is rather surreal as a dour voiceover on kids tv.
Oh, Jesus, this is the worst revamp I’ve seen since Worldwise back in the 80s.
You can see the logic… “You know, if we do this as a slick production, they might stick it out on an early Saturday evening as the kind of programme kids can watch their parents. But hey, we’ll need a lot more money, pretty please Mrs Commissioner Person”
Ok… but they’ve ripped the heart and soul out of it completely. The whole thing looks an uneasy mess of a Michael Barrymore-type set with two kids in their Sunday Best they’ll-grow-into-it suits hosting the thing, and their grandad on voiceover. Everything has aged terribly.
They’ve moved the drawing round to the start, which is all kind of wrong because the rounds were in the right difficulty order to start with (acting, drawing, humming).
One thing that might have pleased game show purists – a proper clock on the physical games – has actually slowed things down a bundle, and shows that the earlier direction was actually right, even if it was a bit rough and ready.
The unique, quirky little animations they had for the titles and rounds have gone and replaced with something seemingly designed by someone with the design sensibilities of Welsh Helen from Big Brother 2 (“Hey, why choose colours when we can have them ALL at the same time?!”)
The hosts are now split up a lot of the time, which negates most of the point of having a double act.
Worst of all, I can’t make head or tail of what the point of it all is. There’s no prize other than a trophy to win in the endgame. Eh? I mean… Eh?
And it takes FOUR BLOODY MINUTES to get into the actual game because they’re so busy showing wacky home videos. Is this a game show or You’ve Been Framed all of a sudden?
The original production team must be crying into their BBC coffee.
Unbelievable.
Spot on David.
The splitting of the hosts, the repetition of the games, which are no longer silly, the stopping of the ‘close the doors’ catchphrase, its a mess
I completely agree with the Saturday early evening observation, although maybe that’s the dedicote factor!
Most importantly the ‘copycat’ central idea somehow seems to take a back seat, which seems absurd!
Also, whilst the ballroom is a wonderful pun, the game is utterly redundant. It’s to win the crap trophy ffs, which only works as an incentive if it goes hand in hand with the winning, but the show has already been won, I mean, what?
Utter chaos.
Completely agree, this is disastrous – How can adding money to a show make it worse? The games played are now tediously dull and has all the fun and frolic of Dragons’ Den. The copycats have become too hard as well – a team scored 0 as none of them had heard of “In my Head” by Jason Derulo (I hadn’t either).
According to the official website, there’s 52 episodes of this coming up. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w0778 Rumours of being awarded a rubbishy trophy if you’re the only person in Britain to watch the whole 26 hours of mess are unconfirmed.
I’m going to confess that Copycats has passed me by. Is there any of series one on Youtube anyone would recommend me watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHw4I06euto&feature=related was the defining moment. other than that, no to be totally honest, but there may be series one episodes on iplayer, cos they are still shown.
This version has a bit more of the titles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLl__oAnIYs&NR=1
The series 1 eps have only just fallen off iPlayer, sadly.
I still got that package to send you. I’ve got some episodes on DVD somewhere so I’ll throw that in as well.
Strangely, the first series of Copycats also had 52 episodes.
P.S. I’m an avid collector of children’s gameshows and just happen to have them all on CD. Here’s a freebie for the good people of the Bar.
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=297E2GAV
Cheers, watching it now. Glitch in the first few mi utes but rest is OK.
I quite like it! Without the physical games it’d be the sort of thing they’d have in syndication in the US in the 80s. Very amused by the way subtlety gets dropped as you go down the line, but also that if it’s about right you can narrow down the answers from your team mates wrong ones.
Can’t work out what the audience are shouting after “close the doors!”, anyone?
Watch the floor?
Also, it’s a shame in a show played with kids the music round probably requires a decent degree of cultural awareness which a lot of them won’t have.
Now watching a series two ep on iPlayer, can see what people mean – all the energy seems to have evaporated.
Same phrase, it’s close the doors – just kids aren’t brilliant at saying a catchphrase in unison. Yeah, and with some songs like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, if you weren’t raised in a Western country it’s unlikely you’ll have heard of it.
Just a quick question that’s been bugging me though Brig – do you have any episode of the legendary British version of Who Wants to be a Superhero? Excelsior!
It’s “what is a hot spot not?” syndrome all over again!
I’m afraid not! I don’t think I even watched it, unfortunately.
Ah well. At least we know that if a team fails their game, the opposing family gets twenty-five points for doing absolutely…
NNAALAJA!!!
Ironically that’s what the press release said.
“Sam Nixon and Mark Rhodes bring a little bit of Saturday night sparkle to weekday afternoons as CBBC’s hit game show Copycats returns this autumn.”
Hummm… It’s all a bit fishy. It really does sound like it was intended for a Saturday slot were it not for the fact that it had a 52-show commission, which is a heck of a production run even for a kid’s show.
52 episodes seems to be the standard commission from BBC Scotland – it was the run of “Copycats” last year, and “Get 100” in 2008. It’s almost as if 26 hours of television fills some sort of internal BBC quota.
Maybe “If we were to put this into a repeat cycle at one a week we would have an episode for every day of the year”
…Despite, as far as I’m aware, CBBC repeats not being done as one a week.
Incidentally, can’t help but notice Victoria’s Pudsy ears on the official OC site…
…Will she be wearing them on Monday’s episode?
You’ll have to see. But where have you seen that picture? It was on the Facebook site for a while a couple of days ago but then it mysteriously disappeared…
The banner at the top of http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lskhg
One piece of news. It looks like BBC2 want to have Perfection airing in January as once Pointless finishes they are going to continue with repeats. Hopefully it will be the first series.
No, it’s 45 minute episodes, so it’s the second series.
It was always 45 minutes, wasn’t it?
I thought the first series had hour long episodes – but maybe it just felt that way…
If only the BBC had a programmes website or something.
Oh, look! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mfdwk