"alan_m" wrote in message
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On 02/04/2018 10:39, NY wrote:
"alan_m" wrote in message
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OMG they have resurrected the generation game.

It was crap and amateur hour TV and well past its sell by date when the
BBC last canned it. Why do the BBC medja experts believe that after
period of absence on our screens makes it any better?

It allows a new generation (pun intended) of presenters to make arses of
themselves and show how crap they are compared with Bruce Forsyth.

With nostalgia, people tend to remember the 5% of the good bits and forget
the 95% of the rubbish. The show's format was dated 20 or 30 years ago
and should have been put down for good at that time.

As for presenters who can make a sows ear into a silk purse, it's
difference between someone who learnt the craft the hard way in front
audiences who would tell them where to go and had mastered the art of the
humorous put down and celebrity presenters who just seem to appear from
no-where after failing to be comedians.

The format of most game shows is utter crap. The Generation Game was a
cringe-making as the rest. What made the difference was the Bruce Forsyth
made his role of host look dead easy, and was good at putting the
contestants at their ease and making fun of them in a way that got you on
the contestant's side, rather than making them look idiots.

The more effortless it *looks* the more of a skill it *is*.

Is it just me that when watching a celebrity edition of a program I don't
know who any of the celebrities are?

No, I'm just the same. A lot of them are famous only for being famous.