Question of Sport 'Stops Production'?

[Bingoman]

The BBC have confirmed after 50 years that sports Quiz A Question of Sport is stop production after dwindling numbers following the revamp 3 years ago

Question of Sport stops production, BBC confirms

There had been just two series with current host Paddy McGuiness and captains Sam Quek and Ugo Monye.

www.bbc.com

 

[Elpenor]

They think it’s all over… it is now

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I remember Ian Botham and Emlin Hughes doing it every week and we used to watch it. Maybe waiting for something to come on afterwards? Dull as dishwasher becase non of us followed any sports whatsoever. To this day i still don't know what Emlin Hughes is famous for.
Paddy McGuiness though? Yikes. That's just the cherry on top of an unwatchable turd of a show.
Classic in its day.
Bring back Pop Quiz.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Used to be one of my nerdy guilty pleasures. Not since the revamp. Classic BBC fuck up, going after a new audience by pissing on the existing one and ending up with nobody watching. Aimed at people who don't care about sport, with presenters and team leaders who don't know much about sport - Monye in particular knew fuck all.

 

[moochedit]

They think it’s all over… it is now

Thank fuck.

 

[Pickman's model]

Started to go to shit when Tufnell became a captain

 

[T & P]

I just found it boring as fuck- and I like sports. Neither funny at all as a light entertainment quiz panel show, nor engaging or informative as a facts-based show. Bland vanilla tripe with an inexplicably long lifespan imo.

 

[Elpenor]

Think I last watched it when Parrott was a captain

 

[littlebabyjesus]

It was always rubbish. It was like watching a programme made by your dad. But back in the day it had a certain generosity of spirit to it. And it's only sport. It doesn't matter.

 

[Elpenor]

Suppose it became less relevant in a multichannel age when the bbc no longer showed much sport

 

[Humberto]

Is Prime time family entertainment still a thing? Feel a whopper using that sentence.

 

[skyscraper101]

Yeah was always crap Dad telly. Too clean.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

It was hugely popular though, back in the day.

 

[danny la rouge]

Had no idea it was still on. Haven’t been aware of its existence for decades.

 

[Lord Camomile]

What happens next?

 

[danny la rouge]

What happens next?

I think I know this one: nobody notices and the world carries on as normal.

 

[Elpenor]

What happens next?

I think Vinnie Jones comes on during the feel the sportsman round and Gary Lineker shits himself (again)

 

[Lord Camomile]

I think I know this one: nobody notices and the world carries on as normal.

Well, I guess it makes a difference from "athlete falls over".

I think Vinnie Jones comes on during the feel the sportsman round and Gary Lineker shits himself (again)

QoS's Mystery Guest round centered around voyeurism, not assault.

 

[Humberto]

They might bring it back for Comic Relief.

 

[Plumdaff]

Feels like it was a programme that only made sense in the context of multiple generations sat around one household TV that had very limited options. In a way it's surprising it's made it this far.

Paddy MacGuiness though? Not only is he utterly charmless, what particular sporting knowledge does he bring to the table?

 

[Humberto]

Well it was him or Sue Barker, Cliff Richard's old flame. I like him though. Not enough to watch qos.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Well it was him or Sue Barker, Cliff Richard's old flame. I like him though. Not enough to watch qos.

French Open winner Sue Barker, you mean? Only British winner of the French in the open era, man or woman?

The revamp was doomed. You used to have to have achieved something to be invited on. Then they started inviting 'celebs'.

(It was a nerdy sports facts show with Sue Barker at the helm. I like nerdy sports facts. She's also the reason I will never forget the Russian word for dog. )

 

[Humberto]

French Open winner Sue Barker, you mean? Only British winner of the French in the open era, man or woman?

The revamp was doomed. You used to have to have achieved something to be invited on. Then they started inviting 'celebs'.

No I liked it. My mum used to like it and she knows fuck all about sports.

Joey Barton Ronnie O'Sullivan team captains. Ian Wright host. Dead easy. They used to have the accomplished American communist writers kicked out by McCarthty writing the kids shows ffs. Sorry, Sue, respect. * Just found the wholesomeness amusing.**

* she's not reading
*Again, taking the piss. Wright's great, Barton's suspect and O'Sullivan would probably laugh.

 

[lazythursday]

If the BBC can't afford to make something as cheap and tatty as Question of Sport things must be really dire.

 

[Plumdaff]

If the BBC can't afford to make something as cheap and tatty as Question of Sport things must be really dire.

I think they can afford it. They just can't afford having no viewers at peak time because they made and screened it.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

It was meaningless tripe (i.e sport) but it must've cost £12.50 a time to put this out at 19:30 on a Friday, and seemed to have diehard fans. They really fucked up by sacking Sue Barker for being too old.

 

[lazythursday]

I think they can afford it. They just can't afford having no viewers at peak time because they made and screened it.

Yes they can't be serious suggesting it's for funding reasons. What on earth could you do with the savings? Buy a new sofa for the One Show?

 

[pseudonarcissus]

To this day i still don't know what Emlin Hughes is famous for.
.

Emlyn Hughes is famous for coming from barrow-in-Furness, thank you very much. He might have played football for Wolverhampton wanderers as well.

 

[Wilf]

It was always rubbish. It was like watching a programme made by your dad. But back in the day it had a certain generosity of spirit to it. And it's only sport. It doesn't matter.

Yeah, that really. I didn't like it enough to watch anything more than 10 minutes when my partner watched. But it only ever worked with an old fashioned vibe and humour. Almost comforting that it existed. But trying to 'modernise' it was a mistake and stank of desperation. Kind of like Gardener's Question Time Ultra.

 

[kittyP]

I know we all like different stuff and my tastes are not that aligned with the mainstream a lot of the time, but who the fuck likes Paddy McGuinnes?
I mean, he must be popular judging by how much TV work he gets but fucking hell his insufferable