Well, it’s always good news to see that our Quizzy Monday favourites are back. Mastermind, Only Connect and University Challenge all return for new series beginning on Monday 13th July. That’s great news. Of course, I don’t yet know exactly when the BBC schedulers are going to start messing them around and taking them off for a week or a fortnight without asking my permission, but you can bet your bottom dollar it’s going to happen at some time.
I just hope that they’re not going to kill the first round
of Mastermind like they have for the last 2 years with such a stupidly long
break for Celebrity Mastermind, or as I like to facetiously think of it , I
Can’t Believe It’s Not Mastermind – or to be more precise – I Have Absolutely
No Difficulty Whatsoever Believing It’s Not Mastermind. God bless, the
celebrities involved are doing their best and giving their fees to charity, but
the show has become a bit of an embarrassment both for the lack of quality and
the lack of actual celebrity on display.
As for the real Mastermind
series, well, I hope that everyone involved in the shows that are already in
the can really enjoyed their participation and produced a performance with
which they can be satisfied. (Anything more than that is a bonus). I don’t know
if the production team will have taken any drastic action about what, for me,
are the two most pressing concerns that it is in their power to do anything
about. By which I mean the fact that the talent in the last few series has been
too thinly spread in the first round. This is exacerbated by the way that in
each of the last few series we have seen there has been what we might call a
‘heat of death’, whereby two top contenders have faced each other with one
being knocked out of the series. Yes, they become nominal first reserve for the
semis, but this doesn’t automatically translate into a place. It certainly
didn’t last year. I’m sure that the production team are aware of these issues.
Whether there is either the scope or the will to do something about them, well,
that I don’t know.
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