John Adams Krypton Factor DVD Board Game

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According to my stats for series 1 and 2, the average team scores 4-5-6-5 points on rounds 1/2/3/4 so the Missing Vowels round is no more valuable than the Sequences. Adrenalin in North Yorkshire markets itself as the home of the obstacle course from the TV series, which offers paying public a chance to take on the Assault course. [11] From 1986 to 1988, contestants were shown a clip twice and asked to spot five differences between two similar clips (six differences in 1988) and in 1986 and 1987, each player earned two points for each correctly identified difference. Many of the sequences recorded for the 1988 series were written by, and featured, Andrew O'Connor. From the 1989 and 1990 series, contestants were invited to spot six deliberate continuity errors (five in the 1990 series) contained in one single clip. Steve Coogan, in some of his earliest television appearances, starred in many of the sequences featured in the 1989 series. From 1991 to 1993, contestants answered six multiple-choice questions (five in the 1993 series) relating to the clip (e.g. "What did he say when he entered the room?" or "What was on the table?"), and the time used to provide the correct answers was used to break ties. The 2010 series brings some changes, with a new, four-person assault course (good), but only four rounds, the intelligence round having been dropped ( are they mad?!). The four-round format (which for what it's worth is the same as the US junior version from 1990) doesn't drag as we thought it would, but it does feel like there's something missing. The new assault course is certainly a good one, with elements of both the previous ones. An A-frame net, water tank (not water jump as such) and a longer zip wire are all reminiscent of the original version, other obstacles and the presence of outward bound instructors rather than the Army are similar to the last series and there's also one very decent and novel touch: the course finishing with a pull-along raft-race. (Actually, if there is one minor issue with said raft-race, it seems by and large to favour the men, who appear to have the greater upper-body strength - that is, if Ben Shephard's words on the subject are to be believed. Having said that, though, several women came second on the course during this series and one actually won it - the first to do so since the show's revival). Overall, the course is arguably not quite as good as the original Army assault course, but still an impressive second-best and a distinct improvement on last year's effort. Bob-a-Job" from the 1988 series starts out as a game show, with banter between the host and the contestant, a tense round of questions, and presentation of the prize... and then the "host" and "contestant" are revealed to be a manager and his employee, and the prize is her weekly paycheque. Her last line ("Do we have to go through this every Friday?") suggests he has been applying Making Mundanity Awesome to handing over her paycheque for some time.

Hehe, I posted exactly the same thing about Only Connect here seven years ago (almost to the day!), only for the then-lead-question-setter to come onto the thread and say otherwise!! Gordon Burns to step down from BBC North West Tonight". BBC News. 15 April 2011 . Retrieved 31 May 2021.

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Sound Proof Booth: Only headphones were used in Burns' run, it is replaced by a booth known as the Kube in the Ben Shephard version.

Since its cancellation in 1995, there had been persistent rumours of a revival on the BBC. In April 2005, it was widely reported that the BBC would be going ahead with a revival. However, the source of this story turned out to be a misinterpretation of comments by Wayne Garvie, head of BBC's Entertainment Group (and previously the last producer on The Krypton Factor) naming it as the next "TV gem" that "should" (rather than would) be revived. [2] A 1990 sketch in series 2 of A Bit of Fry and Laurie depicts a scene in which a representative of an unnamed organisation ( Stephen Fry) holds a clandestine meeting in an underground car park with a gruff, vaguely criminal type with an extensive record of adventures ( Hugh Laurie). The "impossible" task that the organisation wants this man to attempt: to watch a full episode of The Krypton Factor, a feat which, according to the organisation's representative, has never been done before. In 2013, Burns retired properly after stepping down from his radio show. [7] Personal life [ edit ] The first series of the show was shown on Wednesdays, presented by Gordon Burns and ran for eleven weeks, consisting of eight heats, two semi-finals and the final. It was then on Fridays for two years before arriving on Mondays in 1980. Up to and including the 1979 series, Gordon Burns would be seen standing next to the master scoreboard before being given a desk at which to sit from 1980 onwards (he would be seen sitting next to the master scoreboard for the 1980 and 1981 series before taking his traditional place in front of the audience and facing the contestants for the series which followed). In the first few series, there were no groups and eight heats, the winner of each advancing to a semi-final. The top two of each semi-final qualified for the Grand Final. Mental Agility went through several versions before settling into the Speed Round test of memory and detail juggling of later series. Initially, contestants were asked increasingly difficult questions in turn, and would be eliminated if they answered incorrectly. By the early 1980s, this had changed to seeing a series of nine images, each accompanied by a statement read by Charles Foster of which four were true and five were false; the contestants had to select the four true statements, and would receive 2 points for each correct choice, and a bonus of 2 points for getting all four.

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Ooh, now this was good. One of the few shows on ITV at this time that went out in its 30min slot commercial-free. Unlike most of today's trashy TV, this one demonstrated that brains are good. Contestants from across the United Kingdom and Ireland competed in a series of rounds that tested their physical stamina and mental attributes. The title of the show is a reference to Superman's home planet Krypton, the title perceiving that the contestants had strong superhuman "powers" for taking part in the challenges they were set. The contestants, from 1986 onwards, all had their own corresponding colour, either red, green, yellow or blue. The points contestants earned through the game were not referred to as their score, but as their "Krypton Factor", e.g. "The winner, with a Krypton Factor of 46, is the technical specialist from Birmingham, Caroline White". The 1987 series won the prestigious Premios Ondas – Spanish Television Award for Entertainment. Speed Round: The General Knowledge round. Depending on the series, the round lasted for between one and three minutes. This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( September 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

This round only took place in the first series, where it was third. In it, the contestants were sequestered where they had to write a 30-second script on a subject given to them like a destination brochure, a letter of complaint, etc., which they had one chance to perform. The performances were filmed and a focus group taken in twenty cities and towns across Great Britain voted on the best effort. Burns is the second cousin of English singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran. [8] Burns is married and has two adult children. From the 1988 series onwards, the Response Test consisted purely of flight simulator tests: these included a Sea Harrier Jump Jet in the 1988 group finals, a Royal Navy helicopter in the 1988 Grand Final and all the later group finals and something special like the Space Shuttle or even a real plane in the Grand Final. They'd be marked by the instructor. This version of the round was arguably better than the 1986/7 one, since the Fleischmann Flexibility and handbike tests, although very entertaining to watch (and possibly to do as well) did not seem very consistent or comparable with the flight simulator tests. Having said that, though, a number of contestants who had done well in the flight simulator in their first round crashed or otherwise performed badly in their Group and/or Grand Finals and vice versa. For example, the 1992 champion, Andrew Craig, crashed the plane and came fourth in his first two simulator tests, yet landed the real plane in the Grand Final superbly and won the round that time - and with some impressive competition from the other three contestants, too. A spin-off series was produced for children, Young Krypton, and was presented by Ross King. The series was based on a similar structure to the adult version, but with simpler intelligence tasks and a shorter obstacle course (located at The American Adventure Theme Park near Nottingham, owned by the Granada Group at the time) in place of the Physical Ability round.

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The New Zealand version of The Krypton Factor ran from 1987 to 1991 on TVNZ on TV2 and was hosted by veteran presenter Dougal Stevenson. There was no Response round in the New Zealand version, and the video clips used for the Observation test were taken from the United Kingdom version. The Physical Ability test was done at Burnham Military Camp, just south of Christchurch. The first season in 1987 consisted of a challenge between Australian and New Zealand contestants, with all of the series hosted in New Zealand and aired on ABC in Australia during that time. The winners of the 1987 series competed against the winners of the 1987 series in the United Kingdom. Reruns of The Krypton Factor were screened on TVNZ 6.

He was the voice of "The Chain" feature and other features on the Radcliffe & Maconie show on BBC Radio 6 Music. [5] He appears as a guest on the show when The Chain [6] reaches a significant milestone, for example, for the 5,000th (musically based) item on 3 March 2015 which was the single " Dancing Queen" by ABBA. It was a great show, but can the BBC not come up with something new? Endless remakes and repeats don't help the "we're not dumbing down" argument, especially when they're as insipid as "Strictly Dance Fever"!!! A deleted scene from the ITV variety series It'll Be Alright on the Night made it to many compilations; it showed Ben Shephard biting his tongue, after he accidentally said "two points for second", instead of fourth. It was subsequently referenced on the game show Tipping Point (which Shephard also presented) as a question. The rounds are scored with 10 points for a win, 6 points for second and 4 & 2 for third and fourth respectively, with the exception of General Knowledge, where two points are awarded for geting a question right, and one is deducted for getting it wrong. Even if you come last in all the prior rounds, if you can play a blinder in General Knowledge, you can score enough points win the game - increasingly so as the series began shedding rounds.

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The music to the 2009 revival was created by Paul Farrer. In their review, UKGameshows asked "can anyone actually remember the new theme "tune"?". [7] [ importance?] Merchandise and commercial representations [ edit ] The Krypton Factor is a British game show produced by Granada Television for broadcast on ITV. The show originally ran from 7 September 1977 to 20 November 1995 and was hosted by Gordon Burns and usually broadcast on the ITV network on Mondays at 7.00pm.