What a scare on Friday's show when he
slipped up and quoted Canada as the country
with the highest number of the virus, albeit
quickly corrected to China.
The panei who had previousjy lectured us on
subjects such as why there are more male statues
than those of women in this country, hadn't a clue
on general knowledge e.g. Prime minister in 1936
Churchill and Attlee were given, very poor answers
for people in the media.
Something must have happened with Mathew Wright and Ch 5, I saw him interviewed a while back, he intimated he’d had a nervous breakdown through events with the channel and he went with his wife’s blessing at Christmas, on a fishing trip to the Caribbean, leaving her and their new baby at home, it was there that he was able to evaluate his life, I liked him much more than JV who seems to have the same people on his show all the time, they only rotate
I watched a Celebrity Mastermind recently. The standard of general knowledge was abysmal.
I quite like Jeremy Vine. I think he does a good job. (I seem to remember Matthew Wright had a falling out with Channel 5 and was fired. Can't remember why).
I try to stop away from daytime TV apart from the news, and one dose of that is enough. I did see the start of JV yesterday morning, not sure who dresses him but he looked like a circus master with his red silk jacket and flowery shirt. :0) He reminds me of Killroy Silk who also loved himself. These shows are more of an habit than interesting, much prefer a battle on here. :0)
I have the news or politics on when I'm putting my makeup on - or if I'm pottering about or ironing in the kitchen. I never sit and watch television during the day.
I used to like watching MW and then JV because I like learning the topics of the day/week,but two women I cannot abide ,1,Yasmin Alibhai -Brown and 2, Nicola McLean, ones a total gobchit and the others a racist bigot ( I’ll leave you to work out which one) are there on a two week rota, tv goes off when either of them are on
I believe she was a young person in Idi Amins Uganda when GB ( it was then) opened its gates to the persecuted of the despots regime, I’d have to check Wikipedia to see if she was a journalist in Uganda before arriving here
//I watched a Celebrity Mastermind recently. The standard of general knowledge was abysmal//
Was it the one when Adrian Edmondson won the contest BEFORE he'd started the general knowledge round, because the others were so clueless. They were embarrassingly bad.
Jeremy Vine? I far prefer his brother. I love a good pun.
I dont like Lowri Turner on the panel.. She drives me bonkers!
Storm Huntley makes up for her though. I think she is great at her job and I find her very entertaining..
I wouldn't regard "Who was the Prime Minister in 1936?" as a 'general knowledge' question. I'd regard it as a 'specialist history' question. I'd certainly have to guess at the answer.