Challenge TV vs Brangwen!
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Thanatos - it isn't April Fools' Day yet. No he was not.
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Well, I for one really appreciated the joke at Ed T-P's expense, having always thought him infinitely inferior to the fabulous Richard O'Brien. I'd always assumed this to be pretty much the standard view, although it's always good to find someone who disagrees. (I'm still looking for someone to hail the virtues of the KM life force quiche!)
I'm surprised the Dungeoneer lasted so long before being bored to death. I'd usually grabbed the remote and swapped channels before he'd finished saying "I'm Edward Tudor-Pole but you can call me Ed!" in his customary overly enthusiastic manner.
I suppose at least the Dungeoneer wasn't made to listen to his pop efforts. shudder
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Despite prefering Richard O'Brien (Well he did write the Rocky Horror show and therefore I am biased!) there's a lot to be said about that "Swords of a Thousand Men," or whatever the song is called!
Problem is, Ed Tudor Pole was very good at being Ed Tudor Pole, but he wasn't very good at being Richard O'Brien. So perhaps if he had played it as himself, he would have done better ratings-wise.
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Ten Pole Tudor are a pretty poor band.
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Never thought I'd see anyone who preferred Ed. The fact that the Crystal Maze had 4 successful series with Reckless Rick and only 2 more less successful series after he left speaks volumes. In the end, most people watched the Crystal Maze for Richard O'Brien. Switching to Ed is like having someone other than Hugo Myatt playing Treguard. Knightmare would soon have perished without him. Ooooh, nasty!
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Edward Tudor Pointless probably wasn't helped by the fact that after so long the format was pretty obvious and predictable. Richard O'Brilliant got out while the show was still popular. If he'd stayed, the ratings would perhaps still have dipped eventually, even with his wit and personality keeping a lot of viewers on board.
Having said that, I think loads of people just watched it for RO'B and Tudor-Pointless didn't even compare for many people. RO'B was always a little detached from the game; it was obvious he took it with a pinch of salt. ET-P just seemed so overly into it that I think a lot of people suddenly woke up to the tacky elements of it all. He might have done better if he'd not tried quite so hard and, like Debz said, been himself.
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And I wonder how the KM production team would have handled it if Hugo had decided to move on.
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Yeah, especially in series 3 and 4, Richard seemed to be thinking 'Oh my god, what a thick bunch of people I have around me' most of the time. It seemed inevitable really that he would give it up sooner or later but his replacement would always have too big an act to follow and try as Ed did (and boy did he try), he didn't match up.
Surely KM would have ceased very soon had Hugo left. This would be more clear cut than with the Crystal Maze. Can anyone imagine anyone taking over from Hugo? It just wouldn't happen.
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I forgot to mention the repetitiveness of Ed's jokes! The "cosmic handshake" joke wasn't even funny and yet he still repeated it about 100 times.
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Not to mention the button in the Futuristic zone which no-one was to press under any circumstances. Ed says, 'Team, you must NOT ... Press ... this ... button,' while repeatedly pressing it as hard as he can.
Another annoying trait was the way he insisted on standing with his legs open as wide as possible all the time.
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I won't mock this time, since I never saw her episode. CK was very very good, though.
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Challenge TV show Ice Warriors? That show was a total flop, it only lasted one series!
The only good thing about Ice Warriors was Dani Behr as host.
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