Eggheads

[naomi24]

I read somewhere that no further series of Eggheads are to be made. Is that right?

[Mamyalynne]

It seems so Naomi.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/02/jeremy-vine-bbc-has-put-eggheads-sleep-audience-old/#:~:text=The%20BBC%20has%20ceased%20production,was%20filmed%20a%20year%20ago.

[naomi24]

Thanks mamyalynne. What a shame.

[Mamyalynne]

It is really, lots of younger viewers like a good quiz show.

[bhg481]

Dear Old people,

We hate you so much we are stopping making the programmes you like AND not allowing over-75s to watch without a licence.

Lots of love,

BBC.

[diddlydo]

I'm hardly a younger viewer (!) but loved Eggheads - Yes, I'd heard/read that they're not making any more shows.

[mushroom25]

they were such smug b'stards though.....

[novalis]

I have met both Kevin Ashman and Daphne Fowler on a couple of occasions each and didn't find either of them smug. In Daphne's case it was at 15-to-1 Grand Finals where she was engaging to speak to beforehand and modest in victory afterwards.

[Hopkirk]

Pity they couldn't just replace Jeremy Vine.

[JimF]

Awful though Vine is/was, anybody would have been an improvement on Dermot Murnaghan.

[Hopkirk]

I'll give my stock answer when asked for a new presenter on any show.

Moira Stewart.

[jim360]

The show's had a good run, been around for 15 years. I like the concept, but feel that the question pace is a bit slow to be honest. Glad the Chase exists because of that.

But I hope they find an equivalent replacement, as opposed to only doing a show in the mould of, say, Lightning or even House of Games. Lightning feels too low-level quizzing, and while I love House of Games, it's more about the banter than the questions mostly.

[naomi24]

I thought Jeremy vine was ok. I like television quizzes that don’t have hysterical studio audiences.

[grumpy01]

Also see John Humphries is retiring from Mastermind.I would like to see Russell Davies who does Brain of Britain on Radio given a try.

[emmie]

not a programme i warmed to, i have watched it in the past, but oh the team do come across as somewhat smug.. perhaps they aren't but i don't watch now. i don't like vine as a presenter at any rate.

[melv16]

Alan Carr should do mastermind:-)

[MWG14]

We have always loved Eggheads but I suppose it is considered too classy nowadays for some. A shame.

[emmie]

alan carr for mastermind, heaven forbid.

[Hopkirk]

I've heard Samira Ahmed is in the running for Mastermind, and Anne Robinson for Countdown.

[fcc]

For mastermind Michael Portillo would get my vote.

[jourdain2]

bhg 481 has the answer. I was very saddened to read that no further series are to be made. The new 'quiz shows' are puerile for the most part.