Eggheads or SudoQ?

I've just noticed that the BBC2 show Eggheads has ended. I didn't think they could find a cheesier show to put on, but they have - SudoQ. A mid-morning show that's been promoted to the early evening slot, no doubt due to it's ratings and not the fact they had nothing else to put on, oh no no no.

It's amazing how anything else becomes instantly watchable, Noel Edmonds' "Deal no Deal" a game of zero skill or perhaps the local news. Not that I don't normally watch the news, it's just that "How your food is killing you" or "Bloodbath in Birmingham" is not something particularly entertaining when you've just eaten or are about to. Besides I prefer the evening news, when the presenters have had time to digest the day's events and might actually understand what is actually happening.

Even Eggheads was better then this and that drove me insane. It was cheap, seriously cheap, early Doctor Who cheap. The contestants would applaud their isolated team member for getting the question correct and it would resound hollowly as if in a warehouse. The graphics were boilerplate, it mattered not what they called themselves the contestants would always be referred to as "The Contestants" on the scoreboard. The isolated players were read the question and then given a choice of three answers, but didn't even have a screen in front of them to read it for themselves

Can you spell that for me?

What was the first choice again?

The biggest problem however was the presenter Dermot McMurnahanrahanrahan. He's a news presenter, he can read an autocue and do interviews, he shouldn't be a presenter. Every episode was the same, exactly the same lines, exactly the same forced banter.

So at the end of round one the contestants have lost one brain and the eggheads have lost none.

Gee thanks I couldn't have worked that out, but for every episode of every series exactly the same thing. If he didn't have to ask different questions they could have just recorded all his lines and played them back.

On losing a round

Ah well you chose to go first, they [the egghead] could have had your questions instead

Well duh, seeing as I don't know what the questions are going to be I can't exactly make an informed choice now can I?

The prize structure is ridiculous too. If the eggheads lose then £1,000 is added to the pot, winners get the pot. So if they remain undefeated for a while the next winners pick up some decent cash, but if the next contestants win they only get a £1,000 despite doing exactly the same as the previous group.

The BBC couldn't even show them in order or they missed some out, the prize went up then went back down, did someone win? We never to got to see that did we?

And yet it's still better then SudoQ. Ah well at least I'll be well informed about local events.