Playing For Time

Newest Review: ... of general knowledge questions. Why did I feel I'd be a good contestant? Um.....that one had me stumped...! A week later I had a call telling me they wanted me and were going to film at Pebble Mill (Birmingham) at the end of July. I had to give them info which would apparently intimidate the other contestants, although just thinking about trying to intimidate them with my apparently superior knowledge was enough to have me laughing helplessly ;-) Soon after this I had the sheet of rules to learn - it's surprisingly difficult to understand a quiz show just from reading a set of rules when you've never seen it on TV because the... more

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Playing For Time: A Contestant's View! (Try It!!) (1529 words)
by - written on 22/11/00 (Very useful, 105 readings)
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*Update* If you want to try this, the BBC are looking for new contestants again! Email playingfortime@bbc.co.uk and don't forget to let me know if you do :-) True Confessions - I was a contestant on this show...want to know what it's *really* like? It was one of those things...I'm on the Radio Times mailing list and in an idle 2 seconds (not a lot of idle time around here!) I sent off a 2 liner in response to a request for contestants for a new TV quiz show about to be filmed called "Playing for Time". After a chat to the research assistant for the show during which I had convinced myself that I really wasn't the sort ... Read the complete review

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