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And on tonights Grab-A-Grand, from henceforth known as Con-A-Grand...
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We have a fine picture of Sir Paul McCartney...
In the 5 mins I watched he was wrongly identified as...
Frank Skinner...
Robert De Niro...
and
Billy Connelly...
How long can this travesty of a 'quiz' programme be allowed to continue?
In the 5 mins I watched he was wrongly identified as...
Frank Skinner...
Robert De Niro...
and
Billy Connelly...
How long can this travesty of a 'quiz' programme be allowed to continue?
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Indeed...
Lets see what other names have been used for Sir Paul McCartney...
And how much the eventual 'winner' actually gets...
Have they EVER given away a jackpot, whether to a real person phoning in or to a pretend contestant?
Thought would have been on watchdog by now, least you can get through to them.
Or was it just me...
Oh, it gets worse ....
By the way, 'people that call in', ie, the producers various voices, are called 'Grab-a-Granders', what an amazing insult. Some of the 'callers' were p!ss funny tonight, to an extent where I weed down my leg. I started watching it at the point where as a 'veiwer' I was made to believe that this was the first guess of the night by a caller called John who sounded as if he'd escaped from a mental institutde ..... Jimmy White was the first guess of the night followed closely by Robert De Nrio, Neil Morrissey, Steve Davis, Al Pacino.
It got worse, another 'caller' called Jane who sounded like she'd just taken in a whole helium balloon guessed Jimmy White AGAIN, then the blonde dumbass presenter had the cheek to say 'weve already had that one'. Tell that to your producers love, after all they're the ones calling in. Fool. Then a George from erm ...... in the excitement, the poor **** had forgotten where he lived before he suddenly remembered "Vauxhall area". Oh. Lord. Of. Mercy.
We then had Sly Stallone from a George who "couldn't hear what was going on" which was then proceeded by the dumb blonde giving out a totally different number to the one that was on the screen. Dear. God. Then 'Gus' who was Pete and John in previous calls but with the same ludicrous voice said Sly Stallone again, another Pete (clearly GAG are running out of names to use at this point so they're recycling old ones) followed with Bruno Brooks - LMAO. What the f**k? Melissa with a voice crisis then unbelievable says "Dirty Dean" not even Dirty Den which was then helpfully corrected by the Dumb Blonde UK 2006 who looked equally proud of herself.
At this point GAG are running out of McCartney lookalikes to call up with so the old favaourites like Steve Davis, Jimmy White at which point was more like having a substitute snooker match between the two. New name 'Dan' calls in with Joe Pesci - oh lord of mercy - and then, an outright unbelievable guess of Frank Skinner followed at which point I was breaking my own bank of p!ss. Anna - an old lady who decided to give her full name of Anna Peartree LMAO - repeated Rob De Niro. She then forgets she was old and becomes ITALIAN??? Yet another George, an old man says Billy Connolly followed by a man "I definitey know this one, is it Bryan Robson?" hahahaha, comedy genius.
Lastly we had Terry Venables from a Michael with a Scottish Indian accent.
I'm suprised no one called in with Linda McCartney .....
Who happened to be a member of the producers family. :eek:
But did anyone call in with the right answer... just before the programme ended at 2am... to win the enormous sum of £400?
And then have a go at the jackpot and get so very close to it by getting 2 out of 3 symbols..?
If it wasn't for the FACT that this show is actually blatantly ripping people off in front of everyones faces, I'd be inclined to keep it on air, its entertainment at its finest car-crash TV best... From the cheap 'sets' to the streetwalking presenters to the quality of the 'calls' they take and their corresponding 'guesses'...
Are you suggesting that Con-A-Grand actually gave some money away to a genuine winner??!!
Sadly not but if anyone see the trailer for this joke then you'd think the same as me. You could quite clearly see it was a setup, when the Bimbo Blonde asked the 'winner' "what are you going to do with the money" she said "go on holiday to Lanzarote and paint the house". Hey big spender. They couldn't even gloss it up.
Which convinced me this show is produced by pikeys - or gypsies.
Yes, I've seen the film with the show host personally presenting a woman with a cheque outside her front door.
The best one was Will Smith. I just couldn't believe my ears when I heard .....
"Is it Trevor McDonald?"
Unreal. Will Smith on 'Stars in their Eyes News at Ten special.' "Tonight Matthew I'm going to be Trevor McDonald ..."
The same 20 odd answers are given to the same pictures over and over again...
That Wiley will know - a guy that used to post on here all the time about Text2Date and Grab A Grand.
A guy called 'Citibank' on another website, Quiz Telly or something also posted some comments about GAG. It was actually he who got me on this whole GAG thing.
heres the link ....
http://www.quiztelly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=519
http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=216907
You can read his deep Grab A Grand posts here. He knows their names and that. >
http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?p=6571566#post6571533
As I mentioned elsewhere here, I complained to Ofcom just before Christmas about my suspicions that all was not right with this quiz. I was quite restrained and just pointed them to various exact times when the funny-accented callers were at their peak and suggested they might like to ask Cellcast for the tapes for those parts of the show. I received three identical letters of acknowledgement from them on the same day by 1st class post, but as far as I am aware they have done sod all.
My conclusions ? Ofcom have a stationery budget that they desperately need to spend, but can't get off their arses to do anything.
Don't lose hope of the Watchdog thing, you never know what will happen next week, or the week after, or the week after that, but I'm sure they'll be on the show soon.
I remember before someone saying they thought that this quiz show was pre-recorded, which you would think would be impossible because it relies on interaction with viewers, but take a look at this:
I think it is time OFCOM got off their arses and sorted this out once and for all. However, in saying that, it is very funny to watch and listen to fake callers!