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* ClipShow: Each series had a highlights special, while UKTV Gold picked up ''Brucie's Generation Game: Now and Then'' in 2007, which featured classic moments, and inviting back runner-ups to play the conveyor.
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* ClipShow: Each series had a highlights special, while UKTV Creator/{{UKTV}} Gold picked up ''Brucie's Generation Game: Now and Then'' in 2007, which featured classic moments, and inviting back runner-ups to play the conveyor.
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The series was one of the major breakout roles for British television personality Creator/BruceForsyth, who had previously hosted a British version of ''Series/BeatTheClock'' as part of the variety show ''Sunday Night at the London Palladium''. In 1978, Forsyth was poached by London Weekend Television to host a competing Saturday night show on Creator/{{ITV}}, ''Bruce Forsyth's Big Night''. Meanwhile, comedian Larry Grayson was brought on as the new host of ''The Generation Game'': with an aim to differentiate it from Brucie's version, Grayson hosted the programme as a [[CampGay camp]], [[TheDitz incompetent]] character, with his [[LovelyAssistant co-host]] Isla St Clair keeping things from going
With an aim to set it apart from Bruce Forsyth's tenure, comedian Larry Grayson was brought on as the new host of ''The Generation Game''; he
With a goal for the show to have a different look and feel that would be harder to compare against Forsyth's tenure, the BBC's head of light entertainment Bill Cotton chose comedian Larry Grayson as the new host, who
Grayson
Bringing his [[CampGay camp]], [[TheDitz incompetent]] stage persona to the show, ''Larry Grayson's Generation Game'' remained dominant, and besides two one-off specials in 1980, ''Bruce Forsyth's Big Night'' was quickly canned after 12 episodes. When a television technicians' strike brought down the entire ITV network for eleven weeks in 1979 (and resulted in continued residual effects for some time afterward), ratings for ''The Generation Game'' were recorded as being around 25 million viewers -- the highest ratings ever recorded for a game show at the time. After its original run ended in 1982, it was revived in 1990 with Forsyth returning as host. After filling in for Forsyth on one episode, Creator/JimDavidson took over from 1995 to 2002.
With an aim to set it apart from Bruce Forsyth's tenure, comedian Larry Grayson was brought on as the new host of ''The Generation Game''; he
With a goal for the show to have a different look and feel that would be harder to compare against Forsyth's tenure, the BBC's head of light entertainment Bill Cotton chose comedian Larry Grayson as the new host, who
Grayson
Bringing his [[CampGay camp]], [[TheDitz incompetent]] stage persona to the show, ''Larry Grayson's Generation Game'' remained dominant, and besides two one-off specials in 1980, ''Bruce Forsyth's Big Night'' was quickly canned after 12 episodes. When a television technicians' strike brought down the entire ITV network for eleven weeks in 1979 (and resulted in continued residual effects for some time afterward), ratings for ''The Generation Game'' were recorded as being around 25 million viewers -- the highest ratings ever recorded for a game show at the time. After its original run ended in 1982, it was revived in 1990 with Forsyth returning as host. After filling in for Forsyth on one episode, Creator/JimDavidson took over from 1995 to 2002.
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The series was one of the major breakout roles for British television personality Creator/BruceForsyth, who had previously hosted a British version of ''Series/BeatTheClock'' as part of the variety show ''Sunday Night at the London Palladium''. In 1978, Forsyth was poached by London Weekend Television to host a competing Saturday night show on Creator/{{ITV}}, ''Bruce Forsyth's Big Night''. Meanwhile, comedian Larry Grayson was brought on as the new host of ''The Generation Game'': with an aim to differentiate it from Brucie's version, Grayson hosted the programme as a [[CampGay camp]], [[TheDitz incompetent]] character, with his [[LovelyAssistant co-host]] Isla St Clair keeping things from going
With an aim to set it apart from Bruce Forsyth's tenure, comedian Larry Grayson was brought on asgoing too far off the new host of ''The Generation Game''; he
With a goal for the show to have a different look and feel that would be harder to compare against Forsyth's tenure, the BBC's head of light entertainment Bill Cotton chose comedian Larry Grayson as the new host, who
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Bringing his [[CampGay camp]], [[TheDitz incompetent]] stage persona to the show,rails.
''Larry Grayson's Generation Game'' remaineddominant, and dominant over its competition, while Isla was elevated from a local personality to a national name. In comparison, besides two one-off specials in 1980, ''Bruce Forsyth's Big Night'' was quickly canned after 12 episodes. When a television technicians' strike brought down the entire ITV network for eleven weeks in 1979 (and resulted in continued residual effects for some time afterward), ratings for ''The Generation Game'' were recorded as being around 25 million viewers -- the highest ratings ever recorded for a game show at the time. After its original run ended in 1982, it was revived in 1990 with Forsyth returning as host. After filling in for Forsyth on one episode, Creator/JimDavidson took over from 1995 to 2002.
With an aim to set it apart from Bruce Forsyth's tenure, comedian Larry Grayson was brought on as
With a goal for the show to have a different look and feel that would be harder to compare against Forsyth's tenure, the BBC's head of light entertainment Bill Cotton chose comedian Larry Grayson as the new host, who
Grayson
Bringing his [[CampGay camp]], [[TheDitz incompetent]] stage persona to the show,
''Larry Grayson's Generation Game'' remained
