Going for Gold: 48 Games [DVD] [2012] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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Hugh Bonneville ( Downton Abbey) and Frances O’Connor ( Mansfield Park, The Importance of Being Earnest) star in this splendid adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s dramatic masterpiece. With dreams of escaping her provincial upbringing, Emma Rouault (O’Connor) marries local doctor Charles Bovary (Bonneville), and moves in with him. But it is not long before she feels constrained and frustrated by married life. Ignoring her devoted husband and immersing herself in romantic fantasies, Emma begins a string of affairs. First, a young student, Léon (Hugh Dancy, King Arthur), captures her imagination, but when the dashing aristocrat, Rodolphe, shows Emma the alternatives to married life, she enters into the affair with body and soul. Romantic and tragic, Flaubert’s story of a woman’s quest for fulfillment in love is an enduring classic not to be missed. Bonus features include: A Complex Heart: Gustave Flaubert, a 30-minute profile of the author and the places that inspired him. While the show didn’t award a winner's trophy, David Baddiel had one despite not even appearing on the show. He offered this up for the prize task on Taskmaster series nine, which won him 5 points. The Going for Gold screenwriter Billy Ivory says he believes London 2012 is poised to repeat the success of London 1948. If a contestant buzzed in and got a question wrong, the question would be offered to other contestants, signalled by a buzzer sounding. However, if a contestant buzzed in and gave no answer at all it would result in a doorbell sound and the answer was revealed. How best to market "the Jubilympics" as a joint branding venture between the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics.

There are so many parallels really, the austerity of then and the austerity of now and - personally speaking - I'm hoping that there will be a similar coming together of people and a uniting of spirit. I think the Olympics for Britain is brilliant." Each edition began with a short general knowledge round to all seven contestants. Out of the contestants who started the show, four would go through to the next round (always referred to as the "first round proper" by Kelly). These four would be the first who managed to answer each of the four general knowledge questions correctly. These questions would usually take the form of a 20 to 30-second description of an object, person, animal or place (usually beginning "Who am I?", "What am I?", etc.), with progressively more details being revealed by Kelly until someone was able to identify it. By the Thursday show, there would be only four contestants left to play the opening round and so several questions were asked and the first person to two points would join the previous days' winners in "the first round proper".I had rowed a very small bit at school. Matt, I don't think, had ever been in a boat ever before," says Hoare. "We had this amazing coach who works for [the elite] Leander Club and also coaches the GB team." The Beat the Buzzer round was a general knowledge round, played with hands on plungers. Questions were worth one, two or three points. Beginning with a general knowledge question worth one point, a contestant who gave a correct answer would be told the subject of the next question, and got to choose the value to play for. If nobody answered correctly, it restarted with another general knowledge question worth one point. The first three players to reach six points (or nine in the 2008 version) went on to play the next round. Going for Gold – BBC One London – 5 November 1990". BBC Genome Project. 5 November 1990 . Retrieved 22 May 2016. Going for Gold – BBC One London – 27 February 1995". BBC Genome Project. 27 February 1995 . Retrieved 22 May 2016. This was once a lunchtime favourite and indeed the idea was repeated in another game show years later (I forget the name) expect without the European element. It was all very entertaining but the European thing made it feel very cheesy. The grand prize was always grand but so very far away in terms of number of shows you had to go through to get it. The rounds idea was clever but it didn't really have anything special and was never able to climb out of being a daytime TV show to be prime time.

Going for Gold – BBC One London – 1 April 1996". BBC Genome Project. April 1996 . Retrieved 22 May 2016. Players scored based on the number of consecutive questions they got right – if an incorrect answer was given, their score returned to zero. The score taken from this round was the highest point reached over 40 seconds. After this round, the two highest scoring players went through to the final round. A "first to two" general knowledge playoff was held if there was a tie, using the same style of questions from round 1. The Semi-Final weeks occurred at the end of each half of the season with between 7–10 weekly winners (depending upon season length). Each week was made up of four daily heats with the winner of each heat going through to Finals week and the losing players returning each day (there was no weekly final). By this point the contestants were buzzing in noticeably earlier as the standard of competition increased. The show was shown on BBC1 in the UK and on Super Channel (later NBC Super Channel) in Continental Europe and on BBC TV Europe (which carried a mix of BBC1 and BBC2 output up to its dissolution in early 1991).The Finals week consisted of eight winners from the Semi-Finals (four from each week) competing in a standard week format of three daily heats with the winners advancing to the Grand Final (directly to the Beat the Buzzer round). The Grand Final episode would start with a "First-to-Two" Elimination Round amongst the remaining five contestants and play as normal to the Head to Head where the winner would receive the star prize holiday (as described in every episode) and the runner-up would get a consolation prize (e.g. a colour television, or a gold-plated Going for Gold plate). Going for Gold – BBC One London – 17 October 1988". BBC Genome Project. 17 October 1988 . Retrieved 22 May 2016. Bushnell, denied an Olympic berth in his usual event of single sculls, carried a huge chip on his shoulder over the difference in social status between himself and "rowing royalty" Burnell who, of course, knew this would be his last chance to equal his father's gold in the Edwardian-era London games.

Going for Gold – BBC One London – 12 October 1987". BBC Genome Project. 12 October 1987 . Retrieved 22 May 2016.

Going For Gold - The '48 Games

including Copper’s Tom Weston-Jones. The Nerdist: Comic-Con premieres Saturday, July 28, 9:00pm ET/PT. In The Nerdist: Going for Gold – BBC One London – 25 April 1994". BBC Genome Project. 25 April 1994 . Retrieved 22 May 2016.