Scrapheap Scrapped?

[knobbykins]

I don't watch much tv,unless it's a film,but one thing i've always loved was Scrapheap Challenge.So what's happened to it?One week it was on,the next gone!The series never had a finale or did i miss something?I thought it had been bumped for a week or two but months later,NOTHING!

Does anyone know what's going on?

[Steve Crook]

name='knobbykins']I don't watch much tv,unless it's a film,but one thing i've always loved was Scrapheap Challenge.So what's happened to it?One week it was on,the next gone!The series never had a finale or did i miss something?I thought it had been bumped for a week or two but months later,NOTHING!

Does anyone know what's going on?

Scrapheap Challenge hasn't been run since 2004. It evolved into Scrappy Races which ran for a series or two from 2004. But they haven't done any new shows for some time.



It surfaces every now and then on some of the cable/satellite channels



Steve

[knobbykins]

I've must've been in a parrallel universe for two years,then,because it was on sunday evenings at 6.40 and i'm sure they weren't repeats.I've a pretty poor memory but even i can't lose two years,not without serious alcohol abuse(ah,those were the days).

Don't tell me i need MORE therapy,just when things were looking up!

[knobbykins]

Just been to the website via wikidpedia and in the forum someone asked when are C4 going to finish screening series nine now that filming is complete on series TEN!!!

[Steve Crook]

name='knobbykins']Just been to the website via wikidpedia and in the forum someone asked when are C4 going to finish screening series nine now that filming is complete on series TEN!!!

But the Channel 4 page about the programme talks about "a new test of bodging ingenuity is only a heartbeat away with the dastardly new series of Scrappy Races starting in early 2005!"



If they are hoping to have a new series in 2005 then I think that saying it ended in 2004 is quite close to being accurate



It is hard to tell which is a new show and which is a repeat, but they're all enjoyable.



Steve

[penfold]

Not to forget it's US cousin, Junkyard Challenge...

[essaljay]

Knobbykins (love the name) is quite right. I too am a regular watcher of this programme when it quite suddenly dropped off the radar without a trace.

[knobbykins]

name='essaljay']Knobbykins (love the name) is quite right. I too am a regular watcher of this programme when it quite suddenly dropped off the radar without a trace.

I'm still sane,HOORAAY!!!

Hang on,that means the world i live in is REAL!!!

[Steve Crook]

But were they new programmes or repeats?

Was it Scrapheap Challenge or Scrappy Races?



Steve

[knobbykins]

I see from the tv listings that Scrappy is back tomorrow evening...but whether it's the end of the last series or the start of a new one,i couldn't say!

[Steve Crook]

name='knobbykins']I see from the tv listings that Scrappy is back tomorrow evening...but whether it's the end of the last series or the start of a new one,i couldn't say!

Yes, at 18:45 on Channel 4 and then at 18:30 for the next couple of weeks after that.



Tomorrow's programme is the first of the semi-finals so I doubt it's a new series. DigiGuide says they're "back after a summer break"



It's also being shown on More4 & Discovery Science, but they're almost certainly older series



Steve

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Yes if you had asked me I would have said it was on every week on one of the channel 4's various sub channels.

[knobbykins]

name='knobbykins']I see from the tv listings that Scrappy is back tomorrow evening...but whether it's the end of the last series or the start of a new one,i couldn't say!

Well'here we go again!

Just seen that SCRAPPY is back tomorrow(sunday 17.45).