Only just started watching OC this series. I love the fact that this is a real challenging quiz as opposed to the the usual dumbed down rubbish. I love BBC4 shows because they tend to be aimed at people who are not content to be spoon fed their programming. This quiz really does test the old grey matter in only a way i've know previously by University Challenge and Mastermind, however despite me hardly being able to answer more than a few questions per episode I really enjoy it. I do think you have to be borderline genius though in order to get some of of those clues. However it's not that I have a problem with. It's the high brow, patronizing and extremely condesending attitude of Victoria Coren which really grates on my nerves. She makes the contestants look so stupid for not correctly answering the hardest of questions and I find her majorly stuck up and annoying. This show would be more enjoyable and accessible to those not public school educated if only they had a presenter that wasn't so up herself and dropped the 'I look down my nose at people who aren't intellectual' attitude and that being a complete brain box makes her somehow superior. There have been times where one of the teams have been unable to answer a question, only to be ridiculed by Ms Coren with comments like, 'How could you possibly not know that?' and other such put-downs.
In exactly the same way, I think an excellent show like Never mind the Full Stops was spoiled by an arrogant, condesending presenter who thinks that knowing the in's and outs of Phonetics make them 'The Elite, Select Few.' and think that it gives them carte blanche to ridicule the contestants for 'being so stupid.'
I may not be as knowledgable as those taking part in such shows but as a viewer I find it highly insulting to be made to feel by the quizmaster, like i'm thick or stupid just because I'm not able to solve such difficult questions and that in order to enjoy such shows you must be a member of MENSA or something.
