Brendan O'Carroll's Hot Milk and Pepper
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Brendan O'Carroll's Hot Milk and Pepper is an RTÉ television
quiz show
show presented by Brendan O'Carroll
and also starring Gerry Browne that was broadcast for two series between 1996 and 1998. The show featured two teams of four competing each week.
Frontier Films devised Brendan O'Carroll's Hot Milk and Pepper as a comedy quiz show vehicle for Brendan O'Carroll
. It was devised as a replacement quiz show for Where in the World?
which ended in 1996.
Round One: Connections
The first round featured each member of the team picking the odd-one-out from a group of three related elements (e.g. Greek Gods). The four remaining odd elements were also linked and extra points were given if a team could name the connection.
Round Two: Match Up
The second round featured two columns of eight. Each word in the left-hand column could match up to a related word on the right-hand column (e.g. US states and their capitals). Each contestant had to answer two questions each. If a team member got a question wrong the opposing team had a chance to steal and the question was passed over.
Round Three: Risky Business
In this buzzer round the teams have to guess which word could come before of after another word. As extra words are revealed to help, the points awarded diminishes.
Round Four: Go For Broke
The final round was for the winners of the previous three rounds. Each member could choose their own prize from the show's catalogue beforehand, but would only win the prize if the round was successfully completed. Prizes ranged from video recorder
s to holidays abroad. The final round featured twelve elements all linked to three different topics. There were three "red herrings". The team had to match up the different elements to the different topics and had two extra lives to do so.
on Sunday evenings from 8:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. For the second half of the second series the show moved to Friday evenings at 8:30 p.m. The show was pre-recorded before broadcast in Studio 4 in the RTÉ Television Centre
at Donnybrook
, Dublin 4
. Following the initial two series the show was repeated in early morning and afternoon slots for the 1998-99 season.
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show presented by Brendan O'Carroll
Brendan O'Carroll
Brendan O'Carroll is an Irish comedian, writer, actor and director. Best known for portraying the foul-mouthed Irish matriarch Mrs. Brown, O'Carroll has been a popular comedian in Ireland since the early 1990s.-Early life:...
and also starring Gerry Browne that was broadcast for two series between 1996 and 1998. The show featured two teams of four competing each week.
History
Production companyProduction company
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Frontier Films devised Brendan O'Carroll's Hot Milk and Pepper as a comedy quiz show vehicle for Brendan O'Carroll
Brendan O'Carroll
Brendan O'Carroll is an Irish comedian, writer, actor and director. Best known for portraying the foul-mouthed Irish matriarch Mrs. Brown, O'Carroll has been a popular comedian in Ireland since the early 1990s.-Early life:...
. It was devised as a replacement quiz show for Where in the World?
Where in the World? (TV series)
Where in the World? is an Irish quiz show show presented firstly by Marty Whelan and subsequently by Theresa Lowe that was broadcast for nine series between 1987 and 1996. The show featured two teams of four made up of two families, answering a series of geography-based questions....
which ended in 1996.
Format
Hot Milk and Pepper featured two teams of four - the pink team and the green team. Each member of the team was linked (e.g. all four members of the team were taxi drivers from the same firm).Round One: Connections
The first round featured each member of the team picking the odd-one-out from a group of three related elements (e.g. Greek Gods). The four remaining odd elements were also linked and extra points were given if a team could name the connection.
Round Two: Match Up
The second round featured two columns of eight. Each word in the left-hand column could match up to a related word on the right-hand column (e.g. US states and their capitals). Each contestant had to answer two questions each. If a team member got a question wrong the opposing team had a chance to steal and the question was passed over.
Round Three: Risky Business
In this buzzer round the teams have to guess which word could come before of after another word. As extra words are revealed to help, the points awarded diminishes.
Round Four: Go For Broke
The final round was for the winners of the previous three rounds. Each member could choose their own prize from the show's catalogue beforehand, but would only win the prize if the round was successfully completed. Prizes ranged from video recorder
Video recorder
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s to holidays abroad. The final round featured twelve elements all linked to three different topics. There were three "red herrings". The team had to match up the different elements to the different topics and had two extra lives to do so.
Production
Brendan O'Carroll's Hot Milk and Pepper was broadcast on RTÉ OneRTÉ One
RTÉ One is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann , and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ...
on Sunday evenings from 8:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. For the second half of the second series the show moved to Friday evenings at 8:30 p.m. The show was pre-recorded before broadcast in Studio 4 in the RTÉ Television Centre
RTÉ Television Centre
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at Donnybrook
Donnybrook
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, Dublin 4
Dublin 4
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. Following the initial two series the show was repeated in early morning and afternoon slots for the 1998-99 season.