Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Everybody's Equal

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The result was speedy keep‎. Nomination withdrawn. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:19, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Everybody's Equal

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Appears to fail WP:NTV and WP:GNG. Tagged for notability since 2019 DonaldD23 talk to me 11:26, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television, Games, and United Kingdom. DonaldD23 talk to me 11:26, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.
1. "Everybody's Equal revived in France". Broadcast. 2012-06-06.ProQuest 1018743018.
  The article notes: "British gameshow Everybody's Equal, which Chris Tarrant hosted for ITV more than 20 years ago, has been revived for audiences in France. Que le Meilleur Gagne is being co-produced for France 2 by Banijay-owned Air Productions and FremantleMedia France. ... Everybody's Equal ran on ITV from 1989 to 1991. The format was adapted for broadcasters in Japan, Quebec and France where it initially aired on La Cinq."
2. Blackburn, Virginia (2003). Chris Tarrant: The Biography. London: Metro Publishing. pp. 68–69. ISBN 1-84358-081-0. Retrieved 2024-03-04 – via Internet Archive.
  The book notes: "There followed the likes of Everybody's Equal, in which Chris himself was once made to suffer — after he claimed to detest yuppies, especially estate agents, he was forced to take on a 200-strong audience of, you guessed it, estate agents. Funnily enough, Everybody's Equal, which was based on a French format, had a number of features that later appeared in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. It involved contestants faced with questions and four multiple choice answers, in which speed of reply was almost as important as accuracy and in which, at the finale, contestants were asked to put a series of events in order. Described at the time as 'one of the more inventive quizzes that ITV has done', the format went as follows. Questions were read out to a studio audience of 200, each of whom had a keypad, which provided four alternative answers. They had ten seconds to answer and everyone who got the question wrong — sometimes just one hapless individual, on whom the camera focused — was out. This continued until there were only ten people left. If, however, there were more than ten left after the sixth question, then the fastest ten to answer went through."
3. Kingsley, Hillary (1991-07-20). "Hillary Kingsley's Pick of the Day". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 2024-03-04 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  The article notes: "I realise it's not something that many people admit to, so I'll whisper it. I like Chris Tarrant. And I like this lively game show which whittles an audience of 200 people down to just one person in half an hour (yes I know, Max Bygraves' act has been doing that for years). Everybody's Equal is good fun, the questions aren't too taxing, we can all play along at home and the contestants seem relatively normal, unlike the brain donors they sometimes get on Big Break. But the biggest plus is Tarrant himself. I'm not sure I'd want to buy a used car from him, but at least he doesn't take himself seriously. With some of the jackets he wears, he daren't."
4. Harper, Norman (1991-07-27). "TV review: Bum notes and all that jazz". The Aberdeen Press and Journal. Retrieved 2024-03-04 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  The review notes: "I confess to developing a secret liking for Everybody's Equal. The format is as trite as every other gameshow and there is a flaw of sorts in that the audience can't develop a rapport with the contenders — because there are 200 contenders. The strength of Everybody's Equal is host Chris Tarrant. It was a colleague who pointed out that, alone among TV hosts, Tarrant doesn't patronise the participants, and it's true. He doesn't use them as foils for well-rehearsed wit and the show has a relaxed, matey, pleasing air as a result. Good stuff."
5. Harper, Norman (1989-06-17). "TV review: Whizz of a quiz". The Aberdeen Press and Journal. Retrieved 2024-03-04 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  The review notes: "While Channel 4's "Countdown" is the only game show worthy of its place in TV schedules, I can't help sneaking admiration for "Everybody's Equal", the new ITV show in which the contestants are the 200 people in the audience. Through half an hour, the 200 are whittled down to just one person who has answered all the computer's multiple-choice questions correctly. She or he picks up £1000. It is a novel idea and one which works rather well. It is a shame that people who answer wrongly are singled out for the glare of ridicule, but presumably they knew the risks before they agreed to take part. It is also worth watching for the vigorous and prolonged handshaking offered by host Chris Tarrant to each week's victor. One day, someone's arm is going to come off in his hand."
There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Everybody's Equal to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".
Cunard (talk) 09:18, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Pinging Toughpigs (talk · contribs), who removed the proposed deletion. Cunard (talk) 09:18, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per the excellent sources found by Cunard, WP:NEXIST Toughpigs (talk) 16:20, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw per sources identified by Cunard. DonaldD23 talk to me 20:23, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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