The next player will choose any one row that has any unpopped bubbles and POP as many as they want in that row only. Ken Bruce to bring iconic PopMaster quiz to TV in exclusive new series for More4 | Channel 4". www.channel4.com . Retrieved 28 June 2023. On 28 May 2021, in the lead-up to the broadcast of a documentary about the quiz called One Year Out: The PopMaster Story, the first ever contestants from February 1998 returned to play a rematch. Set up the game board, give each player a set of answer tokens and place the playing pieces on the board. Shuffle the question cards and place them on the table. Gary Davies, host of the station’s Sounds Of The 80s, will present the mid-morning show until new host Vernon Kay takes over in May on a date that is yet to be announced.

Gold Badge Awards 2010". Goldbadgeawards.com. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012 . Retrieved 30 June 2012. I’d be hopeless at answering the questions,” Bruce suggested. “You need to bring the information to the front of your mind at the right moment and I couldn’t do it.” What is the PopMaster TV prize? Pop It Master is created by Rad Brothers. This is their first game on Poki! How do you play Pop It Fidget Games?

PopMaster (briefly known as Celebrity PopMaster from 2007–2008) is a popular music radio quiz. Between February 1998 and March 2023, the quiz was part of the weekday morning Ken Bruce Show on BBC Radio 2 and currently airs on Greatest Hits Radio beginning in April 2023. The questions were originally devised by radio producer and music collector Phil "The Collector" Swern, [1] but are now written by Neil Myners and Simon Bray.

Players will take turns to choose on row and POP as many bubbles as they want (in that row only). You can pop a bubble by using a mouse or touchscreen. The incredibly cheesy jingle that for a while was played when players successfully completed Three In Ten. We miss that. In the radio show, two contestants are asked ten questions based on popular music. The third, sixth and ninth “bonus” questions are on a topic chosen by the contestant, from two options offered by the host prior to the start of the quiz. The winning contestant will take part in the 3 in 10. The winning contestant then goes on to play "Three-in-Ten". In this part of the quiz they have ten seconds to name three UK Singles Chart hits for a particular artist or group named by Bruce. If they successfully manage this they win a smart speaker; if they fail, they win some Bluetooth headphones. However, if a contestant scores 39 points in the main quiz, they automatically win a smart speaker, and the losing contestant plays the Three-in-Ten instead. Should both contestants score the same number of points (and the score is less than the maximum), a tie-break is used to decide who will play Three-in-Ten. Scan the QR code on the 3-in-10 question card with a smart device, grab a pen and pencil, and write down your 3 answers out of the 10 given before the time runs out!

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Relaunched as "New Popmaster" in 2002(?) with a new "specialist subjects" twist whereby three of the questions are on a subject selected from a choice of two (originally three) and worth double points. In the early days there were often quite specific subjects (on a particular artist or genre) in the selection; nowadays these are rarer and the subjects tend to be pretty wide-ranging, like songs with colours in the title, "female singers" (so that'll be about half of all solo artists ever, then) and the much-hated "Name the Year".

When Bruce was on holiday, PopMaster continued with stand-in presenters; these have included Alex Lester, Stuart Maconie, Michael Ball, Claudia Winkleman, Simon Mayo, Richard Allinson, Aled Jones, Zoe Ball, Fearne Cotton, Sara Cox, Trevor Nelson, Gary Davies, Jo Whiley, Scott Mills and DJ Spoony. Two contestants play against each other for the chance to win, until May 2022, a DAB digital radio. Since June 2022 the prizes were changed to either Bluetooth headphones or a smart speaker. Each contestant is asked ten questions based on popular music from the 1950s through to the present day. Correct answers to the questions are worth three points, other than for the third, sixth and ninth "bonus" questions on a topic chosen by the contestant, from two options offered by the host prior to the start of the quiz. The bonus questions involve listening to a brief piece of music and, if answered correctly, are worth six points. There is, therefore, a maximum total of 39 points on offer. If a contestant has scored no points prior to their final three-point question, Bruce will sometimes "help" them with the question if required. However, during one December 2021 edition when Scott Mills was sitting in for Bruce, a contestant failed to answer a single question correctly and scored no points. Also, in a June 2021 edition, the first contestant answered only one question correctly leaving Bruce unable to help the second contestant score as they also failed to answer any questions correctly. A "One Year Out" T-shirt is given to the losing contestant, so named because when answering "Name the Year" type questions, contestants are very often just one year out, causing Bruce to exclaim "One year out!". "One Year Out" T-shirts are often heard to be accepted by contestants as a desirable consolation. The quiz became something of a flagship feature for Radio 2. In 2019, the We Stop for Popmaster Tour took the show on the road for a week (even though Popmaster itself was conducted with phone-in contestants as usual) and Spring Bank Holiday 2020 saw an "All Day Popmaster" competition with members of the public playing against DJs - surprisingly, from both BBC and independent radio. There was another All Day event (with members of the public versus TV quizmasters and chasers) on Spring Bank Holiday 2021, along with a documentary marking (er) 23-and-a-bit years of the quiz. In addition, the previous Friday saw a rematch for the first ever contestants. In 2022 the all-day event became "Platinum Popmaster" to mark the Queen's jubilee, with the celebrity contestants being platinum-selling pop stars. Bruce has also done the quiz as a non-broadcast live event for Children in Need.The format of PopMaster is similar to that of David Hamilton's Music Game which ran on his Radio 2 show in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s. In the late 1980s, the station largely moved away from pop music so there was no such quiz on the station for some time. PopMaster contestants won’t be going home rich – prizes for guessing correctly which year produced classic hit songs are limited to special silver and gold discs. We’ve added a few rounds but there’s really only a few tweaks from the original PopMaster we created in 1998. And I get to say (catchphrase) ‘One Year Out’ a lot,” said Bruce. In the advanced version, the gameplay is the same except the players can only POP bubbles in a row that are directly next to each other without any popped bubbles in between.

BBC Radio 2 replaced PopMaster with a new daily quiz called Ten To The Top launched at the start of Gary Davies's interim period covering the morning show and continuing with Vernon Kay as its permanent host. While the winner gets the same top prize as in PopMaster, the runner up gets a Radio 2 mug rather than a t-shirt.On 29 January 2021, winning contestant Shar Doherty used her "shout outs" to propose to her boyfriend. She later said that she'd been inspired to do it after hearing the "interval" song in Popmaster that day: as part of a musicals theme day, Ken had played Stanley Holloway singing "Get Me to the Church on Time" from My Fair Lady.