Round-up 14th Jan ’10

By | January 14, 2010

More Wipeout season three dripfeeding.

Quite difficult to make out what’s on the screens this time though. Roll-on the Summer.

Time’s almost up for the 2009 Poll! Make sure you get your votes in by Sunday! It is unbelievably nip and tuck between two shows in the Golden Fiver, and the hunt to make the top five in the other categories is very tight.

And may as well give it a front page berthing, Accumulate! Is! Back! For the first semi-final.

Plus! I’m taking requests for the next batch of old Weekend Specials to go up at the weekend. We will start doing new features again soon as well.

New! I’ll promote this to the front page, because it’s fun. Chris M Dickson writes:

A friend suggests the next great Twitter game: #gameshowfilms – film titles adapted to include game show titles – and starts us off with Catchphrase Me If You Can. Can we do better? My contribution is SpiderMan O Man, or perhaps Austin Powers in Going for Goldmember.

I’m convinced you won’t beat Y Briodas Fawr-ther of the Bride, but you’re welcome to try.

43 thoughts on “Round-up 14th Jan ’10

  1. Jennifer Turner

    This is fun (ish), the BBC’s archive pages about the NHS include this special quizzy edition of “Parents and Children” from 1973:

    Here lies the link

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  2. Ryan

    I suppose this could be a round-up item… I just got off the phone with the production team for Aussie Deal… while I’m fully aware that they audition everyone who sits in the audience and thus everyone could be a contestant, I figured that maybe they’d let me sit in somewhere, even behind the scenes… nope nope nope!

    I was hoping for an Irish Deal experience like Mister Al… apparently not though!

    I am excited though that soon the games that I saw recorded will air, and it looks like I’ve got Hot Seat tickets sewn up for my Australian visit in March.

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  3. Chris M. Dickson

    A friend suggests the next great Twitter game: #gameshowfilms – film titles adapted to include game show titles – and starts us off with Catchphrase Me If You Can. Can we do better? My contribution is SpiderMan O Man, or perhaps Austin Powers in Going for Goldmember.

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      1. Kesh

        Cheating one – The Color Of Money

        Non-cheating one – The Brainbox Challenge That Wouldn’t Die

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  4. Gizensha

    Real answers (sorta):

    21 Days In May Later
    Sounds Like An American Werewolf In London
    2001: A Space Cadet’s Odyssey
    Master’s of Combat Shock
    Sharpe’s University Challenge
    Song of the Desert Forges

    And another ‘probably doesn’t count’ – The Chase

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  5. Gizensha

    Pokemon: The Power of One vs One Hundred
    Who’s Flatline is it Anyway?

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  6. Gizensha

    Shekar Hunt

    (Which I think is a particularly nice one, seeing as the movie Shekar’s english title is Hunt)

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  7. Gizensha

    Search for a Starter For Ten… Twenty… Thirty Nine Steps to the Game of Star Wars

    (Which, of course, consists of the gameshows Search for a Star, Ten… Twenty… Thirty… Steps to the Stars and Game of War, and the movies Starter for Ten, 39 Steps, and Star Wars.)

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  8. Jennifer Turner

    Naked Jungle 2 Jungle
    The One To Winslow Boy
    QI Of The Beholder
    That’s My Dog Day Afternoon

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  9. art begotti

    Less good answers:
    In the Dark Knight
    Shoot ‘Em Up Stars

    Better answers:
    Winning Behind Enemy Lines
    The Only French Connection
    Trivial Pursuit of Happiness

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    1. Brig Bother Post author

      Good stuff Greg!

      You’re also the first person to be accidentally caught in the Spam filter. Putting in several links will do that, I think.

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  10. Gizensha

    Keep Your Enemies Of The State Close
    Heaven Can Wait for… It.

    (That last one a little extended)

    Heaven and Hell Live Can Wait for… It Should Happen to You

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  11. Netizen

    Catchword If You Can
    I, Robot Wars
    Whittle Down The Wind
    Turnabout A Boy

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  12. Gizensha

    Did ITV ever finish airing that series of Shafted, and if they keep losing money will they eventually get desperate enough to if not?

    And if that happens, will it count for the relevant Poll Of The Year as a new show?

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  13. Matt C

    Runaway Juke Box Jury
    Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Goulden Shot
    All The Way From Memphis Belle
    Paddles Up The Chastity Belt
    Takeshi’s Castle In The Sky
    Unbreakable Banzuke
    Zabriskie Pointless
    The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Hercules
    Fluke Back In Anger
    The Answer Lies In The Soylent Green
    The Ipcress Fightbox

    My Favourites:
    My Neighbour Topranko
    Maestros of the Universe

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