Bringing a new meaning to event television
March 15, 2012
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Posted by Brig Bother
Carol Vorderman’s doing a show called Revolution, threatening to be a “ground-breaking new gameshow” that “will bring a new meaning to event television!” This is for ITV1HD.
Having whinged that I haven’t been to see anything for ages, the recording coincides precisely with the one evening in March (Sat 31st) I’m already travelling to London to go and see something else happen, so if you want to go along please do and let us know what you think.
Meanwhile, Inventor Tom Pellereau has unveiled his first thing since winning The Apprentice last year, a curved nail file set called Stylfile. Mmm. Coincidentally, the new series of The Apprentice starts next Wednesday – is launching a new product off the next series of The Apprentice going to be a new thing, X Factor style?
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Fingers crossed for a UK version of Japan’s Time Shock, with the titular Revolution being an Epic Spin imposed upon poorly-scoring contestants. Event television at its finezzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Interesting, you’re the second person to mention Time Shock to me in a week.
Here is the deal: I will do a weekend feature on Time Shock and/or Panel Quiz Attack 25 if someone can source a decent video I can get screengrabs for, by playing it in VLC. I’ve not had much chance to look but if someone wants to do the donkeywork, you go ahead.
パネルクイズアタック25 is PQ25, David B informs me.
Lots of Time shock on youtube
Yep, YT not brilliant though as I can’t get decent screengrabs.
Hmmm… if you want to take a screenshot of a YouTube movie, presss the Pause button and then press the Print button on your keyboard. You can then ad that screenshot with Ctrl + V at Microsoft Word (as far as I know.)
Time Shock has a BRILLIANT theme. Very jazzy.
Also I’ve never seen the spinning happen outside of Time Shock 21. People don’t usually get less than three. Any clips anywhere?
Ah, and literally seconds after I post that I find two in Time Shock Ep.800. Hmm.
If it’s not that, I wonder if this is the “three different game shows on a revolving turntable and the host doesn’t know which one they’re going to run” format once mooted for Barrymore? Carol would be something of a left-field pick here but she has enough game show experience not to be phased by anything and perhaps, just perhaps, she might have been starting to be a lot more freeform on Loose Women. Does anyone here know what she’s like on it?
Truly it would put the “vent” into “event television”.
No better or worse than any of the other rotating hosts. I thought she did a good job of Britain’s Brainiest, I have to say – showing she can pull off the ‘big set’ quiz shows admirably.
On the subject of new shows, Greg Scott on Twitter claims Catchphrase is being revived. Not sure how I feel about that – it felt dead when Mark Curry did it, let alone now.
Yep, Greg’s telling the truth.
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/international/catch-phrase-to-be-revamped/5039365.article
Subscription site, but copy the link into Google and you should see it.
Just the other day I said Catchphrase would be the perfect Tim Vine vehicle. Sort it out someone.
I think Tim Vine is about the only person I can think of who could do a good job of continuing TV Burp if/when Harry Hill stops doing it.
Added bonus, his initials are TV!
Broadcast have clamped down on that Google backdoor way a couple of months ago. The only way you are going to read it, without shelling out a frankly exhorbitant fee is go into a larger WHS and take a nose at it in the trade mags section.
Well this seemed to work OK when I looked it up earlier…
To be honest, with Mark Curry doing it it was right at the end of the run just after Nick Weir legged it, so they were doing what they did in the Paul Hendy series of Wheel and just decided to quietly smother it with a pillow in the lunchtime slot.
Not sure I can see this myself, there’s only one recording date and you’d assume they’d have to try everything out before proceeding with it.
This is getting depressing.
Play Your Cards Right ‘may’ be coming back…
Catchprase ‘may’ be coming back…
Surprise Surprise ‘may’ be coming back…
Has The Exit List burning up on transmission, really scared ITV Entertainment so much, that they are frightened of commissioning any truely brand new entertainment formats, so are reaching for creaky ideas that worked 15-20 years ago, in the hope they will work again?
If so – what a mess they are in.
In fairness, when a good format does so badly while the laughably derivative All Star Family Fortunes does really quite brilliantly all things considered, it’s hard to blame them.
Perhaps the fact High Stakes did slightly less badly than The Exit List is a sign that they should reach for the lowest possible quality to get the highest possible ratings?
Actually, come to think of it, isn’t that ITV2′s entire business model for getting ratings in the 18-34 demographic?
Oh and I would possibly go and see Revolution but I’m buggered if I’m booking anything through Applause Store with their track record of overbooking shows given that I’d have to spend over two hours on a coach each way to get there for any reasonable cost.
i greatly doubt carol vorderman’s ability to deliver event television. on another note, it has to be one hell of a show to not be live and still be ‘event.’
A few more things on this have emerged, Shine are behind it, it’s meant to be “highly interactive”, and they’ve been looking for work teams of 25 for it.
“Highly interactive” and “not live”? Or am I misinterpriting Sphil’s comment?
You may be misinterpreting it, this is just a pilot after all.
oh, didnt realise it was a pilot.