Yep, starting yesterday with the French and going on for the next month, which means we’re only about a month away from French broadcast, and probably only about a fortnight away from exciting press releases (the UK CITV version films end of June). In the meantime staff and contestants are dripfeeding unofficial information through their Twitter and Twitpics. What has been supposed:
- It’s going to be in HD for the first time!
- There’s going to be a Mister Boo this year, suggesting male mud wrestling.
- Squeaky voiced comedian Willy Rovelli is apparently joining as an ‘Italian cook’ character. Whether this is actually Mister Boo as well I don’t know.
- One of the new games apparently involves a launderette.
- Pere Fouras will be doing things in his tower again, but this does not necessarily mean he has left his den. A photo has popped up of a sign with “Pere Fouras Show” in the style of The Rocky Horror Show. No clue what that’s about.
- It looks like there are new scales for weighing the gold, or at least they’ve replaced the box with a large golden plate. I think that looks like it might be a neat effect, although I think I kind of miss the suggestion that the gold is bagged up by the adventurers and taken away with them as swag.
We get most of our information from FortBoyard.net, especially the forums, so do go and have a look.
IN OTHER NEWS: Sunday night is BotherSOP night – $5.50 to play, 8pm start, and open to anyone. Just four games left of the season, then we all get our Summer Sunday nights back!
Known news, six new tests revealed so far: http://fb.me/1eWoZ3dRt
Tourniquet, loom, powder keg, braille code, that game with the spinny tunnel – OUT
New games so far revealed: Librarian’s column returned, the Casino, the Haunted Mansion, the laundry, the plateau and Willy’s kitchen. Sounds like a disgusting eating challenge I reckon.
Watchtower still out of use for French version, Interactive cell still there.
Exciting.
the promo of Jump! the diving show debuting this Monday in Italy. The host is Teo Mammucari, with Bonolis & Laurenti in the jury
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x106yzt_promo-jump-stasera-mi-tuffo-canale5_tv#.UapB3comOS0
In other other news, the “Series Other Crew” section of the IMDB entry for Only Connect has a remarkably complete list of who’s contributed questions for it… and thus gained their own IMDB entry. Let the words table, score and high not be mentioned near each other in this context.
In German other news: Stefan Raab is going to sell shower heads. It will be called “Doosh” and will be sold at Butlers. Lena is doing the advertisement. Raab spent 4 years developing a shower head, that will make it easier (for women) to shower without washing the head and the hair. It seems weird to me, but I’m interested to see whether it will be successful or not.
For anybody interested in watching Fort Boyard and does not have access to a stream, you may want to install the app Film On Family (i found it on Android). It lets you watch a high quality stream of many different tv channels from round the world including including France 2. It also claims to be legal.
And it’s back July 6th.