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February 200727th February 2007 The Clipton Factor: Everybody's EqualIt's midweek, shall we have a clip? Recently on 1 vs 100 in the US they had a "last man standing" mob special, where the 100 mob members were whittled down to one who won $250,000. One wrong answer and you were out. Here's eight minutes of Chris Tarrant doing that almost twenty years ago.
His finest hour, and no mistake. 26th February 2007 Does this mean we can take off the ridiculous subtitle now?Well Deal or No Deal won't be winning the Royal Television Society Daytime Show Of The Year this time round as it doesn't have a nomination, the three nominations going to The New Paul O' Grady Show, This Morning and Through Hell and High Water. In fact gameshows are completely ignored except for a token nod to I'm a Celeb and How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? in the entertainment category. Oh and Dragon's' Den in Features and Factual Entertainment. Here are the rest of the nominations, it "happens" on March 13th. 25th February 2007 "Who's camp? Oh, he'll do."We were reading "quality" Sunday paper The Star on Sunday this afternoon (we were bored at the launderette, it was there) where we came across the hilarious news that TV's Alan Carr from The Friday Night Rubbish (satirical title) has been tapped up to host a revival of The Generation Game. That's sure to be good! 24th February 2007 It's Fort Boyard Friday! On Saturday!Right, this test is called "Casse-tête," or "Headache". In it, the player must solve one of those linked metal puzzle things by unattaching the hoop with the key on to get the key out of the room, but to make it a bit more interesting they get put off by various things happening, we won't spoil it for you, especially the end. The clip comes from 1995, and we've left some footage in either side to show off some of the presentation from the year. We apologize for the poor picture quality in this one.
Next week! Another game they retired too early. And don't forget! It's the final of The Search tonight! 23rd February 2007 Bother's Bar Quiz Scam SCANDALLeaked e-mails have suggested that people who have been entering Bother's Bar's popular Happy Hour competition to win a Dale's Supermarket Sweep sweatshirt may have been wasting their time as anyone who filled in the form after Tuesday won't have actually been entered into the competition. "I am absolutely F**KING LIVID," said Brig Bother, proprietor of critically acclaimed webpage Bother's Bar, "and so is my wife. We knew nothing about this until late on Friday evening - we are very shocked and also angry on your behalf. We're very sorry." Interest in how fair the competition was occured after Mr Bother remarked how few entries he got in comparison to normal competitions, a check this evening found that the suppliers, Bravenet were at fault. Mr Bother remarked that he's moved to Allforms now, who seem much nicer. Contestants who have entered but don't think their answer will have registered are invited to enter again, and can also get a refund on their entry fee from ICSTIS by calling 0800 666 805 (cost: 50p a minute). Real Life briefly intrudes on Bother's BarBasically, weekend features are going to be sparse for the next several weeks because... I'm moving house! In real life! Yes it really is that exciting. There might even be a few days where they'll be no updates at all because I'm waiting for the cable guy to install a new connection. So if it goes quiet for a bit it's not because I hate you, not primarily at any rate. We'll be keeping up with our exciting Youtube-age for the moment though with a clip from Fort Boyard popping up very late this evening or tomorrow afternoon and ooh, the usual stuff that comes to mind at any point. 21st February 2007 The Clipton Factor: Russian Roulette UKIt's been pointed out that Gunnar Wetterberg, or someone purporting to be him, the creator of the Russian Roulette format and producer of the US version has uploaded clips and episodes of his magnum opus on to YouTube. These are, frankly, well worth a watch. Some of them have a bloke from Lost, look. The US show struck a brilliant and hugely entertaining balance between knowledge and luck, something which seems to have worked with varying degrees of success around the world. Of course, in 2002 we had a go with Rhona Cameron, fresh from the first series of I'm a Celebrity, hosting. In all three episodes saw the light of day, a pilot and two "celebrity specials" although the first one had celebrities in it as well. Here, to jog your memory if you're a Brit or to look at in grim fascination if you're one of our international readers, is a ten minute precis of that pilot episode.
(Note: this might take a while to process so keep checking back) The only real difference between the pilot and the two shows that were filmed later was in the head to head, where the contestants would stand at opposite ends of the stage on a trapdoor and answer the same multiple choice question. A wrong answer meant playing Russian Roulette with three lights, so there was a 50/50 chance of dropping, but if both contestants got the question wrong, one would be guaranteed to stay. There was talk of making the show but with having people in hated jobs playing like tax inspectors, falling into large vats of gunge. Of course, it never actually made it past the three episodes and that's because once you're over the novelty of watching people fall through holes, what else do you have here? Punters, you have really very little. I grant you the theme was quite good though. 20th February 2007 Masterchef Goes Large...By far the most amusing thing about Masterchef Goes Large (which we've never really watched that closely before) is the hilarious and stilted judge's cogitation bits where from the conversation you'd assume that both the judges (John Torode and Gregg Wallace) aren't actually in the same room and they've intercut it all together. Seriously, watch out for this tomorrow. Aw man, he's given us a namecheck, so now we might have to get a BLOODY MySpace accountIn other news, I'm just the most sharingest man ever. I think I've found the version of Handel's Sarabande (thanks Simon) used in The Search off of a deleted compilation called Classic Ads, as pointed out, it had been used by Levi's. And provided you don't mind it being in .wmv (because we're drunk and want to go to bed frankly), I'm going to naughtily share it with you. I think this is the same one, but as previously mentioned I'm a bit drunk. 19th February 2007 We've had a request! It's a request for clips from rubbish US day-glo reversioning pilot of Takeshi's Castle, Storm the Castle from 1993. Well! There's not much interesting to write about at the moment so here you go:
And here's a feature we wrote on it years ago. 16th February 2007 It's Fort Boyard Friday! Here's a clip from a nght episode from 1992. It begins with a riddle from Pere Fouras, played by Yann le Gac, a role he's been playing for fifteen years now apart from a one year break in 2002. Then follows the first Adventure: Vol d'Icare - The Flight of Icarus, a purely physical game (with height involved) but quite nice all the same. It was only played for three years but we reckon it deserved a few more. It became the only game on Fort Boyard where the principal male host stayed and watched and gave time checks by the time it was retired in 1994, and, barring a few episodes from the first series in 1990 whilst they experimented with the set-up, to this day this happens with no other challenge.
Next time: a hilarious "when the set goes wrong" moment. 15th February 2007 We had plans to upload an exciting clip for you this evening from an episode of Win Lose or Draw, but our copy of Nero is playing up. We'll try and get it sorted for the weekend in lieu of a weekend feature, which we don't have time to do. PLUS! Another exciting Fort Boyard related clip. Hold on to your hats! Whilst you're doing that, you can have a new comment box. 14th February 2007 This is, we promise, the last Supermarket Sweep thing we'll mention for a while, but we found this on YouTube...
It is, of course, the legendary "Will You Dance With Me?" by The Bar-Codes featuring Alison Brown, which cracked the Top 72 on the 19th December 1994. 13th February 2007
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