I expect it will attract opinions, so I thought I’d give it a post if people want to talk about it. Or not as the case may be.
Edit: except for viewers in the UK where it is still ‘coming soon’ apparently.
A bit of Saturday fun for you, there
Bother’s Bar takes on the Tunnock’s Tea Cake Challenge. Three tea cakes. No water. One minute.
I desperately wanted to get the clock in italics but I couldn’t quite manage it with my very basic OBS skills without cutting bits off, which is a shame. Also I forgot to do a hilarious “let’s hope those 50% are right!” joke.
This does give us a chance to highlight three somewhat relevant things that we quite like, well four:
- Far Out – daily estimated guess social quiz puzzle thing by FOTB and TV bod James Allison. I can’t tell you if it’s any better or worse than Wordle or whatever, but I have found myself looking forward to playing it before bed/when I get up and chatting about it in the BB Discord whereas I usually get bored of this sort of thing quite quickly, so there’s that.
- Project You Bet – Jason Williams trying to extract the Jonathan Sorrell soundtrack to You Bet! using clean-up techniques to various degrees of success. Importantly the ‘da-da-DAH-duh-da’ one is present and correct.
- Elgato Wave Link 3.0 – updated recently so you don’t need Elgato hardware, it’s pretty powerful sound routing software which with a bit of playing about with may well end up replacing Voicemeeter. So much less hassle sorting out sound levels for videos as well, which has traditionally always been a problem for me.
- Tunnock’s Tea Cakes – obviously.
Things to watch out for this week:
- Million Dollar Secret S2 (Netflix) – We enjoyed the first series, but always had the nagging feeling the producers hands were on the scales with regards to the difficulty of the secret tasks so they could just get rid of anyone they wanted. Also we were annoyed when the contestants weren’t playing the game as presented and just started eliminating people they didn’t like. Still, always enjoy a bit of Peter Serofinowicz. Not doing a separate post for this, but you can discuss this on the S1 one if you want. Launches April 15th (i.e. Wednesday.)
- American Gladiators (Amazon Prime) – This ought to be fascinating, although we can’t guarantee it will be good. Launches internationally on Friday April 17th. It might be nice if Prime finally get a success in this sort of space at least.
Guy Montgomery’s Guy London-ery
If like us you’ve quite enjoyed watching Taskmaster NZ (which will all be on All 4 this week) alumni Guy Montgomery’s Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee Australia on iPlayer (and, er, Youtube) you might be thrilled by this news in Chortle today, he’s doing it at the Soho Theatre, Walthamstow on September 2nd, tickets go on sale Friday morning.
If you’ve not seen it, it’s a show where comedians try and spell words, but that’s extremely reductive as there’s a ton of comedy and creativity in the set-ups – it’s basically a lesson in how to really annoy comedians. Worth a watch!
They’ve gone big on the cheesegrater look
American Gladiators launches internationally on Amazon Prime April 17th, filmed on the one-series-wonder French set.
The French show had an expanded game set compared to the UK one and we see at the very least Whiplash has made it across, although surely that’s nobody’s favourite game. Trying to figure out what they’ve done with their Wall – in the French show it was off to one side with buzzers at the top as their arena in Pergy isn’t quite as tall as ours. We’ve got no idea how LEVELLED UP Gauntlet is, but it can’t be any easier as our version is currently. 16 events are promised, which is more than the 13 + Eliminator we currently have.
Show Discussion: The Hunt: Prey vs Predator
Sunday-Tuesday, 9pm,
C4
We quite enjoyed Celebrity Bear Hunt on Netflix last year even though its numbers were evidently disappointing and we remember Capture on The CW around a decade ago which promoted itself as a Hunger Games-style competition show – this seems to have a very similar look and feel to that even if the format isn’t quite the same.
Ten people vie to win up to £100,000, initially split into predators and prey. The prey must complete tasks in the forest to earn prize money all the while being hunted down by the predators, Unfortunately that’s as far as I know how the format works but given there’s an ultimate winner there’s evidently an elimination aspect, and we understand there’s an element where the prey get to turn predator, whether that’s episodic or Pacman power pill style I don’t know.
This feels like the sort of thing that ought to for C4 quite well but I can’t say I’ve seen much buzz about it. Let us know what you think in the comments.
Show Discussion: Celebrity Sabotage
Saturdays, 8pm,
ITV1
Watch out Dommett’s About! Hidden camera prank show where Joel Dommett, Judi Love, GK Chesterton Barry (thanks Jack), Sam Thompson and a number of guest stars undertake tasks in secret based around sabotaging the efforts of a group of people who believe they’re on a real TV show, earning cash for those civilians as long as they don’t get caught. It’s Big Brother secret tasks meets The Mole and Beadle’s About, basically.
Not suuuure how appealing that sounds, not a massive fan of hidden camera shows myself but have always enjoyed the set-ups on Michael McIntyre’s Big Show which at least have a certain warmth and silliness to them. Also it’s been on the shelf ages – it was originally down to go out last year – although this isn’t necessarily a sign of a lack of confidence, they are sandwiching it between Britain’s Got Talent and The 1% Club, ITV’s two biggest entertainment shows of the week, so you can’t say they aren’t giving it a chance. I thought it had 6:30 written all over it.
Anyway we’ll keep an open mind, at the very least you’ve got six new formats to watch across the next six weeks that are all being sabotaged. Let us know what you think in the comments.