Board of Excitement 24th-30th July 2011

By | July 24, 2011
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Alright first things first – it’s a new Happy Hour competition! Word Up! offers up to £50 for the winner, go and have a look.

Otherwise there’s not much to get excited about this week – Amazing Race Australia nears its climax, Fort Boyard 2010 is on TV5 on Monday although seeing as this is episode 8 of a 7 episode series I don’t know what it is they will be showing. Fort Boyard 2011 goes from strength to strength on Saturday – who would have thought painting some doors and knocking ten minutes off the running time would have been so successful?

So here’s a clip of one of my favourite new old things, Pied Marin:

Donny: the boy you always wanted

By | July 23, 2011
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Donny Osmond has been revealed as the, heh, ideniny of the US Secret Fortune pilot. So here’s a clip of Donny fronting The Pyramid Game:

The UK version was slightly bafflingly Donny-centric. When I went and saw it being filmed, I was one of the few non menopausal-women in the audience. And even if you applied to be a contestant, the form was all about how excited you would be to meet Donny Osmond. Baffling.

Who could it *be*?

By | July 21, 2011
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At midnight we’ll discover that Brian Dowling’s officially hosting Big Brother in the world’s least surprising surprise.

Hopefully we’ll learn who is hosting BBLB as well. Nick Bateman is getting a series of Big Brother’s Little Brother’s Cousin, but will he have Victor to spark with?

Edit: Brian’s hosting, Emma Willis is doing Big Brother’s Bit On The Side, which is basically Little Brother by the sounds of it. Pleased for the pair of them.

What’s happening?

By | July 21, 2011
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In lieu of anything interesting, I’m just going to put out there that Bother’s Bar Happy Hour competition Word Up! starts Sunday. You could win £50! But don’t get overly excited.

It is doubtful there will be a Fantasy X Factor this year as I’m not sure I can be bothered to watch it, which gives us a good excuse to run Secondhand 3-2-1 over the winter months.

So what exciting things are otherwise happening?

Some more on Cadburys Spots vs Stripes Minute To Win It

By | July 19, 2011
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Is that what it’s going to be billed as in the magazines? Really? Cadburys want to send me chocolate and fun CSVSMTWI things, and as I thought the show was good and I like the chocolate, I’m happy to shill for a bit. SUCK IT UP.

Anyway, here’s the official site and here is the official trailer – I don’t think many if any clips are from the actual version we’ll be seeing in the UK. The graphics are completely different:

You can download the decathalon pack here. But what you might be more interested in is the presentation of the blueprints. As you can see, a bit diferent to normal:

The show starts August 30th. Spots v Stripes is a Cadburys initiative to get the country playing in the run-up to the Olympic Games. I just noticed today that Wispa’s have lots of spots on them and Dairy Milks have stripes – I’m going to have to side with the spots on this one. Edit: Actually it sounds like the wrappersd are random. I thought I had CRACKED SOME SORT OF CODE.

Show Me The Funny

By | July 18, 2011
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Completely forgot this was on, saw it from halfway though, decided that comedians just aren’t very funny. One or two things though, from looking at the bios online:

  • Cole Parker, correct me if I’m wrong, fronted a gambling round the world show for Challenge TV  Bravo about 10 years ago, the name of which escapes me (GO GO BOTHER’S BAR HIVEMIND)?
  • Patrick Monahan! Now where have we seen that name before? On the 9th of September 2009.

Can anyone spot any other interesting connections?