Slam

By | April 4, 2011
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Oh now this is well found by Tom, the legendary Ray Cokes hosting an English language pilot for Effrevescence format Slam in a really unconvincing fashion:

I should have a couple of episodes of Slam somewhere, so I’ll try and do a feature on it at the weekend.

Saturday Night’s Alright for Writing 02/04/2011

By | April 2, 2011
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Quite a few things on tonight that are of interest:

  • Ant and Dec’s Push the Button – it’s the last in the series (7:10pm, ITV1)
  • Schlag den Raab – tonight half a million Euro all rests on throwing a ball into a cup that’s been strapped onto the top of the contestant’s heads. (7:15pm, ProSieben and hopefully naughty internet streaming)
  • The National Lottery: Secret Fortune (7:30pm, BBC1)
  • Live Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Mother’s Day Special – featuring Olly Murs, David Walliams and Patsy Palmer.

So here’s a post where you can talk about them all at cross purposes.

Fair and impartial reporting

By | April 1, 2011
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Well, Endemol Joe has accused me of putting a negative spin on the ratings for Australian Million Dollar Drop of which he is insistant is an amazing massive hit.

Here at Bother’s Bar I like to pride myself on fair and impartial reportage, and so I would like to present to you, the viewers, the ratings for The Million Dollar Drop in graph form and then rather than extrapolate opinion let you: the reader decide. I have also recorded some other statistics to provide some context so that you: the reader can reach a fair and impartial conclusion. I will not be telling you what to think.

As it is important you: the reader can use this fair and impartial graph to reach your own conclusions, I think it is important to note some notes and methodology so you can make an informed opinion.

  • The dates here: Ep 1 Monday 21st March, Ep 2 Thursday 24th March, Ep 3 Monday 28th March, Ep 4 Thursday 31st March.
  • All viewing figures have come from fair and impartial TV blog TV Tonight.
  • There is an anomaly with Episode 2 – it didn’t air in Melbourne and in fact got a rating of 493,000. However, TV Tonight has somehow come up with a weighted average of 879,000 for the week across both episodes. Therefore we have used 825,000 as the figure for episode two extrapolating from the evidence given (the first episode on Monday got 933,000). This strikes me as being the fair and impartial thing to do.
  • I’ve also included the ratings for the shows that were previously in the timeslots the week before the first episode. On Monday this was Shit My Dad Says which earnt a rating of 790,000, and has been cancelled by the network. On Thursdays this is CSI which in the week before got 855,000.
  • In future weeks the show will be airing on Mondays only (before anyone jumps to conclusions, this was always going to be the plan).

So there we are, I hope you will be able to draw your own conclusions as to how much of a hit Million Dollar Drop is in Australia and I have not pushed you in any direction at all.

Jury Duty

By | March 31, 2011
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I am so tired today. HOWEVER, tonight at 11pm UK time 5Hole are piloting their new Massively Multiplayer Talkshow With Prizes Jury Duty through their UStream page. It’s normally quite good fun watching Double Cross being recorded, hopefully this will be too.

Edit: Well this is either late or cancelled. Never mind!