Dah-dah-dah dah-dah dah

By | November 24, 2010
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According to reports (i.e. someone posting on a forum) on Digital Spy, the next run of The Million Pound Drop – Live will be from  Wednesday 15th December to Saturday 18th at the interesting time of 8pm, a timeslot that will probably give it two hundred million thousand viewers until the Endemol Question Writing Cretins come up with a question like “what day is Christmas? Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday” and then everyone on the internet complains because actually most of those answers are right because it doesn’t ask for which year and then the show gets axed.

Then The Million Dollar (Money) Drop starts on Fox in the US the following week.

Upcoming thrills

By | November 22, 2010
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I totally forgot to mention Deal or No Deal‘s Fifth Birthday of the Third Or Fourth Week of Broadcast Week this week on the Board of Excitement, so to make up for it I absolutely promise to do the Deal or No Deal app review tomorrow.

In the meantime, I have mainly been playing Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood on the XBox 360, and one of its multiplayer modes is absolutely ripe to be turned into something for TV. Basically, eight people in a crowded town, you have to try and assassinate another specific player from which you’re given a photo, meanwhile someone else is trying to assassinate you. More points given for the more subtle you act in killing someone off, points off for killing a wrong person. Good fun. You could make that into a sort of competitive version of Run For Money.

Did anyone watch Mission Millenium (sic) today? I intend to watch a recording of it this evening.

Show discussion: Drop Zone

By | November 21, 2010
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3:35pm, BBC1

Right, have a chat about this here, I’ll update it with my opinions after the show has gone out.

Edit: Right, watched it now. I’ll see if I can hide my discussion of it under a spoiler link. It’s certainly worth a watch on iPlayer if you missed it, I reckon. Sorry if it seems a bit rushed, I have to go out.

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Board of Excitement 21st November – 27th November 2010

By | November 20, 2010
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It’s Action Adventure Early Week on Bother’s Bar:

  • Drop Zone – Steve Jones, eight teams and lots of helicopters. (3:35pm, Sunday, BBC1)
  • The Cube – It’s a celebrity special! Kelly Holmes and Jenni Falconer take on The Cube. (7pm, Sunday, ITV1)
  • The X Factor – This is might be it for Wagner this week I reckon. (8pm, Sunday, ITV1)
  • Mission Milennium – new action adventure from France, although I gather it wasn’t very successful. Also not from the Adventure Line stable. (1:04pm, Monday, TV5, also repeated late Tuesday))
  • Only Connect – Another quarter-final, Radio Addicts vs Brit Poppers (8:30pm, Monday, BBC4)
  • Premier League Poker – Second match, part one. Phil Hellmuth’s in this one. (0:40am, Monday night/Tuesday morning, C4)
  • The Apprentice – Go to Germany and sell crisps. (9pm, Wednesday, BBC1)
  • The Challenge: Cutthroat – I’ll put a rip of the theme tune up here some time this week, as it is this year’s best reality show theme tune. (Wednesday, MTV)

There will be a show discussion post for Drop Zone on Sunday. And some more iPad reviews sometime this week if I’ve got some time.