It’s time for some more weekend CONTENT!
I’ve gone and reviewed the Wheel of Fortune HD app currently in the iTunes Store for £2.99. The iPhone version – WoF Platinum, is also in the store and will cost you 59p.
Don’t forget! Fantasy X Factor begins tomorrow night! Exciting!
There we are, after wanting a new thing to come along I get an E-mail from Lost in TV advertising a new ITV4 show called Mark Watson Kicks Off, a brutal no-holds-barred comedy discussion show made from 100 per cent pear that sounds exactly like Fighting Talk and is made by World’s End, the same people who do Fighting Talk. Probably won’t go to this as it turns out, but if you do, do let us know what it’s like. It records mid-October. Looks like these may be pilots?
I’ve not seen any TV magic for about six months, and I’m aching for the heady and exciting days of new Endemol pilots that take about six hours to film to write about/slag off. Please do some new shows please thanks. In London. Or Cambridge.
In fact I’m so bored I’ll deploy this interesting gossip which I was going to keep until nearer the time. Someone who I will keep anonymous (unless they want to out themselves, of course) who went to both recording blocks of troubled future BBC2 quiz Perfection suggested that the adjudicators were paying much closer attention to the audience the second time round. That does suggest (alongside the official line that relevant monitors weren’t shielded) that there was some low-rent Major Ingram-esque shenanigans going on, doesn’t it? Or at least a lot of friendly audiences. I am sure we will never truly know.
There will be another iPod review at the weekend.
Oh that’s interesting, Mediaguardian suggest that talks between Endemol and Channel 5 regarding Big Brother have stalled, but they’re having a chat about bringing The Golden Cage to UK screens, which is especially interesting given that I’d presume TGC would cost more to make. In the original Dutch De Goolden Kooi, people live a life of luxury in a mansion but if you leave you’re out. Last one left wins the mansion and associated large cash prize. Could last weeks, could last years, although I think they sped up the Dutch show to end it by introducing mandatory eliminations somewhere down the line so… it also lead to an interesting situation in that you sort of had to bully to encourage people to leave, but obviously that looks and feels quite bad, and producers had to intervene on a number of occasions. The format was sold to ABC in the States in 2007, you’d have thought the “gameplaying” element would have been appealing wouldn’t you?
This week one of the clues on Only Connect was Pif! Paf! Pof!, which it turns out is a foreign version of Snap! Crackle! and Pop! and not, regrettably, a connection to do with Eurovision entries.
(Note to puritans: mild sexual suggestion)
This is, of course, from Alan Cumming sitcom The High Life.
Yes, it’s our new “concept” post – there’s a load of things on tonight, some more interesting than others, so why not have a chat about them here?
David has suggested that this week’s OC is a “top episode”. But then he’s hardly going to go around suggesting it’s a bit rubbish is he? WE WILL SOON FIND OUT.
I’ve done a review of The Crystal Maze on iPod. It’s currently going for 59p, although it’s gone as low as free in the past, but for those sorts of prices you’re getting good value.
This is the first iPod review where you can click on the pictures and get full-screen versions come up, I’ve been toying with screen-resolutions recently and forgot that I have my screen at home on teeny-tiny res. but with my browser magnified a bit, on older computers and screens it may have been quite difficult to read some of the writing on quiz-based screenshots. So this seemed like a reasonable middle-ground.
Speaking of The Crystal Maze, it’s 2009’s answer to The Crystal Maze The Cube this evening. WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN?