Show Discussion: Magic Numbers

By | July 17, 2010
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It’s basically Talking Telephone Numbers with Stephen Mulhern (he’s a magician, you see) but you only need to match two of six with your telephone number to be elegible to play for the £250,000 jackpot, although by the sounds of it there’s a significant chance of walking away with nothing. It’s what feelgood Saturday night entertainment is all about!

In fairness, having joked about having to be really unlucky to not be able to call a premium rate number to fill ITV’s coffers, you can enter online for free. Is this the “welcome return” to variety on Saturday nights we have apparently all been waiting for? We will find out in due course. Old-skool!

Show Discussion: Odd One In

By | July 17, 2010
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Bradley Walsh hosts a big Saturday night entertainment show that appears to be a mixture of I’ve Got a Secret and Tell the Truth, where Peter Andre and Jason Manford play against a team of other celebs (in the first show it’s Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen and Katherine Kelly from Coronation Street) in working out who in a line-up has an unusual talent or story. Old-skool!

It’s Spoilt For Choice Saturday!

By | July 17, 2010
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Saturday night is very much gameshow night in TV land this evening. Interesting new shows will get their own seperate posts, but you’ve got the choice of:

  • 101 Ways to Leave a Gameslow (7pm, BBC1)
  • Odd One In (7:15pm ITV1)
  • Magic Numbers (8pm, ITV1)
  • Fort Boyard (7:35pm UK time, France 2 and online Monday probably)

As ever, I’ll probably be watching them on catch-up, but feel free to post your fascinating opinions.

Fun Thing Found on Youtube Friday

By | July 16, 2010
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Well, what I actually wanted was Robbie and Take That playing Bomberman (sorry, Dynablaster) on Gamesmaster since they’re back together again, but would you believe that’s not on Youtube?

So instead, on a whim, and reading that Jenny Turner of the parish has a Run the Gauntlet video on her Quizzlestick blog, I wondered if there was any Run the Gauntlet on Youtube. And would you believe it, there is!

“Trem.”

Aggleecrag

By | July 14, 2010
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HAPPY PROPER TENTH BIRTHDAY BIG BROTHER! Today ten years ago, the first set of housemates went into the original Big Brother house in Bow. Ah, great days.

In more important news, doubtless everyone reading this will be familiar with Nickelodeon GUTS, the kids sports challenge gameshow that was popular (in the States) in the early nineties, and was shown on Nickelodeon in the UK. Well Digital Spy report that host Mike O’Malley is being given a permanent cast role in popular singing drama series thing Glee. Who knew? I hope he gets to shout a lot. Apparently Moira Quirk is going to join next season. (*)

I promise to stop commenting on Digital Spy stories for the rest of the week.

(*) Not a funny joke, but excellently alienating to 95% of Bother’s Bar’s target audience.