Thank Dan for pointing it out, a new episode of Run For Money goes out in Japan on Sunday, which is a bit unexpected. Fingers crossed for inevitable Youtube upload!
New Old Fort Boyard
This year, new new new is old old old. Thanks to Fortboyard.net for the info.
New tests are all remakes, although it should be noted that many of the games have been redesigned with two teams in mind:
– Boulets sur la planche, (ball on the plank – roll a ball along a plank avoiding nails, replaces Marche en tubes)
– Salle des tortures (the torture chamber – upper body assault course, replaces Transformeteur)
– Bascules magyares (the Magyar catapult – catapult three cannonballs into three barrels, replaces le Smash)
– Burin (218) (actually this appears to be new, not a clue, replaces Quatre poulies)
There are new versions of la Cellule qui rétrécit (the shrinking room) and le Bizutage (the hazing – it’s the one where one piggybacks another and they open boxes containing flour and stuff with a large stick).
Four new adventures (again, seeing as some of the adventures have been turned into competitive duels for keys, it will be interesting to see what differentiates them):
– Apnée (Apnea. My guess is competitive snoring)
– Poutre à la mer (Beam to the sea – balance game, probably)
– Poutre étriers (Beam stirrups. This sounds like the competitive version of the suspended stirrups)
– Relais arbalète (Crossbow relay. THE CROSSBOWS ARE BACK! Amazing.)
So there we are.
Hot repeating quiz action
If you missed it first time round, it’s well worth catching this time: the grand final of series one of Only Connect – the Crossworders vs the Psychologists is on BBC Four this evening at 7:30pm, and presumably on iPlayer for the next week.
It’s the BotherSOP Grand Final
Yes, that’s right punters, this Sunday night all this stuff will be given away:
Trophies! Medals! Money! The empty DVD sleeves and dust ARE NOT ON OFFER. And they’ll be going to the top three players of the season, after this Sunday night’s Superstack Grand Finale has been played out.
Even if you can’t win the championship, the Grand Final is open to any punter – the fee is $33 (that’s about £22), and they’ll be a decent amount of money flying round the table for people to grab onto. It starts at 8pm, it’s likely to go on a bit (2.5-3hrs by my reckoning), and you can find all the details on the BotherSOP page.
Meanwhile, The Poker Lounge, where amateurs take on five Full Tilt professionals in a tournament, began on Channel 4 on Tuesday night. It felt a bit rushed, in a way Late Night Poker doesn’t seem to suffer from.
I’ve just seen Downfall with Chris Jericho. I think it’s a good quiz and an enjoyable show and it manages that despite tripping over a few pitfalls that are going to stop it being truly great, which I’ll write about in more detail later.
Perfection
I’ve had a lovely e-mail:
Hi Brig,
It’s Jellybean here. I wanted to invite anyone from the Bar to come and watch a record of Perfection, and I was hoping you could put up an anouncement rather than me writing it into a comment box and it potentially getting lost. The dates are July 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 12, 13, 14 and it’s being recorded at TLS [That’s The London Studios on the South Bank – Brig]. If anyone wants to come can they send me their name, details and the day they are free to attend to [redacted – Brig]. I will put them on the audience list and try to meet up with them to hear what they think of the show.
Anywho hope that’s alright,
Josephine
Obviously, Brig Bother cannot guarantee there won’t be an element of interrogation, possibly waterboarding, but I cannot help but think that “being willing to listen to people” is better than “not wanting to listen to people,” so if you’ve got a day free…
Don’t forget also, these same people also want to know what makes for a good gameshow, which is actually a difficult question to answer (otherwise everyone would already be doing it) so they’ve broken it down into a big questionaire.
Show(s) discussion: Wipeout and Downfall
Well, it is the season premiere of Wipeout (although the first episode was three weeks ago. US telly is weird) and conveyor-belt quiz Downfall this evening. I’m probably not going to get the chance to watch them until later in the week, but here is somewhere you can have a chat about them.