Rose D’or Nominees 2010

By | June 10, 2010
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The entire list of nominees for the Rose D’or has been announced. The full list is here (pdf file), but for the purposes of the Bar I’ll just write out the gameshow ones:

  • Bingo Banko (Babyfoot, Denmark)
  • Cash At Your Door (Matal, Israel)
  • Extreme Wedding Album (Armoza, Israel)
  • Hot Seat (Nine Network, Australia) [This is Millionaire Hot Seat, presumably.]
  • I Know What You Did Last Friday (Eyeworks, Netherlands)
  • One World (Zodiak, UK)
  • The Cube (Objective, UK)
  • The Golden Bell Challenge (KBS, South Korea)  [Hasn’t this been nominated before?]
  • The Line Up (Eyeworks, Netherlands)

For the record: One World involves celebrities trying to pull off the most impressive public stunt, Bingo Banko is TV bingo with It’s a Knockout style games to determine the numbers, Extreme Wedding Album involves bride and groom performing stunts to pay for a spectacular wedding, The Line Up involves guessing what people will and will not know (whilst teaching us some surprising things about stereotypes, inevitably). If The Golden Bell Challenge is what I think it is, kids sit a 50 question exam and if anyone gets all the answers right they get to ring the golden bell and get their name engraved on it. The rest I don’t know, but will attempt to research.

It’s a bit of an uninspiring line-up to be honest – The Cube may well walk it.

Show discussion: Big Brother Launch night

By | June 9, 2010
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eyeeye11Well, tonight’s the night! Big Brother’s Little Brother kicks off at 6pm on E4 with George Lamb and Emma Willis, and the launch show proper begins at 9pm on Channel 4.

Latest rumours suggest this series is actually going to be relatively short at 11-12 weeks, and the final two weeks of the run will be given over to an “ultimate champion” fortnight. Very exciting!

The Channel 4 site will have a preview of the new titles at 1pm today for one hour only, Inside Big Brother is promising to cap them if you miss it. And you can’t wait until Little Brother, presumably.

Seriously though, if Graham and Ivy get in I can’t promise I won’t punch someone.

Edit: Love the titles. Please be brilliant this year, Big Brother!

Stuff

By | June 8, 2010
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Right, Paul Brassey wants your help in determining the direction of future televisual endeavours, and anything that intends to improve the genre can only be a good thing. You can find all the details and a fairly lengthy questionaire in a new page linked to up there – What Is It You Want? The title is mine. I will leave the page up for a couple of weeks.

Tangentally: Mart S if you’re reading, the answer to your e-mail which to which my reply seems to have bounced back is “yes that would be lovely, thanks very much.”

And finally this Tuesday evening, the details for the final rounds of The BotherSOP are now up for you to peruse, so you can buy into the Superstack Grand Final right now, then forget about it until about an hour after it started, only to find that because of the nature of the event you’ll still have about 3,500 chips left.

Big Brother Bingo

By | June 8, 2010
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All 80 Big Brother hopefuls revealed. Why not play Big Brother Bingo by trying to guess which 16 will make it into the house on Wednesday?

A few things:

  • But there are no contestants from The Million Pound Drop there! How can this be? That has just blown away my tiny little mind.
  • If Graham off of Coach Trip makes it in, Big Brother 11 scores -1/10 for the series regardless of whether it’s any good or not.