I was playing poker and forgot about the BAFTAs. I gather Ant and Dec won something.
Board of Excitement: 6th June – 12th June
The Summer, there:
- The Bother Series of Poker Game 10 (8pm, Sunday, Full Tilt) – discussion page here.
- Big Brother 11 (Launch night 9pm Wednesday and daily for the next 14 weeks, Channel 4) – as I’ve said, quite interested this year although doubtless will have stopped watching by Friday. I wish it best of luck though.
- The World Cup (Every channel, all the time from Friday and six weeks hence) – can’t say I’m spectacularly interested although I quite liked that Dizzee Rascal track premiered on Britain’s Got Talent last night. Or I liked it until James Corden appeared, at any rate.
- Total Wipeout: The Legends (5:45pm, Saturday, BBC1) – yes it’s a new episode, famous losers get to have another go, and it’s against England vs USA on ITV1. Good luck with that.
Fingers crossed, Fort Boyard 2010 details may emerge this week.
It’s no wonder Britain’s kenoing mad
Doubtless you’ve noticed that late nights on ITV have a new look. A new teleshopping look with a two hour block called The Zone. The Zone is a series of three or four ‘blocks’ linked together by Michael Underwood and Angelica Bell, or Nigel Mitchell off of Quizmania and Zoe Hardman off of the awesome Playing it Straight selling holidays. Half of these blocks are live simulcasts with QVC, which I’ve always liked because I love live broadcasting like that. Another block is a simulcast with Challenge Jackpot’s Roulette Nation.
But it’s the other thing I want to talk about, Challenge Jackpot’s Bingo Stars which is my favourite segment of the block for entirely the wrong reasons.
It’s basically keno. You pick five numbers from 80, ten are drawn, the more you match the more you win. You can stake up to £10 per line.
Here is a very rough guide to the odds and returns:
| Matched | Rough Odds | Return |
| 1 | 5 to 2 | Stake returned |
| 2 | 9 to 1 | 1 to 1 |
| 3 | 81 to 1 | 9 to 1 |
| 4 | 1635 to 1 | 99 to 1 |
| 5 | 95,400 to 1 | 9999 to 1 |
As doubtless you’ve noticed, the house has a bit of an edge here and traditionally keno is the game that favours the casino the most.
But the thing with what is essentially a lottery is that the poor returns are mitigated by the fact that the big prizes are very very big. It’s the glamour of the gamble and what could be more glamourous that winning lifechanging sums on late night TV? Let’s take a look at a winners list:
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BB Live Feed returns
For some reason, I’m getting mildly excited about Big Brother this year, although doubtless I’ll have stopped watching it after about three days. But anyway, the exciting news is that the live feed is OFFICIALLY back, albeit online (hey! It’s just like the first series!) on the official site, and not free (Although keep checking the site as they’re giving away 1,000 free passes). All we need now is a camp homosexual and a black woman WITH ATTITUDE, and we’ll be right to the Big Brothers of old.
Big Brother starts on Wednesday night on Channel 4.
Sky buy Virgin Media TV
What will this mean for Challenge? I can’t say I’ve gone out of my way to watch anything on it for rather a long time.
It’s BotherSOP Thursday
Can you believe this will all be over by the time the month is out? And I’m almost winning it, too.
Anyway blah blah blah poker blah blah blah money blah blah blah Sunday at 8pm blah blah blah details.