Board of Excitement 2nd-8th May 2010

By | May 2, 2010
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Sorry, I’m a bit drunk writing this this evening but that just adds to the exciting fun, right?

  • The Bother Series of Poker Game 7 (8pm/1500 ET, Sunday, Full Tilt) – I’ll stick the results and discussion page up tomorrow morning. Edit: Here you go.
  • Scream! If You Know the Answer (7pm, Sunday, Watch) It’s celebrities answering questions and things on rollercoasters at Thorpe Park! I can’t take Thorpe Park seriously since the rapids became so gentle, but even so theme parks are cool so i’ll probably give it a bash. Tonight is a double-bill! It’s Hold Tight for the etc!
  • Mission 2110 (5:45pm, CBBC, Monday-Wednesday) I actually didn’t think this started until next month, so good news there. Will Caleb destroy the Roboidz, or will fate conspire to turn him into his evil father, Sheriff Buck?
  • The Amazing Race (Monday, CBS) A lot of people claiming that this has been a bit of a rubbish season, but to be honest whilst the Cowboys and the Super Mario Detectives are still in it, I’m not sure that’s an opinion I have much truck with really. To each their own, I suppose.
  • The Gameshow General Election (10pm, Thursday) If you haven’t voted yet, make sure you do. I’m also planning on staying up and watching the actual election results, although I will probably fall asleep by about one.
  • Survivor (Thursday, CBS) – not watched last week’s episode yet. Although I’m sure it was brilliant.
  • Schlag den Raab (7:15pm UK/8:15 Germany, Saturday, Pro Sieben/Naughty live streaming) – it only seems like a couple of weeks since the last one. That’s because it’s oinly been a couple of weeks since the last one. Expect no mountain biking for €500,000.

Right, I’d quite like my bed now.

Well played, recruit

By | May 1, 2010
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I’m currently playing the official Mission:2110 tie-in game. It’s a lot harder than I was expecting. Quite good though.

Edit: Actually no, how stupid is that? I thought I’d register so it would save my progress, only now I can’t play because I’m over 16. THANKS BBC.

The two training games I had played were of variable quality, one involved jumping on squares on a converor belt to pick up Biorods (a little bit like the old 8-bit game Trailblazer), the Stealth game was unfortunately very tedious, ten minutes of running around mazes trying to match symbols whilst running away from robots which sounds rather a lot better than it actually is (once you’ve matched two panels a biorod lights up, if the Roboid gets there before you do you have to do the whole thing again. The cornering is too unforgiving. Pac-man style mazes with dead-ends are cheap and not much fun). And that’s as far as we got. If you don’t have a BBC ID then you can play without the ability to save – it’s all very nicely presented at least.

Hit Him Baby One More Time

By | April 29, 2010
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The lovely Buzzerblog are reporting that ABC have ACTUALLY picked up Russian jumped-up parlour game format What? Where? When? and redoing it as The Six, where a team of six people earn money by answering logic based questions (such as “When is a door NOT a door? When it’s being used as a table.”) (I made that one up) sent in by home viewers. The Russian version seems to be set in some sort of shifty underground restaurant which is quite exciting but probably won’t translate to US screens, especially as Vernon Kay is set to host it. Yes I know he’s a smart guy, but really?

Is this going to work on US primetime? The obvious answer is “no of course not.” And yet. And yet and yet and yet… if the questions are interesting enough and they can find a new Ken Jennings it might tap into… something.

Shares in David J Bodycombe have risen at this news that if it’s sold to the US, it could come over here at some point.

In other “oh that’s interesting” news, Norway are bringing back Fort Boyard.

It’s BotherSOP Thursday!

By | April 28, 2010
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pokertrophy2Can you believe it’s Game Seven of the Bother Series of Poker already? Only five more games until I fork over 180 quid’s worth of cash and prizes to the three best overall players. I’m still hoping to win and take the lion’s share of the cash, the ultimate trophy, gold medal and postage costs for myself, yet seven other people will try to deny me. Little do they realise my strong finish.

There’s little point in joining now if you want a serious crack at the league title, but you’re always welcome to come along and have a play. Details are on the BotherSOP page.

Speaking of poker, gameshow celebrity Victoria Coren has just been knocked out of the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo, 26th out of 848. You can catch the final 24 battle it out LIVE on the Internet on Pokerstars.tv, if you’re that way inclined from 11am UK time Thursday morning. Maybe Colin Murray will be doing the commentary.

There are only seven days to go to vote in the Gameshow General Election. You only have yourselves to blame if The Answer Lies in The Soil takes the number one spot.