Weekend Specials

By | March 14, 2010
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Sorry kids, your Krypton Factor analysis is going to have to wait until tomorrow as I am currently distracted.

Despite that, I’ve put up to more old new weekend specials on the Specials Board:

Good.

Board of Excitement 14th – 20th March 2010

By | March 13, 2010
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Dear UK Producers, it is wrong that there are more US shows of interest right now than British ones. sort it out please thanks.

  • Minute to Win It (Sunday, NBC) – Two hour debut of the show that’s The Cube but without The Cube and with a time limit.
  • The Amazing Race (Sunday, CBS) – Things I learnt from the race this week: a) Cowboy hats don’t come off ever, even while bungee jumping. b) If somehow England meet the USA at the World Cup in the knockout stages, we don’t have to fear penalty shoot-outs. c) German Beatles tribute bands are hilarious. So does this mean they aren’t actually going to Liverpool, then? Bother’s Bar: right again.
  • Only Connect (Monday, 8:30pm, BBC4) – Unless they do it later in the series then I look a bit silly but that is the risk you take in being cutting edge but without doing any of the associated research. Anyway, it’s the third quarter-final of this this week, Neuroscientists vs strategy board gamers. Speaking of which, I was very surprised and excited to learn this week that Robert Florence (of brilliant BRILLIANT video games shows Consolevania and BBC Scotland’s Video Gaiden and currently writer and performer in BBC Scotland’s comedy Burnistoun) has his own site devoted to board games. That a minor celebrity (and a fairly talented one at that) does this pleases me immensely.
  • St Patrick’s Day (Wednesday, Ireland) – do you like a drink? Well why not have one on the one day a year where it’s legally allowed!
  • There’s no Survivor This Week (Not Thursday, Not CBS) – because of March Madness. Some people play basketball, it’s crazy, apparently. So you’ll have to wait another week to find out what other inventive and surprising ways the Heroes could self-destruct. What we have learnt quite specifically is that the Heroes are really rubbish at anything that involes spatial awareness. As many of the puzzles in Survivor challenges seem to involve spatial awareness, that is a problem.
  • Solitary v4.0 (Saturday, Fox Reality) – by my reckoning only two more episodes left, so only two more chances to use my ‘I confidently predict this will be like the previous episode, but with one less person in it’ joke you all look forward to on a weekly basis. Last week gave us a brilliant test in a virtual maze followed by THE CHAIR AND CROWN OF NAILS (STUMPY PEGS) (my title), the first treatment this season to genuinely look like an implement of torture. How do you follow that? I don’t know, but otherwise’I confidently predict this will be like the previous episode, but with one less person in it. Edit: Actually, it’s the final next week!

Your Country Needs You!

By | March 12, 2010
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Tonight, six acts will be doing some singing, the prize is to sing Pete Waterman’s song at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Norway.

I’d like to say there’s ‘Norway’ I’m going to miss this (the joke here is that ‘Norway’ sounds a bit like ‘no way’. Do you see?) but unfortunately I just might. But don’t let that stop you: the punters have a natter about it, and you can do that here if you want.

My money’s on Uni 5, for no reason other than it sounds like a local bus route. Busses are relatively environmentally friendly = green vote.

Round-up 10/3/2010

By | March 10, 2010
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Well chaps, I’m very very busy for the next dew days so have a new post to talk about things.

I will put up a new post for discussion of Your Country Needs You on Friday, and at the weekend I’ll put up a few more old features and get round to analysing the numbers for General Knowledge on The Krypton Factor, which I expect you all thought I had forgotten about.