It’s Eurovision Song Contest Week!

By | May 8, 2018
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And I have never been less excited.

Semi 1 – Tuesday, 8pm BBC Four
The UK votes in this one.

Semi 2 – Thursday, 8pm BBC Four

Grand Final – Saturday, 8pm, BBC1

Join Scott Mills and Rylan for the live semi-finals on BBC Four and Graham Norton on Saturday for the Eurovision Grand Final to watch Surie finish about 14th, all LIVE from Lisbon.

Don’t know what it is but I’m really not feeling it this year. Might be because I have so much stuff to catch-up with the prospect of seven plus hours of Eurovision on top doesn’t appeal, but I’m going to watch the final with friends anyway, not sure I’ll bother with the semis.

But the problem here is me. Do feel free to discuss anything Eurovision 2018 related here.

Show Discussion: The 100K Drop

By | May 6, 2018
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Weekdays, 4pm,
Channel 4

Well it had been a daily show on the continent so in that sense there’s no real reason why it couldn’t succeed. Davina’s back with a version of The Million Pound Drop but with everything divided by ten – the prize, the bundles of cash (£2.5k each now) and by the looks of things the size of the drop.

Contestants try and keep hold of £100,000 across seven multiple choice questions. Will there be much appetite for watching people struggle to win £2,500? Don’t know. Putting it up against Tipping Point is either ingenious (TP skews old and The Money Drop traditionally skews young) or an acknowledgement that it probably doesn’t work, but they’ve sixty episodes to get through so we’ll see. As yet we don’t know if you can play along on some kind of app.

Ah, do you remember when pointless viewer interactivity was the in thing? Great days. Anyway you can let us know what you think in the comments.

Show Discussion: Carnage

By | May 4, 2018
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Sundays, 2am and 8pm,
Sky One

New vehicular based combat show which has gone heavy on Mad Max style theming which might be good fun. Freddie Flintoff, Vick Hope and Lethal Bizzle watch as customised cars bash into each other in order to be the last one standing.

I don’t have access to Sky One at the moment so I will try and find other ways and means, in the meantime if you watch it let us know what you think of it.

It’s Schlag Saturday! 4/5/18

By | May 4, 2018
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Saturday 4th May, 7:15pm UK/8:15pm local
Pro 7 and naughty internet streaming

Tweet us! #bbsdh

Schlag den Henssler is back, and a plucky contestant will be attempting to win €250,000 by besting celebrity chef Stefan Henssler over 15 mystery events.

As ever, we’ll be here attempting to provide commentary, gossip and games, and we’re likely to be a while so do feel free to dip in and out.

Watching the live Pro 7 stream might be a bit more difficult than it has been previously.

Our commentary stream link will appear here – live from 7:15 to around midnight.
This stream is commentary only. You will need to have a naughty stream running at the same time for the visuals. We are likely to be about 15-20 seconds behind the visual stream (and about a full minute behind if you’re watching an actual satellite feed), sorry.

At time of writing, there is a live decent quality low-fuss live stream. We cannot guarantee it will always be working.

The Opera VPN has apparently stopped being useful for SdH. Bother’s Bar recommends shelling out for a proper VPN service. Bother’s Bar uses Tunnelbear, other VPN services are available. Matt Clemson recommends Windscribe as a free alternative. We cannot take responsibility for anything you do to your system, so be careful and use some common sense.

To watch it would be useful to sign up for ProSieben’s catch-up service – it’s pretty simple to work out, don’t click the box if you don’t want e-mail messages. You will need to put in a proper e-mail because it will send you a confirmation. 

If anyone knows of any relatively safe livestreams, do feel free to share.

@bothersbar, @danielpeake, @davidjbodycombe @sensei256, @ogbajoj

Show Discussion: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? 2018

By | May 4, 2018
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Saturday 9:15pm,
Rest of the week 9pm,
ITV

It’s back for a week of specials for the 20th anniversary (i.e. it’s a sly pilot) and it’s got a new host in the divisive Jeremy Clarkson. But Millionaire is back, whether anyone really gives a damn or not.

Also back: the 15 question money tree and by the sounds of it the original Strachan music score. The set looks very pretty (I was worried the video floor was a bit too eye-popping but it feels much better in that context). There’s a new Ask the Host lifeline, and contestants will set their own second safety net which may or may not lead to some interesting decisions. I hope it makes the show a bit less predictable.

Whether this show lives or dies beyond this week depends on, I suspect, a willingness to give the impression it’s OK with giving serious cash away, If they’ve made the questions so hard everyone stops at eight- or sixteen-thousand everyone’s going to get bored very quickly, excitement over the hosting choice or not.