Forget the World Cup of Chocolate, here’s a reminder that the POLL of 2011 closes tomorrow (i.e. Friday) night at 11pm. If you haven’t done it already, don’t forget to vote!
Meanwhile, this is the quite good Blockbusters logo (although the bits at the end of the C and Ss look a little odd). You can get tickets here.
8pm, ITV1
Matt Allwright challenges teams of two to enter a 26-room pyramid answering questions in each room for increasing amounts of money – £100,000 if they’re very lucky. But to keep the money the contestants must escape the maze by remembering every answer and their route.
I have been to a recording, I think is it quite a lot better than High Stakes that was in the slot previously, although I don’t think you’re going to see a lot of big winners (it’s the sort of end game where people are going to get stuck quite often towards the end), and I hope escaping the maze looks a bit more visually interesting on telly than it did from the audience.
Please leave your thoughts.
I am quite pleased this is back, although the first ten minutes did feel like a tribute act to the original UK series (there’s now a pair of troubadours). Is there really any need to show nudity in the pre-titles? Blimey, time and place. Alan Carr is quite a good fit for the voiceover replacing Alan Cumming, although as a show certainly the opener lacked some of the subtlety (and it wasn’t a hugely subtle show originally) of the original, a bit less Carry On and a bit more full on.
This said, I did get into it quite quickly.
Here is a fun interview I did with one of the original producers Peter Davey about five years ago. It is produced by different people now, although it is the same production company.
As a reality show with a fair amount of play along at home value, I’ve put my initial guesses under the cut. Green for right, red for wrong!
I don’t really watch Countdown in honesty, although I maintain this is stunt casting. Will probably watch later though, but what did you think?
Forget Whose Line Online, someone is going through Dutch series of Wie Is De Mol? and giving them English subtitles.
Before we begin, we’ve just been alerted to the Whose Line Is It Anyway? archive. Amazing.
Secondly, tonight (Sunday night) at 8pm is the first MAIN EVENT in the Bother Series of Poker 2012. £5.50 buys your first step to winning a lovely trophy, a lovely medal, and a LIFECHANGING sum of money:
BUT THERE’S EVEN MORE WHERE THAT CAME FROM. Don’t want to play Hold ’em? Don’t want to play real money? then Mix It Up Real Good! The first event, Omaha Hi/Lo, is next Sunday night. You will have to click to see the wonderous trophy on offer.
Right now that’s out of the way: