This films on Wednesday, if you’re brave enough to brave the London Studios in the current climate (tickets still avaliable for the 4pm recording) then we’d love to hear your opinions as I won’t be going.
From what I’ve heard, four people begin, something is bought out and people try and guess its value. Furthest away is eliminated, until the one person left wins a large cash prize. “Hilarious celebrity host” promised, but it is Applause Store so it could be literally anybody.
Well with all the rioting going on in London, what better clip to put up (look, it’s a really quiet week) than Fathers for Justice invading the National Lottery Jet Set with Eamonn Holmes in 2006? Alan Dedicoat filling like a pro, here:
In other news, a repeat of the Series 3 vs Series 4 Champion of Champions Only Connect is on BBC4 at 8:30pm, Shooting Stars is on at 10pm on BBC2
There’s nothing on.
Well maybe that’s a bit unfair, the new series of Shooting Stars begins tomorrow at 10pm on BBC2. Take the Money and Run has extreme accents this week (Tuesday, ABC). Er, that’s it, there’s no Fort Boyard next Saturday because of the rugby.
Looks like another quiet week on the bar. We’ve not done any iThing reviews for a while, is there anything relevant I’ve missed?
Surely SURELY one of the greatest set pieces in the history of television: Spaghetti Junction on New Faces. Keith Strachan and Ed Welch did the music:
I have no idea how pushing a button translated into lights, mind.
If you’re in the UK you’ll have to resort to naughty means to watch it, destroying the entire television industry in the process but TONIGHT! marks the first episode of Take the Money and Run on ABC (official site here), a show where if two people can keep secret the location of a briefcase of money they’ve hidden for 48 hours whilst being interrogated by Actual Real police types playing for themselves then they get to keep it. It’s of interest for us because it’s in our favourite genre, the action-adventure, and also because it’s co-produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Wild Rover, our favourite Irish production company (we don’t know many more) who came up with Secret Fortune. And it’s nice to see this sort of thing can still get comissioned.
Be aware that comments for this post may well end up containing spoilers (especially as it’s unlikely UK people will be watching it until Wednesday sometime).
If you have any misc comments, stick them in the post beneath this one. Ta.