In the week I’m dubbing “boring week” I think we need the super excitement of the Krypton Factor Super Round:
Didn’t mind it, didn’t fit though. Good music. Can’t believe nobody has put up a full episode of Krypton Factor 1995 yet.
I think this is going to be one of those quiet weeks where not much goes on.
The Marriage Ref with Dermot starts filming Wednesday night, and on Wednesdays and Thursdays for the next few weeks, if you go along do let us know if it’s any good.
This Saturday and Sunday is the Wembley Arena stage of Red or Black and I’m hoping to get into the audience for one of them. I know of several people who have been selected to play but can’t decide if they can be bothered to make the trip, so I’m intrigued to see what sort of contingency plans they have if nobody turns up.
Er, a new season of Lingo starts on US GSN tonight, in the past they’ve put full episodes up to watch on the website, maybe they’ll do the same for this one.
Board of Excitement 5th – 11th June 2011
Exciting indeed:
- The Bother Series of Poker Game 11 – Just two games left (+ HORSE Hilarity) then I’ll shut up about poker for the year, and I’m STILL WINNING. Join us. (8pm, Sunday, Full Tilt) – Results Page
- Scream if You Know the Answer! – Tonight features the unlikely match-ups of Janice Dickinson vs Joe Calzaghe, followed by Michelle Collins vs Gavin Henson. (7pm, Sunday, Watch)
- The Amazing Race Australia – (Seven Network, Monday)
- Fort Boyard 2010 – Mmm, it’s the series loads want to forget about, which is a shame because trying to eliminate the fantasy element notwithstanding, I think it tried to do something clever with the duel format but nobody liked it. On the plus side it’s led to huge and exciting looking restyling of the show when it hits French screens again on July 2nd. In the meantime, TV5 have this down as a 110 minute show in a 93 minute slot. They also have it down as eight episodes when it is only seven, so. (8:03pm, Monday, TV5)
- Four Rooms – Those Banksy idiots! If you haven’t watched this yet then do so, it’s better than you probably think it’s going to be, and it does get properly tense. (8pm, Tuesday, C4)
- The Apprentice – (9pm, BBC1, Wednesday)
- So You Think You Can Dance: The Final – several friends of mine have really enjoyed this, so the low ratings may not be indicative of quality. (7:15pm, Saturday, BBC1)
- The Cube – It’s the McFly Celebrity Special, and it’s on quite late! (8:40pm, Saturday, ITV1)
Show discussion: Schlag den Raab June ’11
It’s that time again, the time where German television star and Eurovision host Stefan Raab attempts to deny another member of the public his money. Tonight, one million Euro is likely to depend on a game that involves shoving a pencil as far along a desk as possible but without going off the end. Shove Ha’pencil, we used to call it.
The fun starts at 7:15 UK time (that’s 8:15 German time). It is broadcast live on ProSieben, but hopefully there will be some naughty live streaming somewhere.
I’m going to be out for a lot of this evening, but it’s likely to still be running at 10-11pm so.
Bother’s Bar’s HORSE Hilarity
As doubtless you are aware, it’s Game 11 of the Bother Series of Poker this Sunday night, and the Superstack Grand Final in a fortnight’s time – feel free to come join us for either of these events regardless of if you stand a chance to win the league or not, there’s money to be won at both events.
However, for added excitement keep the evening of Sunday July 3rd free because I’m going to be running a one-off HORSE tournament. HORSE is a mixed game where you play ten hands of hold ’em, then ten hands of Omaha Hi/Lo, Razz, Seven card Stud and Seven card Stud Hi/Lo (‘E’ights or better). It is likely that most participants in the BB game are likely to be quite poor at non hold-em games (having attempted Omaha, I include myself in this), hence the hilarity, and you can learn the rules of the games here.
All games are played to limit (bets are standardised so it’s quite difficult to donk off your chips quickly) and the intention is to make this a double-stacked $20+2 tournament. And to make it more exciting as I’m rapidly approaching my 30th birthday, I’m intending on adding a ton of value.
Look out for more details soon!
Hmm…
An anonymous source at Sony doesn’t like what’s happening behind the scenes of Britain’s Got Talent Edit: it’s been taken down, and Holy Moly bloke on Twitter says it’s untrue.
Might be rubbish, might be genuine, I am sure you will draw your own conclusions. I do, however, largely suspect your own conclusions will correlate with whatever you thought of Simon Cowell in the first place.
There are good reasons why SYCO shows tend to get twice as many viewers as the same sort of thing on the BBC (for example), but you do get the feeling that this year there have been too many balls to juggle and Cowell has taken his eye off one of them and it looks like they’re all going to fall.