2010’s most averagely competent new show, The Million Pound Drop, has got a board game on the way, out by Christmas.
Fingers crossed it allows you to faff about with placing bundles of pretend money on trapdoors not actually big enough for it all. Drummond Park suggests it will be “trendy” and “different”.
The new series begins Monday.
What do we fall back on when we can’t be bothered to have an opinion on something? Why Questions Not Good Enough For Only Connect of course! And today it’s a DOUBLE BILL!
Question 1: What connects the following?
The correct answer is, of course, they are all Apprentice bosses – Bill Cullen is the Irish one (I was hoping you might have gone down the US game show host route, but I under/overestimated you), Mosima Gabriel “Tokyo” Sexwale is the South African boss, Martha Stewart was the boss for one series of the US show (usually it’s Donald Trump, obviously) and, of course, grumpy grumpy Alan Sugar is the UK boss.
Dave was the first person to get a correct answer in, so well done to him. He has done a fun Puzzgrid.
Question 2: What comes fourth in the sequence?
This stumped all of you for a long time, although it is a bit cruel. It is, of course, Panic by The Smiths where there was “panic on the streets of London, panic on the streets of Birmingham,” then some other stuff, “but there’s panic on the streets of Carlisle, Dublin, Dundee, Humberside…” they are the named places where there is panic on the streets in Panic by The Smiths and the fourth in this sequence is therefore Dundee because I was mean in starting partway through the song.
Congratulations to last year’s Fantasy X Factor winner Mark D for working that out after three clues.
I have a stormer of a connection for tomorrow, but it’s so good (or I think so anyway) I might have to offer it to David B first this evening, once I’ve sourced the pictures. Thanks for playing!
Here is a review of the Bamboozle app, it currently sells for 59 of your english pence.
Just help yourself…
Anything else?
Only Connect (and more specifically, the video game and Cole Porter special) gets two mentions in the back page of November’s edition of top modern-day-old-skool mag NGamer (issue 55). Probably not in the shops for a few days. It is described as “excellent (if smug)”. So there we are.
Also, amused about THE TRUTH behind The Cube on Harry Hill’s TV Burp this evening.
Thanks to a tip from a forum, here is a very interesting BBC documentary from 1984 called Come on Down fronted by film critic Barry Norman on the American gameshow:
The other parts aren’t linked very well, so here’s part two, part three, part four and part five.
Back when SKY was a fledgling service, it used to show US gameshows quite a lot. The two things you’d notice was a) how excited the contestants get and b) how big the prizes were. These days, we seem to be able to outdo the Americans in the prizes stakes, but our contestants remain slightly more, er, reserved. Unless they’re shouting at each other of course. In that sense, I find the contestant co-ordinator interviews here quite interesting.
Also, reports from recent recordings suggest that Deal or No Deal is getting a third ad break. It seems pretty easy to infer that that means it’s becoming an hour show, therefore (although we must stress we have no absolute proof of that, other than you’re not allowed more than three ad breaks in an hour unless your show is longer than an hour).