Last Call

By | October 14, 2010
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Hello Punters, if you have not entered this year’s Fantasy X Factor and intend on doing so, please remember to get your team in by 7:30pm on Saturday, no new teams will be admitted after that.

However! It is Thursday, so now I’m going to watch my current fave reality competition The Challenge: Cutthroat (you can find it on mtv.com but you’ll need to be hiding behind some sort of proxy shield), if you’ll excuse me…

Walking in a Winter Wipeout Land

By | October 13, 2010
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Thanks to Alex Buzzerblog for the heads up, eight episodes of Winter Wipeout coming.

This would have excited me last year, but this year I did something I wasn’t expecting – get bored of Wipeout. Yes, the commentary has more pep than other versions, but the obstacles have all become basically sweeper arms and/or a bit cheap (not as in not costing money, as in rather lazily thought out).

I know I’m in the minority when I say there’s only so many ways people falling off things is going to be funny, but this season forcing it to happen with impossible obstacles just didn’t feel right at all. I want to be dazzled by people’s skill as well. It’s all become a bit one-note.

Welcome to Watchdog

By | October 12, 2010
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I have “done” some “consumer advice” by reviewing some more iApps:

If there is something relevant you’d like me to review, please leave a message on the iPod page.

Meanwhile, tickets for 2010’s most averagely competent new show, The Million Pound Drop, returns to our screens on the 25th October despite @the1mpounddrop trying to suggest the new start date is all secretive and things. You can get audience tickets from Applause Store, where interestingly it looks like there’s some sort of dress rehearsal happening on Thursday 21st. Also the doors are opening at eight, so is it going to be on earlier (9pm, say?) or is it not going to be as live as it looks, or as it’s Endemol is going to be an outrageously tedious recording experience?

If you go, do let us know.

Board of Excitement 10th-16th October 2010

By | October 10, 2010
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Sorry, this is a bit late this evening:

  • The Cube (7pm, ITV1, 7pm)
  • The X Factor (Tonight 8pm and Saturday basically all night, ITV1): The great thing about The X Factor on Saturday is that now it’s got about 46 different acts singing each week, it’s like having a mini-Eurovision Song Contest every weekend. Especially as one one contestant is Italian (yes I know Italy haven’t participated for a while, smartarse) and Wagner sounds as though he should be German and yet isn’t (he’s from Brazil). Also, how many of last night’s perfomances will make the OFFICIAL Top 40, now you can download them on iTunes? Also it’s a shame wildcard acts weren’t picked from other categories than the judge’s own, I think that would have been more fun.
  • Only Connect (8:30pm, Monday, BBC4): Mensans vs Bloggers, it says here.
  • The Apprentice (9pm, Wednesday, BBC1): “Everything I touch turns to sold!”. I’m currently enjoying Alan Sugar’s new book.
  • The Challenge: Cutthroat (Wednesday, MTV US): Last week had tear gas and tantrums, what’s in store this week?
  • Mission 2110 (5:45pm, Thursday, CBBC): Well I thought the first series was a bit disappointing, and I suspect the second series will have been filmed back to back, so I’m not expecting great things here. It’s a shame there’s been no Raven special series this year.

That’s what I think is interesting this week, what say you?

Don’t forget…

By | October 9, 2010
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… that if you want the best chance of winning Fantasy X Factor, remember to get your teams in before the first live show this evening at 7:40pm.

This week I will be reviewing the Bullseye iPod app, but it won’t happen until midweek.

Meanwhile, Davina McCall’s just announced on her Twitter she’s hosting the next series of The Biggest Loser.