It’s Spoilt For Choice Saturday!

By | July 17, 2010
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Saturday night is very much gameshow night in TV land this evening. Interesting new shows will get their own seperate posts, but you’ve got the choice of:

  • 101 Ways to Leave a Gameslow (7pm, BBC1)
  • Odd One In (7:15pm ITV1)
  • Magic Numbers (8pm, ITV1)
  • Fort Boyard (7:35pm UK time, France 2 and online Monday probably)

As ever, I’ll probably be watching them on catch-up, but feel free to post your fascinating opinions.

Fun Thing Found on Youtube Friday

By | July 16, 2010
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Well, what I actually wanted was Robbie and Take That playing Bomberman (sorry, Dynablaster) on Gamesmaster since they’re back together again, but would you believe that’s not on Youtube?

So instead, on a whim, and reading that Jenny Turner of the parish has a Run the Gauntlet video on her Quizzlestick blog, I wondered if there was any Run the Gauntlet on Youtube. And would you believe it, there is!

“Trem.”

Aggleecrag

By | July 14, 2010
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HAPPY PROPER TENTH BIRTHDAY BIG BROTHER! Today ten years ago, the first set of housemates went into the original Big Brother house in Bow. Ah, great days.

In more important news, doubtless everyone reading this will be familiar with Nickelodeon GUTS, the kids sports challenge gameshow that was popular (in the States) in the early nineties, and was shown on Nickelodeon in the UK. Well Digital Spy report that host Mike O’Malley is being given a permanent cast role in popular singing drama series thing Glee. Who knew? I hope he gets to shout a lot. Apparently Moira Quirk is going to join next season. (*)

I promise to stop commenting on Digital Spy stories for the rest of the week.

(*) Not a funny joke, but excellently alienating to 95% of Bother’s Bar’s target audience.

Board of Excitement 11th – 17th July 2010

By | July 11, 2010
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  • Wipeout (Thursday, ABC) – back to one a week now, although apparently repeats on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
  • Shooting Stars (9:30pm, Tuesday, BBC2) – the celebrity TV quiz of variable quality IS BACK! With Angelos Epithemiou now keeping the scores now Matt Lucas has other commitments. Jack Dee and Ulrika-ka-ka Jonsson are still team captains, and this week they are joined by rapper Example, Hairy Biker Si King, dancer Camilla Dallerup and Eastenders’ Linda Henry.
  • Big Brother US (Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday) – enjoyed the series opener, quite clever opening challenge, the saboteur twist looks fun, contestants that seem intelligent and good looking… will continue to watch for a while yet. I’m still sort of follwing the UK one, but not watching it every night.
  • Big Brother’s Tenth Birthday Proper (Wednesday, Channel 4) – although expect them to ignore it as they celebrated it last year, and they don’t want to be spoiling the narrative now.
  • Fort Boyard (8:35 CET+1, France 2, France) – although it looks like they aren’t going online until Monday upsettingly. I’ve heard that they’ve really gone all out on the competition aspect, to the point where they’ve dropped any form of whimsy that used to make the show extra entertaining. This is a big shame, although I haven’t yet seen episode one to make an informed comment.
  • Odd One In (7:15pm, Saturday, ITV1) – Bradley Walsh hosts a new show where celebs try and guess who out of a line-up of people has an unusal talent or thing. Sounds rather old-skool.
  • Magic Numbers (8pm, Saturday, ITV1) – Old-skool as well, but for very different reasons. Premium phone-number at the ready! Holly Willoughby and JLS guest.