Tentatively back

By | June 19, 2010

Look, I’ll tell you what happened.

On Friday, I was sent to market to sell some cows for money or something when a strange old man stopped me in the street, and wondered if I’d sell him a cow for some apparently magic beans that will help see the future. “Magic beans?” I cried, rather skeptically. But you know me, I like a bit of a gamble so I got back to the bar, penniless, but with some beans. So I planted them and then went to bed. Then the next day I did some washing and got drunk down a pub (obviously I didn’t have the money to pay the electricity bill) and when I got back – whoa, standing in a corner of the Bar was one of those Zoltan the Magnificent sort of machines, but it was apparently called “Rob Bighter”.

“Hmm,” I thought, “that’s an anagram of Brig Bother. Quite clever.” Anyway I won some money down the pub so I fed the meter, and suddenly Rob Bighter came to life and he left a message:

Rob Bighter’s eyes are shining bright,
If you’re not careful you’ll bugger up your website.

Well, to be honest I’m not massively impressed with him predicting something that’s already happened.

Anyway, the point is: if you’re about to write a long comment, I’d suggest copying it before you send it in case the server messes up. Flaws will be ironed out over the coming days, fingers crossed.

And what predictions for the future (or predictions of things that have already happened) will Rob Bighter have in store?

Fort Boyard 2010

By | June 18, 2010
  • It starts on 10th July on France 2 at 8:35.
  • Three teams will compete in each episode. Two teams will face off in a number of duels and individual challenges to earn keys – the team with the fewer is kicked off the Fort immediately.
  • The winners will, as Lee suggested, face against the current champions in a battle for clues. When it gets to the treasure room, the teams will write what they think the codeword is on a bit of slate before collecting gold, but it sounds like the correct answer won’t be revealed until after the treasure run. The winners being the team who a) get the codeword right and b) collect the most gold (presumably if both get it wrong then it goes on gold). This is a bit more involved and interesting that I was expecting. The winning team collect €10,000 on top of their collected winnings and come back the next week, at the end of the series the three best teams come back to win the €40,000 top prize.

Interesting. And – and here’s some fan service – the people who are champions for episode one? Well if my interpretation is correct, they’re going to be part of a team from the show’s first season twenty years ago.

It’s BotherSOP Finals Fortnight!

By | June 17, 2010

pokertrophy2That’s right! There’s only one more opportunity after this one for me to post a photo of the amazing Bother Series of Poker trophy (look it is engraved and everything), just two more games remain, one this Sunday night and the Super Stack Grand Final next Sunday night, where lots of money and medals and a trophy will be given away.

Needless to say, I’m hoping to win (cheap night), but you can stop my fun by playing along with the final two games. You probably can’t win the title, but you probably will have fun. Details on the BotherSOP page.

Danny De-Veto

By | June 16, 2010

Just returning to Monday’s post, I can definitely see what they’re going for with “save and replace” and the sorts of reactions they’re going to get, and that’s mildly entertaining and fine (after all, if you get put up for eviction by any means then voted out, you were never going to win anyway), but I think Phil E-J is being a bit disinginuous on the DS forums when it comes to changing the game – as I’ve said, there’s not an awful lot of tactical play you can use here.

I quite liked the nominations scoreboard. But maybe it would be better if Save and Replace happened on the same evening so they can open the phonelines a day earlier rather than drag it out some more.

In other BB news, Emma Willis is very good on Big Brother’s Little Brother, George Lamb I can take or leave (normally leave), the promise of more behind the scenes stuff hasn’t really come true I don’t think, it’s more like Big Brother Does The Big Breakfast which isn’t too bad an idea in itself. Big Brother’s Big Mouth is a genuinely terrible hours worth of masturbatory references as comedy, which is upsetting if the producer of it is who I think he is (the awesome Saturday task BB from BB6).

In other news, the BBC have picked up a show called Splatalot, filmed in Canada. It appears to be basically Kiddy Wipeout with some elements of Gladiators.

Also, surely Claudia Winkleman’s upcoming Channel 4 show Wannabe is exactly the same as Brian Conley’s Let Me Entertain You?