Show Discussion: Bear Grylls: Mission Survive

By | February 19, 2015
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©betty / Mark JohnsonFridays, 9pm:
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An unusual timeslot for a celebrity reality show, but hey, why not.

It’s Celebrity Camping basically by the sounds of it, they’ll have to make their own shelter and find their own food in the Costa Rican jungle all under the watchful eye of survival superstar Bear Grylls. One by one they’ll get kicked off somehow until three remain in the final and a Mission Survivor is crowned.

The title remains a bit embarrassing but the show might be fun. Alternatively The Million Pound Drop‘s on at 8pm.

Do YOU have a favourite promo shot of a host holding a card?

By | February 18, 2015
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danielsWe want to do a feature next week on the lost art of hosts doing a promo shot holding a card with the logo of the show on it. Do YOU have a favourite and is it online? If so, use this handy form to point us in the direction of where to find it. You’ll note as an example I’ve used Paul Daniels’ Every Second Counts promo shot as the king of this particular promotional genre. Note that you can point us in the direction of people holding tablets with the show logo on, but this will always be seen as the inferior choice.

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The Hit List – Next Tuesday at 4:30

By | February 17, 2015
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Here’s a PRESS RELEASE:

Remember the interactive game show we trialled last year? Well, we’re back! Now titled “The Hit List“, it’s the quiz where you can compete from home with the contestants who are live in the studio. We’ve got a new set, new cameras, new graphics, a tweaked format and a lot more…

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The show will take place on Tuesday 24th February at 4.30pm UK time (that’s 5.30pm CET, 11.30am Eastern, 8.30am Pacific). For those of you that have a little more time to spare, there will be a warm-up game earlier in the afternoon.

As usual Tom Scott is your host, aided by the enigmatic Mr B.

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Follow @hitlistquiz on Twitter for an exclusive sneak peek video tomorrow afternoon, all the build-up during the week, and timing updates on the day.

I’ve taken the afternoon off for it already.

Edit: And here is the Youtube vid:

Could you disappear?

By | February 16, 2015
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Look, it’s basically sort of the return of Wanted:

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Sadly there’s not much of Wanted on Youtube, it certainly must rank as Richard Littlejohn’s finest if most unusual endeavour. Here’s some classic Ray Cokes series two action though:

Two Tribes is on tonight

By | February 16, 2015
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BBC2, 6pm, I thought I’d put this here to keep the Zombie Apocalypse thread unsullied.

What an exciting start to the year, we’ve got 1000 Heartbeats next week and Mission: Survive on Friday. AND! I might have something especially exciting for you all at the weekend. I felt in my waters 2015 would be rather more interesting than the last few years and it’s worked out that way thus far.

In other news Four Rooms is back on C4 on Sunday at 7pm, against light entertainment behemoths Countryfile and the LIVE FINAL of Get Your Act Together. Jeff Salmon’s back.

Show Discussion: I Survived a Zombie Apocalypse

By | February 15, 2015
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zombapocSundays, 10pm,
BBC3

This is something we’ve been looking forward to for a while, a high concept narrative-led horror reality show.

The story suggests that 5G is causing a virus outbreak turning people into zombies. Ten people (real contestants) must survive in an abandoned shopping centre for seven days waiting for an evacuation helicopter. However one touch from the massing zombie horde means instant elimination in a particularly gruesome manner. It’s Dawn Of The Dead The Game Show, basically.

They won’t just be able to sit around doing nothing, the shopping centre was once an army base, and the army will communicate with the contestants to set survival tasks, inevitably putting themselves at risk.

And Greg James is involved somewhere as well. I hope winners get an “I Survived A Zombie Apocalypse” T-Shirt.

There’s all sorts of information (and a comic detailing the backstory) on the official site.

And here is the show’s opening: