Board of Excitement 18th March – 24th March 2012

By | March 18, 2012
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It’s the Board of Excitement Mother’s Day SPECIAL! I say special, it’s exactly the same as all the other ones. Still, this one comes with extra freaking-out-American-ness, as they celebrate their Mother’s Day on a different day because they have to be different.

  • The Bother Series of Poker Round Six – Mother’s Day SPECIAL! I say special, it’s exactly the same as all the other ones. £5.50 to enter, open to all regardless of ability or league ambition. We’re halfway after this game! (8pm, Sunday, Pokerstars)
  • Don’t Stop Me Now – aka 101 Ways To Leave a Talent Show (joke copyright Buzzerblog) (8pm, Sunday, Sky One)
  • Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Mother’s Day SPECIAL! I say special, it’s exactly the same as all the other ones. Steve Pemberton, Anthony Cotton and Samantha Womack team up with their mums to win lots of money for charity, and hopefully a viewer at home. (8:30pm, Sunday, ITV1)
  • Only Connect Sport Relief Special – it’s a shame Sport Relief doesn’t really have a “thing” like Pudsey’s eyepatch or Comic Relief’s red noses. Maybe Victoria Coren will do the missing vowels round whilst running a mile. But one thing YOU won’t be running a mile from, right, are these celebrities!  The teams are the Cutters (Nick Hornby, Mark Gatiss, Samira Ahmed) and the Backhanders (Ian Hislop, Stephen Mangan and Allison Pearson). (8:30pm, Monday, BBC4)
  • Four Rooms – Last year’s surprise hit is BACK! (8pm, Wednesday, C4)
  • Accumulate! – It’s the last one ever! Now into its second season, according to the website. Dan Peake won some sort of lifetime student television acheievement award the other night, apparently. (Wendesday, RU:ON)
  • The Apprentice – This has started a little bit earlier this year. Exciting. (9pm, Wednesday, BBC1)
  • Sport Relief – Please give generously. (Basically all day, BBC)
  • Winter Wipeout Celebrity Special – why they’re showing this now and not before the rugby and saving Pointless Celebs for a full run I do not know. (6pm, Saturday, BBC1)
  • The Voice UK – It’s been a long build up, but it’s finally here. (7pm, Saturday, BBC1)
  • Britain’s Got Talent – It’s the Saturday night TV clash we’ve all been waiting for. (8pm, Saturday, ITV1)
  • The Million Pound Drop – Live! Now at one hour and forty five minutes, The Drop returns next weekend on Saturday and Sunday before going back to trad. Friday and Saturday rotation. This Saturday (the day) two of The Saturdays (the band) will be playing for charity. Apparently this series will be featuring some exciting twists – fingers crossed for a shoehorned in prisoner’s dilemma element!!!! (9:20pm, Saturday, C4)

We might try and watch Elton vs Simon – The Liveshow on Pro Sieben next Saturday as well. It probably won’t last six hours like Schlag den Raab did last night.

Schlag den Raab 17th March 2012

By | March 17, 2012
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7:15pm UK (8:15 CET),
Pro Sieben or (fingers crossed) internet streaming

It’s the first Schlag den Raab of the 2012! After winning the previous battle in December 66-0, Stefan Raab has a million Euro to defend. Hopefully tonight’s batch of contestants will put up a bit more of a fight.

I’m not going to be here for the start, but the regular punters normally offer up a commentary if you want to join the live discussion.

Bringing a new meaning to event television

By | March 15, 2012
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Carol Vorderman’s doing a show called Revolution, threatening to be a “ground-breaking new gameshow” that “will bring a new meaning to event television!” This is for ITV1HD.

Having whinged that I haven’t been to see anything for ages, the recording coincides precisely with the one evening in March (Sat 31st) I’m already travelling to London to go and see something else happen, so if you want to go along please do and let us know what you think.

Meanwhile, Inventor Tom Pellereau has unveiled his first thing since winning The Apprentice last year, a curved nail file set called Stylfile. Mmm. Coincidentally, the new series of The Apprentice starts next Wednesday – is launching a new product off the next series of The Apprentice going to be a new thing, X Factor style?

Schlag den Geography

By | March 14, 2012
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Right, if you can’t find a naughty live stream for Schlag den Raab at the weekend (7:15 UK time, Saturday), a place called Film On shows Pro Sieben Austria (it will be showing it at the weekend), although presumably unless you sign up to it you’re limited to seven minutes before it will cut you off. HOWEVER, the free iPhone/iPad app doesn’t seem to suffer from the time limit, so you should be able to watch it via that route if you can’t find a reliable naughty stream. There is also an Android version (untested) and a native PC/Mac version (also, I must stress before you try it and it might put crap on your computer, untested).

So there you go. I will set up a discussion post on Saturday.

A televisual triumph

By | March 12, 2012
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Televisual genius Simon Cowell the COMEBACK KING has DONE IT AGAIN! Red or Black is returning for a second series, but there will be more “skill and judgement” this time round, so that’s alright then. Other changes include a £500,000 rolling jackpot endgame, so look out for more exciting informed tea table and internet chat as to how much the end game may or may not be costing ITV and if they’ll go bankrupt.

Show Discussion: Breakaway

By | March 12, 2012
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Weekdaily, 4:30pm

New Nick Hancock fronted quiz in the Perfection slot, boasting the longest set in quiz history if we recall what they were saying correctly. Six people compete for £10,000, deciding to work as a team or attempt to break away and take all the money for themselves. Sounds a bit like cycling.

Anyway, let us know what you think, not only about the show but whether you reckon it’s one word or two.