What a pair of Bobby Dazzlers, etc.
The UK Eurovision act is meant to be revealed sometime tonight. Engelbert Humperdinck is the name going round Twitter right now. Surely not?
Edit: It’s Engelbert Humperdinck.
Can’t wait
We were discussing this on Twitter last night, but if you missed it it’s worth reading.
The next series of Red or Black to have “much more of a Noel’s House Party atmosphere”
Mmm. It’s all “could return” with Red or Black isn’t it? By the way everyone seems to go on about it it is happening, and they’re spending the next six months trying to work out a way to best couch it to make it sound like a worthwhile endeavour.
Show Discussion: Cleverdicks
Weekdaily, 7pm, Sky Atlantic
They’re doing a big push for what is a pretty highbrow show on a premium channel, aren’t they? Perhaps they are hoping this will become the new Only Connect. Maybe it will be, because David Stainer features in the adverts.
As previously mentioned, someone did a recording report for us last November. It will be interesting to see what makes the edit.
Edit: Online game is quite good and gives quite a good taste of the sorts of questions used, I think.
Board of Excitement 26th Feb – 4th March 2012
What have we got to numb the pain of existence of this week?
- Mix It Up Real Good – We’re playing 2-7 Triple Draw Limit Lowball tonight. It’s a free game, and you’re welcome to join us regardless of talent or league ambition. Details here, register early is my advice.
- Wie is De Mol? – The Anglicised version of this usually comes in Monday. It’s the only reality show on telly I’m bothered about at the moment, but I will advice also that The Amazing Race and Survivor are on this week tonight and Thursday.
- Cleverdicks – For what it’s worth I will set up a show discussion post for this tomorrow, although as it’s on Sky Atlantic I don’t know how well viewed it’s going to be. Sounds like it would be better suited to Sky Arts. Friend of the Bar Dave Matthews sent us a recording review late last year. (7pm, Weekdays, Sky Atlantic)
- The Exit List – Last in the series and probably ever. (8pm, Tuesday, ITV1)
- Accumulate! – Watch them all here. (Thursday)
- Jacpot! – Spotted this in Iain’s TV guide, it is OF COURSE a new version of the US 70s and 80s quiz Jackpot! which was popular in Wales for a bit. (8:25, Friday, S4C)
- Pointless Celebrities – This week Brian Blessed and Anthea Turner are on. (6:05pm, Saturday, BBC1) The civilian version continues weekdaily at 5:15pm on BBC1.
I can’t wait for the weekend to begin!
OK. Once again I’m out on both Friday and Saturday night like some BLOODY interminable T4 presenter or something, so I shall remind you to keep discussion of this weekend’s The Bank Job episodes to the relevant post.
Also of interest this weekend the first of a primetime run of Pointless Celebrities, Saturday at 6:15 on BBC1. Then on Sunday we are playing a fun and free game of 2-7 Triple Draw, and you are welcome to join us.
It’s Glücksrad Thursday (Wednesday night)
We’re (I am a) modern and hip kids (kid) on Bother’s Bar, just like that Channel 4. So here’s a post about a show I bloody loved when growing up, Glücksrad aka Wheel of Fortune in German, possibly my favourite version of all time mainly because of the styling and crucially, Klaus-Peter Sattler’s music. The best bit about having satellite and cable as a 10 year old wasn’t the obvious stuff, it was the foreign channels and seeing the way our international friends made shows which basically forms one of the key backbones of the Bar. You don’t need to know the language, you can work things out with observation. A bit like life, really.
It’s all rather more homogenous these days which is a shame. But anyway.
The German show had a unique round (the Super-spiel) between the maingame and the winner’s bonus round. The three contestants worked as a team to solve a sort of crossword puzzle, they’d have 90 seconds to do it with each person being effective team captain for thirty seconds each. If they won, they split a progressive jackpot between them.
You will like it if you like words of exactly four and up to 13 letters in length.
But which version had the best clock music?
Is it this one? This was filmed in 1992 and is a charity edition with Angela Merkel. As it’s for charity it’s played by slightly different, cheaty rules but features extra comedy running around from Maren Gilzer:
Or is it this one, different studio but a reinterpreted version of the original tune (about 1:40) in?
Or is it in fact this one, an intriguing BACKWARDS version of the familiar tune? This game has a comedy ending.
http://youtu.be/-3guTOB9hzM
It’s the second one.