Notices 3rd Feb 2012

By | February 3, 2012
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  • Some quite good celebs lined up for The Million Pound Drop over the next fortnight, tonight Dermot O’ Leary and Fearne Cotton take on the dastardly drop (9pm), and next week Chris Moyles and Andi Peters play for charity.
  • This Sunday is BOTHERSOP Sunday, £5.50 entry hold ’em tournament. Previous weeks have been a lot of fun, you’re all invited to play regardless of ability or BotherSOP league standings. Details here.
  • Yesterday we wrote on Twitter that ITV are filming a pilot for a show called My Man Can in Germany (if you live in the Cologne area you can get tickets through Applause Store – filming is in a fortnight). It’s apparently been a hit in several countries but what what we’ve learnt is when the bumpf says “it’s been a hit” what it tends to actually mean is “it’s been broadcast”. This said, this does look like quite good fun and very much in the Beat the Star mould even if my gut feeling says poker chips are too fiddly for Saturday Night:

http://youtu.be/T4Omvd6fnH0

Ended in disaster

By | February 2, 2012
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Long term readers know we like a banging remix, I found this linked to on Facebook this morning:

Very good. It’s been on Youtube for years by the looks of things, but through accident or design the bloke who did it spelt ‘Krypton’ wrong.

Herbie

By | February 1, 2012
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OK. so we had a look at the Catchphrase app last weekend so as it’s quiet why don’t we have a look at the original US version of the show with Art James? Things to note: 1) the scoring system is quite crude, 2) Mr Chips is called Herbie and 3) the animation music is quite jolly:

http://youtu.be/y41kVrF6hRs (can’t embed, sorry)

The show didn’t last past 13 weeks in the US. The show was made in 1985.

Board of Excitement 29th Jan – 4th February 2012

By | January 29, 2012
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Still not a massively exciting week, but no matter as Bother’s Bar has new CONTENT today, I’ve done a review of Catchphrase on iPad and iPhone (this would have been earlier today but I only discovered this afternoon there’s a native iPad version). It is not amazing, but you could have less fun for 69p.

  • Mix It Up Real Good Stage 2 – our poker tournament odyssey continues as we’re having a fun and free game of Razz this evening (basic rules – it’s seven card stud low, straights and flushes don’t count but pairs and trips do, lowest five cards win and it’s played to fixed limits). If that sounds like fun then register to play before 8pm as that’s when we’re starting. Yes we know Top Gear is on, watch it on iPlayer.
  • Only Connecting Walls – For some reason this is not the official name for the connecting wall nights they’ve been doing. Anyway, here’s the second one for those who can’t get enough of Only Connect‘s third best round. (8:30 and 10pm, Monday, BBC4)
  • The Exit List – Mainly because this would be a short list otherwise.
  • Wie is De Mol? – At some point during the week we’ll have episode four of this to look forward to.

Wow. Well never mind, let’s fill out today with a link to photos of the building of Fort Boyard‘s new watchtower, courtesy of FortBoyard.net. Lovely.

Edit: Fun! Here’s INTERNATIONAL Krypton Factor from 1988.

http://youtu.be/T82CV4ib4Js