A surprise to no-one

By | November 8, 2011
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Thanks to Dan Peake for the heads up, but they appear to be casting for a new series of Blockbusters. 18 year olds and up. Won’t be successful because it doesn’t have Bob Holness in it. Predict they will keep the handjive for effect.

Meanwhile! It is Sorority Girls on E4 this evening at 9pm, and what will today’s piece of Paul Ross-erbilia be? Find out… LATER!

Edit: It’s fun idea for a quiz, from the Carlton area in 1999, it’s Mind the Gap!

Fantasy X Factor

By | November 8, 2011
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OK, you’ve probably read the news that Frankie has been removed from The X Factor, and you’re probably wondering how this might affect FXF this week. Well, producers are releasing a statement tomorrow regarding what’s happening this weekend so I will make a firm decision then.

What is certain is that you won’t be able to vote for Frankie to be eliminated this week. If you have done it already, please choose again. Secondly there is no make-up if you have Frankie in your team, that’s the luck of the game and you are advised to change him out. Anyone who had Frankie down as a winner will be mailed in due course. You are welcome to wait until the producers have come to their decision before making yours.

Who Want To Win A Paul Ross Jigsaw?

By | November 7, 2011
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So! I did a competition on Twitter today to give away one of the TWO Paul Ross 300-piece jigsaw puzzles I’ve got coming.

The question simply was: “Who or what is the best Ross and why?” Caveats included disqualifying anyone who said “Sigur Ros” and opening up the competition to people in the UK only (sorry US and international peeps, postage costs mainly).

Nobody went for the golden envelope answer which was, of course, Ross Frozen Foods. This means I’m going to judge completely arbitrarily. Find out who gave the best answers and who the winner is under the cut!

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Festival of Paul Ross

By | November 7, 2011
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Well here we go. I have no idea what the genesis of this video is (and anyone who says I’ve just looked up Paul Ross on Youtube and picked some videos that looked interesting for this week is lying).

It is something called Guilty or Not Guilty. It is a take off of Deal or No Deal. It contains adult themes and comedy. He puts in quite a good performance in this, actually.

Board of Excitement 6th November to 12th November 2011

By | November 6, 2011
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Well this week is very exciting because it’s the Bother’s Bar Festival of Paul Ross (I know what you’re thinking: “Fabulous! *****”). As the less well-regarded gameshow-and-fun based website out there, we TOTALLY know how it feels to be Paul Ross and therefore feel uniquely qualified to host this fantastic celebration – and it will be a celebration. Look out for a Twitter competition on Monday (you need to be following @BothersBar) and a website competition during the week, I will have TWO genuine Paul Ross 300-piece jigsaws to give away. There is no cash alternative.

Don’t forget Fantasy X Factor managers if you want to change (or indeed make if you had forgotten) a prediction for tonight’s double elimination that now is the time to do so. What else we got?

  • Million Dollar Mind Game – Fingers crossed someone sticking it up on Youtube becomes a regular thing. (Sunday, ABC)
  • Barrier – Philip Schofield presents. (7pm, Sunday, ITV1)
  • Brucie’s on QVC flogging his new album. (9am and 4pm, apparently, Monday, QVC)
  • Deal or No Deal – This starts on Challenge from Monday at 8pm from episode one, and this month it sounds as though they’re going to be doing two episodes a day and repeating them the following afternoon AND doing an omnibus at the weekends. I suppose that’s one way to get through 1700+ episodes. Interesting to see how it affects the C4’s show’s ratings at all. (8pm, Monday, Challenge)
  • Only Connect – First semi-final so don’t expect to get any questions right. It’s the Listeners vs the Antiquarians. Incidentally they’ve been filming things for the upcoming Connecting Wall night, likely to be the third best theme night on television this year. (8:30pm, Monday, BBC4)
  • Fort Boyard: Ultimate Challenge – I still have to catch up the this week’s episodes just gone, I believe the grand final is on Monday as part of a double-bill. Of course, if you don’t fancy Youtube and Disney branding, it’s on CITV in January.
  • Sorority Girls – This might be quite interesting, UK uni girls attempt to join a US sorority thing by taking part in initiation tests. With sexy results, if some of the videos on the internet I’ve heard about are anything to go by. (9pm, Tuesday, E4)
  • Who Wants to be a Celebrity Millionaire Remembrance Special – Not live, so no excuse for not fitting everything in. No viewer competition either, but Hugh Bonneville, Melanie Sykes and John Thomson will be teaming up with members of the armed forces for charity. (8pm, Wednesday, ITV1)
  • Big Brother – It’s the live final! And they’ve made it even more exciting by doing something silly and Endemol-esque with the prizemoney. They really should have made it half a mill like was originally suggested, that would have grabbed people’s attention. (9pm, Friday, C5)

I think I might start adding videos of Bother’s Bar favourite El Gran Juego de Oca to the ends of Boards of Excitement to make them even more exciting. Thanks to punter Chris M Dickson for alerting me to this one. It’s got Mr T in it! The crazy damn fool!