So here’s some Fort Boyard news: Olivier Minne will still be hosting on his own despite the return to the more classic format, and as well as originally suggesting they are going to do the whole thing as live, a nighttime element will return. Exciting. One of the new characters is a combination of Lara Croft and a wrestler, and another new possibly virtual character is set to explain the new hi-tech games, apparently. I can’t wait to see how this ends up. Hopefully they don’t do something really stupid like use virtual keys, clues and clepsydres. Source: Fan-fortboyard.fr
Board of Excitement 10th – 16th April 2011
Phew, what a scorcher etc.
- The Bother Series of Poker 2011 Game 7 – It is fair to say if you join tonight you probably won’t be able to win the league, but if you fancy a game don’t let that stop you. The results page can be found here. (8pm, Sunday, Full Tilt) Edit: I’ve had the wrong tourney number up all week, I am very sorry. The correct one to search for is #230456879 – there is ten minutes late registration.
- The Cube – Philip Schofield challenges people to do the entirety of Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes inside the eponymous cube for £250,000. (7pm, Sunday, ITV1) Cube Series 3 Show Discussion Post
- And then there’s nothing all week until…
- Sing If You Can – never before has a show felt like the next Celebrity Wrestling before it’s even aired. Can it prove all its doubters wrong? (7:20pm, Saturday, ITV1) It helps the cause that it’s leading into…
- Britain’s Got Talent – with a Cowell-less judging panel of Michael McIntyre, irony’s David Hasslehoff and Amanda Holden, although Cowell is meant to be back for the live shows in theory. (8:20pm, Saturday, ITV1)
- The Bother Series of Poker Game 8 – just a heads up that the next game after tonight’s is NEXT Sunday. It’s a Deepstack Doubler, then it’s three weeks until the next one. Happy Easter!
New Old Content
Well I was convinced I had an episode of Slam to do a feature on (although not that there’s much point seeing as you can work everything out from that Ray Cokes pilot film anyway) but I can’t for the life of me find it so I’ve gone through the Bother’s Bar v2.0 archives and touched up some old features I hadn’t yet put up on the Specials Board, so here they are:
- Dog Eat Dog US (written in 2005)
- Extreme Activity (written in 2006)
- Happy Family Plan (written in 2005)
- Test Pattern (written in 2009)
Not much on tonight, although there’s a Total Wipeout Celeb Special, So You Think You Can Dance? and Secret Fortune if you’re those ways inclined.
Alexander Armstrong’s Big Ask
This records this evening, if anyone is going do let us know what you think.
Edit: No-one has, so there’s some stuff about Red and Black in the comments, along with miscellaneous things.
It also seems a good time to remind everybody that it’s BotherSOP Sunday this Sunday and also next Sunday, which is also the second Deepstack Doubler – double the stack, double the points, double the cash. Do join in.
Big Brother is coming back on Channel 5
According to Mediaguardian. And this news comes just eight or nine months after it might have caught any zeitgeist.
Good luck with that.
Amongst the Big Brother chat, it’s worth pointing out that a shady individual sent us a link to a Paddy McGuinness pilot called Walk the Line. To save you wading through the BB debates, this link will take you to the relevant point.
Slam
Oh now this is well found by Tom, the legendary Ray Cokes hosting an English language pilot for Effrevescence format Slam in a really unconvincing fashion:
I should have a couple of episodes of Slam somewhere, so I’ll try and do a feature on it at the weekend.