What’s interesting about this weekend? Prized Apart? Who Dares Wins? Naaaaaaah.
But next weekend. NEXT WEEKEND. Next Saturday both of our Summer series are BACK! The Genius Grand Final and the 26th season of Fort Boyard, and you can follow both of them in the pages that have been set up in the menu bar up there (WHICH YOU CAN ALSO GET ON YOUR MOBILES). Although saying that it will probably take until midweek before we get a translation for The Genius.
So when we heard Stephen Gatjen was quitting Schlag den Raab at the end of the year, we all wondered who his replacement would be.
Turns out it’s moot, Stefan’s just announced he’s quitting television at the end of the year. He was offered a new contract at ProSieben and has turned it down.
As well as his famous chat show TV Total and gameshow Schlag den Raab, he’s responsible for many annual events – Wok Racing, Autoball, The Bundesvision Song Contest amongst other things, he’s competed in and hosted Eurovision and in recent years found a winner in Lena and Satellite.
There are still four more episodes of Schlag den Raab to come before the end of the year, and Prosieben have left the door open if he wants to return.
(Er, fast forward to 5m 30secs) I do hope that the 79% are right!
We’ll find out the result over the next 33 days and one of you will be a winner, right now it’s around £320k/£500k but it is slowing down a bit.
So yesterday I had a brilliant idea on Twitter, basically somebody should do a new version of You Bet but with people betting on whether something that’s gone to crowdfunding would make their target or not. Each project would have a celebrity backer and if it didn’t hit the target they’d have to do some sort of mildly humiliating comedy forfeit, meanwhile the audience at home could vote and whoever was correct could win some sort of prize. As a stretch goal we could get Darren Day.
Anyway what better way to explore this proof of concept than with our very own pilot! We’re not having a celebrity backer but otherwise everything is the same – will our nominated crowdfunded project hit its target within its time limit?
As pointed out with lots of crowdfunding projects they will start off with an initial splurge of excitement and gradually slow down to a trickle with time.
36 hours into its drive the Crystal Maze Live Experience it has 40% of its total and has 34 days left to find the other £300,000 required. At that speed it will smash its target, but the question is… will it? They will get all monies donated regardless.
BETTING HAS ENDED.
Only one guess per punter and I reserve the right to exclude dodgy looking votes, my decision is final. One person who picked the correct answer will be picked at random will win £20. If the funding campaign is cancelled at any point before reaching the target that counts as a “no”. If you live outside the UK you must be able to accept PayPal. I can change the rules at any time blah blah blah blah.
Get your skates on, because BETTING ENDS Tuesday evening at 10pm (that’s tomorrow as I write this). Good luck!
Meanwhile our chums at What3Words could do with some help in winning some money off of Richard Branson and if you help you can take part in a quiz to win some prizes.
Ta-ra!
Everybody loves a rolling totaliser and here at Bother’s Bar we’re no exception.
As you’ve doubtlessly gathered by now there are a group of people who want to put together a Live Immersive The Crystal Maze Experience in London – don’t just watch it, play it! Not just any people, people behind Secret Cinema and popular exit games and they’ve even got Richard O’ Brien and Malcolm Heyworth on board as consultants (that’s when I really took notice). But they need money (although they’ve also said there are private investors interested if they don’t reach the goal). The intention is to guarantee three months and then keep it going as long as there is interest. Anyway you can click on the thing above for lots more details.
I was not a believer but there appears to be enough will to make it happen.
Anyway I don’t like to just regurgitate official releases without adding value, six years ago there was an attempt at a student Crystal Maze musical, and I went to see it, you can read about it in The Archive.
Saturdays, 7pm,
BBC1
Well this has had a slightly more interesting development than most but this week the BBC’s big new shiny expensive new Saturday night hope finally gets off the ground.
On paper it sounds like Exactly The Sort Of Thing We Like – ten couples vie for a £100,000 prize, one half of each couple spends up to the next six weeks completing exciting adventure challenges in Morocco with Reggie Yates to stay in the game, the worst performing three fly back to Farnborough where their partners compete in a quiz with Emma Willis to avoid elimination, the winners head straight back to the adventure on a plane out back.
The competition’s been done in real time (so every Saturday evening), but it’s not live which strikes me as crazy and having seen an episode being recorded in the studio, largely suspect it worked better on paper than it does on screen. However they’ve had four months to edit it, and I do want to like it, so keep an open mind. I do like the logo.