Well five minutes after the last post, do you remember the Richard Osman classic gameshow curated BBC archive thing mentioned a few weeks ago?
Well it’s live now. It’s an eclectic mix featuring Friends Like These (2000), Ask the Family (1982), Weakest Link (2009), Big Break (2001), Bob’s Full House (1987), What’s My Line? (1974), Call My Bluff (1999), Quiz Ball (1966) and Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? (1954).
But alas no First Letter First.
Edit: Explanatory blog.
We don’t like to go three days without a post but there’s not much gossip about so instead what I’ve done is gone through my Youtube recommended list and posted the first related thing it came up with, notwithstanding full episodes of Jeux Sans Frontieres with disgraced commentator Stuart Hall commentaries (these remain interesting historically and are easily found by searching for them) and it came up with Viking, which was a sort of unsuccessful longboat-themed obstacle course in the Sasuke mould, and with occasional mental agility elements. In fact Eurosport used to show it with English commentary back in the mists of time.
If you missed this over the weekend, it looks like there’s another pilot of Name That Tune happening soon and teams of three are being asked for.
We went and saw the Bill Bailey pilot last year and thought that although it felt like a lengthy recording it should edit quite well. I don’t know if Bill Bailey is still associated with it.
Meanwhile it looks like Noel Edmonds, or his publicist, is now on Twitter Noel fans. It’s something I had been asking the cosmos for for a long time.
Saturday, 9:20pm,
ITV
Holly Willoughby is joined by team captains Bradley Walsh and Frank Lampard for a show that might as well be called A League of ITV’s Own if the description is much to go by.
Made by the same people behind the recent Reality Bites on ITV2, so likely to have the same sort of tone.
Saturdays, 7pm,
ITV
ITV’s Super Saturdays kick off with Ninja Warrior UK, the home grown version of the popular Japanese event show Sasuke (which in itself was a spin-off of a show called Muscle Ranking (known here and in the US as Unbeatable Banzuke) which already made it to the UK as Under Pressure on Channel 5 way back in 2001).
We’re interested in seeing how it’s been formatted and if they’re going to end the series with a definitive winner (famously the Japanese show has only seen a Total Victor four times out of thirty tournaments so far). We also don’t know if there’s any prize.
Even though series one hasn’t gone out yet, which is confident:
There are all the details, plus a picture of Konnie Huq in something close to a schoolgirl outfit.