After The Voice (around 9:30pm),
On the BBC Red Button, also the BBC Eurovision site and Eurovision.tv
It’s time to find out which act and song, which will inevitably be slightly too worthy but some people will say “look it’s not completely rubbish” but nobody would actually buy, we’re sending to Austria in May!
Join Scott Mills on the red button or on various internet sites from about half nine.
Here you go:
BRAND NEW BBC QUIZ SHOW
Do you and your friends love brainteasers, cross-word puzzles and tough TV quizzes? Can you answer questions on Only Connect and University Challenge for fun?
Then this is the quiz for you.
We are looking for smart and interesting contestants for a brand new BBC quiz show that tests your general knowledge and mental agility skills to the limit.
We are looking for individual players as well as teams of up to three players who share a common passion, hobby or profession, who have what it takes to take on the fiendish puzzles in this challenging word game.
To request an application form please email casting@saltbeeftv.com or call 07954 834 114.
The closing date for applications is March 31st and auditions will be held in London, Belfast, Manchester and Cardiff.
All applicants must be aged 18+ and UK residents.
And that’s from Green Inc. and Saltbeef TV. Good luck!
So last year Fremantle in the US thought it might be an interesting idea to go through their large back catalogue of formats and redo some of them to appeal to a youth audience. The result of that is Buzzr on Youtube. After an apparent successful go at Family Feud and Password earlier this year, this week sees the launch of its first “season” with FF, Password and Body Language (which is basically charades).
What this means in essence is a) shouting, b) “Youtube personalities”, c) shouting, d) short formats for short attention spans, e) shouting and f) at 33 I’m too old for this shit. And g) shouting. And h) single entendres. Not forgetting i) shouting.
AND SPEAKING OF “YOUTUBE” “PERSONALITIES”, if you had March 21st booked for Schlag den Brig 3, we’re having to postpone it (although we still fully intend to do it at some point). Soz.
Do you know? This morning I had a feeling that there is something I’d usually do on Sunday night which has just passed me by this week. And then I remembered I had completely forgotten I Survived a Zombie Apocalypse was on, I was too busy doing things that were actually quite exciting, like playing Assassin’s Creed and watching House of Cards.
Has any other show gone from excitement to forgotten exists within the space of two episodes?
Hey! Purveyor of unusual comedy gameshows Gary Monaghan has been in touch:
Hi Nick – just to let you know we’ve got a new game show coming out on Sky One on March 15th called Wild Things. It’s hopefully quite a funny physical game show that unusually for me is for a family audience, and it’s hosted by Jason Byrne and Kate Humble. It’s going out at 7pm on Sunday nights, the idea being that it’s like your last weekend treat before bedtime and school the following day . I think it’s quite good, although I would say that wouldn’t I
This is the link to the Sky website:
http://www.sky.com/tv/show/wild-things/video/owl-fall
Hope you like it
Best
Gary
The clip is quite funny, it is of a man in an owl costume who can’t see anything running through the woods. It’s the slapstick version of that bit from the film Intacto. Something that might be worth looking forward to at any rate.
Edit: here’s the press release. Short version: couples complete, one dressed in a woodland creature costume. That person can’t see. They must get through obstacle courses in the woods, with comedy consequences. The end result is GOLD.
Interesting interview with Paul Farrer on Buzzerblog this morning, now mildly irritated that TV people put so little stock in their background music when for me it can absolutely turn an OK show into a more watchable one, and goodness knows we’ve got annoyed by shows that used good stuff and replaced it with tuneless rubbish.