We want to do a feature next week on the lost art of hosts doing a promo shot holding a card with the logo of the show on it. Do YOU have a favourite and is it online? If so, use this handy form to point us in the direction of where to find it. You’ll note as an example I’ve used Paul Daniels’ Every Second Counts promo shot as the king of this particular promotional genre. Note that you can point us in the direction of people holding tablets with the show logo on, but this will always be seen as the inferior choice.
Remember the interactive game show we trialled last year? Well, we’re back! Now titled “The Hit List“, it’s the quiz where you can compete from home with the contestants who are live in the studio. We’ve got a new set, new cameras, new graphics, a tweaked format and a lot more…
The show will take place on Tuesday 24th February at 4.30pm UK time (that’s 5.30pm CET, 11.30am Eastern, 8.30am Pacific). For those of you that have a little more time to spare, there will be a warm-up game earlier in the afternoon.
As usual Tom Scott is your host, aided by the enigmatic Mr B.
Follow@hitlistquizon Twitter for an exclusive sneak peek video tomorrow afternoon, all the build-up during the week, and timing updates on the day.
Look, it’s basically sort of the return of Wanted:
Sadly there’s not much of Wanted on Youtube, it certainly must rank as Richard Littlejohn’s finest if most unusual endeavour. Here’s some classic Ray Cokes series two action though:
BBC2, 6pm, I thought I’d put this here to keep the Zombie Apocalypse thread unsullied.
What an exciting start to the year, we’ve got 1000 Heartbeats next week and Mission: Survive on Friday. AND! I might have something especially exciting for you all at the weekend. I felt in my waters 2015 would be rather more interesting than the last few years and it’s worked out that way thus far.
In other news Four Rooms is back on C4 on Sunday at 7pm, against light entertainment behemoths Countryfile and the LIVE FINAL of Get Your Act Together. Jeff Salmon’s back.
This is something we’ve been looking forward to for a while, a high concept narrative-led horror reality show.
The story suggests that 5G is causing a virus outbreak turning people into zombies. Ten people (real contestants) must survive in an abandoned shopping centre for seven days waiting for an evacuation helicopter. However one touch from the massing zombie horde means instant elimination in a particularly gruesome manner. It’s Dawn Of The Dead The Game Show, basically.
They won’t just be able to sit around doing nothing, the shopping centre was once an army base, and the army will communicate with the contestants to set survival tasks, inevitably putting themselves at risk.
And Greg James is involved somewhere as well. I hope winners get an “I Survived A Zombie Apocalypse” T-Shirt.
There’s all sorts of information (and a comic detailing the backstory) on the official site.
I would have been just over eight-and-a-half years old when I first saw an advert for The Crystal Maze, and being well into gameshows I begged my Mum to be allowed to stay up and watch it. It. Was. Incredible – unlike anything I’d seen on television before (except possibly The Adventure Game and Treasures of the Mind Lord, which I was probably a bit young to appreciate) and the next six years involved having friends round and inventing our own games using whatever we had to hand.
Even now, there’s a sizable amount of us who will bellow “GET THE CRYSTAL!” when someone is failing at a simple task, like opening some blinds.
It’s the show’s 25th birthday tomorrow and it still holds up really well – Challenge are devoting an entire day to it to celebrate. There’s been a lot of talk recently that with the new popularity of exit games that this is a show that ought to be bought back, yet I think this will inevitably lead to massive disappointment, ending up as a referendum on whether you like Russell Brand or not.
Still, let’s remember the show as it should be remembered, someone failing to hook a cage on a stick whilst standing on a revolving log above a tank of water:
Quick interesting fact: we all know the story that The Crystal Maze is based on the ideas of (Le Cles de) Fort Boyard because the fort hadn’t been fully converted when C4 wanted to make a pilot, it actually beat it to air by six months, Fort Boyard‘s 25th birthday is on the 7th July. Fort Boyard is still going and still highly watchable, but it’s not been at its best for a while I think it’s fair to say.
We want to do a feature next week on the lost art of hosts doing a promo shot holding a card with the logo of the show on it. Do YOU have a favourite and is it online? If so, use this handy form to point us in the direction of where to find it. You’ll note as an example I’ve used Paul Daniels’ Every Second Counts promo shot as the king of this particular promotional genre. Note that you can point us in the direction of people holding tablets with the show logo on, but this will always be seen as the inferior choice.
