A house built on Sand – it’s Eurovision 2014!

By | May 6, 2014
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eurovisionSemi-finals Tuesday and Thursday night 8pm (UK), BBC3 – The UK can vote only in Thursday’s semi.

Final Saturday night 8pm (UK) BBC1

Live streaming internationally on Eurovision.tv

BBC site

Once again it’s time to find out which opinion out of “it’s all a joke, LOL!” and “actually it’s a very serious competition and politics don’t come into play at all, ACTUALLY” is this year’s most tedious as the world’s biggest entertainment show rolls into Copenhagen – the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest!

It’s an entertainment spectacular, we say take away whatever you want from it. And if the voting is rubbish, well The X Factor is boring when Louis Walsh doesn’t put the joke acts through over people who are worthy but were never going to win.

This year the UK is represented by the up and coming Molly Smitten-Downes and her song Children of the Universe, which sounds quite modern but needed more of a hook I think.


If you listen to Brit papers, we’re one of the favourites. We’ll see how that works out.

This is basically the extent of Bother’s Bar’s coverage of the event this year – watching live is better handled with Twitter than here really, but if you have long form opinions during, before or after any of the events feel free to drop them off. Unfortunately for me I’m working through both semis, but at least watching the final with chums so might be able to contribute on Twitter myself. It will certainly be the first year in ages the songs on Saturday are going to be a complete surprise, which is quite exciting.

Show Discussion: Draw It!

By | May 4, 2014
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drawit4:30pm Weekdays,
Channel 4

First there was the briefly popular Zynga app Draw Something, then about six months to a year later they filmed this new show based loosely on it, and now a year later it’s finally getting an airing. Channel 4 riding the zeitgeist as ever.

Still it’s got some good people behind it and at half an hour probably won’t outstay its welcome. There are some really good guests coming up on it as well (Terry Wogan! Tim Vine!), so we’ll see.

Show Discussion: The Link

By | May 4, 2014
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thelink1:25pm Bank Holiday Monday, 2:15pm weekdays thereafter,
BBC1

Answer questions and try to work out the link between the answers. We liked it when it was called Connections with Sue Robbie in the eighties, but now famous actor Mark Williams (The Fast Show, Harry Potter, Prudential advert) will be offering teams cash money to do the same in a show apparently directly based on the board game Linkee. It’s an unusual 50 minute slot, we’ll see how it does.

It’s Bother’s Bar Monthly Poker Open Sunday! 8pm tonight.

By | May 4, 2014
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Do you remember when Victoria Coren Mitchell won the EPT San Remo a few weeks ago and everyone was convinced it would start a new poker boom? Well JOIN that poker boom as tonight it’s BBMPO Sunday from 8pm! Join the fun from just $5.50 (one re-buy and one add-on also available). All the details are here, if you need to join the club make sure you do so early so I’ve got time to approve you. Good luck!

Schlag den Raab #bbsdr – 3rd May

By | May 2, 2014
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schlagdenraabSaturday 7:15pm (UK),
Pro Sieben/Naughty internet streaming

After Schlag den Brig a few weeks ago, again, AGAIN the Germans have been inspired to do Schlag den Raab again, and this time there’s a €1.5m jackpot on offer if a plucky contestant can best German Megastar Stefan Raab over fifteen mystery events.

It’s also the last one before the sommerpause and it won’t be back until September, so get your fix whilst you can.

Musical guests are Lily Allen and Mando Diao, a Swedish rock band who are properly big before you’re all sarcastic about it, so think on.

Once again whoever’s around will be providing a commentary-which-is-slightly-useless-as-commentary-as-it’ll-be-on-a-delay-because-of-Youtube. We’ll also probably be discussing all the hot industry goss and doing quizzy things during the breaks, and we positively encourage you to join in on the hashtag #bbsdr. And we’ll probably start panicking a few minutes in when our live stream goes down. Which is always fun!

Here are all the links you need:

Our live commentary stream link is here! Join us!

This is the stream we will be watching live and basing our commentary on.

That stream will probably go down at some point during the evening, here’s our first back-up one. If it all goes down, once we’ve finished panicking, we’ll put up links to streams we can find on here and on Twitter.

Follow us on Twitter for immediate news if something goes wrong. Or because we’re fun guys!!!! @bothersbar, @danielpeake, @ogbajoj, @davidjbodycombe.