Box Clever

By | April 17, 2014
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Well this is a bit of a turn-up, an entire episode of Box Clever on Youtube. I used to bloody love this when I was about five.

 

In this show football player and Question of Sport captain Emelyn Hughes spends about twenty minutes explaining the rules of the game (UKGameshows has a good explanation, but it can be boiled down to: answer questions to turn squares your colour, if you don’t complete the set your opponents can nick it, try and box your opponents in on the board – it’s a bit like Blockbusters but you’re trying to claim territory). Hughes frankly not a great host, Dr Sue Kingsman has some quite fun questions (although seems to allow multiple guesses on a whim), aurally and sonically it is very eighties. Also was there a second computer game with a dog that I remember, presumably that’s series two.

Only Connect’s on tonight

By | April 14, 2014
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And it’s on BBC4 at 8:30 – it transfers to BBC2 in the Autumn to partner University Challenge. It will be interesting to see if the questions have a different sort of feel with a new editor, although many of the old question contributors are still on board.

Schlag den Brig 2 – LIVE from 8pm! #sdb

By | April 11, 2014
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Schlag_endcapSaturday 8pm (UK time),
Youtube and viewable RIGHT HERE.

#sdb

#imbackingbrig
#teamdan

It’s time to choose a side.

We are too good to you. In January we provided four hours of live entertainment, the likes of which the Internet had never seen before – a hilarious low rent version of German event television show Schlag den Raab (Beat (the) Raab) played across Youtube on webcams with fun and inventive games from the devious mind of The Crystal Maze and Only Connect‘s David Bodycombe. Fifteen mystery challenges of mental agility, psychology, dexterity and skill bought to you LIVE. THE WORLD HAD NEVER SEEN SUCH A THING. On the night Dan got lucky.

Almost three months has passed and I’ve been in training. I will prove once and for all Dan was a bit lucky first time round.

This Saturday night we’re back BIGGER, BETTER and MORE INTERACTIVE – play along at home, and in some cases influence the results in some of the games (so try to watch live!). A fresh fifteen games await us and me and Dan have no idea what’s about to hit us (except for the two proper You Bet!-esque games we’ve filmed outside a fortnight ago and have had video packages put together by proper TV person Michelle Martin, god knows she didn’t have much to work with but by all accounts they apparently look great). The only other person who knows is our referee and commentator for the night Lewis Murphy.


HQ link to Snooker Golf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncen8L5GGrE

HQ link to Merken Mercedes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMlzGPPyslQ

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We’d love to hear your comments – comment on the Youtube stream (or preferred) Twitter with #sdb and we’ll read them out during quiet bits. Or Lewis will at any rate, we’re not allowed to access Twitter during the recording.

Anything could happen – it’s an unrehearsed live show with lots of chains of technology involved and two people who are winging it completely, please bear with us if something goes wrong, follow me, Dan, David and Lewis on Twitter for updates.

If you miss it you should be able to watch the stream afterwards, for most fun we recommend watching live. We got great viewers last time, we want to smash that this time!

Show Discussion: The Guess List

By | April 11, 2014
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guesslistSaturday 9:30pm,
BBC1

Rob Brydon hosts a new quiz that’s a bit like Blankety Blank but without the format fee except not.

We don’t have an awful lot to go on, but it’s certainly a show with a bit of history – it was set to be Mrs Brown’s Celebrities, then when Brendan O’ Carroll decided it wasn’t in the brand’s interests to do it (although also suggested it was funny) it was reversioned with Rob Brydon to become Rob Brydon’s Celebrities, and now we have The Guess List. Tellyspy went and saw the pilot last August and said:

It was a bit like Blankety Blank. Two contestants answering questions, with five celebs (Gary Lineker, Hary Judd, Larry Lamb, Deborah Meaden, Sally Lindsay). One contestant then booted and the remaining plays for crap prizes like a breadmaker, chicken strimmer etc. Round one questions are like ‘In a survey, what is the most annoying thing on a plane…’ And in Round Two, the answers are numerical- celebrities answer and then an average is taken and the contestant has to decide whether its higher or lower. I.e how many arguments do the average couple have a week. It was funny and is a lot better than the BBC’s current Saturday night output. Would be very surprised if it wasn’t commissioned. The entire audience were in hysterics.

We’ll see if many other changes have been made.