It would probably be remiss not to point out that we’re having a chat about Japan’s Battle For Money in the Exit Stage Right thread here. It’s Celebrity Adventure Dodgeball, basically.
Meanwhile it’s the TV Choice Awards 2012, most shows have been nominated. You can decide who wins.
In other news, 14-18 year olds who want to apply for Fort Boyard season three can write to fortboyard@foundationtv.co.uk for an application form.
… the answer is six foot eight. Or seven.
Although you wouldn’t be able to guess from photos as he has to stoop for all publicity photographs.
5-10% of BB’s daily hits come from people searching for the answer to that question.
8pm UK, BBC3
Official ESC live stream
This is the one the UK can vote in so join Scott Mills and Sara Cox for some more songs and some amazing live interviews.
I’m working tonight, so I look forward to reading this after the event.
OK, so the VERY EXCITING news today is that Exit (aka Escape Game DERO!) has been picked up by SyFy in the US. SyFy’s track record in this sort of thing is actually pretty good – Estate of Panic was a Bother’s Bar favourite, Total Blackout is close to the source show, Cha$e was an OK stab at Run For Money even if it was a bit charmless. Looking forward to this immensely.
Also sounding very exciting is a show called The Great Escape beginning on June 24th on the US TNT, where people are challenged to escape situations. Tickety-tock.
8pm, BBC3
Official ESC live stream
This year I’m going into this totally blind. The UK cannot vote in this semi final – we get to vote in the on on Thursday.
This is the one with JEDWARD! and the Russian grannies.
Feel free to leave comments and opinions on the songs and staging. The commentators for the UK are Scott Mills and Sara Cox.
I’m also likely to be commenting on Twitter.
Hurrah!
Other than the UK song and the Russian grannies, I’ve literally no clue as to what will be presented to us from Baku this week.
I will set up posts for the two semi-finals (Tuesday and Thursday at 8pm) and the big final on Saturday- I can’t guarantee I’ll be here for them, but I’m interested in your comments.
Also apparently there’s a Kiddy Boyard UK series, well, three I suppose press release incoming. The big news from the French show which starts filming very soon is that the boat for the zipline adventure IS BACK, and for the night editions they’re filming too, although whether it’s going to be used for the same purpose remains to be seen. I will be VERY UPSET if it is not accompanied by Variation No. 1.
Meanwhile, Sandi Toksvig is lined up to front 1001 Things You Should Know.