Premieres at 9pm.
Join Ben plus special guests development executive Phil Treddinick and Friends Of The Bar Laura Conlon and Ash The Bash as 100 are whittled down to 40 – eight from each decade group. Did your faves make it?
If you watch live at 9pm, Ben should be around in the chat.
At 8:15pm after Britain’s Got Talent.
Which of the several remade gameshows will they open with? Only by looking at the freely viewable ITV Press Centre website after next Tuesday will you find out.
DO NOT CLICK THE FREELY AVAILABLE LINK UNTIL NEXT TUESDAY. PLEASE CHECK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU WRECK YOURSELF.
…bringing you the latest episode of The People’s Ben Justice’s Top 100 UK Gameshows of All Time. It was hoped to go up today but may be a bit late. Edit: Rescheduled to Thursday.
In the meantime, here is some music.
Do-do-do-DO-do-do! Woah!
With no 50/50 Podcast to speak of, we thought we’d debrief last week’s Internet Event of the Century (if you didn’t watch it you can find it here). In this action packed 90 minute video find out the game design processes, the technical challenges of bringing this all on screen (it’s much harder than you might anticipate), did anything go wrong behind the scenes, would Dan and or Nick have done anything differently in retrospect and what was the program David used for his dice rolls? And all whilst I look slightly more hot with an extra week’s beard growth.
Surely it’s time David Bodycombe’s Riddles of the Sphinx got a reprint.
There are a couple of edit points towards the end, amusingly we had more issues doing this follow-up video than we had on the night itself. Incredible.
It’s Split Second with Tom Kennedy from the 1970s.
Now I’ve always *quite* liked Split Second as a show, but my main point of contact was the Monty Hall hosted version, which, if I recall correctly, was shown on the Lifestyle channel on satellite and cable. In it, three contestants quickly buzz in to pick one of three questions to answer on a set of questions on board, with more money being won if fewer people claim correct answers on a set. Quite fun, but let’s be clear here, the real star is the hugely bombastic 80s theme tune.
But the original seventies version has a brilliant twist that the 80s remake removed, and that is you could buzz at any time, even before the actual nature of the question was read out, so it’s not so much a reaction test as it is about question anticipation from incomplete information. Much more interesting!
It looks like Paul Coia hosted a Scottish version in 1987, the logo suggests it was based more on the 80s version than the original.
If Eurovision: Europe Shine A Light! sounds too unbearably naff to watch on Saturday night, there is a (more difficult to watch) alternative!
Stefan Raab is putting on the Free European Song Contest on Pro 7 hosted by Stephen Gatjen and Conchita Wurst, where fifteen countries will battle it out in a live song contest using Eurovision rules but with a socially distant twist. The UK is being represented by Call Me Home hitmaker Kelvin Jones and Mel C will be the person awarding the UK’s scores. Ireland are being represented by Sion Hill, a few countries’ acts haven’t been announced yet (it sounds very much like “who’s local who we can get?”). Raab has form here, having produced the Bundesvision Song Contest for many years.
I have no idea how it will all work out – there’s going to be live voting but it’s not being shown outside of Pro7 on Germany, Austria and Switzerland as far as I can tell, but if you want an alternative to several hour interval act the EBU are putting out on Saturday, you can use the Dark Arts and tune into Pro7 from 7:15pm UK.