Here is the initial 100 based on your votes, split into a top 20 for each decade.
Bother’s Bar Schlag den Star Watchalong 2/5/20
Saturday, 7:15pm (UK) 8:15 (CET),
Pro Sieben and naughty internet streaming
Yo, what are you doing this evening? Not much these days I bet! So why not join us as two celebs battle it out for €100,000 in an empty studio across fifteen mystery games, one of which will be Blamieren oder Kassieren, live on German television?
As ever we will have our Discord open for live chat and quizzing and gossip and stuff. Remember it’s a privilege not a right so behave yourselves. To avoid cutting out, we advise turning Auto-sensitivity off and setting it to -85dB or so in your settings.
THIS EPISODE! Choreographer and graduate nuclear ecologist Jorge Gonzalez vs creative director Thomas Hayo. It’s the 50th episode of Schlag den Star!
The link to the Youtube commentary stream will be live here from 7:15pm until end of broadcast.
This stream is commentary only. You will need to have a naughty stream running at the same time for the visuals. We are likely to be about 15-20 seconds behind the visual stream (and about a full minute behind if you’re watching an actual satellite feed), sorry.
The Opera VPN has apparently stopped being useful for SdS. Bother’s Bar recommends shelling out for a proper VPN service. Bother’s Bar uses ExpressVPN, other VPN services are available. Matt Clemson recommends Windscribe as a free alternative. We cannot take responsibility for anything you do to your system, so be careful and use some common sense.
To watch it would be useful to sign up for ProSieben’s catch-up service – it’s pretty simple to work out, don’t click the box if you don’t want e-mail messages. You will need to put in a proper e-mail because it will send you a confirmation.
If anyone knows of any relatively safe livestreams, do feel free to share.
Oh and don’t forget this thing happening next week:
Foreign stuff
- Popular Schlag den Brig (#keepmay9thfree #imbackingbrig) tribute show Schlag den Star is back on Saturday night, we’ll have all the usual commentary.
- Has anyone watched the Netherlands’ celebrity escape room show The Big Escape yet? Requires the Dark Arts.
- If you’ve been wanting to see what French Millionaire At Home looks like, people have been uploading to Youtube. Looks like top prize is €300,000 (celebs are playing for medical charities). I have no idea what’s going on 6mins 30sec in here, but at least the host’s pets make appearances:
Show Discussion: Beat the Chasers
Weekdaily 27th-1st, 9pm,
ITV
Intriguingly stripped nightly quiz where a player can win thousands of pounds by taking on not just one but an entire team of Chasers.
As we understand it each player gets a five question cashbuilder, and then a choice of offers – play against more Chasers with a smaller headstart for more money. What follows is a chess clock quiz (which also works a bit like The Final Chase in reverse, here’s its the team of Chasers on the buzzers against a lone contestant). Outlast the team, win the money, and several contestants will get a go in each episode.
We have our misgivings with chess clock based quizzes (they’re rarely actually as exciting as they look on paper, winning is much more about opponent attrition than it is about being able to Do A Thing, so they’re very difficult to come back from if you fall behind), and the scheduling for this feels a bit… hopeful?
On the other hand, the Chasers and Bradley are assets, and you have to think this would be an easy sell to all the international territories that currently make their own version of The Chase if it works out here.
Let us know what you make of it in the comments.
The unexpected return of Quiz the Nation
We were very interested in technologically advanced (and way ahead of its time) but not quite clever enough pub quiz Quiz the Nation back in the day, and Bother’s Bar punters won thousands of pounds from it (as ever, everyone does well out of Bother’s Bar apart from me).
So I found this post on Facebook quite interesting:
Seems legit, whether this ends up being a launchpad for something I don’t know. First one’s tomorrow from 8pm.
Schlag den Brig 3 – Coming May 9th
If you missed the first two, happily there’s a playlist.