I’m actually putting this up here as a reminder for me to watch it after it was suggested to me last week, it looks like a Japanese brainpower quiz played by universities – this episode seems to be Oxford vs Tokyo and looks quite interesting and entertaining.
Youtube can translate auto-detected subtitles on the fly which may well be a feature worth turning on.
Here’s a suggestion that the format of the air rifle competition could be adapted into a gameshow.
I’ve just remarked that fencing is the The 21st Question of the sporting world i.e. because it’s complicated.
What have YOU noticed?
It’s The Olympics this week which will pretty much take up most of television over the next fortnight (the football starts tonight even though the opening ceremony isn’t until Friday) and I thought “wouldn’t it be great if I could illustrate this, right, with a clip of Rio from Gladiators playing Hang Tough hence rings like an allusion to the Olympic Rings?”
Unfortunately I couldn’t find a clip so here’s a video Keith Strachan uploaded from Talking Telephone Numbers (telephone rings, you see) with Emma Forbes and… Danny Baker?
Weekdays, 5pm,
ITV
It’s The Chase Summer Replacement time, this year ITV have come at it with a slightly different strategy opening with a show with the same host but with a different format in a clever bid to not haemorrhage viewers – and being supported by Tipping Point for the entire fortnight as well no less. There’s two weeks of this before Alphabetical with Jeff Stelling gets a two week run and somewhere there’s 20 episodes of Rebound to go out.
This show’s big gimmick is not quite entirely original but certainly different enough – six people compete in a quiz to accrue a large sum of money, the winning player then has to try and defeat the five losers in a quickfire quiz – win and they leave with their money (and everybody else leaves with nothing), lose and their bank is wiped out and everybody comes back to play the next day – the losing five having banks that rollover. This comment suggests a mediumfire quiz with a large vindictive element – quick precis: questions on the buzzer, right answer wins cash and knocks someone out, last one standing gets a question for a large bonus, repeat until quickfire final followed by The Final Chase.
Based on one of Bradley’s own ideas and produced by Bother’s Bar favourites Possessed, it will be interesting to see if works well in terms of individual episodes or whether it takes a few rollover games to really get going and if it does is that too long? The Question Jury has beaten it to the punch somewhat in this regard and to me that game isn’t strong enough to tune into day after day. This has got two weeks to prove itself – it’s doubtful it will increase on The Chase but if it can hang on to 1.5m+ by next Friday then it’s done comparatively well.
Watched it? Let us know what you thought in the comments.
Pleasingly, Rose d’Or and Bother’s Bar favourite Wild Things is returning for a third run.
If you and a partner would like to win £10,000, send wildthings@zodiakmedia.com an e-mail by 12th August. Good luck!
Dara O Briain’s Go 8-Bit, based on a popular comedy show by McNeil and Pamphlion, makes its television debut on Dave on the 5th September.
A brand new show on the highest difficulty setting: @daraobriain‘s #Go8Bit starts Monday 5th September on Dave pic.twitter.com/wC55IuEWXl
— Dave (@Join_Dave) July 28, 2016
We are very much looking forward to this, it’s basically comedians playing video games in front of a live audience, precisely the sort of low-ish key thing Dave does really quite well.
Meanwhile thanks to Buzzerblog for highlighting this:
Game shows like to have massive top prizes, millions of dollars. But what happens if they give too much away? https://t.co/MCuKRLMxNx
— NPR’s Planet Money (@planetmoney) July 27, 2016
I haven’t listened to it yet (it’s “in” my “queue”) but Planet Money is a hugely entertaining podcast about economics I’ve been listening to for ages and you probably should too.