24 Hour Game Show Marathon this weekend

By | May 12, 2014
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This weekend it’s the third annual 24 Hour Game Show Marathon, fronted by Cory Anotado, Bob Hagh and Christian Carrion, where they play home made versions of popular US and UK gameshows without sleep for 24 hours for charity, this year the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, at time of writing they’re a third of the way towards their $2,500 target and they haven’t even started yet (you can donate here).

If you haven’t watched their efforts the last few years, imagine Cory Anotado’s Game Show Gauntlet but writ large in a studio, and they play the whole games rather than bits of them.

The fun kicks off at midday Philadelphia time on Saturday, which is 5pm UK time, and should all be livestreamed unless something hilarious happens.

Nul Points

By | May 8, 2014
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Yes I know it’s a bit obviously Social Media which we don’t tend to promote, but this is actually properly quite fun (and it’s a quiet bit of the week) – Xander and Richard dressed up as the Pet Shop Boys, doing a song that heavily samples The Human League with some Pointless stabs built in.


The Pointless Eurovision Special is 6:20 on Saturday, BBC1.

General

By | May 8, 2014
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Have a place to post stuff that won’t fit anywhere else in this quiet period.

The Million Pound Drop is coming back, you know. I hope they’ve made their Final Drop a bit better.

A house built on Sand – it’s Eurovision 2014!

By | May 6, 2014
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eurovisionSemi-finals Tuesday and Thursday night 8pm (UK), BBC3 – The UK can vote only in Thursday’s semi.

Final Saturday night 8pm (UK) BBC1

Live streaming internationally on Eurovision.tv

BBC site

Once again it’s time to find out which opinion out of “it’s all a joke, LOL!” and “actually it’s a very serious competition and politics don’t come into play at all, ACTUALLY” is this year’s most tedious as the world’s biggest entertainment show rolls into Copenhagen – the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest!

It’s an entertainment spectacular, we say take away whatever you want from it. And if the voting is rubbish, well The X Factor is boring when Louis Walsh doesn’t put the joke acts through over people who are worthy but were never going to win.

This year the UK is represented by the up and coming Molly Smitten-Downes and her song Children of the Universe, which sounds quite modern but needed more of a hook I think.


If you listen to Brit papers, we’re one of the favourites. We’ll see how that works out.

This is basically the extent of Bother’s Bar’s coverage of the event this year – watching live is better handled with Twitter than here really, but if you have long form opinions during, before or after any of the events feel free to drop them off. Unfortunately for me I’m working through both semis, but at least watching the final with chums so might be able to contribute on Twitter myself. It will certainly be the first year in ages the songs on Saturday are going to be a complete surprise, which is quite exciting.