And it’s on BBC4 at 8:30 – it transfers to BBC2 in the Autumn to partner University Challenge. It will be interesting to see if the questions have a different sort of feel with a new editor, although many of the old question contributors are still on board.
Bother’s Bar’s SUPER SATURDAY
There’s a ton going on this Saturday, so use this as a general discussion post and use these links to get to the show discussions of your choice:
Schlag den Brig 2 – LIVE from 8pm! #sdb
Saturday 8pm (UK time),
Youtube and viewable RIGHT HERE.
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It’s time to choose a side.
We are too good to you. In January we provided four hours of live entertainment, the likes of which the Internet had never seen before – a hilarious low rent version of German event television show Schlag den Raab (Beat (the) Raab) played across Youtube on webcams with fun and inventive games from the devious mind of The Crystal Maze and Only Connect‘s David Bodycombe. Fifteen mystery challenges of mental agility, psychology, dexterity and skill bought to you LIVE. THE WORLD HAD NEVER SEEN SUCH A THING. On the night Dan got lucky.
Almost three months has passed and I’ve been in training. I will prove once and for all Dan was a bit lucky first time round.
This Saturday night we’re back BIGGER, BETTER and MORE INTERACTIVE – play along at home, and in some cases influence the results in some of the games (so try to watch live!). A fresh fifteen games await us and me and Dan have no idea what’s about to hit us (except for the two proper You Bet!-esque games we’ve filmed outside a fortnight ago and have had video packages put together by proper TV person Michelle Martin, god knows she didn’t have much to work with but by all accounts they apparently look great). The only other person who knows is our referee and commentator for the night Lewis Murphy.
HQ link to Snooker Golf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncen8L5GGrE
HQ link to Merken Mercedes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMlzGPPyslQ
Watched the show? Fill in the feedback form!
We’d love to hear your comments – comment on the Youtube stream (or preferred) Twitter with #sdb and we’ll read them out during quiet bits. Or Lewis will at any rate, we’re not allowed to access Twitter during the recording.
Anything could happen – it’s an unrehearsed live show with lots of chains of technology involved and two people who are winging it completely, please bear with us if something goes wrong, follow me, Dan, David and Lewis on Twitter for updates.
If you miss it you should be able to watch the stream afterwards, for most fun we recommend watching live. We got great viewers last time, we want to smash that this time!
Show Discussion: The Guess List
Saturday 9:30pm,
BBC1
Rob Brydon hosts a new quiz that’s a bit like Blankety Blank but without the format fee except not.
We don’t have an awful lot to go on, but it’s certainly a show with a bit of history – it was set to be Mrs Brown’s Celebrities, then when Brendan O’ Carroll decided it wasn’t in the brand’s interests to do it (although also suggested it was funny) it was reversioned with Rob Brydon to become Rob Brydon’s Celebrities, and now we have The Guess List. Tellyspy went and saw the pilot last August and said:
It was a bit like Blankety Blank. Two contestants answering questions, with five celebs (Gary Lineker, Hary Judd, Larry Lamb, Deborah Meaden, Sally Lindsay). One contestant then booted and the remaining plays for crap prizes like a breadmaker, chicken strimmer etc. Round one questions are like ‘In a survey, what is the most annoying thing on a plane…’ And in Round Two, the answers are numerical- celebrities answer and then an average is taken and the contestant has to decide whether its higher or lower. I.e how many arguments do the average couple have a week. It was funny and is a lot better than the BBC’s current Saturday night output. Would be very surprised if it wasn’t commissioned. The entire audience were in hysterics.
We’ll see if many other changes have been made.
Show Discussion: Amazing Greys
Saturday 8:30,
ITV
Amazing Greys is the show that pits young people against the elderly in a battle of the ages, each young person tries to beat two of the Amazing Greys out of three in order to earn themselves a £10,000 prize. But it won’t be easy, they might be past their best but these old people are experts in their field. Who will win, youth or experience?
We went and saw the pilot for this back last September where we thought it was alright, albeit nothing standout. They’ve made a couple of changes since then – most noticeably the brilliant Angela Rippon is on board as Paddy’s co-host, I suspect she’ll be cheerleading the Greys with Paddy backing the contestants. Secondly the classical architecture based set of the original has completely disappeared, now looking eerily like the set for the MIA Just 1 Thing filmed a few months previous if the advert is anything to go by (the logo’s changed as well). Finally they’ve made it a touch easier for the contestants – two out of three rather than three out of five, although if Popbitch is to be believed they’ve had to find other ways to help the contestants along because the Greys are too good.
The show hasn’t fared well abroad (in fact it’s been a bit of a failure) so it will be interesting to see if it shines with ITV’s polish. They’ve certainly given it the best possible chance with the Britain’s Got Talent lead-in.
What’s inside the ENVELOPES OF MYSTERY? #sdb
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TWO DAYS. TWO DAYS and we can find out what’s inside the envelopes, LIVE on Youtube. Click for a larger picture. It’s like Christmas all over again.
Remember YOU can come and help celebrate Bother’s Bar’s Tenth Birthday One Week Early by joining here LIVE for Schlag den Brig on Saturday from 8pm for hours and hours of LIVE entertainment. YOU will get the chance to influence one (and maybe more!) of the games. YOU HAVE REMOTE CONTROL OF MINE AND DAN’S FATES, BE KIND TO ME READERS, BE KIND. You might also want to keep a pen and some paper handy for games you can play along with, and you can tweet your results.
That’s not the only thing happening on Bother’s Bar’s Super Saturday, there will be show discussion posts for Amazing Greys and The Guess List although I’ll be watching them on catch-up. As should you!