In the landmark Fifty 50 episode 50, Lewis Murphy goes behind the scenes of his podcast and has a chat about Superstar Dogs.

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Also the Pointless app that Richard Osman said would never happen is in fact out RIGHT NOW for £1.49 on the iOS store. That’s the same price as The Chase, but is it as good? Find out in due course. Android version to follow.

Yeah, we’ve been doing that years before @midnight with Chris Hardwick. Anyway, as a public service now follows a list of shows and pilots in no particular order looking for contestants.

• The Guess List: Rob Brydon encourages celebrities to help civilians answer questions to win prizes. Get a move on, this closes tomorrow.
• I Know Best – Rhod Gilbert and a panel of celebrities attempt to fool an audience with stories. Whichever audience member does best wins – it’s that Liar reboot we’ve all been waiting for. Not for broadcast pilot records 27th February.
• Tuesday’s Child hypnotism game show – there has literally never been a worthwhile gameshow made out of hypnotism, but Tuesday’s Child are trying and this one at least promises fun physical and logical games. Auditions March 1st.
• The Link – Teams of two required to answer questions and find links between the answers, STV Production for the BBC. It’s that reboot of Connections we’ve all been etc etc. Closing date is Friday so get a move on.
• New Adventure Gameshow That May Or May Not Be Release The Hounds – groups of five friends between 18-28 required. Ignore the date on the site, applications extended to this coming Friday, and thank God for that as their photoshopping on Twitter has been a bit tedious. Incidentally German Release the Hounds on Pro Sieben next Saturday night #PROPERsaturdaynightentertainment.
• Break the Safe – Back for a second series despite everything. Apply now, closing date April 19th.
• Exciting BBC 2 quiz pilot – could be anything. Pairs required, apply now.
• Perfection – Closes March 6th.
• Pressure Pad – Closes April 14th.
• Only Connect – March 7th.
• Pointless – no closing date.
• Mastermind – no closing date.
• The 21st Question – Gethin Jones hosts a quiz for ITV where the last person standing after 20 questions faces a 21st question for up to £40,000. Details and applications, closing date 24th March (although auditions 7th/8th March so no clue how that’s going to work). Must be available for three consecutive days – interesting.
• The Chase – Casting for Series 8.
• Countdown – Permacasting.
• Deal or No Deal – Permacasting, I think.

Phew.

#PROPERsaturdaynightentertainment

Actually quite an interesting evening this evening, so here’s a run down of Things Likely To Be Of Interest To Bar Punters:

• 6:00 (ITV) – The Cube Celebrity Special – featuring David Haye and Kian Egan. The new series begins proper next week, this is going to be of interest because it’s likely we’ll see the swish new graphics and retwiddled sounds tonight which is awesomely exciting – the graphics for Reflex are pretty cool even if the show is dull as, and Foster/Bolam remain the best in the business right now. I imagine we’ll get some new games as well – and if you’ve got the The Cube app it was updated in the last few days with a new game.
• 6:15 (C4) – Superstar Dogs – as expected not really doing the business but not without merit.
• 6:15 (BBC1) – Pointless Celebrities – A repeat, but doubtless will be strong competition for The Cube. On previous form will probably beat it in fact, although The Cube still does decent demos.
• 7:00 (ITV) – Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway – The boys return, although it seems a bit less hyped than last year. I bet they still won’t be offering the prizes shown during its own ad break, but at least I’m a Celebrity Get Out Of My Ear is coming back as that was genuinely hilarious, tonight with Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford. Hopefully they’ve ditched the duff Supercomputer.
• 7:00 (BBC1) – The Voice UK – This has been doing well – 8.5m recently, although the buzz feels like it’s died down somewhat since opening week. I think with momentum and stronger lead-in The Voice will edge Ant and Dec in the overnights which would be a reversal of last year.
• 8:20 (ITV) – Take Me Out – last in the series.
• 8:30 (BBC1) – Who Dares Wins – Gaby Roslin’s doing the lottery draw. Hurrah!

Lots of interest tonight, intrigued to see how it all plays out.

A massive digest of shows looking for contestants will go up tomorrow morning.

It’s been almost a month since Schlag den Brig became THE internet sensation the world was talking about.

Well plans are afoot for a sequel of sorts which will hopefully be even bigger and more exciting. The question we’re wondering is who do you want to see competing? Here are our current options:

• Me vs Dan again.
• Me vs someone else.
• Dan vs someone else.
• Me or Dan vs someone else put to a viewer poll, like on telly. That would have to be done in advance as there would only be two sets of props.
• Two completely different people.

Obviously me and Dan are highly photogenic and we (well, I) have a good internet connection – that second part is rather crucial. We’re just putting feelers out there right now, any decision will be made later.