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Fifteen to One
The Mirror is reporting that 15 to 1 is going to have a one-off come back with Adam Hills hosting.
I’m not going to pretend I’m excited by the prospect, but I understand a decently large group of people probably are, so knock yourselves out.
Edit: Meanwhile, Tim Child talking about the extended version of the Geek Week Knightmare soon to be released. One of the interesting questions for me was if it did make a full time comeback, how would it get round the issue of commercial breaks? We’ve previously established it wouldn’t be for kids television, and it’s more likely to be 45-60 minutes. I’m not sure I like the idea of a bell going off every twelve minutes, temporal disruption should mean finality, but how do you do it without being too cheesy? Just fade to commercial after a room and don’t mention it?
New thrills
So a few new things that have come to light in the last few days.
First of all, TV’s David J Bodycombe has a new blog about techniques used to win games called Playcheatwin. The first post is about how to win at Rock Paper Scissors, take a look.
Secondly I discovered Cory Anotado’s Game Show Gauntlet on Sunday night, a live show via Google Hangouts where two people compete playing mini versions of US and UK gameshows past and present, and whilst the idea of “mini versions of gameshows” might make it sound a bit light, they’re actually thoughtfully chosen so that the essence comes through very well. It’s all done in a very loose style (i.e. there’s drinking and swearing), but it’s a really fun idea, and the graphics are really well done. If I had criticisms it’s that minigame fatigue tends to set in and you hope they come up with even more ideas, also it’s a shame there are no real head to head moments, and at first to $5k it can go on a bit, but these are all fixable elements (in fact fixing point two would likely fix point three) and there have only been four episodes so far. As it is it’s definitely worth a watch, so here’s the first one I saw which is episode three featuring Buzzerblog‘s Alex Davis and The Chase USA researcher Stad St Fleur. Associate Bob Hagh also has a role to play, AS YOU WILL SEE.
The shows go out live on Sunday nights UK time on Youtube so check Cory’s Twitter for details. The other three eps are on Youtube, Ep2 is the weakest mainly because you can’t hear the host very well.
Finally, as well as the standard Wie is De Mol? in the Netherlands next year, they’re doing another junior series.
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Hello just a quick thing – I updated WordPress’ Jetpack late last night, it went a bit wrong but after a mild panic it looks like we’re back in business. If you see anything acting oddly at The Bar, please do let me know so I can investigate. Ta.
Fifty Fifty 36
In the LANDMARK 36th edition of Lewis Murphy’s Fifty 50 Show, Lewis talks to himself about the latest gameshow news.
There you go, and now you can use this as a handy general post you can talk about Deal or No Deal or whatever in the comments.
Schlag den Star – 10th August – #bbsdstar
Saturday Night, 19:15 UK (20:15 local)
Pro Sieben or Naughty Internet Streaming
Tweet the team: #bbsdstar
No picture today as I don’t want to push That Puppet Game Show too far down the page. Anyway tonight is the last Schlag den Star of the series and a member of the public will be going up against the very singer and actor Tom Beck in a series of games for €200,000. Once again there will be commentary of some sort.
Here’s the stream the commentary team will be using to commentate on.
The link to the live (and thanks to technology slightly delayed) commentary will appear early in the comments. You will also be able to find it by searching for #bbsdstar on Twitter, or following Lewis Murphy.