If this week’s episode of Fifty 50 isn’t the best yet, it’s certainly right up there featuring Lewis Murphy chatting with David Bodycombe and myself about the recent UKGameshows/Bother’s Bar Poll of the Year results! Find out what which result we frankly don’t agree with, and also a dissection of MIPCOM Format OF THE YEAR The Bank Job,and why everyone going “it was a good format though” is wrong.

Also features a tremendously exciting game of 21 Questions Wrong. Most exciting game yet, for my money.

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Amazing.

In other news TV’s Hardest Working Man Alexander Armstrong is doing a pilot which sounds effectively like Celebrity Baulderdash. Films at Teddington on 5th February. Tickets SRO. You Couldn’t Make It Up.

Thanks.

Anyway, if you want to see Keith Lemon’s Through the Keyhole, they’re filming a pilot on Tuesday February 19th. Tickets via ApplauseStore.

The studio audience have a big part in the show as they give a helping hand by applauding every time the panel make a good guess, so make sure you get your hands ready!!!

*CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP*

Here’s a random game from Youtube. Who lives in a house loiike this?

Meanwhile 1001 Things You Should Know are looking for contestants for next series, deadline Feb 10th.

DON’T FORGET EVERYONE it’s the first event of the Bother Series of Poker 2013 this evening at 8pm. It’s open to anyone with $5.50 in their Pokerstars account. Come and join us.

Meanwhile German television sensation Wetten Dass? was on again last night and you can watch all the bets on the ZDF Mediathek. The highlights for me are “Gabelstapler” where two people armed only with a forklift truck attempt to flip coins onto one of the arms, then deposit them into a bottle, and the outstanding “Flaschen” where a blindfolded man attempts to determine exactly how much liquid is in Denzil Washington’s beer bottles simply by the tone created by popping his finger in and out of the top. Honestly, it’s incredible and quite rightly last night’s Wettkönig. Check it out.

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Our chums at TV Cream are reporting that Bob’s Full House hasn’t done all that well in the ratings (I did wonder) and that Challenge currently have no plans to buy more series. They are moving it to Fridays from the 22nd March.

In other news, Challenge have bought the rights to series one and two of Bullseye going out on Thursdays, 10pm from February 14th. Quite interested to see these, clips of the first series suggest there’s a few odd things going on.

Edit: We’ve had loads of people come here by searching for “do losing contestants get their money on Tipping Point?” The answer is: no they don’t. So now you know.

That’s right, The Bother Series of Poker and Mix It Up Real Good ARE BACK!!! for 2013. Come and put your card skills to the test for these magnificent prizes, and stake a claim in $175 bonus cash.

Game one of The BSOP is THIS SUNDAY at 8pm UK time. It will cost you $5.50 to play.

You will need to be a member of the Bother’s Bar Poker Club to play. Joining is free.

– If you don’t already have it, download the free PokerStars software from www.pokerstars.com

– Open the main poker lobby, then click on the Home Games tab

– Click the ‘Join a Poker Club’ button

– Enter my Club ID number: 466738

– Enter my Invitation Code: onlyconnect

I need to approve all new memberships so please don’t leave it until the last minute. Good luck everyone! Especially me.

Here we go then! Here as usual are the percentages of the top ten shows in the three main categories hidden under a cut. Needless to say, you are advised to read the report first as there will otherwise be spoilers ahead.

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