The Line Up RETURNS

By | September 30, 2012
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Another week of not much exciting apparently happening. But don’t worry! Because tonight there’s a new episode of The Line Up, and it’s a PROPER CELEBRITY Special!

It will go up at 8pm. If you can’t wait until then, The Line Up page has been rejigged. You can also subscribe via iTunes, or your RSS collator of choice.

Here it is! I hope you enjoy it. The show notes can be found on this page here.

Also, Fifty 50 Show with Lewis Murphy now has its own page as well. I’m looking forward to the next episode of that.

THIS THURSDAY it’s the Bother’s Bar Big(gish) Game. Come and play poker and give me your money. Or perhaps I will have blown through my $100 in half an hour. Who knows?

Time Extend

By | September 25, 2012
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“Daytime Competition Show” (apparently) Countdown has been given another two years.

So that’s nice isn’t it?

ALSO! Episode 01 of The Line Up has been recorded, and it’s a PROPER CELEBRITY SPECIAL featuring Ian Symes from Big Brother’s Bit On The Side and long time friend of the Bar Tom Scott from Gadget Geeks. It is PROPERLY EXCITING, if you can get past my terrible hosting, featuring interesting questions and question arrangements, new beds and a new exciting catchphrase.

Ian’s doing a walk for Cancer Research on Saturday. You should bung him a few quid.

Fifty 50 Episode 1

By | September 23, 2012
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Join Lewis Ogbajoj, myself and David Howell for some gameshow discussion. This was a lot of fun to do, and Lewis is a great host, I hope you enjoy it:

Fifty 50 – Episode 1

SHOW NOTES EPISODE 1

Guests:

Nick Gates aka Brig Bother – http://twitter.com/BothersBar
David Howell – http://twitter.com/shinydh

Notes:

– This one was recorded on mp3 skype recorder – technical errors prevented the preferred recording method of everyone recording individual parts on audacity and me syncing them later. Hopefully subsequent episodes will be higher quality. That said, mp3 skype recorder didn’t do a bad job this time, primarily due to the call being mostly stable.

– Baggage is on 4od at http://bit.ly/SN4F15

– Pointless at SRO Audiences – http://www.sroaudiences.com/application.asp?show_id=788

– The Chase US pilot write-ups by myself and David – https://www.bothersbar.co.uk/?p=5723

– Schlag den Raab commentary by everyone – https://www.bothersbar.co.uk/?p=6257&cpage=1#comments

– Stand Out from the Crowd write-up by Nick – https://www.bothersbar.co.uk/?p=6255

– I realised long after recording that since there’s the £100 seeding the pot at the start, the maximum amount you can win on SOFTC by getting one question correct (and being very lucky) is £50,100, narrowly beating Secret Fortune in questions-to-cash ratio.

– Email is fifty50show@gmail.com and twitter is http://twitter.com/Fifty50show (my personal twitter is http://twitter.com/ogbajoj )

Board of Excitement 23rd-29th September 2012

By | September 23, 2012
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You hear that? That’s the sound of Christmas coming.

It’s also the sound of TWO! podcasts hopefully coming out in the next week.

First of all, Friend of the Bar Lewis Ogbajoj (as they’d have called him in Smash Hits) is producing a brand new gameshow discussion podcast called Fifty 50 (and you can follow it on Twitter @Fifty50Show) and I’m a guest on the very first episode (along with David Howell) where we discuss Baggage (cursorily), Saturday night’s Schlag den Raab and the pilot for Stand Out From The Crowd and some other things that I’ve forgotten. I had a lot of fun recording it and it should be going out tomorrow night. Lewis is a very good host.

And on Tuesday this week, fingers crossed, I’m recording a CELEBRITY edition of The Line Up, for going out on next Sunday night. This one features new and exciting beds, categories, and a joke at the end which in my head right now is extremely funny but will probably come across less funny when it comes to the recording.

I don’t tink in honesty there’s much else exciting this week. But I am still watching Avanti un Altro! on a nightly basis, so.