It’s the BotherSOP Grand Final

By | June 24, 2010
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Yes, that’s right punters, this Sunday night all this stuff will be given away:

Trophies! Medals! Money! The empty DVD sleeves and dust ARE NOT ON OFFER. And they’ll be going to the top three players of the season, after this Sunday night’s Superstack Grand Finale has been played out.

Even if you can’t win the championship, the Grand Final is open to any punter – the fee is $33 (that’s about £22), and they’ll be a decent amount of money flying round the table for people to grab onto. It starts at 8pm, it’s likely to go on a bit (2.5-3hrs by my reckoning), and you can find all the details on the BotherSOP page.

Meanwhile, The Poker Lounge, where amateurs take on five Full Tilt professionals in a tournament, began on Channel 4 on Tuesday night. It felt a bit rushed, in a way Late Night Poker doesn’t seem to suffer from.

I’ve just seen Downfall with Chris Jericho. I think it’s a good quiz and an enjoyable show and it manages that despite tripping over a few pitfalls that are going to stop it being truly great, which I’ll write about in more detail later.

Perfection

By | June 22, 2010
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I’ve had a lovely e-mail:

Hi Brig,

It’s Jellybean here. I wanted to invite anyone from the Bar to come and watch a record of Perfection, and I was hoping you could put up an anouncement rather than me writing it into a comment box and it potentially getting lost. The dates are July 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 12, 13, 14 and it’s being recorded at TLS [That’s The London Studios on the South Bank – Brig]. If anyone wants to come can they send me their name, details and the day they are free to attend to [redacted – Brig]. I will put them on the audience list and try to meet up with them to hear what they think of the show.

Anywho hope that’s alright,

Josephine

Obviously, Brig Bother cannot guarantee there won’t be an element of interrogation, possibly waterboarding, but I cannot help but think that “being willing to listen to people” is better than “not wanting to listen to people,” so if you’ve got a day free…

Don’t forget also, these same people also want to know what makes for a good gameshow, which is actually a difficult question to answer (otherwise everyone would already be doing it) so they’ve broken it down into a big questionaire.

Show(s) discussion: Wipeout and Downfall

By | June 22, 2010
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Well, it is the season premiere of Wipeout (although the first episode was three weeks ago. US telly is weird) and conveyor-belt quiz Downfall this evening. I’m probably not going to get the chance to watch them until later in the week, but here is somewhere you can have a chat about them.

Watching Telly: The Cube 2010

By | June 21, 2010
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Right, moderate Saturday night hit The Cube with Philip Schofield starts recording its second, extended series today with 10 episodes and two celebrity specials planned, apparently.

If you’re going (or if you’ve been if you read this later), please feel free to tell us about it – what’s different and what is good and bad. New games are planned, although if they were serious about there being about 60 games worked out last time then there must have been about 20-25 unused from series one so how “new” is new we won’t know.

Board of Excitement 20th-26th June 2010

By | June 20, 2010
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Let us tentatively peer into the week ahead, with some bonus commentary from Rob Bighter:

  • The Bother Series of Poker 2010: (8pm UK, Sunday, Full Tilt) It’s Game 11! The last chance to jostle for position ahead of the big Grand Final next weekend. But you can still play even if you can’t win the title, details on the BotherSOP page, and the discussion page for Game 11 is here.
  • Wipeout (Tuesday AND Thursday night, ABC): “This week there are two in a row/you’ll be bored of sweeper arms by Thursday’s show.”
  • Downfall (Tuesday, ABC): “It’s not the board game, that would be too elegant/it’s people and things on a conveyor belt with a quiz element.”

Otherwise Wimbledon and the World Cup is on, so don’t expect an awful lot.