Quite a few things on tonight that are of interest:
- Ant and Dec’s Push the Button – it’s the last in the series (7:10pm, ITV1)
- Schlag den Raab – tonight half a million Euro all rests on throwing a ball into a cup that’s been strapped onto the top of the contestant’s heads. (7:15pm, ProSieben and hopefully naughty internet streaming)
- The National Lottery: Secret Fortune (7:30pm, BBC1)
- Live Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Mother’s Day Special – featuring Olly Murs, David Walliams and Patsy Palmer.
So here’s a post where you can talk about them all at cross purposes.
There’s also a two minute limit for each move.
Oddly, Alex broke the mirroring pattern.
She’s made it much more difficult for herself in using the smaller weight.
But Stefan blows it! That’ll teach him for using two hands!
48-18 Stefan, I think?
Raab blows it, but he always had the disadvantage.
We’re in the odd position in that it doesn’t really matter if Raab wins the next game or not.
One day I will have some Vodka Gorbachow.
Commercial, then I’m betting another musical performance after that.
So it looks like it’ll be automatic Matchball starting at game 13. In any case, Alex will have to win games 13, 14, and 15 to have a shot at winning. If Stefan takes 12 but Alex takes the rest, it’ll be a 60-60 tie, to hopefully be broken with a tense game of flick-the-coin-into-the-glass.
Brig, since you happened to see that game also, was there some sort of restriction in place where they had to stay on a certain half of the table, or all their pieces had to touch or something like that? I couldn’t help but feel like Stefan really should have gone to the other side on that last move, but something must have kept him from going there.
I don’t tbink there were any restrictions, but I’m not sure – I’m pretty sure Raab went to the other side of the table at one point.
Hm. Right then.
Game 12 – Sortieren. I’m guessing the put-the-items-in-order on the screen game.
Oh, this is interesting. They’re given eight names at the bottom, and one starting name. They have to pick an item off the bottom and say where to put it in the list in relation to what’s already there: Above the top item is 1, below the bottom item is X (which increases as the list grows). So while it starts off being just two choices, it’ll get up to 8 by the end of the round.
9 choices at the end, sorry. And a miss gives a point to the opponent and ends the list. First to six points.
Right I think they have to take it in turns to pick a name and put it somewhere on the list, mindful that it must fit in the order as it stands at the time.
I’m noting some of these lists down… 😀
Heh!
This is a good game. It also gets quite challenging quite quickly.
I’m trying to figure out, is there any strategy to this? Like, playing certain obvious ones to make it harder for the opponent later on? Or playing the obvious outliers (at the extreme ends of the list) to force more difficult internal choices?
A golf ball is bigger than a tennis ball? What?
This is me commenting on Alex’s wrong answer, by the way.
Are we watching different streams? I’m convinced you’re about 15 seconds ahead of me!
Possibly. I started out on the one linked here, but then switched to the xstreamx feed (it’s my default, really).
Wow, I can’t believe having played minigolf earlier she thought a golf ball was between a baseball and tennis ball in size.
Although you should know that regardless of minigolf really.
I believe it was measurement by weight.
I’ll need to check the tape but that would be a much more reasonable reason for the answer.
Stefan wins 6-0.
60-18 Stefan.
Matchball!
Game 13 is Bleistifte… Pencils? Throwing pencils to land on a table, I’m thinking?
It’s throw the pencil on the table!
I wouldn’t want these pencils afterwards, the graphite would be all broken!
I like how there’s also the possibility that they could knock each others’ pencils off, if they can throw it right.
IT IS ALL RIDING ON THE LAST PENCIL
OH SHE’S BLOWN IT
And Stefan Raab wins! Well don Stefan Raab.
Rather ironically, two of Alex’s pencils keep Stefan’s final pencil from falling off! Stefan wins 73-18. Good game, all.
And after One Moment in Time, it’s Jackass: The Movie. Because getting hit in the nuts transcends language barriers.
Signs are showing Challenge will be having Sky Poker on their channel as Richard Orford is back on Challenge with Sky Poker School.
Next edition of Schlag den Raab will be shown on Saturday 4th June. Slightly later than normal due to Eurovision.
Latest news from Paul Brassey is that Secret Fortune’s ratings are falling off a cliff. Down to only 4.1 million last night which is very poor.
It was only doing well for its first few episodes because it was a new programme which people didn’t know about and that it had a big inheritence. Now that people know how tedious the programme is and it has to pull in viewers on its own two feet, it can’t cope. The BBC recommissioned it too early, they should’ve wait a couple more episodes to see what a flop it’s turning out to be.
Sorry, 4.2m I meant.
JEEPERS H CRACKERS, JOE! SECRET FORTUNE IS NOT A FREAKING FLOP!!!!!!!! 😡 😡 🙄 🙄
Don’t forget, it has been picked up for a second series… 😉
I did expect viewing figures to dip last night, though.
7:30 seemed awfully early for a show of SF’s kind – maybe the Beeb feared that if they showed it later, it would get creamed by The Genuine Shambles That Is Live Millionaire?
And, of course, the £100k had been won the previous Saturday.
Also, last night’s contestants weren’t very good – the mother-in-law was a bit of a drama queen – and they got lucky in winning £4k…
I should have added there, any show that gets more than one series can’t really be considered a flop.
Therefore, Push The Button isn’t a flop either – even though it’s shit compared to SF. 😉
They did answer two questions correctly, out of eleven. I must admit the ratings have been declining from last week onwards. I wonder if the show would suit in a summer slot since I think that was the original plan.
As for your question on another thread. All Star Family Fortunes has been recomissioned for a sixth series. Vernon will once again be hosting and filming will take place in the summer.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! 👿 👿 👿 👿 👿 👿
DAMN YOU, MONKEYS!!!! 👿 👿 👿
Well, I jolly well hope viewing figures for the sixth series are even lower than they were for the fifth… 👿
All the LE ratings yesterday were down – not surprising as it’s mothers’ day weekend. Also, the ratings will slowly die as we head into summer.
SM may not be the most original format this year, but it’s solid, good to play along with and relatively nonsense-free. These days, that counts for a lot.
Push The Button also flopping too, with only 4.1 million.
Dire ratings. I think it’s been better than the previous series but the figures are very poor for a programme hosted by Ant and Dec.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, the one programme which used Million Pound Drop elements, did the best from yesterday’s gameshows with almost 5m.
I should clarify, actually. Secret Fortune also used Million Pound Drop elements but the execution from that show has been poor. Wild Rover must be very disappointed with those figures and it doesn’t bode well for the show’s hopes in the States.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire still doing good numbers 13 years on. I didn’t like the way they wasted so much time with the Mother’s Day rubbish, however.
Well I agree with you that Mother’s Day Live Millionaire was rubbish.
Considering the similarly awful Christmas edition as well, it doesn’t bode well for future editions, does it? Now that you can’t deny. 😉 😉
But why am I not surprised that you’re jumping up and down in delight just because viewing figures are falling for a show you obstinately refuse to see as anything else other than a complete rip-off of MPD and DOND? 🙄 🙄 🙄 😉 😉 😉
This might sound extreme, but I bet you’ll be happy too if Wild Rover suddenly go out of business or something like that…
Remember, though, Endemol would be completely wasting their time if they tried to sue WR. 😉
Pencil throwing for half a million Euros. Absolute genius. I wish I had half that creative ability.