I am tired.
- Million Dollar Mind Game – Last episode this week, so thanks to the guy who has been uploading it on to Youtube (one of the Videogamers, no less). This week it’s Jeopardy! megachampion Brad Rutter and team putting their logic to the test. (Sunday afternoon, ABC)
- Win Me Over – We’ve only just seen this, which is surprising as it films today. If you know anything about it then please fill us in. It sounds like some sort of quiz version of Dragons’ Den. (Sunday afternoon at BBC TV Centre, Tickets avaliable)
- The Cube (7pm, Sunday, ITV1)
- It’s a Knockout – returning to Australian screens today. Mistral really pushing the Intervilles format recently, this is basically the Aussie localised version of The Biggest Gameshow In The World, a format currently doing the rounds which is Jeux Sans Frontieres in everything but name, being filmed in Malaysia. It’s interesting because the UK was meant to be involved in this this year, but it doesn’t seem to have materialised.
- Only Connect – It’s the all-important 3rd/4th place play-off with the Listener crossword enthusiasts and the Trade Unionist. I wonder what tenuous links next years teams will have? (8:30, Monday, BBC4)
- The Exit List – New maze-based quiz with Matt Allwright films this week. Fingers crossed for a report. (Tuesday-Friday, Elstree, Tickets avaliable)
- Absolute Zero – This we’re very interested in and definitely can’t make, so if you go please let us know what it’s like. (Thursday night at BBC TV Centre, Tickets avaliable)
Other exciting news, we’ve been informed Alistair Divall has been putting up full episodes of Keynotes on Youtube. But no episodes of A Question of Sex, for some reason.
MDMG stream:
http://tvpc.tv/Channel.php?ChannelID=663
OK… there’s a huge “WTF??!!?!?” moment somewhere in this episode. Very interesting.
It’s a Knockout was the second highest watched show in Australia yesterday.
Rick Turk who did the theme tune also did the themes to a number of UK “hits”:
http://www.rickturk.com/uk-tv-themes.html
Here’s the old Aussie Knockout titles:
http://youtu.be/J5p5ddiJI44
And here are the new ones:
http://youtu.be/IY3vTUwu5zo
Like the graphics, not all that hot on the updated theme.
NAAAAAAA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA It’s A Knockout DAMACEEE-EEE-EEE-EEEE-EEEEEEEEEEEE
Iiiiiittttts Keynotes!!!!
Love Keynotes!
BRING BACK KEYNOTES!!!!
So from the few clips I’ve seen looks like It’s a Knockout is pretty much taking the Intervilles format Simply the Best used a few years ago for ITV. Looks pretty dated to me too.
In what feels like quite an empty arena as well.
Still it’s done well, only one of two shows to break the million last night. And the other one was the news.
Didn’t someone say that they taped this in Malaysia because they already had the set built there (sorta like Wipeout does many versions in Argentina)? That might explain the lack of an audience…
Seems to be just 4 teams all series too in a round robin format – and one of those teams is made up from their sponsors.
I’d expect the audience to fall in future weeks – the premiere obviously boosted by a nostalgia factor, but can’t really see why people would watch the same teams compete week after week.
But that’s sort of what the original was like, four states, three teams in each state, best performing team from each state goes to the final, with each state represented on each episode.
Having a sponsors team is… An interesting idea.
Arguably it could be compared to either the existence of the rolling “Home” team on that shaggy-dog-stories show with Bradley Walsh which was insufficiently memorable to implant its name in my memory, or to the way that (differing subsections of) the boy-band SMAP were a consistent regular team on BANG! BANG! BANG!, the Japanese version of Gladiators. (Less usefully, it could be compared to a doughnut.)
And now, on I’m a Celeb does Boyard, little played game Monochaise from 2007. But with jousting.
Also yesterday there was Bizutage on a bouncy castle.
Exciting thing…which I just found out about – CJ from Eggheads is currently live on BBC Radio Lancashire – listen live here – http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_lancashire – or listen again for 7 days at http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire
Because I can’t find a decent place to put this, the clock music for Japanese quiz Time Shock 21 is borderline disturbing.
And I bring bad news about Time Shock 21, the YouTube channel I put a link to has removed all the episodes 🙁
I’ll make up for that with 2 episodes of another quirky Japanese quiz – Quiz! Speed King.
From what I gather, the 4 players must amass as many points as they can in the first 2 rounds. The points they get turn into seconds in the final round where they go against the Speed King and must get 3 questions correct to beat him.
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v23898064DgAnQ5XW
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v233199142NwWs9aX
I’ve always loved the music for this show, both old and new. Thanks for posting a clean version!