Well there’s my ‘in’, Tim Vine’s hosting Don’t Blow the Inheritance. It’s filming 7 episodes total at Television Centre Friday 20th- Sunday 22nd July. Tickets via Lost in TV.
Here is this week’s Top Tweet:
@BothersBar amazing how two words can completely improve your opinion of a format. turns out those words are Tim vine.
— Phil (@sphilsmith) June 27, 2012
Good selective use of capitalisation there, Phil.
You guys are so funny. Why do you love him so much?
‘Cause he’s funny.
(I’ve got all his DVDs, if you think I’m taking the piss.)
I’ll second that. I only have one of his DVDs (the one where he sets the Guinness World Record for the most jokes told in an hour), but he’s absolutely hilarious!
Only two – The one with the Deep: The Music Video special feature, and the one with the Deleted Scenes special feature.
But he’s an brilliant comedian, has a great screen presence, and seems to be able to handle both the entertaining and maintaining tension aspects of television presentation, even managing to wrangle some tension out of the end game of Fluke despite it being entirely luck based and on paper should have only worked as a joke rather than managing to have any tension at all, while still being a joke.
So this is taping the *day before* I fly into London. Please let them tape more. Pretty please.
So are y’all gonna go to the record then?
I’m intending to go to one of them, yes. I’m not saying which though, so they’ll ALL have to be professional and good 🙂
the selective Use of capitalisation was Probably due to tweeting On my phone.
as for tim vine, he’s just brilliant. i have never ever laughed more than seeing his live show, basically 90 minutes of non stop laughter. i still have my ‘pen behind the ear’ official pen somewhere.
The Winner Is… picked up by Canale5 with Gerry Scotti.
Cash Taxi returns to Italy, to be aired on La7 network. the last gameshow that network aired was 100% in 2001. we’ll see.
In years to come, people will look at how The Winner Is has sold and go ‘…what?’
“From the makers of international hit shows Deal or No Deal and The Voice… it’s DEAL OR NO DEAL AND THE VOICE IN ONE FORMAT!”
Isn’t that basically the entire pitch?
And I’ll admit that the theoretical idea sounds like, ahem, a winner to me. But I can also see that it’s an idea that can’t possibly be executed well.
I presume it’ll also end up as a BBC show seeing as apparently the whole reason they won the bidding war for The Voice over ITV was agreeing to air other Talpa shows as well. (I think I Love My Country is going to be one of those, which at least seems like it’s on-brand for the BBC in 2012. The Winner Is… – how’s that going to work? They’d have to bend their £100k prize cap just to make it halfway interesting, for a start, although there’s precedent for them doing so as an end-of-series prize with People’s Quiz, another “good idea gone horribly bad” if ever there was one.)
The rumor for BBUS (and this is a rumor, but the source is credible) is that the twist this year is “mentors”. Several previous contestants will be in the house working with the new players, but will have no direct impact on the game (they won’t play in competitions or vote- at least at first). They will pick a team of contestants and try to help them win- The winning mentor gets $100K (all the mentors will get at least $20K). Official information is supposed to start being released next Monday.