Hello Punters. I’ve had several people ask if I’m running Fantasy X Factor this year – I’m afraid the answer is no.
But fans of the Bother Christmas Bonus shouldn’t be too downhearted, I’m pencilling in another game of big money slow mental torture Word Up! for November.
I’m afraid I have no idea when the The Cube video game is actually out as every shop seems to have a different date. Edit: Funbox Interactive suggesting 9th November is the actual real date.
Bob’s Full House begins on Challenge on Saturday 13th at 8pm.
Wetten Dass…? with new host Markus Lanz begins on ZDF tomorrow night. It will be interesting to see what they’ve done with that.
There is already some information about the changes of Wetten, dass. The people, who perform the bets, will sit in a lounge in front of the chairs on which the celebrities will sit (yes, the couch is abandoned). Every celebrity will have to bet on every bet. When more than one celebrity is wrong with his estimation, they will have to chose, which one of them has to perform the punishment. There will be more bets than in the Gottschalk era and one “Lanz Challenge”, where Lanz is going to play one game against a member of the audience (who will be chosen randomly and can win something). On some occasions there will be a city bet again (this thing where they normally have to assemble people, who are dressed funny or something like that) and they will try to find more celebrities, who will perform a bet (just like David Garrett did last season). One thing that bothers me is their plan to show less music, but on the other hand, they’ve said, they will try to get less people like Lady Gaga and more people, who are just well known in Germany (J. Lo [i think] will be the only internationally known celebrity tonight). I think that’s it!
gameplay (n, Feb 1985) Your Sitdown Saturday reading: UK gaming magazines and the formation of gaming culture 1981-1995. Graeme Kirkpatrick reviews back issues of Computer and Video Games and Commodore User, and finds that somewhere around 1985, computer games stopped being chunks of code, and started being treated as entertainments in their own right. A distinct culture followed.
Stars Diving (the hit show in Holland based on TV Total Turmspringen) has been sold to Australia and to ABC is the US.
However, Banijay (the people who own the distribution rights to Brainpool’s catalogue of formats) are planning on suing Eyeworks (the people who made Stars Diving). Banijay claim that ‘Stars Diving’ heavily borrows elements from the German original and that Eyeworks are ripping off their format.
It will be interesting to see how this one turns out.
Just a heads up that Bother’s Bar’s favourite comedian Tim Vine is on the last in the series of Celebrity The Chase tonight at 6:55pm on ITV1.
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