And so the show that we thought might have been a reboot of Survivor but isn’t begins, instead a UK version of a French flop where twelve people must build a 250m bridge within a time limit to a pontoon with £100,000 on it then decide amongst themselves who gets to keep it. This was actually filmed in a COVID bubble quite recently.
We can’t watch the first one live, but will watch on catch-up. Meanwhile you can leave your thoughts in a comment. If you want.
Barrier is obviously the most used game, being played a whopping 21 times. It felt like a *lot* more.
Meanwhile there are *forty* games that have only been played once, and a further 22 that have only been played twice. What a waste of effort!
The Bell Curve of Boring. It’s something that affects most if not all money ladder shows and has done even since Millionaire, and the force is strong in this one – over two thirds of the outcomes are on the middle three rungs. As the results get more predictable, it becomes far less entertaining to watch – everyone stops in the same place. TV needs to get a lot smarter going forward to combat this.
Great work Daniel. The Million Pound Cube starts next Saturday at 9pm.
And that means I’m *likely* to move Bother’s Bar Game Night from 9pm to 10pm to avoid clashing such a momentous event. More details in a few days.
Meanwhile, I’m going to run another community game of Among Us tomorrow (Sunday) from 9pm – just turn up in the Discord voice chat and play. It won’t be recorded.
Finally, I’m opening up the Stool Pigeon on Monday for your Autumn/Winter industry goss. Exciting!
I have to say, putting the Celeb Special up against Bother’s Bar’s Game Night 20: Champion of Champions 2020 is brave – expect it to put loads on in +7.
Various channels, Various times, But it mainly looks like first run on Comedy Central Mondays at 8pm and Channel 5 repeat Friday 10pm although apparently that’s only the first episode.The first ep is on tomorrow at 8pm on Comedy Central as well.
Slightly baffling Comedy Central commission that makes a bit more sense being repeated on other Viacom channels variously during the week.
Sara Pascoe invites Darren Herriott, Alan Davies and various other comics and celebs up to her massive attic to play various iterations of the Name Game, each answer being a clue to a mystery celebrity revealed at the end of the show. Comic John Kearns is the richardosman.
It’s *fine*, I’m just not sure who it’s *for*, not loose enough for Dave, not especially funny enough for a comedy channel – it made me chuckle but that’s about it, not must watch enough for terrestrial prime time – you could stick a civilian on each team, offer a cash prize and stick it on in daytime Win Lose or Draw style. It might have more legs there, actually.
Don’t just take my word it though, they’ve uploaded the first ep onto Youtube:
FOTB Ash The Bash is doing a charity stream of 500 Questions on Saturday, starting from midday UK, and finally gives us the answer to the question “does slightly rubbish format 500 Questions become better if it actually asks 500 questions?” Needless to say, I’m hoping to become the contestant around Q498.
