(Er, fast forward to 5m 30secs) I do hope that the 79% are right!
We’ll find out the result over the next 33 days and one of you will be a winner, right now it’s around £320k/£500k but it is slowing down a bit.
Win £20 with Crowdfunding You Bet!
So yesterday I had a brilliant idea on Twitter, basically somebody should do a new version of You Bet but with people betting on whether something that’s gone to crowdfunding would make their target or not. Each project would have a celebrity backer and if it didn’t hit the target they’d have to do some sort of mildly humiliating comedy forfeit, meanwhile the audience at home could vote and whoever was correct could win some sort of prize. As a stretch goal we could get Darren Day.
Anyway what better way to explore this proof of concept than with our very own pilot! We’re not having a celebrity backer but otherwise everything is the same – will our nominated crowdfunded project hit its target within its time limit?
As pointed out with lots of crowdfunding projects they will start off with an initial splurge of excitement and gradually slow down to a trickle with time.
36 hours into its drive the Crystal Maze Live Experience it has 40% of its total and has 34 days left to find the other £300,000 required. At that speed it will smash its target, but the question is… will it? They will get all monies donated regardless.
BETTING HAS ENDED.
Only one guess per punter and I reserve the right to exclude dodgy looking votes, my decision is final. One person who picked the correct answer will be picked at random will win £20. If the funding campaign is cancelled at any point before reaching the target that counts as a “no”. If you live outside the UK you must be able to accept PayPal. I can change the rules at any time blah blah blah blah.
Get your skates on, because BETTING ENDS Tuesday evening at 10pm (that’s tomorrow as I write this). Good luck!
Meanwhile our chums at What3Words could do with some help in winning some money off of Richard Branson and if you help you can take part in a quiz to win some prizes.
Ta-ra!
Crystal Maze IndieGoGo-Go
Everybody loves a rolling totaliser and here at Bother’s Bar we’re no exception.
As you’ve doubtlessly gathered by now there are a group of people who want to put together a Live Immersive The Crystal Maze Experience in London – don’t just watch it, play it! Not just any people, people behind Secret Cinema and popular exit games and they’ve even got Richard O’ Brien and Malcolm Heyworth on board as consultants (that’s when I really took notice). But they need money (although they’ve also said there are private investors interested if they don’t reach the goal). The intention is to guarantee three months and then keep it going as long as there is interest. Anyway you can click on the thing above for lots more details.
I was not a believer but there appears to be enough will to make it happen.
Anyway I don’t like to just regurgitate official releases without adding value, six years ago there was an attempt at a student Crystal Maze musical, and I went to see it, you can read about it in The Archive.
Show Discussion: Prized Apart
Saturdays, 7pm,
BBC1
Well this has had a slightly more interesting development than most but this week the BBC’s big new shiny expensive new Saturday night hope finally gets off the ground.
On paper it sounds like Exactly The Sort Of Thing We Like – ten couples vie for a £100,000 prize, one half of each couple spends up to the next six weeks completing exciting adventure challenges in Morocco with Reggie Yates to stay in the game, the worst performing three fly back to Farnborough where their partners compete in a quiz with Emma Willis to avoid elimination, the winners head straight back to the adventure on a plane out back.
The competition’s been done in real time (so every Saturday evening), but it’s not live which strikes me as crazy and having seen an episode being recorded in the studio, largely suspect it worked better on paper than it does on screen. However they’ve had four months to edit it, and I do want to like it, so keep an open mind. I do like the logo.
Fort Boyard’s back on France 2 on 27th June
Fire up your VPNs! Fort Boyard returns to France 2 for season 26 on June 27th at 1950 UK time (it strikes me as slightly odd that a show with such a large junior following won’t finish until gone 2300 local time, but there we are). It will inevitably be quite exciting and almost certainly a bit disappointing, we’ll “do” a page for discussion of it in due course.
At the very least it looks like the basement’s going to be in full use again, the new dolls house setting for the original spiders and scorpions game looks creepy and incredible and has moved down there. We also await the wonders of The Cage and the new entry system.
No carbohydrates before Marbohydrates
Now you’d probably never guess but I’m not really a TOWIE watcher, although I have totes picked up on some of the lingo over the years by osmosis, but my Mum is a big fan and it’s clearly with that 50+ female demographic in mind ITV2 have decided to relaunch the hysterically awful Non-Celebrity Celebrity Love Island last night, the show nobody wanted ten years ago and still seemingly the show nobody wanted going by last night’s viewing figures.
It started with Caroline Flack getting on the phone to apparently all her sexy singleton mates in a VT that’s either deliberately cheesey or just a hilariously rubbish idea in the first place. Then we met the guys! And they all look practically identical, and all their names start with the fashionable letter J (there’s Josh, Jordan, Jonathan, Jeremiah, Jeffrey and Lee who’s the thick funny one). After some top lad banter we get to meet the women in a sort of reversal of Take Me Out. To be fair the females seem to be a bit deeper than the men, or at least you can tell them apart.
And then there was no full frontal nudity or graphic sex making the whole 90 minutes basically a waste of time for everybody, then they threw in two Italian guys with Northern accents who, amazingly, not only look like the other six guys but are actually identical twins.
Anyway it was basically rubbish but I did end up watching it all so there’s that. In six week’s time one of the couples will win £50,000 and you can vote for free for everything with the official app. Meanwhile we’re working on a format that mixes Love Island, First Dates and The Undateables called Awkward Archipelago – if any TV types are reading call me.
In other news a friend of mine saw Keep It In The Family being recorded in Elstree yesterday. He had a great time and suggested the end game had been tweaked a bit – there are only four gifts, and Bradley’s got his own box (it’s Wheel of Fortune all over again). I don’t know the specific details but I’m sure the excitement will be palpable when it returns to ITV soon.