Board of Excitement 22nd-28th May 2010

By | May 22, 2011
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Well the world didn’t end. Might as well watch some telly:

  • The Bother Series of Poker Game 10 – or come along and play some poker. (8pm, Sunday, Full Tilt) – Results here.
  • Scream if You Know the Answer! – Rest assured I don’t believe this to be the greatest show in the universe but it’s fun and Summery and I think better than you’d expect from a digital channel, and therefore worth supporting. And I would totally want to be a contestant. Tonight’s match ups see Denise Van Outen vs Jason Gardner then an unlikely battle between Neil Morrisey and Edwina Currie. (7pm, Sunday, Watch)
  • The Amazing Race Australia – This surprised me last week by basically being the show you wish they’d make in the US these days. Worth a punt. (Monday, Australia)
  • Four Rooms – Well I say “excitement”, it’s a new show where people with things to sell take or refuse offers from four different dealers, knowing they can’t go back if they refuse an offer. (8pm, Tuesday, C4)

I was also going to list Impossible? here but it rated so badly it has been pulled from the schedules. Whilst I don’t think the show was by any means perfect, I thought it was well produced and deserving of more that it got. I think Escoffey might be a problem – he’s not initially as charming as Derren Brown (and charm is so important in this kind of thing), and indeed there is/was something of an irritating nerd being cool about him, a sort of Simon Amstell pre-good Popworld. But somewhere during episode two something clicked and I was quite enjoying his performance, the more of a devious bastard he became the more I enjoyed it. Therefore I hope the other four episodes get broadcast somewhere.

Edit: It’s also the BAFTAs tonight at 8pm on BBC1. Of interest: Come Dine With Me in the Features category and The Cube, have I Got News For You and The X Factor in Best Entertainment Programme.

The Master of the Genre

By | May 20, 2011
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Alright, nothing much seems to be doing, although beind the scenes it’s quite exciting as we’re hopefully doing an interview with some Wild Rover peeps soon (if you have any questions, let me know. No guarantees they’ll be used).

And look! No more than 18 months after me suggesting there should be an iThing Only Connect app lo and behold there’s one coming in August. It sounds like it’s going to be very similar to the Connecting Wall game on the website, except it will cost about £2 for 20 walls. I can’t help but think they might be undercutting themselves somewhere, especially when PuzzGrid works and is free and unlikely to run into copyright problems.

Anyway as it’s quiet I’ve been meaning to put this up for a while. It’s time to watch the master at work, Robert Kilroy-Silk hosting four-episodes-and-done Shafted.

There’s a part two as well with the actual prisoner’s dilemma element. It’s interesting to think this show bombed in 2004 2001, and just five eight years later was basically successful with extra shouting as Goldenballs. The half question thing actually turned up as one of the special possible conditions imposed on the evidentally not picked up Control recently.

Show Discussion: Compete For The Meat

By | May 19, 2011
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Just a quick heads-up as I’ve just discovered this starts this evening, Al Murray brings his pub landlord character to Dave with his very own quiz, let’s hops it’s a bit better than Fact Hunt.

I’m not expecting much, but it’s on 9pm on Dave if you fancy it.

Vote For This Love

By | May 18, 2011
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Look, you can vote in the 2011 TV Choice Awards if you want to. Things like The Million Pound Drop and Only Connect are votable for in one of the categories, as well as some shows which haven’t even aired yet so well done.

Don’t forget this Sunday is Round 10 of the internet’s most hilarious poker contest The BotherSOP. Details here, do join in even if you’ve not played in the competition before.

Some dates for your diary

By | May 16, 2011
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Buzzerblog have updated this afternoon with dates of forthcoming quite interesting US things of the sort we’re Very Much Interested In:

  • Wipeout returns for a sneak preview of the new season on June 21st (i.e. it’s an episode), then the season begins proper two days later on June 23rd, which is one of those baffling things that only happens in America. This is on ABC.
  • 101 Ways To Leave a Gameshow begins on ABC on June 21st after the Wipeout preview. I’m really looking forward to seeing the show that Endemol always wanted to make now it is free from the dictatorial constraints of the BBC.
  • Expedition Impossible follows Wipeout on Thursday June 23rd. This appears to be Mark Burnett’s Worldwide Adventure Racing EXTREME.
  • Take the Money and Run – law enforcement evading game codeveloped by Wild Rover of Secret Fortune fame begins on ABC on August 2nd.

Evidently The Million Dollar Drop proved so popular that Fox don’t want to air it as they feel it unfair on the other networks (joke idea nicked off of Lee and Herring).

Fingers crossed The Amazing Race Australia might be “available” from places this evening.

Board of Not Much Excitement 15th-21st May 2011

By | May 15, 2011
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To be honest not much this week, although I’m determined to watch an episode of Show Me the Monet before it finishes this week (weekdaily, 5:15pm, BBC2) and tonight’s celebs on Scream If You Know the Answer hosted by Eurovision FAILURE Duncan James are Louie Spence vs Tamsin Outhwaite (7pm) and Jack Osbourne vs Joanna Page (7:30pm, Sunday, Watch on Sky 109 and Virgin 124). It is another round of hilarious poker contest The BotherSOP next Sunday.

So in lieu of that, here’s something I hadn’t seen before that @keshikingdom alerted me to this morning: We all know Storm the Castle, the US pilot of Takeshi’s Castle I did a feature on years and years ago that I have just discovered I haven’t touched up for BB3.0 that will be sorted in a moment, but I was unaware of King of The Mountain, another go at it, that somebody has put  an episode up on Youtube of.

Incidentally, that feature on Storm the Castle is now up.