Because we haven’t done one of these yet, why not have a discussion post for Friday’s Schlag den Star? It’s on 7:15 UK time, and hopefully someone will pop-up with a live stream address.
Oh! It’s Million Pound Drop (The) this evening also.
Yeah, but it’s just luck isn’t it?
22nd November is when Deal or No Deal will be celebrating the fifth anniversary of the third week of it being on air – an unusual thing to celebrate by all accounts, but then DoND is that sort of a show. At least it isn’t calling itself “six in Big Brother years”.
Old faces are promised, as well as a hilarious VT and a twist which could add thousands of pounds. The idea that the show was ever as popular as it was was mainly because of Bother’s Bar is mysteriously being swept under the carpet.
I might go into the internet archive to see what exactly people were saying about the show five years ago (it’ll never last, that sort of thing). Does anyone have any favourite comments?
It turns out you CAN in fact get the Stauf these days.
Not strictly gameshow related, but something that may prove of interest, legendary sort-of-Crystal-Maze-in-a-haunted-house 90s PC game The 7th Guest is getting a release on iDevices next month. It was one of the first games to use full motion video, and is effectively Professor Layton fifteen-years ahead of Professor Layton, with added blood and horror.
What with You Don’t Know Jack making a resurgence (they’d better bring it out for the UK, is all I’m saying), we’re truly entering a golden age of videogames that are a little bit like gameshows sort of.
Remember, Remember the First of November
Well here’s something to do, in honour of Bar Best Friend Joe From Endemol (I’d love to find out who he really is, if anyone), two old features on the sorts of successful formats that really only Endemol can produce:
- Tutto x Tutto (actually kidding aside, it was a minor success in Italy)
- Set for Life
And you can also read my EXCLUSIVE write-ups of the British pilots of both of these formats I went to in August 2006, three-quarters of the way down, including, of course, the hilarious Dale Winton having a strop story.
What putting these up here reminds me to do is to ask the question: where’s Dick de Rijk these days? I’m aware he left Endemol to make shows on his own, although I can’t think of anything he’s been involved with since. Although Deal or No Deal probably means he never has to work again, but anyway.
Board of Excitement: 31st October – 6th November 2010
- Deal or No Deal – it’s actually the show’s fifth birthday today, although they’re not celebrating it until towards the end of November because of Halloween. (4:40pm, Sunday, C4)
- The Cube (7pm, Sunday, ITV1)
- The X Factor (8pm, Sunday, ITV1)
- Only Connect – first quarter-final, Epicurieans vs Bridge Players (8pm, Monday, BBC4)
- The Apprentice (9pm, Wednesday, BBC1)
- The Challenge: Cutthroat (Wednesday, MTV US)
- The Million Pound Drop – Live – eighty minutes each (10pm Friday and Saturday, C4)
- Schlag den Star – hopefully someone will pop up with a link to watch a live stream nearer the time. (7:15pm, Friday, Pro Sieben/the internet)
It’s Tenball for the 21st Century
ITV4 currently showing the inaugural Powersnooker tournament.
To be honest, for something meant to be fast paced and appealing to the youth, half an hour hasn’t dragged so much for a long time.