Fun Thing Found Found on Youtube Friday

By | October 29, 2010
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As we come to the end of Bother’s Bar’s Million Pound Drop Week Sponsored by Joe Who May Or May Not Be From Endemol, here’s a clip from the Russian show.

Basically they’ve got to the final question with 8m of the 10m Rouble (just over £160,000) left in play. WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN?

George and Larry Lamb play for charity this evening, and there are four more episodes on the following two Fridays and Saturdays.

Unbelievably poor questions of our time

By | October 28, 2010
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Well done, last night’s The Million Pound Drop:

“In which of these places did the sun set first today: Rekjavijk, Dubai or Rome?”

If the contestant ever has to guess the setter’s intentions than the question is really poor, and on live primetime TV this is just incredibly embarrassing. There is nothing to suggest whether this meant local time of the places or from the point of the UK. As David B has pointed out, “today” is a dangerous word to use when your show is on towards midnight and a question spans many different timezones.

Those contestants would be right to feel a bit aggreved, I think.

Round-up

By | October 26, 2010
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Yo.

You can continue to talk about Million Pound Drop in the previous post, but as I’m out of the loop, please have a chat here about things that people (i.e. me) might have missed. Ta.

Board of Excitement 24th-30th October

By | October 24, 2010
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  • The Cube: Sorry, this was actually on earlier.
  • The X Factor: It looked like Cheryl actually did some singing live this time round. Only 1:45 minutes next week, they’re clearly burning it off to get it over with. (Saturday, 8pm, ITV1)
  • Only Connect: Last of the first-round matches Alesmen vs Pool Sharks. Look out for amazing beards. On the pool sharks. (Monday, 8:30pm, BBC4)
  • The Million Pound Drop: You should find some sort of post for this pop up sometime tomorrow evening. At least from the trailer, it looks like they’ve made the trapdoors a bit bigger. (All week. 10pm, C4)
  • The Apprentice: Something something something, you’re fired. (Wednesday, 9pm, BBC1)
  • The Challenge – Cutthroat: Trashy, but genuinely tough. I thought last week’s elimination challenge, involving being on top of a giant die and trying to get it into an area with a specific number showing whilst not touching the ground was quite clever, at least until I saw the size of the goal area which took a lot of the brainteaser element out. (Wednesday, MTV US)

A good week for definite articles, there.

And once again, thank you all for your very kind words, hopefully normal more fun service will resume soon.