4:30pm Weekdays,
Channel 4
First there was the briefly popular Zynga app Draw Something, then about six months to a year later they filmed this new show based loosely on it, and now a year later it’s finally getting an airing. Channel 4 riding the zeitgeist as ever.
Still it’s got some good people behind it and at half an hour probably won’t outstay its welcome. There are some really good guests coming up on it as well (Terry Wogan! Tim Vine!), so we’ll see.
1:25pm Bank Holiday Monday, 2:15pm weekdays thereafter,
BBC1
Answer questions and try to work out the link between the answers. We liked it when it was called Connections with Sue Robbie in the eighties, but now famous actor Mark Williams (The Fast Show, Harry Potter, Prudential advert) will be offering teams cash money to do the same in a show apparently directly based on the board game Linkee. It’s an unusual 50 minute slot, we’ll see how it does.
Do you remember when Victoria Coren Mitchell won the EPT San Remo a few weeks ago and everyone was convinced it would start a new poker boom? Well JOIN that poker boom as tonight it’s BBMPO Sunday from 8pm! Join the fun from just $5.50 (one re-buy and one add-on also available). All the details are here, if you need to join the club make sure you do so early so I’ve got time to approve you. Good luck!
Saturday 7:15pm (UK),
Pro Sieben/Naughty internet streaming
After Schlag den Brig a few weeks ago, again, AGAIN the Germans have been inspired to do Schlag den Raab again, and this time there’s a €1.5m jackpot on offer if a plucky contestant can best German Megastar Stefan Raab over fifteen mystery events.
It’s also the last one before the sommerpause and it won’t be back until September, so get your fix whilst you can.
Musical guests are Lily Allen and Mando Diao, a Swedish rock band who are properly big before you’re all sarcastic about it, so think on.
Once again whoever’s around will be providing a commentary-which-is-slightly-useless-as-commentary-as-it’ll-be-on-a-delay-because-of-Youtube. We’ll also probably be discussing all the hot industry goss and doing quizzy things during the breaks, and we positively encourage you to join in on the hashtag #bbsdr. And we’ll probably start panicking a few minutes in when our live stream goes down. Which is always fun!
Here are all the links you need:
Our live commentary stream link is here! Join us!
This is the stream we will be watching live and basing our commentary on.That stream will probably go down at some point during the evening, here’s our first back-up one. If it all goes down, once we’ve finished panicking, we’ll put up links to streams we can find on here and on Twitter.
Follow us on Twitter for immediate news if something goes wrong. Or because we’re fun guys!!!! @bothersbar, @danielpeake, @ogbajoj, @davidjbodycombe.
OFFICIALLY it’s tomorrow, but according to hardcore statistician and long time friend of the Bar Mister Al it’s actually today on Tuesday because someone at Endemol can’t count and missed a show off. Either way it wouldn’t be the first show that fudged its numbers.
The point is, in many ways Deal or No Deal was the show that made this place, we saw its success coming and backed it with various now internet celebrities (many of whom now guest on Lewis Murphy’s Fifty50 Show in one form or another) providing live text commentaries and debate for those who couldn’t access a TV. I will never forget frantically F5-ing the first time the quarter-mill was in live play in the final two.
Unfortunately those commentaries have been lost into the old commenting system ether and the show whilst still entertaining doesn’t really surprise these days, Box 23 being a bit of a damp squib (with crushing predictability). Despite this, in the ideal world, the Deal team past and present should probably be responsible for making most of television.
It remains one of the most misunderstood shows on television – yes it’s a game of luck but it’s not a game *about* luck, it’s about living with the very real consequences of your decisions. That’s the appeal. Imagine all those people who said it wouldn’t make it past the initial order. Well done Noel.