Stay tuned

By | February 27, 2013
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Hello Punters, a quiet period. But we’ve got some exciting stuff lined up over the next few weeks, including having people at not one, not two, not three, NOT EVEN FIVE but *four* recordings lined up, including the new series of Pointless filming next week. What *is* the new endgame going to be like? By the sounds they’re backtracking a little on that. WE’LL SOON KNOW.

This Sunday at 8pm it’s out first double stacked double staked game of the BSOP season. $11 to play and very maybe a whole big bunch of money to be won. It’s open to anyone, so do join us.

Also it sounds like there’s a French version of amazing Italian show Avanti un Altro being pencilled in for France 2. Fingers crossed it will be excellent as French adaptations often are BUT this is crying out to be a Vincent Lagaf show on TF1. The Italian show is so good I fear adaptations will not translate its slick lowbrow charm. We’ll see though.

Meanwhile TVSProductions82 is our current fave YouTube channel. Look it’s got full episodes (two) of Concentration and everything.

Show Discussion: My Little Princess

By | February 25, 2013
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mlpMonday, 10pm
E4

We’ve been waiting for this for a little while, it’s a dating show meets Jackass and seems to have a high silliness quotient.

Potential suitors in a fairytale land try and impress a lady’s overprotective father through a number of physical stunts and tests, ending in a power ballad sing off to try and win her heart. It’s from one of the guys behind Banzai! We want it to be very good.

Unfortunately the first episode clashes with Black Mirror on C4 so we’ll probably be watching the premiere on +1. Still though.

Poker tonight 8pm

By | February 24, 2013
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Hello everyone, tonight we’re playing a free game of Stud as part of our Mix It Up Real Good poker series. Please come and join us, it’s free to play and ought to be fun.

Here is a basic crib sheet for the game, for those who haven’t played much stud before.

In other news My Little Princess starts on E4 tomorrow night, we will have a Show Discussion post for it, although we’re mildly annoyed it clashes with the third and final story of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror anthology so I’ll probably be watching it on +1. So there.

Ant and Dec’s SNT

By | February 22, 2013
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Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway is back tomorrow, or from the hushed tones of Twitter and internet forums, Ant and Dec’s Second Coming of Jesus Christ Super Fun Show. Good advert.

I am massively intrigued as to how it does. Sure, the original was good fun in a lowbrow Noel’s House Party way and I have no reason to believe the new series won’t be the same (although its appeal was hugely ephemerial, you probably can’t actually remember much of it). The difference is Ant and Dec’s (particularly Saturday Night) stock has fallen over the last few years, I’m a Celebrity and Britain’s Got Talent notwithstanding, what was the last show they did that was a proper bona fide hit?

Given that they apparently stopped doing SNT not because of the ratings (it was still doing OK!) but because they were bored of it, this feels like a bit of an admission of defeat.

If it doesn’t get 7-8m+ tomorrow, everyone will point out that it’s a bit of a failure. I think that’s a bit unfair, I think if it gets 6m everyone should be fairly pleased. It’d be their biggest Saturday night hit in years.

I hope it works out for them.

However, if they are not literally giving away the prizes advertised during the show itself, now Product Placement is a thing, someone ought to be sacked.