A quick reminder, in BSOP off-weeks we have a championship for people to try out poker variants for no money, but with a glass-effect trophy at the end of it. Mix It Up Real Good returns this Sunday at 8pm and you’re more than welcome to come along and play and chat.
This week we’re playing the action packed No Limit Omaha Hi/Lo. Links to how to play all the games are provided on the MIURG page. Join us!
In other news, Five Minutes to a Fortune films in March.
OK, so Objective’s Reflex is an actual Thing That Is Happening, Broadcast reporting (note: behind paywall) that it’s going to be 6 episodes of 45 minutes length for Saturday nights, and the legend Shane Ritchie is going to host it.
FOTB Martyn went and saw the pilot in Mediacity last July and didn’t sound very impressed although it sounds like they have made some changes – now it’s two families of three battling it out for £20,000 for a start. The contestant call on UKGameshows.com suggests the games might be a little more involving although the Broadcast article suggests otherwise.
Commissioning exec Karl Warner says:
“Reflex will be the fastest game show on TV, bringing together state of the art technology and brilliant game design that BBC1 families will hopefully enjoy”
The fastest gameshow on TV, with three or four different tasks over 45 minutes strung out with endless super-slo-mo replays there.
Gut feeling is not good on this one. But you never know.
Right, so friend of the Bar VierkanteO (Twitter, excellent blog when he updates it etc.) spotted this earlier, a show called Money Time heading to Spain:
This looks rather a lot like Channel 4’s upcoming Five Minutes to a Fortune, does it not? I was under the impression 5MtaF would have non-quiz element tasks in it, although I may well be wrong.
Edit: Comments also discuss Israel’s Raid the Cage.
If this week’s episode of Fifty 50 isn’t the best yet, it’s certainly right up there featuring Lewis Murphy chatting with David Bodycombe and myself about the recent UKGameshows/Bother’s Bar Poll of the Year results! Find out what which result we frankly don’t agree with, and also a dissection of MIPCOM Format OF THE YEAR The Bank Job,and why everyone going “it was a good format though” is wrong.
Also features a tremendously exciting game of 21 Questions Wrong. Most exciting game yet, for my money.
Amazing.
In other news TV’s Hardest Working Man Alexander Armstrong is doing a pilot which sounds effectively like Celebrity Baulderdash. Films at Teddington on 5th February. Tickets SRO. You Couldn’t Make It Up.
Thanks.
Anyway, if you want to see Keith Lemon’s Through the Keyhole, they’re filming a pilot on Tuesday February 19th. Tickets via ApplauseStore.
The studio audience have a big part in the show as they give a helping hand by applauding every time the panel make a good guess, so make sure you get your hands ready!!!
*CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP*
Here’s a random game from Youtube. Who lives in a house loiike this?
Meanwhile 1001 Things You Should Know are looking for contestants for next series, deadline Feb 10th.
DON’T FORGET EVERYONE it’s the first event of the Bother Series of Poker 2013 this evening at 8pm. It’s open to anyone with $5.50 in their Pokerstars account. Come and join us.
Meanwhile German television sensation Wetten Dass? was on again last night and you can watch all the bets on the ZDF Mediathek. The highlights for me are “Gabelstapler” where two people armed only with a forklift truck attempt to flip coins onto one of the arms, then deposit them into a bottle, and the outstanding “Flaschen” where a blindfolded man attempts to determine exactly how much liquid is in Denzil Washington’s beer bottles simply by the tone created by popping his finger in and out of the top. Honestly, it’s incredible and quite rightly last night’s Wettkönig. Check it out.
Edit: or watch it here: