I actually had no idea this was on, but it started on ITV2 this evening (it’s repeated at 00:40 if you’re up). It’s based on a Japanese show I think, celebrities try and keep a poker face as things happen, basically, and the other team try and work out who it’s happening to.
If you watch it on catch up do let us know what you thought.
[By the way, please keep voting in the exciting Poll of the Year 2012.]
Wednesday January 2nd 2013 represnts an exciting day in the world of television and the world of gameshows. Kids programmes now have their own seperate channels so the main networks are filling the afternoons with gameshows (and Flog It!). This is a good time for format developers who can make a good cheap show with a view to being the next Weakest Link, Deal or No Deal, Pointless, or The Chase.
The itinerary for tomorrow is as follows:
And if that wasn’t enough, Countdown returns to Channel 4 on Monday at 2:40, followed by a new show that finally seems to have settled on Face the Clock as a title (C4, 3:30pm) (Incidentally, an ironic title as facing a clock is precisely the one thing contestants won’t be doing. Anyway, it will get its own show discussion post). These next couple of months are going to be exciting and possibly brutal, it’s particularly interesting that none of BBC1s or ITVs shows share a junction – the hope is you’ll stick with the channel all afternoon. It’s actually a little bit like cycling, if you see Pointless and The Chase as the team leaders, Perfection and Tipping Point are the domestiques trying to get their riders to the finish line as quickly as possible. Something like that. We all understand cycling after London 2012.
WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN? And have they improved Tipping Point for series two? Nailbiting.
How exciting, voting season is full force and it’s time for you: the readers to determine your UKGameshows.com/Bother’s Bar Champions and Not Champions for the year 2012. The polls are open and will remain open until next Friday night. VOTE!
Edit: The mammoth Fifty 50 Show Review of the Year is now out. Download it and look at the show notes here, or download it directly.
If you, like me, are the sort of person who spends their New Year getting slowly drunk with friends and playing games and watching films and that, allow us to occupy ten minutes of your time with a game of New Year’s 21 Questions Wrong Hotseat!
Here is the set of 21 questions, they have been created especially, a few reference New Year. I think this set is slightly easier than the last set and you might want to reflect that in your time limits. A reminder of the rules and how it works is here.
If you want to play for real money you should let @danielpeake know as we will be recording our proper New Year Special probably over the next week. Maybe we’ll get a proper domestic version of Avanti un Altro in 2013. It can’t rate worse than Dale’s Great Getaway, etc.
In other news, the UKGameshows.com/Bother’s Bar Poll of 2012 will open on the 1st January.
Isn’t it the Dutch that have a word for that period between Christmas and New Year? Anyway it’s the Saturday of it, and it turns out there’s loads on. I’m not qute sure what my strategy for all of this is going to be yet.
Superstars 2012 – Haven’t decided if this is going to get a seperate post or not. Anyway it’s back for the nth time, but this time round they’ve got relevant sporting stars which is interesting. I wonder how much it would cost to get David Beckham in. (6:45pm, BBC1)Happy Bit Between Christmas And New Year everyone. Mr Chips is watching you sleep.
Just wait until you see him moving. Anyway, apparently this picture has been on Stephen Mulhern’s website for months. Catchphrase films in about a fortnight.