Weekdaily, 7pm, Sky Atlantic
They’re doing a big push for what is a pretty highbrow show on a premium channel, aren’t they? Perhaps they are hoping this will become the new Only Connect. Maybe it will be, because David Stainer features in the adverts.
As previously mentioned, someone did a recording report for us last November. It will be interesting to see what makes the edit.
Edit: Online game is quite good and gives quite a good taste of the sorts of questions used, I think.
What have we got to numb the pain of existence of this week?
OK. Once again I’m out on both Friday and Saturday night like some BLOODY interminable T4 presenter or something, so I shall remind you to keep discussion of this weekend’s The Bank Job episodes to the relevant post.
Also of interest this weekend the first of a primetime run of Pointless Celebrities, Saturday at 6:15 on BBC1. Then on Sunday we are playing a fun and free game of 2-7 Triple Draw, and you are welcome to join us.
We’re (I am a) modern and hip kids (kid) on Bother’s Bar, just like that Channel 4. So here’s a post about a show I bloody loved when growing up, Glücksrad aka Wheel of Fortune in German, possibly my favourite version of all time mainly because of the styling and crucially, Klaus-Peter Sattler’s music. The best bit about having satellite and cable as a 10 year old wasn’t the obvious stuff, it was the foreign channels and seeing the way our international friends made shows which basically forms one of the key backbones of the Bar. You don’t need to know the language, you can work things out with observation. A bit like life, really.
It’s all rather more homogenous these days which is a shame. But anyway.
The German show had a unique round (the Super-spiel) between the maingame and the winner’s bonus round. The three contestants worked as a team to solve a sort of crossword puzzle, they’d have 90 seconds to do it with each person being effective team captain for thirty seconds each. If they won, they split a progressive jackpot between them.
You will like it if you like words of exactly four and up to 13 letters in length.
But which version had the best clock music?
Is it this one? This was filmed in 1992 and is a charity edition with Angela Merkel. As it’s for charity it’s played by slightly different, cheaty rules but features extra comedy running around from Maren Gilzer:
Or is it this one, different studio but a reinterpreted version of the original tune (about 1:40) in?
Or is it in fact this one, an intriguing BACKWARDS version of the familiar tune? This game has a comedy ending.
http://youtu.be/-3guTOB9hzM
It’s the second one.
You can’t have Wayne Brady because he’s a) my choice and b) tied to CBS. This will be on Fox. And I will have decent money on it being… more dramatic than any other version of the show. Anyway, Buzzerblog broke the story.
I’m considering running a game of poker titled Shove Tuesday this evening (because it’s Pancake Day) – 500 chips, 3 minute blinds, £3.30 to enter (although I’m also considering a £1 speed rebuy), winner takes all. If anyone shows any interest in this at all, I’ll set it up for 9pm this evening when I get in from work.
You will need to be a member of the Bother’s Bar Home Game club, details on the BotherSOP page. Joining is free.
Edit: If this is going to happen, it’s going to be a £1 (about $1.60) rebuy (enter for £1.10, rebuys are optional – set yourself a limit, rebuy period will end at level 6 I think), 500 chips, 3 minute levels and 6-max tables to get the hands in. I intend to rebuy an unlimited (*) number of times to juice the pot, but I won’t be playing to lose. Yes. (*) Not legally binding.
Edit Edit: This is definitely happening, I will be setting it up about six-ish. Hope to see you there!
Edit Edit Edit: Just heard PS might have removed rebuy option from Home Games, in which case will go back to original plan. Will sort something out for this evening, the name is to good to pass up.
Edit Edit Edit Edit: Bloody hell, not only can I not offer rebuys, but the smallest chip stack is 1,000. Anyway you can now register for it, it remains winner take all with three minute levels and six-max tables. £3 + 30p to enter, or about $5.25.
EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT: Congratulations to INAUGRAL Shove Tuesday champion David J Bodycombe!