Valentine’s Special

By | February 12, 2012
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This week’s Special Special Weekend Special (I know what you’re thinking, ‘proper content three weekends running? It will never last.’ Well you’re right.) is Let’s Get Married. Enjoy.

I’m hoping to be able to bring you weekend features on last year’s new Hub shows from the US (Game of Life, Scrabble Showdown and so on) in the near but not immediate future.

Notices 10th Feb 2012

By | February 10, 2012
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  • It’s Chris Moyles and Andi Peters playing LIVE! on The Million Pound Drop this evening from 9pm on Channel 4.
  • Bother’s Bar Sunday Night Poker this week is round three of variety poker odyssey Mix It Up Real Good, a ‘fun’ and FREE community game of Stud Hi/Lo at 8pm. Open to anyone regardless of ability or league ambition.
  • We’re hoping to have a feature on Dutch John de Mol format Let’s Get Married over the weekend. It’s basically a reversioning of Honeymoon Quiz/Love Letters/Traumhochzeit/Bob’s Your Uncle/The Shane Richie Experience/Love Me Do, but not apparently as successful.
  • And hey! Why not as we’re in the Valentine’s mood and as it’s largely very funny and it’s already been seen over a million times on Youtube watch how not to win a date on last Saturday’s Take Me Out. No likey…

Accumulate!

By | February 8, 2012
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NEWS, and it looks like Bother’s Bar favourite student quiz Accumulate! is back soon, and here’s a teaser trailer for it. Or I think that’s it, for some reason when I play it on my home computer it only shows a quarter of the screen. Anyway.

All new music and graphics have been promised.

In other news, if this is as good as it looks, it is going to be AMAZING (er, also contains spoilers so don’t look at the boards too carefully):

It’s Simon Mayo!

By | February 6, 2012
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Well it’s an unexpected one but actually quite a decent choice as he was good on Winning Lines and Confessions, but it looks like Simon Mayo will be hosting Blockbusters. Filming starts this week.

In other news, Alexander Armstrong’s Big Ask begins this evening at 9pm on Dave, it sounds like Series 6 of Pointless with the new head to head round begins next Monday, and it’s another De Mol Monday, and we’re talking about it here.

Notices 3rd Feb 2012

By | February 3, 2012
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  • Some quite good celebs lined up for The Million Pound Drop over the next fortnight, tonight Dermot O’ Leary and Fearne Cotton take on the dastardly drop (9pm), and next week Chris Moyles and Andi Peters play for charity.
  • This Sunday is BOTHERSOP Sunday, £5.50 entry hold ’em tournament. Previous weeks have been a lot of fun, you’re all invited to play regardless of ability or BotherSOP league standings. Details here.
  • Yesterday we wrote on Twitter that ITV are filming a pilot for a show called My Man Can in Germany (if you live in the Cologne area you can get tickets through Applause Store – filming is in a fortnight). It’s apparently been a hit in several countries but what what we’ve learnt is when the bumpf says “it’s been a hit” what it tends to actually mean is “it’s been broadcast”. This said, this does look like quite good fun and very much in the Beat the Star mould even if my gut feeling says poker chips are too fiddly for Saturday Night:

http://youtu.be/T4Omvd6fnH0