IT’S THE RESULTS! Other than not working out how to embed Youtube videos, which is a pity. We’ve gone even more commenty than normal this year.
Percentages under the cut, so as not to spoil:
Board of Excitement 15th – 21st January 2012
Notable things this week:
- Mix It Up Real Good Stage 1 – The first round of our free non-hold ’em contest is tonight at 8pm. Do join in, it won’t cost you anything. Tonight Omaha Hi/Lo is on the menu. You will need to be a member of the Bother’s Bar poker club to play. (8pm, Sunday, Pokerstars)
- The POLL of 2011 RESULTS! Will go up on Monday night. Hopefully. The Golden Five this year was particularly excitng.
- Fort Boyard: Ultimate Challenge – Series two goes out on Disney XD in the US from Monday, which is interesting as it was suggested CITV would get to show series two first. Series 1 on CITV can of course be found at 9am on Saturdays, repeated 5pm on Mondays.
- Playing it Straight – Well this didn’t do very well up against Celebrity Big Brother. Show discussion. (9pm, Monday, E4)
- The Exit List – Surprised everyone liked it as much as they did, I’ll be interested to see if you still all love it at the end of the series. Show discussion. (8pm, Tuesday, ITV1)
Er, I think that’s it really. Although it sounds like episode two of Wie Is De Mol? is almost ready for english language consumption.
Edit: I knew I missed something out, Gadget Geeks, starring Friend Of The Bar Tom Scott amongst others, begins on Sky 1 at 8pm.
Been there done that
The new series of The Million Pound Drop feels a bit like an extension of the previous one, so I’ve modified the last MPD discussion post and would suggest you direct your attention over there.
Poll
Forget the World Cup of Chocolate, here’s a reminder that the POLL of 2011 closes tomorrow (i.e. Friday) night at 11pm. If you haven’t done it already, don’t forget to vote!
Meanwhile, this is the quite good Blockbusters logo (although the bits at the end of the C and Ss look a little odd). You can get tickets here.
Show Discussion: The Exit List
8pm, ITV1
Matt Allwright challenges teams of two to enter a 26-room pyramid answering questions in each room for increasing amounts of money – £100,000 if they’re very lucky. But to keep the money the contestants must escape the maze by remembering every answer and their route.
I have been to a recording, I think is it quite a lot better than High Stakes that was in the slot previously, although I don’t think you’re going to see a lot of big winners (it’s the sort of end game where people are going to get stuck quite often towards the end), and I hope escaping the maze looks a bit more visually interesting on telly than it did from the audience.
Please leave your thoughts.
Playing it Straight
I am quite pleased this is back, although the first ten minutes did feel like a tribute act to the original UK series (there’s now a pair of troubadours). Is there really any need to show nudity in the pre-titles? Blimey, time and place. Alan Carr is quite a good fit for the voiceover replacing Alan Cumming, although as a show certainly the opener lacked some of the subtlety (and it wasn’t a hugely subtle show originally) of the original, a bit less Carry On and a bit more full on.
This said, I did get into it quite quickly.
Here is a fun interview I did with one of the original producers Peter Davey about five years ago. It is produced by different people now, although it is the same production company.
As a reality show with a fair amount of play along at home value, I’ve put my initial guesses under the cut. Green for right, red for wrong!