It’s Only Connect time!

By | January 5, 2012
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Do you want to be on Only Connect?

We’re looking for teams of three players who share a common passion, ability or profession, to pool their combined wits to solve fiendish conundrums and vexing puzzles.

To request an application please email onlyconnect@presentable.co.uk including a contact number. The closing date for applications is Tuesday 31st January 2012, so get them in as soon as possible.

If you applied for a previous series, but were unsuccessful, you are welcome to apply again for this new series. Auditions will be held in regional centres across the UK. All applicants must be aged 18+ and UK Residents.

Go go Bother’s Bar!

Don’t forget at 8pm it’s the UKGameshows.com Festive Fifty freeroll BotherSOP warm-up (featuring proper celebs), and at 9pm Celebrity Big Brother launches.

Poker Poker Shout Shout…

By | January 4, 2012
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Alright, just a reminder that the UKGameshows.com Festive Fifty (it’s still technically within the twelve days) will be happening Thursday (that’s tomorrow as I write this) at 8pm. It’s free to play, so don’t miss out as there’s a share of £50 to be won. You will need to join the club, and once I’ve approved you you need to register for the tournament. If you leave it until Thursday to join the club, I can’t guarantee I will be able to approve you until close to when the tournament starts, so don’t delay! And if that wasn’t enough, TOP CELEBS are signing up, and at least David Bodycombe will be playing tomorrow to defend his money.

Details on the exciting and FREE! Mix It Up Real Good championship will be forthcoming at the weekend.

Importantly, this Sunday is the first event of the Bother Series of Poker proper at 8pm. The cost is £5.50 to enter. Don’t miss it!

Finally thank you all for voting in our poll! We’ve already had almost as many votes total in these few days than we got in the entirety of last year. If you haven’t voted, don’t forget to do it before next Friday.

Finally finally: Dan Peake of Accumulate! fame did a Robert Miles/Countdown mash-up. And here it is! It works quite well until the end I think.

Countdown Mix

Edit: EXCLUSIVE from my chum @eviljobob – the head to head in Pointless next series is all new and exciting. “Head to Head – same scoring system (first to 2 wins) but a variety of questions within that… 1. Picture round – 5 pics of stage musicals, name them. 2. Clues to facts about a thing/person – name the facts… 3. Missing words – complete the quotation. Does that make sense?” – Good enough for now thanks Jo! Edit Edit: They get a choice of five categories in the final round as well, by the sounds.

Bob’s Full Bank Job

By | January 3, 2012
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You see, the reality of The Bank Job is, it’s “just” a competitive version of the Monkhouse Golden Card Game from Bob’s Full House, isn’t it?

http://youtu.be/81XC2hyLkHo

And they say there’s no original formats left.

Show Discussion: The Bank Job series 1

By | January 2, 2012
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10pm, Channel 4

Endemol’s bright new hope, The Bank Job hosted by George Lamb, begins this evening.

In it, contestants answer questions and pick vaults to try and earn as much money as they can, all the while making sure they leave enough time to get out of the vault before it shuts on them. All the daily winners come back for one final winner takes all game on Saturday night.

The online game was quite good fun and you will be able to play along with the online show this evening. But will it stand up to a full hours worth of viewing for six days (in fact the final is 90 minutes on Saturday)? And we have some reservations over George Lamb as choice of host, he didn’t seem quite comfortable doing the live links on The Million Pound Drop last month. Why not try and predict how often he’ll use the word “guys”?

Board of Excitement 1st January – 7th January 2012

By | January 1, 2012
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2012, there.

  • Fort Boyard: Ultimate Challenge – First British (sort of) episode in over eight years, and now with teenagers. If you missed it this morning, it’s repeated tomorrow at 5:00pm on CITV. New episodes 9am on Saturday mornings, repeated Mondays at 5pm. We saw the US broadcast and came to the conclusion it’s probably the best version of the show you’re going to do in 22 minutes, and the tournament structure helps the feeling that it’s not really all that exciting when one team goes into the end game with a massive advantage because it’s all about the long game.
  • World’s Strongest Man – The Final (8pm, Sunday, Five)
  • Perfection – Nick Knowles returns with the true or false quiz. (4:30pm, Weekdaily, BBC2)
  • Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is – This won’t get another billing, but when I was very ill last year I ended up watching quite a lot of it and enjoying it, so. (5:15pm, Weekdaily, BBC2)
  • Channel 4 Mash-Up Night –  To celebrate the channel’s 30th anniversary, er, in November, Channel 4 are doing a special event night where stars of C4 shows do different Channel 4 shows. Highlights from our perspective include Davina as a contestant on The Million Pound Drop (spread throughout the evening in typical C4 irritatingness) and 8 Out Of 10 Cats doing Countdown. (From 6:30pm Monday, C4)
  • Only Connect – The Stainer vs Stainer Champion of Champion of Champions smackdown we’ve all been waiting at least a year for.  (8:30pm, Monday, BBC4)
  • The Bank Job – Endemol’s newest hope – people answer questions and try and steal money from an apparent ACTUAL bank vault without being locked in it. The online game was fun, hopefully that will translate to the screen. Not sure about George Lamb though. (10pm weekdaily, 8:30pm Saturday, Channel 4)
  • Pointless – All new episodes! It’s so difficult to keep track. They’re filming a ton of new episodes from this week, and a new round is promised. (Weekdaily from Tuesday, 5:15pm, BBC1)
  • The Chase – New series, I think. (5pm, Weekdaily from Tuesday, ITV1)
  • Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? New Year’s Special – Featuring Richard Madeley and Sara Cox, Lee Mack and Stacey Solomon (can’t wait to see that) and Tom and Douggie from McFly. This one isn’t live. (9pm, Tuesday, ITV1)
  • The UKGameshows.com Festive Fifty – Why not come and play poker on Thursday for free, to win actual money? Fifty quid to be given away! All the details. (Thursday, 8pm, Pokerstars)
  • Celebrity Big Brother – 12 celebrities go into the house on Thursday night, and some of them will still be there in three week’s time. (9pm, Thursday, Five then variously every day on Five)
  • The Magicians – Well I didn’t think the first series was all that, but it was pulling good numbers and you can’t argue with success. This year Darren McMullen (from Minute To Win It) is the new host, and the show’s going LIVE! with lots of pre-records and a viewer vote. (6:35pm, Saturday, BBC1)
  • Take Me Out – No likey, no watchey. Now has its own ITV2 spin-off show. (7:30pm, Saturday, ITV2)
  • The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins – God knows? No, Nick Knowles! (7:50pm, Saturday, BBC1)
  • Celebrity Juice – I’ve just noticed this is getting late night repeats on ITV1. Is this new? Anyway apparently the one on next Saturday is the one with Ant and Dec on, and is not for the faint of heart or easily offended. (10:45pm, Saturday, ITV1)

Blimey, what a lot there. AND IT DOESN’T STOP THERE EITHER, we’ll be launching the Poll of 2011 later this evening. Can you wait? Well you’ll just have to.