It’s PAT SHARP! (and Sinitta)

By | November 14, 2011
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Well, how exciting is the news this evening? Pat Sharp is set to enter I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here on Wednesday, alongside Sinitta.

We love Pat Sharp, obviously, and doubtlessly the best thing about being Pat Sharp is being able to dine out on a haircut he’s not actually had for about twenty years. And now it is likely he will be dining out on kangaroo testicles.

Although naturally it would have been even better if instead of Sinitta we got Melanie or Martina. OR, and how amazing would this be, they got Melanie and Martina in to count the bushtucker trial stars, and then shout YEEEEAAAAHHH!!!! at the end. We will be very disappointed if there is no Bushtucker trial version of Funhouse set-up.

Celebrity Only Connect

By | November 14, 2011
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I couldn’t be bothered with a Board of Excitement this week, but it seems fair to point out there’s a CELEBRITY Only Connect this evening in aid of Children in Need, featuring ‘The Great Believers’ (Nick Hornby, Dame Joan Bakewell, John Lloyd) vs ‘The Free Speechers’ (Ian Hislop, Simon Singh, John Sessions). A celebrity special where I’ve heard of all the celebrities, amazing. Whether Victoria Coren will wear a Pudsey-style spotty blindfold remains to be seen. And that’s on at 8:30pm on BBC4 tonight.

Vidiatehim

By | November 12, 2011
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I know what you’re wondering this Saturday: whatever happened to Games World Videator and host of TIGS Big Boy Barry? Well wonder no more! He’s head of global PR for Mad Catz videogame accessories, and he’s on Twitter. Altogether now: Amazing.

Paul Ross jigsaw news: only two people got all five answers right, David Bodycombe and a last minute late surge by Andrew Sullivan. I’ve gone to www.random.org and flipped a coin – Heads, David wins, Tails, Andrew wins. It is LITERALLY that exciting. It came up tails! Well done Andrew, your jigsaw will be in the post next week.

Who Wants To Win A Paul Ross Jigsaw TWO!

By | November 11, 2011
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Well after the massive success of the Twitter competition on Monday, it’s time at the Festival of Paul Ross draws to a close. But don’t cry! Because it’s going out with a bang, and a second Paul Ross jigsaw to be won, valued at (costing) £15!

The first competition was a test of your wit, this one is a test of your intellect. And your wit. Five ‘cryptic’ ‘clues’ and a prize draw stand between you and this marvellous jigsaw. Can you guess which five Paul Ross game-y formats these five things are hinting towards?

  1. The show that’s not averse to a bit of vice versa.
  2. Really.
  3. Apparently he earned £8,000 recording three series of this. Amazingly, it got three series.
  4. Absolutely everywhere!
  5. This time it’s us!

THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.

Thanks to everyone who entered the answers are:

  1. Jeopardy (he actually uses this in his opener)
  2. You Don’t Say (good use of italics to represent sarcasm there, thanks.)
  3. No Win No Fee (only two wins in 70 shows, I believe)
  4. All Over The Shop
  5. Endurance UK (surprised more people didn’t get this, this was the phrase he used to close each episode, and sometimes throughout it too. It’s Anybody’s Guess came up a lot – can anyone explain the logic?).

I’m too tired to sift through the results this evening, so find out who the winner is… early-afternoon Saturday!

INCREDIBLE JEOPARDY!

By | November 10, 2011
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Tonight’s foray into Paul Ross is a bit worthy, sorry. It’s a reprint of something I put up on Bother’s Bar v2.0 and hadn’t realised I hadn’t redone it for the new decade.

Basically it’s Paul Ross, David Young (then head of 12 Yard) and Kaye Adams chatting about jeopardy in gameshows from 1999 as part of a show called The Viewing Room. Difficult to believe this was done over 10 years ago.

The second Bother’s Bar Paul Ross jigsaw competition will be going up tomorrow. Don’t miss it!

Meanwhile Million Pound Drop playalong game won best media and entertainment at the BIMA Awards, so well done it. It returns next month.