Dear Andrew O’ Connor or whoever,
Please send us the entire soundtrack of The Cube and then I promise never to suggest we are bored of you playing SODDING, SODDING, SODDING BARRIER every week ever again.
Love you!
Brig x
Show Discussion: The Cube Series Four
7pm, ITV1
The fourth series of The Cube begins this evening featuring brand new games but the same old cube. It seems the show has been successful enough that it’s now being parodied quite regularly, not only in Shooting Stars, but The Impressions Show on BBC1 did a take off of it last week as well.
It will be especially interesting to see the numbers – it floundered a bit in the Spring when stuck on its own in the schedules but as a lead in to The X Factor last year it was getting 5-6 million. Being scheduled around The X Factor is no guarantee of success as Holding Out For a Hero has shown, and not only is Countryfile currently performing very well but it will also have Strictly to contend with.
Show Discussion: The Chase (Celebrity Episodes)
6pm, ITV1
Well it’s got a live studio audience and it’s got celebrities playing for charity. But does it work in early primetime Saturday night? Have a chat about it here.
International King of Sprouts
Well here’s some fun, there’s been some discussion recently on Twitter between myself, @davidjbodycombe and @richardosman about which sport has the best format and would therefore could have its theories adapted to make for a good gameshow (Richard believes it to be darts, I have come to the conclusion that it’s actually the amazing bar billiards). In the midst of all this, International King of Sports gets mentioned, and in particular ‘Association Bobbage’ actually has an entry in the Guinness Book of Records 2012 – Laszlo Fazekas (either “The Human Dolphin” or “The Professor” (because he wears glasses) depending on who you talk to) which stands at 2m 40. Association Bobbage, if you can’t remember, is where you jump into water from as high as height as possible without your head going under (whilst wearing flippers if I remember correctly).
Here’s episode one of International King of Sports, although it doesn’t feature Association Bobbage, regrettably:
In other news, friend of the Bar David B is working on a pilot for Cloned (a show I heard about a while ago and didn’t think that much of, but has presumably developed in the interim). They’re looking for teams of four to be contestants for the pilot show.
Sweet Dreams
If you’ve been following, it sounds like X Factor act Rhythmix are going to change their name to avoid confusion with a children’s charity of the same name.
Fantasy X Factor managers will not need to do anything, I’ll adapt the team sheets automatically this weekend.
In other news, the ever reliable @tvscoops has suggested ITV have picked up The Exit List for seven episodes next year, and it’s being described as Raiders-Of-The-Lost-Ark-esque. I hope they’ve made it a bit more interesting than other descriptions of it have made it sound. Matt Allwright (off of Rogue Traders) set to host.
Iiiiin two!
I’m going to put up a follow-up press release from Andrew Wood, but if he feels like advertising some more he can use the comments like everybody else:
The two contestants through to through end game on Bullseye now have the choice of 3 options.
The 1st option is that they can take all the money and prizes they have won on the show and leave the show if they so chose. If this happens, and it has happen many times, the host invites the highest scoring runners up the same option. If they too decide not to gamble and keep all the money they won the host invites the lowest scoring team of contestants that were dead and buried 20 minutes earlier having not won much money, if they would like gamble their winnings and try and win Bully’s Mystery Star Prize. We never had a refusal and some won Bully’s Mystery Star Prize. A new car or a luxury holiday for 4 people. I always loved that when it happened.
Option 2 is Bully’s Mystery Star Prize. To win this the contestants had to score 101 or more with 6 darts, 3 darts for each contestant. If they scored 101 or more the won the lot. They kept all of the cash and prizes they won on the show and Bully’s Mystery Star Prize. If they failed to score 101 or more they lost the lot and all they was their (BFH) Bus Fair Home.
Option 3 is Bully’s Million Dollar Jackpot.
The contestants have the option of trying to win, Bully’s Million Dollar
Jackpot. To win Bully’s Million Dollar Jackpot they risk losing all that they have won on the show, all the money and all the prizes. The team must score 401 or more with 9 darts. The enormity of the challenge is matched by the enormity of the prize. The maximum that can be scored with 9 darts is 540.To Win‘Bully’s Million Dollar Jackpot’, the team must score 401 or more with nine darts. The dart-playing contestant throws the first three darts, the ‘brains’ throws the second three darts and then the dart-playing contestant throws the final three darts. The first contestants that win Bully’s Million Dollar Jackpot will win the most money ever won in a darts challenge.OR
The team have the choice of having the guest professional dart player on the show throwing the first three darts for their team, followed by the ‘brains’ throwing the second three darts and then the dart playing contestant throws the final three darts. If the team fail to score 401 or more they do not win ‘Bully’s Million Dollar Jackpot’ and they lose all the money and all prizes they won on the show. All is not lost however. Whatever the team’s final total score is the host multiplies it by 10 and the contestants get the cash equivalent of their team’s score. For example, if the team scores a total of 340 they win $3,400 dollars. Although the contestants are disappointed at not winning Bully’s Million Dollar Jackpot they are happy with their cash winnings and the show closes on a high note. Every one’s a winner.
The contestants through to the end game may not risk going for Option 3 as they may not feel confident that they can beat the challenge (being on the set of a TV show can be very intimidating and the contestants may feel the pressure) and go for Option 2 Bully’s Mystery Star Prize. This is a major prize, for example a new Mustang car and worth much more than what they would have won had they tried to win Bully’s Million Dollar Jackpot and failed.
It would be great if a UK broadcaster commissioned a new series of Bullseye and we had, Bully’s Million Pound Jackpot.
Remember, You can’t beat a bit of Bully.
So there we go – just let me know if I’m reading this wrong – they can do the nine dart thing by themselves, lose and leave with nothing or they can get help from a pro player, lose, and leave with probably more money than they would have won in the maingame. Have I got this wrong? I understand having the choice of the mystery star prize (although it can’t be the star prize. The star prize is a million dollars.) or million in local currency.