The new series of Schlag den Star begins tonight (7:15 UK time) on Pro Sieben.
It’s basically the same as Schlag den Raab except it’s smaller stakes, nine games and the contestant can call upon Stefan Raab to play for them once. And obviously it’s against a celebrity, and much shorter.
Here’s a story that’s doing the rounds today – English teacher currently living in Spain gets a pilot through BBC Entertainment’s Future Formats initiative, called Cloned.
The show doesn’t do much for me on the description – can you spot which is the real celeb from the CGI clones by (I don’t know) watching them carefully or something. It’s all a big puff piece for their initiative (it’s frankly not that exciting, it’s getting a pilot which Danny Cohen might have a look at). So why are we being told all this now, hmm?
Meanwhile, here is photo from the set of Guess the Star pilot which filmed recently. Christine Bleakley is involved in some form.
It’s slow other than Red or Black?, so here’s a heartwarming story nicked from GSNN – do you remember the non-hit John Barrowman shouty quiz The Kids Are All Right? Well it has sold to Vietnam.
Most exciting comment of the story:
The show has much popularity in countries like Poland, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Egypt, Mexico, Holland, Norway, South Africa, the US and Portugal.
Hmm.
Oh here’s fun, according to The Guardian, two people have been removed from future Red or Black? live shows after failing background checks and will not be replaced. That means that potentially it could go from 7 to 3 to 1 couldn’t it? Do they have a contingency? How are they going to explain it?
Yes I forgot to do this yesterday. What of it?
Juan Carlos Frasnadillo’s 2001 Spanish thriller Intacto.
(Note: trailer contains peril)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-nz4pJDDsM
It’s about a man who can steal luck by touching them, and a man who wants his luck back by finding the luckiest man alive and challenging him to Russian Roulette. Quite interesting.
7pm and 9:15pm Saturday and variously across the week, ITV1
Well here we are then, months of speculation come to a head this week as Syco’s Red or Black? hits our screens potentially making seven millionaires.
And basically I have got no clue as to a) whether it will be any good or not or b) if it will be successful. I think if the games are quite You Bet-esque then it’sd in with a shout, and that’s initially what it sounded like, but since then we’ve seen pictures of people hoping to match a big jack in the box and picking cars and I’m not sure I see where the entertainment value in that lies.
Similarly will the excitement wear off after the first million, or will people tune in to that spin every night? Time will tell, use the comments thread for your thoughts.