I’ve not seen any TV magic for about six months, and I’m aching for the heady and exciting days of new Endemol pilots that take about six hours to film to write about/slag off. Please do some new shows please thanks. In London. Or Cambridge.
In fact I’m so bored I’ll deploy this interesting gossip which I was going to keep until nearer the time. Someone who I will keep anonymous (unless they want to out themselves, of course) who went to both recording blocks of troubled future BBC2 quiz Perfection suggested that the adjudicators were paying much closer attention to the audience the second time round. That does suggest (alongside the official line that relevant monitors weren’t shielded) that there was some low-rent Major Ingram-esque shenanigans going on, doesn’t it? Or at least a lot of friendly audiences. I am sure we will never truly know.
There will be another iPod review at the weekend.
Oh that’s interesting, Mediaguardian suggest that talks between Endemol and Channel 5 regarding Big Brother have stalled, but they’re having a chat about bringing The Golden Cage to UK screens, which is especially interesting given that I’d presume TGC would cost more to make. In the original Dutch De Goolden Kooi, people live a life of luxury in a mansion but if you leave you’re out. Last one left wins the mansion and associated large cash prize. Could last weeks, could last years, although I think they sped up the Dutch show to end it by introducing mandatory eliminations somewhere down the line so… it also lead to an interesting situation in that you sort of had to bully to encourage people to leave, but obviously that looks and feels quite bad, and producers had to intervene on a number of occasions. The format was sold to ABC in the States in 2007, you’d have thought the “gameplaying” element would have been appealing wouldn’t you?