If you missed it first time round, it’s well worth catching this time: the grand final of series one of Only Connect – the Crossworders vs the Psychologists is on BBC Four this evening at 7:30pm, and presumably on iPlayer for the next week.
It’s the BotherSOP Grand Final
Yes, that’s right punters, this Sunday night all this stuff will be given away:
Trophies! Medals! Money! The empty DVD sleeves and dust ARE NOT ON OFFER. And they’ll be going to the top three players of the season, after this Sunday night’s Superstack Grand Finale has been played out.
Even if you can’t win the championship, the Grand Final is open to any punter – the fee is $33 (that’s about £22), and they’ll be a decent amount of money flying round the table for people to grab onto. It starts at 8pm, it’s likely to go on a bit (2.5-3hrs by my reckoning), and you can find all the details on the BotherSOP page.
Meanwhile, The Poker Lounge, where amateurs take on five Full Tilt professionals in a tournament, began on Channel 4 on Tuesday night. It felt a bit rushed, in a way Late Night Poker doesn’t seem to suffer from.
I’ve just seen Downfall with Chris Jericho. I think it’s a good quiz and an enjoyable show and it manages that despite tripping over a few pitfalls that are going to stop it being truly great, which I’ll write about in more detail later.
Perfection
I’ve had a lovely e-mail:
Hi Brig,
It’s Jellybean here. I wanted to invite anyone from the Bar to come and watch a record of Perfection, and I was hoping you could put up an anouncement rather than me writing it into a comment box and it potentially getting lost. The dates are July 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 12, 13, 14 and it’s being recorded at TLS [That’s The London Studios on the South Bank – Brig]. If anyone wants to come can they send me their name, details and the day they are free to attend to [redacted – Brig]. I will put them on the audience list and try to meet up with them to hear what they think of the show.
Anywho hope that’s alright,
Josephine
Obviously, Brig Bother cannot guarantee there won’t be an element of interrogation, possibly waterboarding, but I cannot help but think that “being willing to listen to people” is better than “not wanting to listen to people,” so if you’ve got a day free…
Don’t forget also, these same people also want to know what makes for a good gameshow, which is actually a difficult question to answer (otherwise everyone would already be doing it) so they’ve broken it down into a big questionaire.
Show(s) discussion: Wipeout and Downfall
Well, it is the season premiere of Wipeout (although the first episode was three weeks ago. US telly is weird) and conveyor-belt quiz Downfall this evening. I’m probably not going to get the chance to watch them until later in the week, but here is somewhere you can have a chat about them.
Bronze Bully
Thanks to Chris for the link, Five apparently in talks to revive Bullseye. Justin Lee Collins to host.
What could possibly go wrong?
*Looks to camera knowingly*
Watching Telly: The Cube 2010
Right, moderate Saturday night hit The Cube with Philip Schofield starts recording its second, extended series today with 10 episodes and two celebrity specials planned, apparently.
If you’re going (or if you’ve been if you read this later), please feel free to tell us about it – what’s different and what is good and bad. New games are planned, although if they were serious about there being about 60 games worked out last time then there must have been about 20-25 unused from series one so how “new” is new we won’t know.