Surely this is going to be the reality TV show of the year?
Let us hope there will be challenges involving crashing weddings, living underwater, sleeping with a light on etc.
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The latest episode of Alex Davis’ Double Cross is now up and downloadable on iTunes or from Buzzerblog, and this week’s is ultra exciting because it features two Bother’s Bar punters on it – Kesh and David “KP” Howell.
I haven’t listened to it yet – I’ll do so on my way to work tomorrow, but if KP doesn’t spend all episode declaring it to be a fix with Alex somehow forcing a certain outcome then I will be MASSIVELY DISAPPOINTED.
Mission Two Thousand One Hundred and Ten
This is on this afternoon, I’ll have some thoughts later in the week. In the meantime you can have a chat about it here if you feel that way inclined.
Scream If You Know The Answer!
- Two teams consisting of a celeb and civilian take part in a series of simple games whilst riding rollercoasters.
- The games are pretty simple and there seems to be a pool of them, ranging from naming things in a subject in alphabetical order with your partner, trying to name things being described to you, that sort of thing.
- Bonus points for the amusing Q and Arrrrgggh! round where host Duncan James asks questions with the celebs whilst actually on the rollercoaster himself.
- Final round seems to be the return of the Yes No Game from Take Your Pick, with the opposing celebrity trying to get the civilian to say yes, no or maybe. The scores are normally close enough at this point that this final round is going to be properly decisive regardless of what the scores were up to this point. Edit: Actually game four changes from episode to episode, but the general idea of the scoring is the same.
- End game is quite good, civilian rides Stealth, a ride that takes about 20 seconds and launches them from 0-80mph in two seconds naming as many things in a given categy as they can. Celeb then rides the ride doing the same, civilian earns £500 for each match.
- Colin Murray is probably a bit much in the commentary, Duncan James offers not much as host.
- Basically cheap and quite cheerful.
Board of Excitement 2nd-8th May 2010
Sorry, I’m a bit drunk writing this this evening but that just adds to the exciting fun, right?
- The Bother Series of Poker Game 7 (8pm/1500 ET, Sunday, Full Tilt) – I’ll stick the results and discussion page up tomorrow morning. Edit: Here you go.
- Scream! If You Know the Answer (7pm, Sunday, Watch) It’s celebrities answering questions and things on rollercoasters at Thorpe Park! I can’t take Thorpe Park seriously since the rapids became so gentle, but even so theme parks are cool so i’ll probably give it a bash. Tonight is a double-bill! It’s Hold Tight for the etc!
- Mission 2110 (5:45pm, CBBC, Monday-Wednesday) I actually didn’t think this started until next month, so good news there. Will Caleb destroy the Roboidz, or will fate conspire to turn him into his evil father, Sheriff Buck?
- The Amazing Race (Monday, CBS) A lot of people claiming that this has been a bit of a rubbish season, but to be honest whilst the Cowboys and the Super Mario Detectives are still in it, I’m not sure that’s an opinion I have much truck with really. To each their own, I suppose.
- The Gameshow General Election (10pm, Thursday) If you haven’t voted yet, make sure you do. I’m also planning on staying up and watching the actual election results, although I will probably fall asleep by about one.
- Survivor (Thursday, CBS) – not watched last week’s episode yet. Although I’m sure it was brilliant.
- Schlag den Raab (7:15pm UK/8:15 Germany, Saturday, Pro Sieben/Naughty live streaming) – it only seems like a couple of weeks since the last one. That’s because it’s oinly been a couple of weeks since the last one. Expect no mountain biking for €500,000.
Right, I’d quite like my bed now.
Well played, recruit
I’m currently playing the official Mission:2110 tie-in game. It’s a lot harder than I was expecting. Quite good though.
Edit: Actually no, how stupid is that? I thought I’d register so it would save my progress, only now I can’t play because I’m over 16. THANKS BBC.
The two training games I had played were of variable quality, one involved jumping on squares on a converor belt to pick up Biorods (a little bit like the old 8-bit game Trailblazer), the Stealth game was unfortunately very tedious, ten minutes of running around mazes trying to match symbols whilst running away from robots which sounds rather a lot better than it actually is (once you’ve matched two panels a biorod lights up, if the Roboid gets there before you do you have to do the whole thing again. The cornering is too unforgiving. Pac-man style mazes with dead-ends are cheap and not much fun). And that’s as far as we got. If you don’t have a BBC ID then you can play without the ability to save – it’s all very nicely presented at least.