Talking Telephone Numbers

By | March 23, 2010
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Thanks to Travis for alerting us to this, I was aware Stephen Mulhern’s Magic Numbers (it’s clever cos he’s a magician) got a six-week commission for later on in the year, but this bit is interesting:

“It works like this….across the show the outcome of every exhilarating stunt, game and challenge will give us a number between 0 and 9. Finally, as the show builds to a conclusion, we’ll have a total of five numbers. Together these make up Magic Numbers. And if two of the Magic Numbers match two of the last five digits of your telephone number – in any order. The lucky viewer who is chosen from all those who have qualified to take part, are playing live from home with the chance to win £250,000″

So Talking Telephone Numbers then, except in a brilliant twist, you’d have to be really unlucky not to be able to be allowed to ring a premium phone line to take part.

Meanwhile, you can now get tickets for the new series of Shooting Stars recording in April at TV Centre, although tickets will be allocated by random draw it’s so massively popular. Blimey. And also A Question of Sport, but evidently that’s not as popular despite demanding more viewers, presumably.

Details for the next BotherSOP game in two-and-a-half week’s time are now up on the BotherSOP page.

New old feature alert!

By | March 22, 2010
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It’s a bit quiet, so I’ve chucked up…

  • We Heart The Mole – a tribute to one of the best shows ever. Originally written in 2005.

There will be a feature on French Jacques Antoine one series wonder La Piste du Xapatan by Saturday, and when I say “by Saturday”, I mean “probably on Saturday”. There was a British pilot for that made once you know.

Meanwhile, Push the Button increased to 5.5m (against 5.3 watching the England rugby on BBC1) according to overnights posted on DS. The Brucie interview “did” 4.6m. A late rally? Next week it’s up against Who Dares Wins, but that’s got Norton-Webber-a-thon Over the Rainbow as a lead in, so I don’t think Ant and Dec will be jumping for joy just yet.

The Board of Excitement 21st -27th March 2010

By | March 20, 2010
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Only one week to go until the clocks go forward and the nights get lighter, MY POWERS ARE FADING THE HORROR… THE HORROR…

  • The Bother Series of Poker Double Stake Double Stack Special (Sunday, Full Tilt, 8pm GMT/1600ET) David’s promising exciting insider gossip this evening, if that’s not worth $22 of your money and about two hours of your time, with the possibility of winning a shedload then frankly I don’t know what actually is. Game 4 discussion page is here.
  • The Amazing Race (Sunday, CBS): This was so good this week I can’t actually remember anything about it (because I don’t normally get to watch it until midweek, whereas I got to watch it early last time). This is the sort of top analysis that only the industry’s most favouritist website can provide. Oh, and Minute to Win It‘s on NBC as well, if you’re a fan of rather stodgy programming.
  • Only Connect (8:30pm, Monday, BBC4): Gamblers vs Bowlers. It was pretty tough going last week. The questions might be the closest quiz has to art, but like difficult art, without people who can ‘get it’ it can leave you feeling a bit cold. What I am basically saying is, I’m not expecting the Strategists to win the series. Also I can’t draw.
  • Survivor (Wednesday, CBS): You read that right, it’s a day early this week because of some basketball.

Is that it?

I might do a mystery feature at some point over the week then.

Saturday Night Fever

By | March 20, 2010
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The Board of Excitement will be going up at a slightly later time than usual tomorrow, so with exciting things happening on Saturday (Push the Button, Who Dares Wins), here’s a space for you to talk about it.

The highlight for me is tonight’s Solitary v4.0 final, which if it is half as entertaining as the rest of the series should be very entertaining indeed. Last week featured an extreme memory test (being required to memorise a 30-part sequence of colours, acting them out by dunking your face into four containers of differently coloured goo) followed by an awesome treatment involving holding a set of stocks and traversing an obstacle course whilst balancing a ball on the indented stock edge, with the people finishing last having to pay a penalty of squatting in a stress position for increasingly lengthy periods of time. It ended on a cliffhanger – who will crack first? And who will win? I can’t wait to find out!

What If? The Crystal Maze Game Room

By | March 19, 2010
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Right, here’s something for you to ponder over the weekend. On Wednesday, on XBox Live (*) something new is being released called Game Room, basically your own little space you can deck out with things, most of those things being old arcade games (which you can play at 60 MSP for two goes, or 240 (about £2) to own them outright).

I can see myself spending a lot of money here. So the question is, if I was to deck my Game Room out in the style of The Crystal Maze, with four “zones” of Aztec, Futuristic, Medieval and Industrial, what would be the best old arcade games to go in and why? The best ideas may actually get used, depending on what’s on offer at any point.

(*) My Gamertag is Brig Bother, add me for leaderboard fun if you want. You might even get to come and visit the real virtual thing.

It’s Sport Relief this evening

By | March 19, 2010
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It would be remiss of me not to point out that it’s Sport Relief this weekend, with a seven hour broadcast this evening, and will probably have some of the sorts of things that people who read here might find quite entertaining. So give them lots of money.

At the very least the Match of the Day hosts will be “do”ing Masterchef, and Frank Skinner, fresh from his Quiz Ball pilot, is hosting a special episode of A Question of Sport, so we won’t have to guess what mash up of A Question of Sport, Have I Got News For You, They Think It’s All Over, QI and Never Mind the Buzzcocks they’ve come up for a title this year.

Alternatively there’s Stefan Raab’s Wok Racing in Germany this evening also.