Watching Telly: Ant and Dec’s Push the Button

By | February 25, 2010
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The first episode of this is recorded tonight at Pinewood if my notes are correct, if you are going then why not tell us about it? I’m not interested in spoilers of results (it is going out on Saturday, after all), but I am interested in how it works and what you thought of it.

Meanwhile I’m genuinely baffled by the pairing of Chris Tarrant and Amanda Holden for The Door. Both responsible for much more misses than hits, but the hits are megahits (and the misses, well, are megamisses). It’s also a bit odd that Chris Tarrant would now appear ot be hosting the sort of show he would regularly take the piss out of on Tarrant on TV. If you can’t beat ’em…

Specials Update

By | February 24, 2010
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I’ve put up some new old specials. Seeing as Adventure Line don’t have many shows left, I thought it would be nice to see them back in their glory days hence:

I was convinced I had done a feature on the Quebecois version of Les Forges aux Deserts, but it turns out I actually haven’t so that is something to look forward to in the future (although better: there might be an original French episode coming my way soon). Also La Piste du Xapatan.

The Cube US

By | February 24, 2010
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Buzzerblog are reporting that it looks like The Cube US has been greenlit.

This is great news, except in this instance I think the more I see of Minute to Win It, the more of a party-spoiler it seems to be, and when it comes to this sort of thing the first to air tends to be the successful one.

Divided’s back in April

By | February 23, 2010
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With Andrew Castle. So there we are. I’d give you a specific date, but Endemol’s Twitter hasn’t said anything.

That is CLASSIC Bother’s Bar investigative journalism in action, there.

And a streamlined Pointless is in the listings as being back 8th March, thanks Travis.

PUSH the Button

By | February 22, 2010
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Well it looks like the advertising for Push the Button has started in earnest, there’s a set of Facebook games for you to play to win tickets to the show (frankly not that exciting given you can just apply for them through SRO anyway, unless there’s some audience participation element that some of the audience won’t be playing along with a la Takeaway) or £5,000 on Friday. This would be much better if the games weren’t seemingly time limited (today’s game you can’t seem to play now they’ve given the tickets away, which is a bit poor) and also the interface thing seems to take an age to load, although how much of that is the application and how much is Facebook I don’t know. NEw games at 1pm, but they’re probably no Bejeweled Blitz.

Meanwhile in BSOP land, Game 3 is now taking registrations, Requests > Search by Tournament ID >  #141667534. If you’ve yet to play and you’re serious about winning the trophy and the associated prizes, the dropped points element means you need to play this one really to have the best chance of winning. If you’re not serious, why not join in anyway there will still be money floating around.

Are You Smarter… ups its jackpot

By | February 21, 2010
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Something pointed out to me whilst The BotherSOP Game 2 was taking place (which I won, it would be very remiss of me not to point out) is that Noel’s Are You Smarter Than Your Five Year Old which apparently started on Sky One this evening has upped its jackpot from £250,000 to £500,000. Fairly interesting, but more intriguing when you consider that the rest of the ladder hasn’t increased – the final question is now a jump from £100k to £500k. Interestingly tempting, but how many people get to the £100k level anyway?