Board update

By | February 8, 2010
8 Comments

Well it’s been almost six weeks, I figure it was about time for some Fort Boyard at the bar, so I’ve updated the Specials Board with the articles I’ve written about the Fort with a 2010 EXCLUSIVE!!!! update of the retrospective. I bet I’ve missed something somewhere, and I’m pretty sure someone will mention what. Whatever happened to Operation Fort Boyard, then?

In other news, you can now register for The BotherSOP Game 2 and this time round I’ve even provided the Tournament ID number you can search to find it a bit easier (through Requests up the top). PROVE YOUR DOMINION OVER THE SOULS OF OTHER FELLOW MAN THROUGH PLAYING CARDS. That is why we play poker. Also: money and trophies.

In other news, Howard Stern for American Idol? Now I’d love to see that!

Also Dave Gorman’s Genius is coming back for a second series.

Round-up 8th Feb ’10

By | February 8, 2010
28 Comments

We’ve not had a round-up thread for a while, so let’s do one now:

ITV fined about £3k (including fees) over the I’m a Celeb rat-eating incident. Regardless of how ridiculous I think the situation is, I’m glad that ITV are at least taking responsibility for it and haven’t just left Manning and D’Acampo out to dry. Someone should do some sort of Rodent Injury Lawyers 4 U skit, it would go down a storm on Radio 4 I imagine.

A late arrival for the Board of Excitement, Deal or No Deal‘s Love Week begins today.

BotherSOP Game 1

By | February 7, 2010
1 Comment

Well done and thanks to everyone who played!

The results can be found here.

I was rather hoping a few more would turn up so to entice you for Game 2 (on 21st Feb), you missed out on David Bodycombe being lucky, discussion of A-ha, discussion of Compare the Meerkat and discussion of David Bodycombe being lucky. Amongst other things! The details will go up soon.

Board of Excitement – 7th-13th Feb 2010

By | February 7, 2010
16 Comments

It’s American reality season, which is good news for us because that means easy entries:

  • The Bother Series of Poker 2010 Event 1 (Tonight, 8pm GMT/1500 ET) – if you’re playing in this tonight then best of luck. If you intend on playing but haven’t deposited with Full Tilt yet, I advise against waiting until 7:45pm to do it, sometimes it can take a little while to go through. You should still be able to join in anytime up until 8:10 in theory, although how it will work out in practice I’m not sure. There’s no lobby chat, so I’ve put a new page up for discussion relating to the first event. When the game gets going, you can chat as a player or as an observer at will, in theory. Good luck!
  • University Challenge (Monday, 8pm, BBC2) I don’t normally make a habit of billing (or indeed watching) this, usually tuning in about ten minutes befre the end waiting for Only Connect to come on, and even then mainly to judge the contestants’ attractiveness because yes, even I am sometimes that shallow. However, last week’s was exciting enough to warrant watching it for ‘proper’ reasons, so Uni C gets its first outing on the Board of Excitement.
  • Only Connect (Monday, 8:30pm, BBC4) But Only Connect is all about the interesting questions, and this week the people I won’t be making value judgements on are Exeter Alumini vs Gourmands. It’s the Will Young vs Giles Coren battle THE WORLD HAS BEEN WAITING FOR.
  • The Krypton Factor (Tuesday, 7:30, ITV1) – this series is just sort of pootling along without really capturing anyone’s imagination, and last week I actually forgot it had been on until the Wednesday. But thankfully I was saved by the V+ Box where I’ve got it on series link and I watched it and it remains still not as good as last year but y’know, entertaining enough. It’s such a shame.
  • Survivor: Heroes vs Villains (Thursday, CBS) And probably a day later for naughty Brits. It’s the big two-oh for Survivor and The Probstmeister (as nobody calls him) is back for another season in Samoa with twenty previous players, some for a third time. I’m pulling for Cirie, Boston Rob or Russell to win, all of whom were brilliant players in previous seasons and none of whom won. Also if Boston Rob wins, the fans will go mental which will be funny. And it will be interesting to how much Coach will play up at ‘be’-ing Coach. Maybe one day we’ll get to find out what happened to Tontine. Also I was tipped-off that the third series of South African Survivor – with celebrities! has started, but that they “can’t seem to acquire it.” So there we are.
  • Solitary v4.0 (Saturday, Fox Reality) Unfortunately because it’s on right at the end of the BoE week I’ve not normally had the chance to watch the previous episode before billing the following one. So this is Episode 3, it will probably be a bit like Episode 2 but with one fewer people in it, and that’s a Brig Bother GUARANTEE.

It’s BotherSOP Sunday!

By | February 4, 2010
18 Comments

Don’t forget, if you’ve been to the The Cube US pilot this evening, I’ve set aside your own little post beneath this one for your comments.

pokertrophy2This is what THE WORLD is after: The Bother Series of Poker 2010 trophy, awarded only to the best of the very best of the Bother’s Bar community’s poker playing players. This Sunday, the journey begins with the very first game in the series, The BotherSOP Game 1. It will cost you $11 to play (that’s about £7, although if you’re depositing for the first time you will need to put more in), and I’ve added $25 to the prizepool to spice it up a little bit. Already, already, enough people have signed up that I can almost make my money back on the weekend if I win. And as one of the top 72,000 players (out of about half a million) ranked this year, I HAVE to fancy my chances.

All the details (including the password you need to join in) are on the BotherSOP page. Don’t forget that 8pm UK time means you want to be looking for 1500 server time in the private tab when you join.

I really really really will be ‘doing’ Secondhand 3-2-1 very soon. You will possibly enjoy it.

Meanwhile, thanks to Chris for pointing out that there’s a sort of Internet version of Wanted going down in the States. which you’d have to think wouldn’t work particularly well without the mass television exposure. Still, Universal Pictures are sponsoring it, so you never know.