Board of Excitement 17th-23rd Jan ’10

By | January 17, 2010
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Well look it’s:

  • Only Connect (BBC4, Monday, 8:30pm) – Choirboys vs Brasenose Postgrads.
  • The Krypton Factor (ITV, Tuesday 7:30pm)

This week joined by special guest publication:

  • Relic: Guardians of the Museum: (BBC1, Thursday 4:35pm) where some kids do some things at the British Museum. Official synopsis: “Three children from Newcastle are summoned to the British Museum in London to meet the spooky tour guide Agatha. Together they have just one night to uncover the secrets of a relic held inside the museum, but they are not alone – dark forces are out to get them. Defeat the Dark Lord and they become Guardians of the museum; fail and they shall never leave!”

Come on other things! Try and pique our interest just a little bit!

Also, nothing fascinatingly interesting being recorded right now, tomorrow is the last recording day for Pointless seemingly, and all SRO can offer is Ant and Dec’s Push the Button, being filmed at the audience unfriendly Pinewood Studios at the end of February. If you quite like the idea of dressing-up and audience researchers who use the wrong version of “to”, BBC through Applause Store  are recording a new panel show called The King is Dead in February where celebrities give arguments as to why they should hold hypothetical positions of power. Simon Bird off of The Inbetweeners is the big name for it.

BSOP 2010 Update

By | January 17, 2010
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Right, it’s looking increasingly likely to be on Sundays unless there is a flurry of votes for a different day in the next few days, in which case the first event will be on Feb 7th.

Full details of The BSOP will go up when the TREMENDOUSLY EXCITING trophy and medals arrive for people to get excited about.

In other voting news, this is your last day to vote in the Poll of 2009! Look out for Bothers Bar’s Poll Extra results post after the main write-up goes up on UKGameshows.com this week.

Schlag den Raab Jan ’10

By | January 16, 2010
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schlagdenraab1It’s Schlag den Raab this evening for €1.5m! And here is a special place for people to talk about it if they want. Also: posting up links to naughty live streaming.

It begins at 8:15 European time on ProSieben, that’s 7:15 in the UK.

Specials board update

By | January 15, 2010
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This Friday I get all medieval on yo’ ass with some old new thrills, namely the transcript of the Crystal Maze episode of Maid Marian and her Merry Men and a dissection of the 2004 Knightmare VR Pilot (one of my oldest features, that). And if you prefer a bit of comedy, there’s a transcript of the first episode of You Don’t Know Jack, and if you’re excited about the prospect of playing Wanted with little men and tape measures, you’re in luck this weekend as well.

Don’t forget it’s Schlag den Raab tomorrow, it will be getting its own post.

And look! I’m now gauging interest for The BSOP 2010!

Round-up 14th Jan ’10

By | January 14, 2010
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More Wipeout season three dripfeeding.

Quite difficult to make out what’s on the screens this time though. Roll-on the Summer.

Time’s almost up for the 2009 Poll! Make sure you get your votes in by Sunday! It is unbelievably nip and tuck between two shows in the Golden Fiver, and the hunt to make the top five in the other categories is very tight.

And may as well give it a front page berthing, Accumulate! Is! Back! For the first semi-final.

Plus! I’m taking requests for the next batch of old Weekend Specials to go up at the weekend. We will start doing new features again soon as well.

New! I’ll promote this to the front page, because it’s fun. Chris M Dickson writes:

A friend suggests the next great Twitter game: #gameshowfilms – film titles adapted to include game show titles – and starts us off with Catchphrase Me If You Can. Can we do better? My contribution is SpiderMan O Man, or perhaps Austin Powers in Going for Goldmember.

I’m convinced you won’t beat Y Briodas Fawr-ther of the Bride, but you’re welcome to try.