With The Sun reporting that Millionaire is going to get its first ever spin-off show in Fastest Finger First (provided you don’t count 50:50 or Hot Seat, both of which aren’t very good), we ponder: what other shows have sufficient brand identity that you can spin entirely new formats from?
Game Night Panellists Wanted
Yes it’s that time again, the next Bother’s Bar Game Night is going to be on Sunday Jan 23rd 8-10:30pm and once again we’re on the look out for live panellists. Who has the WIT, the SKILLS and the BLIND LUCK to become the first Game Night Champion of the year and win their way into Jackbox 9 Champion of Champions in November?
To be a panellist you will need the following:
- Access to Discord.
- A microphone.
- Ideally a second screen that’s a tablet or phone.
- To be free from around 7:55 to 10:45pm on January 23rd.
If that’s you then please get in touch, the best way is either by DM on Twitter (@BothersBar) or PM me on Discord (BrigBother#9399), don’t just send me a reply it’ll likely be forgotten. Spaces are limited, there are a number of criteria used when putting a panel together so don’t be offended if you don’t make it.
But what if you don’t want to be part of the panel but want to join in anyway? We’ll be live on Youtube and TEAM AUDIENCE will be on hand to ruin the panellist’s evenings as ever. It’s going to be a fun one, hopefully!
THE VOTE IS OVER
The Poll of the Year Truck has finally ran out of petrol. Look out for the gala red carpetted winners reveal on, stuff permitting, Monday 17th January, probably 9pm but not set in stone yet, with some super special guests.
And then read the write-up!
Show Discussion: Ant and Dec’s Limitless Win
Saturdays, 8:30pm,
ITV
Well there’s nothing like making a rod for your own back is there?
Ant and Dec offer to potentially bankrupt ITV (spoiler: they haven’t bankrupted ITV) in the world’s first limitless jackpot, provided you don’t count any existing winner-stays-on shows, and does so in a method that if the adverts are anything to go by looks ‘a bit maths’. To bank money, players must get answers to numerical questions bang on. They can walk away at any time, but if they ever give an answer that’s over the correct one you leave with nothing. Also if you underguess by too much. How they climb the infinite money ladder is still unexplained, although it certainly looks like you’re climbing for every number you’re off, which would certainly be A Thing.
Something I think will go against it is that it won’t take long for people to work out the difference between what’s ACTUALLY being risked and what’s perceived as the risk – you’re risking £10,000, you haven’t yet won the £1m the ladder is currently at. Also this quote from Dec in the Radio Times worries me a bit:
“We have had some big wins on this series, but I think when people see the show they’ll go, ‘I could do that for longer and be braver and go higher.’ So I’m actually really looking forward to recording another series once people have seen it and got into it and decided what their strategies will be,” Dec said.
Ant and Dec tease “unbearable” Limitless Win moment – Radio Times
Does rather suggest this first series isn’t going to be throwing around the big money they’ve been promising.
ITV have gone big on the promotion of this, and it’s on between The Masked Singer and The John Bishop Show so I probably wouldn’t read too much into the ratings in the first week – if it hasn’t done well there’s something very wrong in the State of Denmark. After that we’ll see. It might be absolutely brilliant. Let us know what you think in the comments.
Mind Your Own Business
The Poll of The Year Truck was in Swindon today, the rest of the week it’s going to Nottingham, Carlisle, Edinburgh and Inverness on Sunday before having to make its way back to Truro on Monday which seems like poor planning. If you see it out in the wild, do post a photo to insta (Instagram). Like a DFS Sale, polling MUST END SUNDAY so remember to get your votes in.
In other news forget Quizzy Mondays, it’s all about BUSINESS THURSDAYS on BBC1 with new Dragon’s’ Den and new The Apprentice starting tomorrow. There’s a new Dragon in town whose USP seems to be “he’s under thirty”, and original Apprentice winner Tim Campbell is temporarily taking over from Claude Littner as one of Sir Alan’s advisors as he went ill before filming. I gather they filmed this series and the next one back to back I think, so he’s probably going to be on that one as well, although I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong.
AS WELL AS Schlag den Star on Saturday, this Saturday is also the start of the much-hyped Ant and Dec’s Limitless Win. A Show Discussion post will go up on Friday afternoon. However to get you in the mood, before the series filmed in October we offered you the chance to win £7.99 – the price of 2Unlimited’s No Limits album. The winner will be the person closest to the mean win, with a guess to the highest rung in-play as the tie-breaker. Here’s a reminder of what you suggested:
MEAN WIN:
RANGE: £8,560 – £487,500
Mean Avg Guess: £104,695.53
Median Guess: £69,500
HIGHEST RUNG:
RANGE: £45,000 – £8,500,000
Mean Avg Guess: £1,620,459.20
Median Guess: £1,125,000
Well now all your entries can be revealed, as well as your thinking. Who’s been clever and who was quite far from the truth? We’ll know in five episode’s time.
Quizzy Bingo
The Poll of The Year Truck has reached Bournemouth today, look out for it in Worthing tomorrow before it starts making its way northwards towards Swindon on Wednesday. Like a DFS Sale, polling MUST END SUNDAY so remember to get your votes in.
I’d also like to draw your attention to a new episode of Schlag den Star on Saturday night, we’ll be watching along on the Discord from 7:15pm UK as usual.
Anyway, Friend Of The Bar @NALGames posted some fun gameshow-based bingo cards on Twitter, and I think it would be remiss of me not to give them a wider audience: