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February 200829th February 2008 Fort Boyard FridayWell, top punter Cosser enquired if we had any videos from 1991 last week, correctly pointing out that it was a very important year for the show, what with it becoming the basic format we know and love today. Unfortunately we only have two episodes from 1991 in our collection which makes it quite difficult, we don't really want to repeat games we've already shown, although we'll probably make allowances for different versions of games. Well this game comes from 1991, although it was first used in 1990. It's Salle de Tortures - The Torture Chamber, and it's a difficult game requiring upper body strength.
Unfortunately, just as we enter 1991 we might be leaving it for a bit, because we've got a package to pick up tomorrow and fingers crossed, there are three or four games involved that we really think are worth documenting. In other news, it is nice to see that Bingo Lotto is so well rehearsed. Why not try and predict how many weeks it will last before they give up? Or perhaps there is a market for people who who like an hour of numbers being drawn and Joe Pasquale calling people divs. Something something Pasquale hosting Deal or No Deal something something. Just time for an anon(n)ymous comment:
Hmm. 27th February 2008 Because four days without an update would have been a bit of a poor show...... here's an EXCLUSIVE list of confirmed celebrity guests for upcoming Celebrity Ready Steady Cook!
Applause Store are promising free WINE, TEA and COFFEE during the show(!!!) so if free wine, tea and/or coffee is your thing and you're free during weekday afternoons next week then why not go along? Amazing. Have you all bought your Bingo Lotto tickets yet? 25th February 2008 The Clipton Factor: Bruce Forsyth's Hot StreakIt's another topical one! Brucie's eighty, so we thought it would be good to dig out his attempt to crack America from 1986. In this game, teams of men and women attempt to convey words to a team-mate who must in turn convey it to someone else, but at no point are they allowed to repeat a word anyone else has used in their description, so there's an element of second-guess work involved. Unfortunately there were issues copying this to DVD so there are unexplained jumps throughout. Sorry about that.
Blimey, they've really given Wipeout a brutal edit on Challenge to fit an ad break in haven't they? They should have, I don't know, just spooled it out a bit faster or something. We quite enjoyed Brainbox Challenge, there are some opinions in the comment box underneath this one. Which sounds like the sort of game they'd play on there, actually. 24th February 2008 Sunday anon(n)ymous comment round-up
23rd February 2008 Fort Boyard SaturdayThis week! Horloge de la chapelle - The chapel clock - from 1992. It feels like a tough old game this requiring a lot of strength and timing, but statistics suggest it had about a 50% success rate. It was played until 1995.
And after all that, Raven's final day was the same as it had been for the last few weeks. Never mind. Good series, although it's a shame that now they've spent so much recreating the inside of Blasted Mountain they've dropped the Wizard's Tower and other indoor scenes, which provided a nice change of scenery during the week. We're never happy, basically. In other news, a 22 episode run of Pekin Express is now in the TV5 Adventure Game slot, so those waiting for last year's Fort Boyard have got a long wait yet. However, if you're very lucky I reckon they might run 2007 and 2008 in one long block. 20th February 2008
Hmm, that comes from the same IP address as the previous person! Amazing. Anyway, what we've gathered is that Priceless and/or Amn£sia may or may not air on Channel 4 afternoons in the Deal or No Deal summer slot for 20, 40 or even 60 shows. Hello! This is the news! 19th February 2008 New anon(n)ymous comment:
We've not seen proof yet but we've no reason to doubt it. So there's your likely summer on Channel 4. 18th February 2008 The Clipton Factor: Dick 'n' Dom In Da BungalowNaturally we decided to find out what all the fuss about Dick 'n' Dom in Da Bungalow was all about a mere five weeks before the show's fifth and final series ended, and was really irritated to find it hugely entertaining. Yeah, we're so busy setting trends that sometimes we're a bit slow to catch on to others, you know? If you never actually watched it, it was a live kids comedy Saturday morning show where they'd be set amusing challenges to earn bungalow points in between sketches and cartoons. For this final series, the final game would be the "Creamy Muck Muck Grand Finale" and each week it would be based on a different gameshow. As it was The Crystal Maze's 18th birthday last week, we thought it only correct and proper to show "The Crystal Muck" in all it's glory. Here's Dave Chapman of Otis the Aardvark fame doing his best Richard O' Brien impression, although it sounds more like Phil off of Location, Location, Location. Industrial's the funniest bit.
There are clips of the gameshow spoofs on this fansite. In other news, it's Raven final week. They never used to eliminate someone on day one did they? Perhaps we're in for a properly rollicking final day or something. Today we received this anon(n)ymous tip off: "Terry Wogan to Host Uk version of amnesia" and we didn't think that much of it. But Tom H points out that he filmed a pilot recently where people answer questions on past events. It correlates! How exciting, we like it when that happens. We're betting it's going to be written as Amn£sia. Finally, the six shortlisted UK Eurovision hopefuls have been released. We like Popjustice's take on it: "You might recognise some of them and they're certainly well-equipped to represent the UK at Eurovision because with only one exception this year's entrants have all lost primetime Saturday night TV talent shows in front of millions of viewers." So there we are. 17th February 2008 It's the American Gladiators final tonightAnd do you know what? Despite initial misgivings, we've quite enjoyed the series. One or two points though.
16th February 2008 Upstaged
Well Upstaged is the new BBC Three/Endemol "initiative" to find some new talent to entertain the nation. Each day in two glass boxes in Bristol, two acts of wacky students and suchlike are asked to perform for six hours whilst being broadcast to the nation over the internet or live in Bristol's Millenium Square. The online community votes for their favourite with the winners staying on and the losers going home. You can also watch videos of other acts hoping to make it to the stage and vote for them to go forward. That is very new media isn't it. There's actually the grain of a decent idea here, but unfortunately most of the acts we've had a look at seem to consist of the aforementioned wacky students who will wake up in five years time and go "dear God, did I really think that was funny?" This said, we may well dip in and out of it in the run up to the live BBC Three shows hosted by Scott Mills beginning mid-March. Live streaming currently runs Monday to Fridays from 3:45-9:45. If you don't want to know the result look away now:
15th February 2008 Fort Boyard Friday. Ish.It's The Crystal Maze's 18th birthday today! Well done, it's now OFFICIALLY an adult. We could have done a sober video of various clips from the show (plenty of which already exist on YouTube). Or we could nick someone else's copy of the Adam and Joe Star Wars/Crystal Maze parody. Guess which one we went for.
14th February 2008 Sky Poker is quite goodAnd on Friday night they're going to have some proper celebrities on - not only Finnish comic Tomi Walamies (you know, Tomi Walamies!) but gameshowdom's very own David Bodycombe will be finishing about 440th as a celebrity guest in the £8,000 guaranteed Open. We will also be playing, and fully expect either DP Fitzgerald or Nick Wealthall to get our name not quite right in the heat of live television. Knocking either celeb out earns a £25 bounty. If you want to play and you're over 18, it will cost you £17. If you don't have Sky, you can also watch live through the internet (click on "Watch TV Live" up the top), The Open begins at 9pm. Top prize will be about £2,000, top 10% cash-in. 11th February 2008 The Clipton Factor: LostSeason four of island of mystery drama Lost has begun recently in America and Sky One. Here's ten minutes from the very first season.
Guh, we're such wags. It's no wonder we're the world's 1.8 millionth favourite website. 10th February 2008 Things that are hilarious:Vanity Lair on Channel 4. That's Yer (Pi)Lot: Priceless
8th February 2008 Fort Boyard Friday #53We think. Anyway, this one is specifically for our French chums, it's a video of Fort Boyard UK, series three and it's "Cabestan", which we're going to assume means "capstan" - not a new game, it was introduced in 1994 in France. But like our earlier FBFs, this is a video with a rather unfortunate twist - literally! For you, we also include the titles. To pre-empt your questions, the UK version worked on a slightly different prize structure - all the scores went onto a leaderboard, the top ranked team at the end of the series won £2,000, then £1,900 for the second best team and so on. Or so we were told.
And don't worry, we knew some of the team beforehand and we're told he made a full(ish) recovery. In other news, David J Bodycombe has been asking this in several places: "A thought for the group: The answer, obviously, is Chris Moyles. There's more at the end of the comment thread beneath the following one, but I put a new one here to focus your attention, or something. Also, we're going to see Priceless tomorrow, so expect some sort of pilot review thing tomorrow night. We're not getting our hopes up, but you never know. 6th February 2008 Let's take a look at new shows that SRO Audiences are advertising, and predict if they're likely to be a hit or not!
Brigbox Jury predicts three misses. It's very tempting to swap our Don't Forget the Lyrics ticket for One Wrong Move, though. In fact we'd like to see all of these but fun with possibly getting another job throws things up in the air a bit, unfortunately. Priceless films on Saturday, although if you thought Millionaire Manor was dull we can't see this being much better. Dale Winton doesn't have a good track record of shows with "...The Answer" in the title. In fact, if you include It's NOT The Answer and do some extrapolation, it's clear that You've Got The Answer will be very poor indeed. Why have silk when you can have Cotton?No hang on. Anyway, Fearne Cotton's quitting The Xtra Factor to go work in the States, co-hosting (for obvious reasons) Last Comic Standing. God, is Last Comic Standing still going? That question, obviously, is rhetorical. 5th February 2008 The Clipton Factor - Aussie Mole (again)Right-oh, this challenge was a bit clever, so much so that we couldn't really edit it down and so have split it into two. It's called "Hitchcock Hotel", a similar game also appeared in the first series of the US show. If you intend to watch the second series of Aussie Mole, we suggest you don't watch this as there's some fairly serious spoilerage, seeing as it comes from near the end of the run.
And here's part two here. 4th February 2008 Annoyed now.Right, YouTube is playing up again this evening for me, so we'll try The Clipton Factor again tomorrow. 2nd February 2008 Fort Boyard BirthdayWell sort of, this is episode 52 of Fort Boyard Friday (Or Occasionally Saturday) as it turns out, so that's close enough for us! Our very first clip was of Fangarna pa Fortet, the Swedish version of the show (it's the hilarious Anagram Game clip), so it seems fair that we close the first year with another clip from the Swedish show. This is the Treasure Room, but it works on slightly different rules than we've seen anywhere else. They get in through the flooded underground like in the original La Cles... and unlock the door from the inside. They then try to find the codeword. But rather than have the door close on them if they're wrong, one of them must come out and act as a sacrifice, and this keeps going until they run out of time or get it right. It's quite an interesting system.
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