Will probably be on iPlayer at some point, quite an entertaining interview about his radio career and his gameshow career.
Richard BAcon admits he had no idea what was going on with 19 Keys.
Also: Vicky Coren fans! She’s on Question Time tomorrow. Surely nothing can go wrong.
Who Wants to Be A Millionaire is back on Tuesday 13th April at 8pm. It’s a Celebrity special with James Sutton and some other Z listers.
Not surprised, there are four celebrity specials that were recorded back in October we have yet to see. One of those is a botched editing job since it will feature one pair from the October shows and Mike Read & Robin Gibb from the Christmas recording.
I’d thought they would air the four celeb specials on Sundays at 7pm (to fill the Beat the Star void) then air the new format on Tuesday nights.
How many episodes with members of the public have been recorded for this year?
I know This is Yorkshire has signed up to be the latest sponsor for 18 weeks. So by my reckoning
4 celebrity episodes, recorded in October & November.
2 civillian episodes, using the previous 12 question format, recorded in October.
12 civillian episodes, using the new format, recorded in February.
Provided I am right there are still the two civillian episodes from 2009 to be aired, ITV will probably brodcast the first six episodes, then take a break for the World Cup, as there are plans for a summer break. With the latest episodes to feature the new format to be shown afterwards.
RUN FOR MONEY’S BEEN TAKEN DOWN!!
Nooooooo….and a DAY before I was going to watch it proper too.
Yes I’ve just noticed that (I noticed that the channel was something like the 7th most popular in Japan!). There are other episodes floating around though – this one is set in the same place as the one Daniel pointed to, but is an older episode, and includes an amusing bonus round where the surviving runners can gamble their winnings if they can survive twenty minutes against four hunters who were losing players!
Also, this gentleman here has a couple of full episodes. Modern ones, too.
Basically, there’s plenty floating about, you’ve just got to know what to look for!
The interview’s up on the Bacon Bits podcast. Link expires about 1pm UK time on 7 April. And if I had a pound every time we heard Bacon talk about , I’d be able to buy Channel 5.
Good stuff, thanks Iain.
Good shout, I enjoyed that! Chris Tarrant completely rules the roost, showing Bacon for the lightweight he is.
I did enjoy Bacon quoting that Tarrant has more game shows to his name than anyone else, to which Tarrant claimed this must have come from Wikipedia – when surely it must have come from UKGS? Attribution would have been welcome. Ah well.
Some day, either here or UKGS will be important enough that Tarrant will want to plug his wares here as well as everywhere else, and it would be lovely to get to pick the Tarrant brain in greater detail – hopefully we could keep him on the topic rather better than Bacon does. (Might be worth contacting Tarrant’s agent over the next day or two to see if he could squeeze one or other of us in on his all-media publicity blitz, though obviously he’d be much more likely to do so before the first episode rather than after…)
To be fair, they invited me on the show last month but unfortunately we were flying back from Vienna at the time of the broadcast.
UKGS is actually specifically mentioned in Wikipedia’s Chris Tarrant article. Which is nice.
A bit of a blast from the past in Germany- former host of “The 100.000 Mark Show” Ulla Kock am Brink is going to host “The Perfect Minute” (aka Minute to Win It) starting in late April:
http://www.sat1.de/die-perfekte-minute/
Excellent find David. Looks like the videos are region locked. At least I will be able to watch the show come 30th April, although it does go head to head with WWM.
I actually found this site after a quick google video search- this isn’t region locked..
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/7435595/Die_perfekte_Minute
Excellent! I see the videos are virtually the same to the NBC version. For some reason I think the show could do well in Germany, on the basis it’s Germany and they like to broadcast obscure shows.
I wish an Italian or German channel buys The Cube.