Wooh! It sounds like Give Us A Clue is coming back after a successful run in The Netherlands (well, it’s had a pilot, nobody’s picked it up yet) with George Lamb hosting, and Rufus Hound and Kirsten O Brien as team captains. The show has some “modern twists” – here’s hoping for the return of the lateral thinking puzzle!
Try and mime your sense of excitement.
And look! You can watch the Dutch show here:
http://www.hints.kro.nl/uitzendingen/uitzending.aspx?afl=10823445
Watching this so far, two mixed teams of four, round one has eight clues, contestants come up individually and choose a clue by number (sort of Only Connect style), 90 seconds on the clock, 15 points if they get it in the first 30, 10 if they get it before the time runs out, can be thrown across for a five point bonus.
Is set (as all new shows must by law) in a penthouse, dance music and needless clock music as usual.
To be honest, I forgot how much I used to enjoy this show growing up, I think if they get decently competitive enough celebs involved it could work. Going to watch the rest now.
It really won’t be the same without Lionel Blair, of course – although he’ll never top this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvaNcGLa0Jw
Blimey, The Ant and Dec Show was brilliant!
Spike Milligan did a similar song about getting in a bin around 30 years before that – and it was funnier.
I would post a clip of youtubeage to help in my case for the prosecution – but (apart from a naff tribute act doing the dustbin dance) no clips exist.
Round two the same as round one.
Round three is the all important speed round, one player from each team picks a card with a category and five things to act in that cateogry in 2:30. It sounds like 25 points for each one they get, with a 50 point bonus if they get all five. Mmm.
I think 40 minutes of it is a bit much, but it’s quite good fun even when it’s not in the native language. It is very important the UK version has cushions to throw at the other side Win, Lose or Draw style.
I’m finding it horribly hard to avoid self-parodying and claiming that even more important than ballistic cushions would be a six-minute orchestral opening sequence with two arias, Greek chorus and fugue.
Hooray for Kirsten O’Brien! (…he says, pretty much entirely out of local loyalty.) As Jeff Stelling would say, Richard will be pleased.
It is a pity that the three regulars on this show fit the show’s old theme in precisely no way, shape or form whatsoever, even with some creative syllable work.