Well this will be quick this week:
- The BotherSOP Game 6 (8pm BST/1500ET, Sunday, Full Tilt) – discussion page is here.
- Survivor (Thursday, CBS)
- Fort Boyard (about half five, Friday, TV5 Europe)
- The Whole 19 Yards (7pm, Saturday, ITV1)
Well done, television!
Isn’t Amazing Race on some kind of Country Music Awards-related break this week?
Yes it is! Good spot.
Ratings Bear, grr has got last night’s ratings for you, grr.
Britain’s Got Talent: 10.6m (44.0%)
Over The Rainbow: 4.5m (21.6%)
The Whole 19 Yards: 4.3m (21.7%)
Who Dares Wins: 4.0m (16.6%)
Total Wipeout: 3.1m (22.1%)
An excellent rating for Cowellmeister, although the acts was poor (it only covered London and Birmingham), the rating proved to be the highest rating for a launch show and acheived more than “Who Should Run the Country? The First Conman Debate”. Which means Simon Cowell should be Prime Mininster.
Kerknick Kernowles has done well against Cowellmeister and secured a better rating than 1 Vs 100 this time last year.
18th April 2009
Britian’s Got Talent – Auditions Part 2 – 11.9 million
1 Vs 100 – 3.6 million
Also praise goes to Vernon Kay as his first rating secured Cube/Take Me Out esque ratings and hit above the 20% share they need for a Saturday primetime show. Something Duel and The Colour of Money didn’t obtain, which lead to two lovely meals. It also beat The Phantom when the shows were pitched head to head. Also good news for Total Wipeout, a respectable rating for such a early timeslot.
Britain’s Got Talent is quite a long way off the 20 million it got last year. Finally viewers are getting fed up of Simon Cowell. There is a God afterall!!!
The show never got 20 million. It peaked with 19.2 million for the 30 minute results show, The first show (featuring Susan Boyle) had around the same figure as last year. As Ratings Bear has stated, we only saw two audition venues in the 90 minutes. We have yet to see anything from Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle and Cardiff.
Glasgow and Newcastle will have worse talent, surely? *sniggers*
Newcastle never held auditions for the show. There were plans to have a one day audition in Newcastle last year but they had the cancel it, no idea why, something to do with the theatre not being suitable.
As for Glasgow, that was the venue Subo auditioned.
Was watching a recording of Who Dares Wins. Nick asked for the countries in Asia. How did United Kingdom end up in the list. Was it a typo from the BBC?
I think it was some kind of UK-owned atoll in the Indian Ocean.
Then surely they should have used the proper name? They don’t call Gibraltar the UK, do they?!
Gibraltar is not a country though.
I have also discovered there will be a final 48 this year. Meaning there will be six semi finals, twelve acts for the final. Since the Champions League final is on Saturday 22nd May, with Eurovision on 29th May. The final will be aired on 5th June with the semi finals running daily from Sunday 30th May to Friday 4th June.
Does Brig know if the games on Whole 19 Yards change every week or is it the same ones every week?
Well, the “next time” bit would suggest it’s different games every week. Indeed, it looks like they’re using Caught in the Net (from the pilot) for round one (using the same set from Twin Peaks), Walk in the Dark with some twists for round two, and a third round involving kids tricycles.
Nearly forgot to do my usual Who Dares Wins recap.
Margaret and Jon returned to face Alex and Liz, and almost immediately Jon proved himself to be no more endearing than he was last week – particularly when he started a gesturing game with Alex.
No reminders are needed of what the first list was. A & L were invited to name 18, and did just that, giving some very good answers along the way – Paul Daniels/Bob Monkhouse Wipeout in particular. Still find it hard to believe that Dishes was on the list…
When Nick told M & J that they had to win the next list, Jon didn’t hesitate to say “Oh, we will.” Sadly, he was right. Alex and Liz put in a bid of 30 – as our host pointed out, the highest ever – for the top 50 tourist city destinations worldwide, but only got a tenth of the way before saying Washington DC, which perhaps surprisingly was only 63rd.
So, for the first time in three episodes, we had a tiebreak list. The four contestants came up with some of the most obvious kings and queens of England since 1066 who reigned for over twenty years, before Alex and Liz chanced James I. If you want to know, he was king of England from 1603-25, as well as being James VI of Scotland from 1567.
With their opponents more or less out of ideas, Margaret and Jon had a great chance to gain the ascendancy – but failed. In all fairness, their reasoning that Queen Anne must have reigned a long time because she had so many children wasn’t the greatest. In fact, including stillbirths and miscarriages, her 17th and last child was born two years before she became queen. Also, did they not know that the present queen had already given birth to Prince Charles and Princess Anne when she ascended the throne?
Whatever, they’d lost their crown! In the case of Jon, HOORAY! And the £10k they finished with was only a fifth of the amount managed by Cassy and Clint – which Jon said last week was enough already, even though they’d won just one game and £25k meant a hell of a lot to Clint. Haw haw!
I’m really sorry for being incredibly cruel here, but the fact of the matter is I just did not like Jon at all. I don’t disrespect anyone who did, mind – I never disrespect opinions that differ from mine – but I simply could not warm to him. I didn’t mind Margaret, though.
Anyway, Alex and Liz easily got to £10k with their knowledge of Queen UK top 40 hits, but then came to a bit of a juddering halt. If they had been just a bit more sure, they would have got another £5k, but these things happen.
Then they faced Brian – who didn’t look all that dissimilar to CJ de Mooi – and Emma, who one would think consumed a fair amount of sugary stuff beforehand. The new challengers were invited to name European Ryder Cup golfers since 1991, but Sandy Lyle was too early for this list. He actually isn’t terribly old – at 52 he is younger than the likes of Nick Faldo and Tom Watson – but his prime happened to end in his early 30s, which is unusually young.
B & E were let in again on Jack Nicholson films, but fell two short when they plumped for Carlito’s Way – and so, like Tex and Alison two weeks ago, Alex and Liz got another crack at the money list without having to give an answer.
This time round, it was the 20 current countries whose names are last alphabetically, and they had no trouble getting Zimbabwe, Zambia, Yemen and then Venezuela. But Yugoslavia meant that for the second time in as many shows, £5k was lost. Unlike Margaret and Jon, though, they didn’t explicitly consider some good answers before going for the wrong one.
“Dishes” is quite explicable – it got masses of hits when Kate Thornton was doing “The X Factor”, and next-to-nothing before or since.