Thanks to Brekkie for linking to a sneak peek of the new season of Wipeout (you’ll need to sit through an advert and a basketball-based Wipeout ad to get to the good stuff). It all looks very involved.
Also exciting, by my reckoning, is that there’s a new episode of Run For Money on Fuji TV on Sunday Tuesday night. Fingers crossed for a short-lived Youtube upload.
AND! It’s the Survivor Finale on Sunday night, which I can’t watch until Tuesday.
There’s a 15 second advert for Tuesday’s Run for Money here: http://www.fujitv.co.jp/GPplayer/e/GPplayerJMe.html?variety/kaspe/100518kaspe&type=flv
… Which reveals nothing at all, apart form it being in Okinawa this time!
Yes the 18th is a Tuesday isn’t it? I’m an idiot.
In other news, SRO Audiences are releasing tickets for a new BBC2 show called Perfection. I wonder who is behind it?
12Yard
http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/beonashow/perfection
Oh now that is interesting! Thanks!
I don’t think it sounds very good, by the way, but the reasons this is mildly (well not very) interesting will come out in the wash soon enough.
You’ve kind of given it away in your Twitter feed.
Did it work? Have you retrospectively disenfranchised them if their efforts were too simplistic? (I rather hope so…) And did anyone seriously vote for Your Kids Are In Charge?
Our votes better be counted! We enjoy reading the bar antics just as much as any of you, and we’re fully entitled to like the shows you all don’t like.
Did you think entering with several different Hotmail addresses from the same computer, for a show that hasn’t actually made it to air yet wouldn’t look suspicious?
For the record, if your votes for The Colour of Money stand, it would finish 29th. I will keep this here as a permanent tribute.
We didn’t use the same computer and I have a yahoo account, not sure what the other two’s emails are. For your info we didn’t make up any of the shows we voted for if that makes you feel less like we are trying to ‘fix’ the results.
How does Jellybean know there are two other emails, eh? Eh?
Forgot to add that it’s 12Yard for the BBC. Yet, ITV get the first say on all new 12Yard formats whether they want it on their channel .
Well that has got to be a first for In It To Win It… the absolute definition of unjust but fair IMHO.
And as I type this, four consecutive 3s come out in the Dream Number, and Alan Dedicoat gets some bit excited about it.
Last week we had the first person to win the entire prize fund by answering one question. While tonight’s show has created the first person to answer all twenty questions in the main game but answer the final question incorrectly. As an irony, Olly was adapting the Eggheads why of thinking tonight by using logic to work out the answer but the logic on the final question didn’t match to the right answer.
Felt too good to be true to have 2 X £100,000 winners tonight, especially to have IItWI’s three days before the show is eight years old.
Yet it looked like Olly was veering towards the right answer when he ruled out 1935, and thought about how old the Beatles would have been when they were formed, Paul McCartney’s current age (he’s actually not yet 68), and John Lennon’s assassination.
But I suppose when it’s a single question for £100k or nothing, and when there’s so much expectaction on your shoulders after doing so well beforehand, it is easy for the tension and pressure to get to you.
It’s just like missing the final black for a 147 break after some excellent pots, or messing up the 18th hole after a good number of birdies and eagles.
Because we all work together silly. I’m not denying we work for 12 Yard, I’m just denying that we were trying to fix anything. We were just putting our opinions in on the vote!
I am perfectly happy to take your votes, Jellybean, as the first list to be sent in. Your colleagues were stupid enough to vote for Perfection, a show which hasn’t happened yet and is therefore inelegible, and have effectively spoiled their ballot. I actually went round asking people if this was a kids show we’d missed or something! The writing style certainly suggests youth.
I’m not too bothered about production team lobbying – up to a point, it’s nice to be noticed. I’m not even bothered about The Colour of Money potentially making the top 30 – some people liked it, and it’s fun to have a rogue show in these things to mix it up a bit. I am slightly bothered when things look suspect and turn out to be possibly suspect, given the evidence.
That’s fine, I just hope you realise that our voting was in no way a malicious attempt to infiltrate and corrupt the Game Show Elections! I think the zealous Perfection voting is because it’s the first development credit our junior team members will be getting. We all look forward to hearing your comments about it.
Well, I wish it best of luck – I’m not overly convinced by the premise but I’ve changed my mind about things before. I may yet come down and see it live. Thanks for your input, Jellybean.