Saturday, 7:15pm (UK) 8:15 (CET),
Pro Sieben and naughty internet streaming
Yo, what are you doing this evening? Not much these days I bet! So why not join us as two celebs battle it out for €100,000 in an empty studio across fifteen mystery games, one of which will be Blamieren oder Kassieren, live on German television?
As ever we will have our Discord open for live chat and quizzing and gossip and stuff. Remember it’s a privilege not a right so behave yourselves. To avoid cutting out, we advise turning Auto-sensitivity off and setting it to -85dB or so in your settings.
THIS EPISODE! It’s Dutch model on model action as Sylvie Meis takes on Lilly Becker.
The link to the Youtube commentary stream will be live here from 7:15pm until end of broadcast.
This stream is commentary only. You will need to have a naughty stream running at the same time for the visuals. We are likely to be about 15-20 seconds behind the visual stream (and about a full minute behind if you’re watching an actual satellite feed), sorry.
The Opera VPN has apparently stopped being useful for SdS. Bother’s Bar recommends shelling out for a proper VPN service. Bother’s Bar uses ExpressVPN, other VPN services are available. Matt Clemson recommends Windscribe as a free alternative. We cannot take responsibility for anything you do to your system, so be careful and use some common sense.
To watch it would be useful to sign up for ProSieben’s catch-up service – it’s pretty simple to work out, don’t click the box if you don’t want e-mail messages. You will need to put in a proper e-mail because it will send you a confirmation.
If anyone knows of any relatively safe livestreams, do feel free to share.
I’m kind of in two minds about the pool last night – when did it become not OK to have never played pool before, and have another think about the detail that game rules were set out in advance for something like The Genius – but ABSOLUTE SCENES in the latest Marbula E with the most CONTROVERSIAL moment yet.
> when did it become not OK to have never played pool before
Dunno, I’m working class.
Eh, I think it’s more a nationality issue than a class issue… but a bit of research suggests that there are reasonably comparable numbers of German and, for instance, British players in both the men’s and women’s rankings for pool, so maybe not.
Reading some of the German fan sites, it is apparently the case (as I had long suspected) that the candidates have to fill out a long survey of sports and activities with which they have at least some familiarity, so that you don’t put a tennis racquet into the hand of someone who’s never played before.
So, Sylvie must have ticked that box for them to give her that game (unless she thought they were talking about a swimming pool…)
Although even then the game was Billiard.
There’s quite an entertaining translation of Elton’s next-morning post-mortem translated by our Thomas in the Discord General Chat right now.
Further to my investigations of old Schlag episodes that are now up on YouTube, there’s news just in from the year 2008, about why the Wheel game in show 13 had to be famously rerun, which can be seen here:
https://youtu.be/0Q3Duwil4Is
They explain it later, but basically Raab did only 17 revolutions of the wheel instead of the targeted 25 because the computer counter in the corner was going crazy. Raab won the rerun anyway.
Bother’s Bar – first for news.
50 mins in is the relevant section
In a move that probably won’t do the long-term future of the show any harm, Schlag den Star won the “Best Director” prize at the German TV awards.
If the show continues into next year, there will have been more episodes of Schlag den Star than Schlag den Raab.
I believe it’s been recommissioned recently.
Given how many important shots the directors seem to miss imagine the quality of the other nominees!