OK, quite a lot to get through this evening ranging from the quite interesting to the pretty crap, let’s have a look. Remember, everything’s been sent in anonymously, I’ve tried to remove anything that I suspect is an attention seeking lie, but I can’t make any guarantees of the veracity of what follows. Eyes down, look in:
Jeopardy UK board is 25/50/75/100/150.
Yes we’ve heard this, and also the way they’ll be getting an hour out of it is Single/Single/Double/Final. That means that I think the min-maximum, if they put all the Daily Doubles in the bottom row, of £121, 600. What will actually be given away a show is probably closer to £1,500.
SAS: Who Dares Wins – next series is taking place in the Arctic rather than the desert.
Chilling.
You were asking on Twitter earlier how Aussie Traitors has done on iPlayer and that it isn’t beyond the realms of possibility that more people have watched it in the UK than in the home country. Well, episodes have been requested between 230k and 600k times but each request is being watched about 50% on average. So far!
Thanks, really interesting and yes given it was getting around 250k an episode in Australia it’s certainly close, and I suspect those figures don’t include the BBC3 transmissions.
Heard Lego Masters is officially canned. No xmas special this year.
ITV want another run of In With A Shout.
Can believe. Where’s Picture Slam got to, eh?
Tenable is almost certainly not returning. The repeats get healthy numbers and there simply are no more potato products to list.
I can believe this, there’s currently no contestant call out for it.
ITV has been kicking around the idea of reviving Don’t Try This at Home(!) in some form – live studio, VT challenges. Would make sense as a SNT replacement but feels very early to nail colours to the mast if that’s the thinking.
Don’t Try This At Home feels like the sort of show there are probably loads of TV people would quite like to make happen so I can believe it. I think you’d need to add stakes to it in 2023 though.
Is there any truth to the rumors regarding who “actually” owns Hollywood/Celebirty squares? I’m wondering cuz people on the buzzerblog discord suspect there maybe a “use it or lose it” cause (similar to the dispute over Sony/2waytraffic/CPL vs ABC/Disney regarding the rights to US millionaire, where contractual obligations force Disney to produce a version every couple of years lest they lose the rights.). This might explain why paramount made hip hop squares for mtv2 in 2012 and revived it for vh1 between 2017-19, and why its getting revived now under the clebirty squares name (which is what the uk version uses) for BET. Your take on these rumors? (It does line up…)
My “take”, like I’m sort of US sports commentator now, is that I could not give more of a toss about Celebrity Squares. Who is clamouring for it? If they’re going to reboot it in the UK, I hope the sound effects aren’t extremely anaemic like last time. We don’t need Celebrity Squares, we’ve got Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel. Perhaps they’ll make it really funny in the US, who knows.
Channel 5 interested in a revival of Total Wipeout.
Their parent Paramount does have a big presence in Argentina, where the Wipeout set is located, so that could be a factor in their decision.
Mmm. On the one hand I can see the logic, on the other it’s not the sort of thing that’s going to happen unless several countries are on board to film there, and I’ve heard absolutely nothing to suggest this would be the case – they don’t seem to have made the Cena/Byer US one for at least 18 months, and didn’t that one film in Texas?
ITV have plans for a series consisting of one-off programmes based on offshoots of their most popular shows, so think Celebrity Cyclone from IAC, Casa Amor from Love Island, Get Out Me Ear from Saturday Night Takeaway.
No tentative timeslot yet, but just personally thinking, could a Saturday night could work?
There was definitely talk of a Celebrity Cyclone spin-off wasn’t there? A series of one-offs might be quite interesting, although I suspect after filling out for an hour you understand why they’re better served as a ten-minute bit. What else could they do? 60 minutes of the think music from The 1% Club?
Popmaster greenlit for second series
I suspect this will be true even if it isn’t true right now.
ITV open to more sitting on a fortune. issue is moneyball and whether they will commission one as they came as joint commission
SOAF is an interesting one as it spent several weeks below 2m and suddenly had a bit of a spurt in the final weeks. I do think series two of Moneyball is an improved show, but it’s certainly not a must watch. Neither of them are must watches really.
Is your stool pigeon in the logo singing the Finnish 2023 Eurovision entry to the journalist?
No, he’s singing Stool Pigeon by Kid Creole and the Coconuts, as sampled in the seminal Gold Digger by The Dolly Rockers (gone too soon). And it’s to a policeman!
The international Wipeout set in Argentina was filled in back in 2012 or so – it’s why tge BBC version was axed.
US films in California but they’ve 20 episodes filmed back in late 2021 still to be aired yet, though some have aired internationally.
About In With a shout’s mention of this thread, TVZone took note and confirmed it with ITV.
https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/inwithshout-itvexcs2r1
Update on Don’t Try This At Home
https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/dttah-itvrebrep1
Bit late here, I know – but calling DTTAH a “classic” show is pushing it just a little bit, isn’t it?
It *was* brilliant, of course it was – but it only ran for three years, whereas the show it directly replaced ran for nearly a decade and is better remembered (especially the years under its second host).
DTTAH was Davina’s show in many ways – so if a revival *did* come about and she wasn’t involved, I’m not sure I’d be inclined to watch, unless the title was different.