One of my favourite buildings in the entire world, and certainly my favourite place to go and see things being taped – BBC Television Centre – is 50 today.
Come on, how can you sell this off?
In other news, I’m aware that ads for 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow have started appearing, although I’ve not caught one yet. I do know it starts on Saturday July 10th, which is the night Fort Boyard starts also.
Has Run For Money turned up anywhere yet, anyone?
Youtube never fails to find ads
Ta, nothing showed up when I searched earlier.
Looks quite cool, actually.
COOL?
It looks AMAZING!!!
Hmm – looks like it could do what Downfall isn’t’ – and that’s dropping contestants properly.
I’m rather hoping that part of the prize for the winner is the chance to leave the show through the most spectacular route, rather than that they don’t have to leave it at all, to make the exits overtly part of the reward rather than a punishment.
I’m wondering if that’s what happens with the contestants who decide to walk away.
USBB apparently will have a saboteur in the house who won’t be playing to win- maybe a production person in disguise? The media embargo expires Wednesday morning US time, so we’ll probably get the cast and full information then.
In other news, All Star Mr and Mrs, Deal or No Deal, Total Wipeout and Chris Moyles’ Quiz Night are the rather unexciting nominations for Best Gameshow at the TV Choice Awards: http://www.tvchoicemagazine.co.uk
The USBB cast has been released- no one too surprising (oldest person is 40), but one intriguing person is an Orthodox Jew who says he won’t compete in competitions on the Sabbath. Also interesting is that 13 HG’s have been announced, but rumors are there were supposed to be 14…
See this I find interesting, because in theory, isn’t the whole thing a big competition?
John de Mol’s putting together a bid to buy Five – and apparently would produce content for them if he’s successful.
Big Brother brought back, then?
Mmm. but his Talpa channel wasn’t all that successful, was it?
Hmm. I think the De Mol/Five bid and Big Brother is in part a lazy hack putting 2 and 2 together to make 5.6
My view has been that with Kevin Lygo going across the Thames to the South Bank later this year, I still think come next year there will be a chance that Big Brother could still end up doing a summer job on ITV2 with eviction night on ITV1.
It fits the audience profile for ITV2 and brings in the lucrative advertisers falling over themeselves to sell to the 18-40 audience demographic that ITV1 craves.
Mart-with-a-Y is probably going to be proven correct, if not next year (there may be a contractual block until 2012) then a little down the line. ITV has ratings bankers in the autumn (“The X Factor”), in the winter (“Dancing On Ice”), and in the spring (“Britain’s Got Talent”). All its summer shows have been tremendous failures, it’s as if the network gives up and goes away between June and August.
The problem I see with the whole ITV idea is that “Big Brother” divides audiences like no other: it’s predominantly female, class-representative, and tremendously young. Viewership amongst people 50 and over is negligible. That’s not a problem for ITV2, where the target demographic is also female and young, but it’s a headache for ITV proper where the target is just about anyone who can put a television on. I really can’t see a Friday night schedule of Coronation Street – Big Brother – News at Ten – Big Brother working. On the other other hand, ITV’s existing Friday night schedule isn’t exactly must-see television.
For my money, Channel 5 seems to be the obvious retirement home for Big Brother, they have three television channels to fill and enough content to fill about half of one channel. Fiver (previously Five Life) could even get their resident voice-over lady to augment Marcus Bentley’s narration. Oh.
Watched Downfall, episode 2. The shock value of things falling off a roof is gone, but somehow the novelty is still there. I was actually hoping to see certain prizes going over just to see what they look like falling off of a building. But even when the novelty wears off, I’m actually liking the game itself, although it does seem rather stacked against the contestant. Jericho seems to be much more in his element already, which makes me happy. I’m glad the show seems to be moving a lot more quickly now. On the whole, I’d say the second episode left a much better mark on me than the first episode, and I’m thinking I could enjoy watching this some more.
Unrelated: Is anyone else suspicious that the debut episode was supposed to have been a two-hour deal, but they decided to break it up in post?
Apparently after the ratings and feedback for episode one they rushed into the edit bay and recut the second episode. I’ve got no idea what the big changes were, but there we go.
I didn’t think I’d bother with ep2 but I have and I AM enjoying it! The logo and title music are so very similar to Buzz! on the Playstation, don’tcha think?
If there was to be a UK version, it would have to take place on top of TLS or TVC, which would never happen of course.
They should’ve done Hole in the Wall on TVC and have the play area on the edge of the roof.
If comissioned here, it would probably be somewhere well known like Canary Wharf or the Natwest Tower.
They should, of course, do it on the same building used in the titles for Increeeeeeeeeedible Games!
This.
Great idea Brig… get The Lift to be the host… Walliams era though… hang on… I’m 14, how do I know about Incredible Games :/
My guess is that you’d know of “Incredible Games” in the same way that I know of it: via YouTube. One complete episode (the celebrity episode that ended the first series) is uploaded in three parts.
I believe there is also an entry in Wikipedia.
These resources are great, giving those of who are too young–or too distant–the chance to see what is what.
There is a second, regular episode up there last time I looked.
Somehow I remembered it when it was originally aired in 1994. All I remember is the American voice of the lift, and the Victorian Schoolmaster game, both of which appearing in S2.
The important thing to remember is that AT NO POINT was the show hosted by the late Mark Speight.
Perpetuating the Bar’s favourite misinformation, my wife recently helped out at an event where author Dean Wilkinson promoted The Classic Children’s Televison Quiz Book. Parsing the title, that’s the (Classic Children’s Television) (Quiz Book) and, sadly for us, not the (Classic Children’s Television Quiz) (Book). Wrenching this back on topic, it is dedicated to the late great Mark Speight and his Speight of the Art charity.
(This might be a duplicate, I’m getting 500 internal server errors from time to time – probably just a temporary glitch.)
Yes, sorry, currently we get 3-4 problem free days followed by a couple of hours where the site becomes a bit weird. Not sure what the cause is, I hope I’m not overloading the server or anything.
I see one of the Bernies The Bolt has died: http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2010/06/29/bernie-the-bolt-of-tv-game-show-the-golden-shot-dies-65233-26744574/
Would you like some German Desert Forges?
That is definitely an “Awesmite Sam” (*) find.
(*) This is my new phrase for things that are awesome.
Also you may notice that Franklin is the same Franklin that hosted Die 100.000- Show around 2000.