… after Big Brother according to one line in a Broadcast article.
Something something joke about selective editing something something Digital Spy forums, probably.
Edit: Comments include a disussion on future sporting phenomenon Powersnooker.
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If anyone wants to be on The Chase, there’s a new contestant call on UKGameshows.com: http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Contestant_Calls
It’s Tenball for the 21st century!
http://powersnooker.com/
Where does gameshow end and sporting event begin? Something that only exists because of television being involved and no-one else would play? I can’t see John at my local club being too happy if I smear tippex on one of the reds to make a powerball.
I’m sure I’ve asked that before.
That sounds awesome.
It’s going to occupy a grey area I think, like Pot Black, World’s Strongest Man and any number of poker shows. Although I suggest that it’s pitching itself more as a televised event rsther than something made purely for television would be counting against it.
Use of the term ‘PowerZone’ is equally awesome and cringeworthy. As does the entire concept of PowerPlay.
This might be quite good. Gonna watch it regardless.
My one worry with Powersnooker is that because it runs to time rather than amount of frames, would it be too easy for someone to shut an opponent out? I accept that having to take a shot within twenty seconds is going to force a lot of mistakes, and doubtless scope for strategic play is going to be more limited in favour of potting as many balls as you can.
Plus, if you get a century break, the bonuses pretty much put the game out of reach (the powerzone and powerplays notwithstanding)…should be interesting to watch, I’ve got to remember to make a request for it when it comes up…
My gut feeling thinks it needs to be best of three or five really. But this event is all about Barry Hearne showing the format off, so I expect on the day it will work out OK with the finer points to come through later.
It sounds, er… a bit silly, really. But then I don’t even like the players having walk-on music. Anyway, doesn’t look like it would count as a gameshow. At this point.
It’s probably quite lucky that snooker is generally on the BBC, although I’d be fascinated to find out what Sky (for example) would use as the snooker equivilent of The Darts Song (aka Chase the Sun) to go into the breaks with.
Oi! Oi! Oi!
Whatever it is, it’d never beat Drag Racer by the Doug Wood Band.
Supposedly Power Snooker is going to be broadcast on ITV4, which has darts, and which does have a Darts Song of its own: the do-da-do, do-da-do, do-da-do-da-do-da-do part from Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis, which is probably about as close a tribute you can come to the concept of everyone singing along on Sky.
Let us hope that there is a snooker song, even if we already have had The Snooker Song. As this is all essentially a load of scat, and as presumably Land of a Thousand Dances is going to be Ant and Dec territory (see ver ‘Stick passim) I’m hoping for a Scatman John revival with a snookeriffic remix of Scatman’s World.
Bom-digga-digga-ba-dom-ba-digga-dom POW-ER-PLAYYYYY!
Pow-er Snoo-ker diggy-bop, pow-er snoo-ker bobba-da,
boop-bop digga-da, boop-bop Barry Hearn,
bop-bop double-points, boo-bop DA DA DIGGA DA BOO-DOP
(etc.)
However you’d need a Scatman John v2. Because v1 is dead, sadly.
Dead? No, surely he has just passed on into the Scatman’s World. Bom-digga-digga-(etc.)
Three new housemates to go into BB tomorrow night. Just four weeks from the end!
Only 4 weeks left? Have they shortened the series?
Four weeks, then there’s the Championship of Champions, to determine that (Anna Nolan | Jon Tickle | Sue Perkins) is more popular than (Susie Verrico | Spiral | George Galloway).
As for Mr. Edgar-Jones, I wish him well, and I genuinely look forward to seeing a show of his that doesn’t involve people cooped up in a house on the outskirts of London.
Powersnooker? That’s almost like a format of snooker we used to play in the lunchbreak at work when we got bored of the proper rules (except ours didn’t have any unecessarly confusing powerzone areas).
Our version went
Rack of reds contain 10 balls. White and colours as normal. Breakoff from the ‘D’ white must bounce off the top cushion after hitting the reds.
All fouls count double, and say you potted the white 8 points would be removed from your score and given to your opponent. Plus the white could be placed anywhere on the table.
Pink and Black if potted into the bulk pockets count double – likewise the yellow green and blue double points if potted into the top pockets (i.e opposite ends of the table to their spots).
Each game lasts three frames. Each scored individually, however scores are totalled up at the end and the one with the most points won..err nothing. Loser won a miserable afternoon back in the office thinking what may have been though.
Tell you what – there were some real titanic stuggles over the baize in the lower basement games room with this variant of the game, I can tell you.
FYI, US premiere dates:
Survivor- Wed Sep 15th (1 hour premiere).
TAR- Sun Sep 26th (90 minute premiere).
USBB looks to end on either Sep 15th or 16th.
Phil Edgar-Jones is a great man, I’ve met him a few times and he’s charming and knows his stuff. He’s made BB into the huge success that it is for Channel 4 (even now it still gets good viewing figures for them). I hope he doesn’t go to a rival production company.
“Pink and Black if potted into the bulk pockets count double – likewise the yellow green and blue double points if potted into the top pockets (i.e opposite ends of the table to their spots).”
Was Big Break being broadcast at this time Mart? ‘Cause this idea isn’t dissimilar to an aspect of the Pocket Money round.
No – it was after Big Break finished, and yes, that’s where I got the idea from…
.. and got away with it as my then regular opponent never watched the show as he had an borderline phsycotic hatred of Jim Davidson.
Now – where’s me no-dad waistcoat? ;o)
…When you said ‘borderline psychotic hatred’ I seem to have filtered it to ‘sensible opinion’…
Very shortly after all this talk about Powersnooker, Alex Higgins passes away.
RIP Hurricane.
Though he had already clung on far longer than anyone thought physically possible. Every few months for the last decade or so, I’d see something that mentioned he was still alive, and I’d think “really? Blimey!”.