Right, well if you can “only connect” to the Bar later through all the CGI errors (sorry about that), let’s have a good old chat about the new series of Only Connect.
A big surprise is promised. What could it be?
In the meantime, if I can sort out the iPad’s exciting synching issues, look out for a review of the The Cube app sometime on Wednesday. I’ve got seven or eight things to review lined up.
a couple clips from the Italian Lyrics Board (Don’t Shoot the Piano Player) pilot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgOPbBQFrmY
Thanks for that, I knew The Lyric Board was a quite popular show in Ireland at one time, but I hadn’t actually seen it before.
It’s one of Ireland’s most successful exported formats, in fact.
Finally… Run for Money:
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/6ZVpoJPMDwU/
Here’s a write up of the missions if it’s needed (I’ve not watched it yet so I don’t know how complicated they are, or not):
http://bkeshiheads.runboard.com/t2017,offset=40#post303169
Tremendous, ta Dan.
Meanwhile, 71 Degrees North starts Saturday:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2010/sep/06/itv-reality-show-71-degrees
It appears that Gavin Henson’s other job these days is trying not to get killed on TV, what with that show on Bravo an’ that.
Been watching German TV and notice Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (Wer Wird Milionair) is still airing. I think they are one of the few countries to have been on the air for so long (nearly 11 years) that they’re still using the 15 question money tree and original music score. They are still using the fourth lifeline in exchange for the question 10 safe haven but Fastest Finger Finger has now been reduced from ten contestants to only five.
The German public cannot be getting bored with the show, it’s still airing twice a week.
WWTBAM returned today in Italy. they’re back to the original rules but with one safe level, placed by the contestant before playing
I notice on the BBC website that tonight’s show is 1/16. I thought 20 episodes were recorded?
Some are specials to be broadcast for upcoming BBC4 seasons, I’m sure David won’t mind me saying.
It’s nice to see a familiar face on the first show of OC.
Several. What’s the last thing I’ve seen David Brewis on?
Well done on the Ironside thing, Travis.
Heiroglyph thing is quite funny, it’d be nice if they had a different set of symbols every week.
Nice category for Aaron at the end (not that they needed it)
I wouldn’t have got it after the two clues, unlike the Courtiers did. I did get the Lotto ball sequence after the first clue.
>What’s the last thing I’ve seen David Brewis on?
He must’ve appeared on something else since Beat the Nation in 2004.
I can’t remember- is that score a record for the series?
The missing vowels round certainly seemed one of the longer rounds there has been but given they got a lot of the questions quickly, I presume there was more time for the final round.
Via Twitter, the inspiration for the gamechanger REVEALED!
http://squarerootsquared.tumblr.com/post/1077124744/o-rly-connect
Ratings of 457,000 (1.8%) last night. I think that’s near our highest ever (which the Weaver archives say is 505k). Not a bad platform from which to build, anyway.
Did it get the traditional Uni Challenge plug? I turned over before the credits.
Yes, although they also advertised their own Antiques Master which was on at the same time – that got just under 2m. I would suspect once AM finishes we’ll get a small jump in ratings.
Also, OC was up against the Doctor Who Prom on BBC3. I imagine there’s some overlap of potential audiences there.
Meanwhile Total Wipeout wins Best Gameshow at the TV Quick awards. So there we are.
101 Ways to Win a Gameshow deserved to win. It’s a more entertaining version of Total Wipeout.
Total Wipeout is 101 times better than that other show…
TV Quick stopped production months ago. It’s just the TV Choice awards now.
tbh I’m not that much of a fan of either.
Tons of excitement at work today…my boss – who has a famous brother – has just returned from recording “All-Star Family Fortunes” this weekend. He obviously can’t tell us whether they won or lost – but so far, I have found out that the show before his had Brian Blessed on one of the teams (I would have LOVED to have seen that…!!) – and my boss kept his name badge as a souvenir, and it’s amazingly high quality for a cardboard disc with a safety pin on the back!
There was a confusing one on Pointless today – in the round on Michael Caine films, the title “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” had “shagged” bleeped out. Richard didn’t explain why it was a wrong answer until the end of the round (Caine wasn’t in it), leading This Viewer to assume in the meantime that the film was correct and the contestant had just got the title wrong.
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/dj-hero-2/achievement/43009-Accumulate-.html
Mr. Peake, I believe you have some royalties to be gained from this.
This is a bit interesting, somewhat in the vein of those Sage Business Training games which I still play every once in a while, except instead of competing with others you’re working together and relying on the others to allow you to keep playing (the goal is to ‘survive’ as long as possible).
Apparently it’s a recruiting tool for the Swedish Army, curiously enough. I just think it’s fun!
http://team.forsvarsmakten.se/english/
My best time is 4:21.. it can be frustrating when you have a stupid team, but very nice when your teammates aren’t idiots. (Of course, I was the reason we lost that round. Oops.)
Oh, and I just realised if you click the ‘create a team’ button, it supplies you with a link with which you can give friends to click to join you, so it’s less reliant on absolute random strangers.
Neil Channing is a really, really good poker play-by-play guy (as good as, say, Annette) and has enough moxie to be a ramblin’ gamblin’ colour guy as well if he wants. He would be a very good choice for a show that wanted exactly one reasonably talkative commentator – say, The Poker Lounge, with more commentary.
James Hartigan is very good giving EPT coverage as well.
Yes, absolutely love Channing (and Olbrestad) as commentator.
I wonder why my EPG is still billing LAte Night Poker as Poker Lounge? Irritating.
James Hartigan also works as a Sky Poker host these days, apparently.
The editing on The Big Game seems a bit out; Luke Schwartz was about 30k down before the last hand of the previous episode, and he did the rest of his stack on that last hand – so I’m not sure why he was listed as 30k down rather than the full 55k.
Jesse is getting tired in the box; he didn’t spot the gutshot straight flush door someone had early on. Time to let him tag Matt Broughton back in.
Sian, the director of both OC and a lot of poker programming for Presentable, admitted that if she wakes up from a nap when there’s poker on the TV, she starts calling out shots!
It begs an interesting question – do they commentate ‘as live’ or just on the highlights package?
It is an interesting question, and I think that you’re well-placed to find out the answer some day… 🙂
Vicky Coren co-commentated the later series of Celebrity Poker Club with Jessie May, so that’d be a good place to start. Also a few episodes of Late Night Poker when it was sponsored by Partypoker.
Actually, pretty sure that Helen Chamberlain had a chat with them before each game as well.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/sep/07/only-connect-quiz-questions