Link nicked off of David Bodycombe’s Twitter, missus.
I can’t think of anything to add to it, to be honest.
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Link nicked off of David Bodycombe’s Twitter, missus.
I can’t think of anything to add to it, to be honest.
Incidentally, to the producers of 71 Degrees: stop getting maths wrong. The answer to:
71 – 21 x 2 / 4 + 46
…is not 71.
It would be 2 correct?
Err… no.
106.5? It’s BODMAS isn’t it.
In fact Only COnnect sequence:
Brackets
Other
Division
…….
106.5 by the arbitrary rules method, 71 by the sensible method.
It’s not an arbitrary rule. Maths would get into a lot of problems if 3a + 4b was interpreted as ((3 x a) + 4) x b.
The O stands for Order, doesn’t it? As in: x squared has the order of 2. It would work as an OC sequence except that there’s no real reason why it couldn’t be BOMDAS.
Some books say O is for Order (as in yet another word for powers, exponents, indices, etc. etc. etc), other books say O is for Other (meaning both powers and roots). Nowadays the fashion seems to be to use the acronym BIDMAS instead, where the I stands for Indices.
Of course, if you’re American you avoid all these problems by simply using PEMDAS instead.
Not sure why I’m anonymous there.
Yes, the world famous “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally” mnemonic, if you ignore the “world” and “famous” bits.
We were taught it stood for “Of”, as in “Power of”.
Challenge have just shown the first half of an episode of Postcode Challenge with Carol Smilie, then gone to a break, then returned from the break by showing the first half of the episode again.
What will happen next? And will anyone ever win the £25,000? I fear we shall never know!
Turns out that the second half of the show had had the first half “recorded over it” – so, being longer, we saw the first half of the show again, then when it concluded, we jumped to the appropriate part in the second half, half-way through the endgame. There’s a street in Scotland waiting to have ten grand nicked from it!
Oh, Challenge.
An Only Connect game we like to play in my house is guess which contestants wre wearing jeans and if the lady contestants are wearing a skirt.
It’s fun for all the family.
By the way, anybody here planning on watching tomorrow’s Deal or No Deal?
Not that I have any particular reason for asking or anything…
Is it because it’s an episode you watched in the studio?
Well, there have been over a hundred of those…
Is it an EPIC WIN/LOSS episode?
Meanwhile in Clacton, I asked the guys who made the Cube soundtrack about personal use/release and I got told to ask some other guys. I will keep you posted on progress.
Good lad. I’ve already raised the issue on its official Facebook page to little fanfare, so any progress on this front is good progress 😀
‘Dear Kieran,
Thanks for your enquiry.
The Cube music isn’t available commercially I’m afraid and you are the first person who has enquired to be honest. We normally release commercially if we get inundated with enquiries. In the event that we do decide to release the music then I will keep your contact details and notify you accordingly.’
Can everyone email politley sarah@bdimusic.com otherwise it might never happen
Done 🙂 Please can everyone else join in? Ask for links to MP3s rather than a CD release (it’ll be less effort for them).
I will put this up on the front page tomorrow.
It was asked many weeks ago whether the “New” Millionaire format created winners who reached further up the money tree. At the time I said possibly, as many were reaching £50,000 and above but after the series ended last night, I can say that nothing has changed.
Series averages per contestant.
Series 22 (Autumn 2007) – £29,769
Series 23 (Winter/Spring 2008) – £24,419
Series 24 (Autumn/Winter 2008) – £21,392
Series 25 (Summer 2009) – £29,214
Series 26 (Spring 2010) – £17,600
Series 27 (Clock Format) (Summer/Autumn 2010) – £27,586
Other pointless stats.
8 from 29 contestants reached £50,000. Compared to 1 from 10 on the previous series.
1 contestant used a lifeline before reaching £1,000
1 contestant walked at £5,000, the 28 other contestants reached £10,000 before either walking, dropping back to £1,000 or winning more.
On average, how many contestants are there per show?
Oh wait, i work it out as 2.9 contestants per show. So about £80,000 given out per show.
Isn’t that a lot? How can ITV afford to make a show like this which only gets 3m viewers?
The answer to that will depend on how much Millionaire makes from the premium quiz aspect they’ve had when a contestant leaves without trying to answer a question for some time (Assuming they still have that)
Hope KP doesn’t mind me quoting something he said on the DOND fansite forum:
“Millionaire basically didn’t change one bit, apart from lighting and graphics changes, between 1998 and 2007. Two major format changes later, its future is insecure for the first time ever.”
Well, it’s more than likely the show is much nearer the end than the beginning – but it will plod on for at least another one or two series, won’t it?
I sincerely hope not. It’s like watching a twitching Buddhist rabbit that needs putting out of its misery with the heel of a boot only to rise again in 20 years like a veritable phoenix from the ashes.
If they’re going to run with the clock, why ditch it at the most important stage? Tarrant, unbelievably, is the main reason it blows so much. The way he insists on insulting each and every one of the contestant’s phone-a-friends is tiresomely unpleasant, and you would have thought someone might have shown him a tape of the US version by now so he might not think it so necessary to belt out the answers in 0.000005331986 picoseconds.
Yuck.
Well, in any case, it will be quite momentous when Millionaire finally gets the axe.