Because we haven’t done one of these yet, why not have a discussion post for Friday’s Schlag den Star? It’s on 7:15 UK time, and hopefully someone will pop-up with a live stream address.
Oh! It’s Million Pound Drop (The) this evening also.
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Ready Steady Cook’s gone:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/nov/05/ready-steady-cook-axed-by-bbc
Hmm, shame really.
…it was still going?
No doubt the BBC will be doing their own cookery show similar to Ready, Steady, Cook but not have to pay license fees to an independent company because presumably it’ll be a BBC Production. It does annoy me a little bit when this happens.
It does annoy me a little bit when this happens.
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You do agree, though, that RSC had its day long ago, don’t you?
No, it didn’t have its day. But have you not noticed that the daytime shows which the Beeb are axing tend to be non-BBC productions? 😉
In your words. “Pointless is numbered”.
I think there’s a natural limit to how many series of Pointless they can make, especially given the sub-optimal formatting of series 1 which burnt up a lot of material. I’d say that Only Connect is in a similar position – it’ll be hard for it to go on forever.
But it’s fun to have while it’s around.
What they’ll have to do is, when you think you’re starting to repeat yourself, let another puzzle author take over for a series, make a hash of it, then have them run back to you for a triumphant final run now it has been shown how not to do it… (This is an in-joke. Exactly that has happened before.)
On the other hand, Treasure Hunt, The Crystal Maze and Knightmare all had mid-to-high single-digit numbers of series, so perhaps a glorious but finite run is what puzzle-based shows can hope for.
I don’t know about “have it’s day”, but wasn’t it meant to be getting axed several years ago because of the success of Deal or No Deal? In that sense, it’s done quite well running on fumes. I am not massively happy it’s being axed, but at the same time – meh, haven’t watched it in years.
Perhaps Hairy Bikers’ Hairy Cook-Off will get a longer run.
Pointless will probably be OK, or at least they’re making a fourth series of it.
No, it didn’t have its day.
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Come on, it quite clearly HAD had its day!
In its final years, celebrities were the only challengers, there were no tie-in books, it was being shuffled around the BBC2 schedules – and no-one was talking about it!
And, going by the comments on that Grauniad article, seemingly no tears are being shed over its departure…
It’s still a good format, though. It’s the “Countdown” of the daytime cookery show world.
It didn’t have quite as much of a cult following as Countdown, though…
http://kinofilm2020.ucoz.com/index/stream/0-9 usually works for Pro7.
Incidentally, last night’s “Autumnwatch: Unsprung” took the form of a somewhat shambolic quiz show. Unsprung tends to be pretty rough’n’ready anyway, but that was… er… let’s never speak of it again.
How can you say that? Everything BBC Natural History Unit makes is great! Everything!! Even the title is brilliant despite it not making any sense in this season!!! I hate it when people criticise BBC Natural History Unit when they don’t know what they are…
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I can’t keep this up. This trolling business is a lot harder than it looks. I’d love to watch Schlag den Star tonight but the pub calls.
While I’m here, does anyone know exactly how long the monitors stayed on the random colours in the Krypton Factor response wall round? I haven’t got the ability to do frame-by-frame timings right now but rough timings come in at just under 2 seconds.
Linky
http://www.justin.tv/xstreamx25
Tonight’s show sees Uli takes on Mike Kruger for €50,000. Kruger is a well known comedian in German, he is possibly the eldest opponent at 58 years old.
Uli can use his “joker” for one game where he is replaced by Stefan Raab.
Same scoring system, up to nine games in total, if Kruger win then the jackpot will be €100,000 for next week.
All games have been played before on Schag den Raab. Each episode of Schalg den Star has a regular game called Quiz.
Game 1 – The Tanker
Uli and Mike have to push tankers of beer down a table the furthest, best of five. Mike wins 3-1.
Uli 0-1 Mike
Game 2 – Tennis
Best of three sets, each set consists of tie-break scoring used in professional tennis (first to seven with a score of two clear or if tied at 6-6 have to be two clear to win a set).
Uli wins the first set 11-9.
Uli wins second set and match 7-3.
Uli 2-1 Mike
Game 3 – Maxchen
Uli decides to use his joker, therefore Stefan will play game 3.
Rules of Maxchen.
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I actually wish I was around to watch this game. I’ve played this before, but only casually, so it’s not like there was much at stake but pride. I’d’ve liked to have seen a higher-intensity playing of it.
Stefan wins Maxchen 5-2.
Uli 5-1 Mike
and that’s it for me. Got a terrible head cold and cannot concentrate. The link I provided should still work.
Suck on a Fishermans Friend, Travis.. You’ll feel better.
I’ll pick up the live commentary then..
Game 4 – Quiz
Uli wins (with Mike only answering 1 question correctly to Uri’s 11)
Scores at yet another loooonnnggg break : –
Uli 9-1 Mike
Game 5 – Is 10 pin bowling (and as a small time league bowler myself (highest score 239) this should be interesting..
Accumlated scores over 5 frames (bowls)
Match Score (feed dropped out – hit refresh, and got that f*cking 30 second advert just!n tv are now running, so missed the match score) but.. Uli won
So, that’s game 5 to Uli
Uli 14-1 Mike
I don’t know what game I’m coming in on, I think it’s number 6. It’s a name-the-things-by-the-smells game.
Game 6 Reichen
A series of bottles with a substance in them,that give off a noticable smell (i.e vanilla pods, Basil, Coffee, Lager) are given to the blindfolded contestant.They have 3 mins to identify as many of the smells as possible. Mike goes first with Uli blindfolded and wearing headphones in the background.
Mike Scores 4.
Uli goes next and in his 3 mins scores 5 and wins Game 6
Uli 20 – 1 Mike
Both seem to struggle at the beginning, but Uli wins 5-4. It’s now 20-1 Uli, Matchball.
Game 8 is throwing grapes over a raised bar and catching them in your mouth on the other side. Most of 8 wins. Uli is already up 1-0 after the first one, so I’m expecting this to end pretty quickly.
Sorry, game 7 here.
And Uli wins 3-1 (after 7).
So Matchball has been swerved, and replaced by that ol’ favorite, chuck a grape up over a wooden construction and catch it on the other side in your mouth..
Uli catches 3 grapes to Mikes 1 – Uli wins
And so wins 27-1. And trousers 50,000 euros.
Night all in Bar land.
Thanks for the Schlag den Dtar updates chaps, I’ve only just got in.
But hey! It’s Million Pound Drop!
It’s Joey Kelly for next Friday. He is a musician and one of Stefan’s TV Total mates. He regularly appears in the TV Total events.
In terms of show wins, it stands at Challenger 5-1 Star. Only Stefan Effenburg managed to beat the challeger on the very first show.