And a bit:
- Only Connect in an exciting late change which probably is designed to be some sort of intelligence test to see if people can work out when to find it, it’s the series three stroke four Champion of Champions. Is there going to be a Champion of Champion of Champions? Therein lies the possibility (provided the Epicurians win) of both Stainers going up against each other. INCREDIBLE BBC4 JEOPARDY! (8:30pm, Monday, BBC4)
- Winter Wipeout – After enjoying last week’s episode, welcome back to the Board fo excitement for Winter Wipeout. (Thursday, ABC)
- Total Wipeout – (6pm, Saturday, BBC1)
- Schlag den Raab – This month, half a million euro rests on whether the contestant or Stefan Raab is better at tearing open shrinkwrapped packaging using only their bare hands. (7:15 GMT, ProSieben and naughty streaming hopefully).
- Poll of the Year 2010 – The polls close for this next Saturday at midnight, vote if you haven’t done so already!
- The Bother Series of Poker 2010 – Game 1 is next Sunday night. A picture of the trophies will be going up tonight or tomorrow night. this year, the more people involved the bigger the end of series jackpot. Come and join us! (8pm GMT, Sunday)
Afternoon all
Can anyone tell me who composed the theme music to Pets Win Prizes?
There’s a Winton era ep up on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pMXluUkKz4) and I had forgotten how likeable the theme is.
Thanks in advance
P
It’s either one of two..
It sounds like a Mr Miller and Mr Porter composition (sounds ery much like Granada’s Shane Richie contract holding exercise ‘Lucky Numbers’ for it was they that did that one)
But, and don’t ask me why, I have this odd feeling in the back of my mind that I remember from reading the credits it was David Arnold (the other composer, not the current Bond tunesmith) who did it. Past work included The Big Breakfast, Live and Kicking and I think along with David Arch, the original GMTV theme.
Never thought of that link before, but I can see where you’re coming from – and, like anything to do with the Lucky Numbers theme tune (if not the rest of the show) I like it.
Grief, what a tortuous sentence.
Thank you both – Much appreciated!
Aur-umm..
By following the links on the right of the Pets Win Prizes clip, the 2nd part of the show is also posted, and by loading it to the end – the credits are included, and indeed, as I dredged up last night from the depths of my mind, the theme was composed and performed by David Arnold.
http://www.davidarnoldmusic.com/
Fort Boyard is on Kabel Eins on Tuesday 8:15pm (German time)
Thanks for reminding me. Must record it.
Series 2 of the Fort boyard Sweeden Fangarna Pa Fortet has been airing since Christmas day 2010. and it looks like its airing every saturday. but it seems Tv4.se has caught onto our fanclub and has now made each episode unavailable to watch because of the country.
Jeff and Rachel start their third year on Countdown tomorrow at the uncomfortably early time of 3:10.
Then, at 8, Uni Chal resumes with the first of the quarter-final matches. As expected, it’s the same format as last year, with teams playing until they win twice (in which case they advance to the semis) or lose twice (in which case they’re out).
Weaver has told me that it would be better if, rather than show all four Preliminary QFs first, they showed two followed by the corresponding Qualification and Elimination matches, then repeat for the other two Prelims. His view is that, this way, it wouldn’t feel like things aren’t really going anywhere – and I agree. I presume, though, that the Beeb and Granada haven’t considered this…
Anyway, this first Preliminary QF is between the consistent Christ’s Cambridge and Ian Bayley’s Oxford Brookes.
* Why are Christ’s consistent? In both their previous matches, against Liverpool and Edinburgh, they answered precisely two out of every three bonuses, and all their interruptions to starters were correct.
* Everyone has got at least four starters so far, captain Natasha Simonova leading the way with ten.
* They didn’t have it quite as easy against the Scots as they did against ‘Pool, though – racing into a 145-5 lead, then surviving a fightback to win 220-160.
+ Brookes, meanwhile, needed a big comeback and a tie-break to beat Cardiff, but then ran riot against the University of the Arts London – their 320 (to UAL’s 100) was easily the highest score by a 1992 university, and included a whopping 32/45 bonuses.
+ Starter stats are very similar to Christ’s – everyone has picked up at least five, but the lady contestant has been best (Sara Johnson has nine, excluding the aforementioned tie-break).
These teams are so evenly matched that it looks too close to call – if I had to choose, I’d go for Christ’s. But as previous matches this series have demonstrated, anything can happen…
BTW Iain, if you’re reading this, I hope you don’t mind me pointing out a view of yours – I didn’t think there’d be any harm in doing so.
Des, not a problem, and I stand by that view.
The other match in this section is York -v- Peterhouse Cambridge, and I think the second Cambridge derby of the season would be fitting for two weeks’ time rather than 7 February.
Is the other side of the draw also done in second-round broadcast order? If so, that makes Sheffield -v- Magdalen Oxford and Queens’ Cambridge -v- Bristol, but this is my speculation and may not be accurate. Whatever the detail, it suggests that defeat tomorrow will not prove fatal.
6 million watched Total Wipeout yesterday, most popular non-quiz gameshow yesterday. 😀
And the other non-quiz gameshows yesterday would be Take Me Out and …………………. ???
Beating that isn’t really much of an achievement.
In a hilarious moment of Joe not blowing his own trumpet enough, Total Wipeout was one of the most watched shows all day in fairness.
Does Joe know why Endemol UK decided to change the rules of Wipeout, hardly vary obstacles/rounds (even though there are plenty available in Argentina), replay nearly every fall over and over and over, and ruin it in pretty much anyway they could, so much so that I can’t stand to watch Total Wipeout at all? Wipeout (USA) FOR TEH WIN. Just my opinion, natch (actually, it’s the opinion of lots of people. Just clearly not the 6 million that watch it. Which is a shame). The skipping obstacles rule in the Zone has just made it even more of a joke. Let’s see who can swim the fastest!
Although, to be honest, I watch Wipeout more for the Johns these days than anything else. But even with their recent obsession with Sweepers on every obstacle and unfair man-controlled flippy tippy things it’s still 100 times better than Total Washout.
The Million Pound Drop Facebook page is asking for “teams of four friends, colleagues or family members to take part in an exciting new gameshow pilot. Do you have a team who can answer general knowledge questions to try and win some serious cash?”
They’re only looking for London and the South East as it’s a pilot. But still, whatever can this be?
There was some speculation on Twitter as to whether it might be 1 Million Wat?, although that was only three people originally, and not overly good or popular (not that the latter stopped Divided selling, where the UK was the only place it really found any success).
It’s probably a new show.
LOL @ The Sun’s non-story on the fixing of Deal or No Deal – all based on someone noticing the £100,000 leave the on-screen graphics briefly before the box was opened.
On that basis the news is also fixed – they always reveal what’s happened before it happens!
It is not the first time that has happened i have noticed it at least twice before. Must surely be fixed lol.
It is hard to understand with the change in product placement law, why ITV decided to move The Biggest Loser to primetime….
Nothing to do with The Biggest Loser club/website/slimfast rip off or meal plans that all got mentioned during the show. The contestents were also seen using the website with its membership costs clearly displayed. Must be a nice little earner for them cheap to make 1 low (by most shows) cash prize to 1 winner, no actors or celebs to pay i feel this one is going to run and run even if it gets less than 3 million.
TBL here is notorious for product placement- even the trainers hate it (but they’re required to do the plugs per their contracts)…
Yes, 25K for the winner is paltry but what’s worse is there’s no ‘at home’ prize. This validates the criticism that the show is cruel by sending home the people who needed more motivation to carry on and lose more.
Why must it be that if the US does a UK format it is embiggened in every way, but if we adapt theirs then we have to make it small, parochial and anti-climactic?
…US shows tend to have a policy of bigger is better, while UK shows generally have more understatement, basically. It doesn’t always translate right for gameshows (Although the editing is often improved by the US -> UK transition), especially. And then you have the cases where a format’s philosophy is just wrong for the country it’s moving to.
And I can’t be the only one to be amused that the sponsor is Subway?
Everytime I go in for a 6′ steak n cheese on honeyoat, I then get asked if I want either a bag of crisps or a underbaked cookie…
I never get asked that. 6″ Cheese sub, toasted, whatever bread I fancy, with… Lets simplify and call it “Everything but the olives and the cucumber” and honey-mustard sauce is my usual, used to get them regularly while walking to the busstop back from my climbing lessons.
Well, GameTV over in Canada picked up the original Canadian version of Talkabout, a show I really think deserves a second chance down in these parts (but thenagain, Double-Double did become slang here in Canadaland even though said mechanic wasn’t used on the original. Thank you, Tim Horton’s)
Would love to see more Talkabout, there’s only two episodes or so on YouTube (last I checked).
And another Only Connect special is coming up on Monday the 17th:
NEXT ON:
Monday, 20:30 on BBC Four
SYNOPSIS
Victoria Coren presents a special edition of the quiz show in which knowledge will only take you so far, as patience and lateral thinking are also vital. Undefeated champions of champions, the Crossworders, risk their reputation by confronting the awesome brainpower of the University Challengers, captained by the illustrious Alex Guttenplan.
It isn’t going to be an easy ride for either team, as they try to connect Fortis shareholders with Muntadar al-Zaidi, sabateurs and Nikita Kruschchev.
Using shoes as a protest?
I couldn’t spell any of them without looking them up. That’s probably not the answer on the card, but then we’re always being told that Only Connect is about lateral thinking.