Mmm, Ant and Dec have popped up with some interesting news regarding Push the Button on Saturday:
- Dave is back with a different format.
- There is an opportunity for families to add to their totals.
- Most interestingly, it’s going to be winner stays on.
Will this and the live element be enough to make it a bigger success second time around?
Meanwhile Nasty Nigel Lythgoe has already decided Secret Fortune (starting on BBC1 tomorrow) is a hit and wants to bring it to the US. Show discussion posts for Secret Fortune and Push the Button will go up tomorrow, I’m likely to be out so will watch and comment later in the evening.
And don’t forget it’s The Million Pound Drop this evening (editing this in on the Friday) and tomorrow also.
Well this proves you have to make sure you check the dictionary before you program it into a Wii version of Countdown…
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3402463/A-mum-was-outraged-when-Wii-version-of-Countdown-spelled-out-shheads.html
As you can see, he was forced out of the room immediately, though not before having this ‘hilarious’ photo taken.
Isn’t half the fun of Countdown secretly hoping the tiles will spell out a rude word?
One of my favorite bloopers of this sort was a daily Scrabble puzzle in the local newspaper that gave racks of letters and asked you to make the highest-scoring word possible. One particular day had a jumble where the letters be rearranged to spell SUBTEXT. That was not the word 90% of the people I showed it to came up with first.
That’s two words.
Not on the Internet it isn’t.
OOOOOHH, I’m rubbish at anagrams.
Oddly enough when it’s said as a compound word on US Distraction on Challenge, it’s bleeped out. When it’s seperate, it isn’t. Weird, no?
You’re being rather anal about it.
It’s up to the individual if they allow it or not.
Accumulate Show 3×02 is now live at http://www.ruon.tv/ondemand/video.php?vidid=186 . This week you get to discover what last week’s prizes actually looked like! Excitement and puns galore!
It was coming, wasn’t it?
http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/channel/Television/article/1054065/Bingo-brand-run-Channel-4-Ad-Break-Game/
I think that’s kind of ingenious really.
Yup, and I have no idea in what alternate universe that does not count as advertising.
Starting on a Tuesday, eh?
Apparently, Antandec will be filming a challenge at Kempton Park on Wednesday, so it might be less live than we think.
Is that a record not just for MPD but for a game show? Losing £1,000,000 on a single question?
The cloest I can think is Millionaire with the chance of losing £468,000!
I think a team lost a million split on different answers on one question before, though (might be wrong…)
It’s essentially a set of bundles ’til the final question anyway. I just feel for that couple that lost £525,000 on the last question.
Yeah, this did happen. I think they did all three and left the right one blank.
The Chase: a rather hoarse-throated Anne didn’t know when Space Invaders was launched, but was somehow right on the subject of Neighbours stars who never topped the UK charts.
(Holly Valance, of course, got to number 1 with her rather rubbish English-language version of Tarkan’s “Simarik”.)
Then, in the Final Chase, Vicky almost single-handedly set a target of 25 – and it looked very much like being a winning one until a rally by the Governess got her home with eight seconds to spare.
But the best moment of the show?
Anne: (to Niall after defeating him) “I think you’re just a bit thick.”
Niall: “And I think your waistline’s just a bit thick.”
Ooooooooh…
A couple of clips from some of this week’s episodes of “The Chase” have made it onto YouTube.
Check out the one with the journalist from the Isle of Wight. It is a hoot! (If memory serves–and it had best not command–it is from this last Tuesday’s show (08/02/11)).
just wanted to share what’s on air on the network of the son of Berlusconi 😀
http://www.striscialanotizia.mediaset.it/video/videoflv.shtml?2011_01_poli25.flv
http://www.striscialanotizia.mediaset.it/video/videoflv.shtml?2011_01_poli28.flv
http://www.striscialanotizia.mediaset.it/video/videoflv.shtml?2011_02_berly10.flv
Catchphrase news! Assuming the snippet on The One Show last night is the new pre-credit sequence, it would appear that MasterChef’s old catchphrases are history and Gregg’s got a brilliant-now-irritating-within-a-week new one: “Let’s get fatter!”. Everyone’s going to be saying it soon…
Ironic, considering the competition appears to be literally, tougher than ever.
Challenge are continuing to dig through their archives and repeating their own productions at 4am in the morning. From this morning they have been showing Stake Out with Anthony Davis (who no longer has hair). A few times and dates to recongise some faces.
Sun 13th Feb – 4.30am & 5.00am – Duncan Bickley (first person to bomb £218K on Millionaire).
Thur 17th Feb – 4.00am & 4.30am – Alan Gibbs (OC series 3 co-champion).
Fri 18th Feb – 4.30am & 5.00am – Mark Labbett (The Chase).