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Whilst it takes more effort then I’d like to get out of bed, there won’t be much in the way of updates for a few days. Be good x
Interesting thing on Endemol:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/14/endemol-big-brother-loans
Yes, I saw that – would the industry be better off without them, or are they the reason we have so many gameshows on our screens these days after that early 2000s lull? Hmm.
Interesting article. So, Endemol is worthless – official!
Not half as worthless as its faceless spokestrolls!
While it’s malign to wish ill will on any company (after all, involuntary unemployment is horrible) I regard some branches of Endemol as being among the worse – though not, perhaps, the worst – perpetrators of negative entertainment whereby we are invited to take pleasure from the contestants’ misfortunes. Accordingly I don’t mind too much taking pleasure from Endemol’s misfortune. If they were to treat their contestants a bit more sympathetically on-screen and their audiences a bit more sympathetically off-screen then I’d be inclined to show the same courtesy back to the company…
While there are some extremely talented and creative people in certain chunks of Endemol, the general industry view is that:
(a) they’re one of the more dog-eat-dog companies to work in.
(b) it’s rather unweildy.
(c) there’s a real kick-bollock-scramble to get the next big format at all costs.
(d) they’ve done more than anyone to reduce programming budgets, for good or bad (but mostly bad).
I did £500 worth of work for them many years ago and never got paid.
That was Bother’s Bar’s v3.0’s 10,000th legitimate comment! Well done.
This’ll make a dent in the debt, though: they’ve just been awarded $1.6m for Dilemma being a copy of Big Brother (which it absolutely is).
Part of me wants to welcome Endemol to the real world! That’s the part of me who lets the telephone ring until it is determined whether the caller is a friend of a bill collector.
Yet it may be too early for schadenfreude. The “(Total) Wipeout!” franchise is a strong one, and is doing extremely well Stateside. “Big Brother” was a dependable rating-puller, and it may still do well–although I never watched a frame of it! And the Next Big Format might well be only a pilot away!
I don’t pretend to be able to understand the ins and outs of all this international high finance. Mass unemployment and a jumble sale of Endemol properties would seem unlikely prospects–but they could happen!
Watch and wait and see!
Good to see “The Adventure Game: the Motion Picture”. About time!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1192628/
Doogy rev, etc.
The X Factor wins Best entertainment show at the RTS awards.
Antvand Dec win BestvEntertainment performance.
I’ve yet to discern what won Best Daytime Show.
“The Indian Doctor” won Best Daytime Show. It’s a bizarre category that can lump “The Indian Doctor” and “Deal Or No Deal” together.
I’ll say it as no-one else has yet….
Get well soon Briggywig!
I’m not feeling that well myself, so I’ll echo Dan’s sentiments and wish you a speedy recovery.
Richard Osman is 6′ 7″. So there you are.
Somebody’s put a full episode of Channel 5’s gameshow Move on Up online at YouTube… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wLzP6YaoyQ – it’s truly awful.
Also on that users channel is the very first edition of Catchphrase… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCIQ0RvMU_c
Tremendous, thanks for these Rob.
“2 nights in London – TOP THAT, other quiz shows!”
Oh wow, even for 1997, that is bad.
Move On Up really does make you appreciate how well written and unambiguous the Million Pound Drop questions are.
Seriously.
So Desert Orchid won a Grand National (an Irish Grand National ok, but how much of a trick question is that?), John F Kennedy had exactly 2 brothers (sorry Joseph, history has forgotten you), and a toreador is not a word for a bullfighter.
Still, people in glass houses shouldn’t sunbathe nude, etc. Or at least that’s how I think the phrase goes.
Oh, and thanks for the links
And who could forget the lovely Channel 5 Consolation notebooks?
I don’t think it’s completely worthless as a format (the forcing of other players to take pole is quite good although it should have used more of the steps element) but as a show it looked and felt very, very cheap. Also Richard Morton was ‘nice’ but not terribly ‘good’. I wonder what he’s been up to since Win Beadle’s Money (providing it’s not something really nasty).
As well as being a contestant on WBM, I think I bumped into him a few years back when I was recording X Marks the Spot at Broadcasting House and he was doing the voiceover for a documentary about North-East comedians.
That set – in particular that ramp – looks like something you’d see outside a library for disabled access.
Just awful.
Thanks Rob. Never knew Trivial Pursuit ran for two series.
What I love about 80s Catchphrase is how futuristic it all feels (even today), but as soon as they got the computers to do it all justice and they changed the titles, that futureness disappears almost entirely.
I believe there’s an episode of Art James Catchphrase floating around from the States which works differently (you ONLY win money in the Bonus Catchphrase, and Mr Chips is called something different.) i’ll try and find it a bit later.
Mr Chips is called something different.
Mr Fries?
The US version of Catchphrase had straddling games (over two episodes) with returning champions rather than wrapping it up in half an hour.
Ooh, really old Catchphrase! It still stands up well as an alternative to the slightly more modern Walker era; the music is great and I am delighted to be reminded of it.
That particular uploader has at least three episodes of Interceptor up there, though I’m not sure whether the same resolution issues apply.
US Catchphrase
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y41kVrF6hRs
What’s Herbie doing? Having a fit presumably.
More FB News: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFFixJrfXHY&feature=feedu
The gist is that the show will be transmitted “as if it were live”, to give more the feeling that “it is timed”.
Not really sure what they’re going for, but there you are.
Hope you feel well soon Brig!
Oh, they’re going to try and do it all in real time, basically? I like that.
http://www.ozap.com/actu/nagui-photos-jeu-france-2-cherie-fais-valises-oubliez-paroles/405034?photo=4093174#slideshow
Some pics + promo trailer of Nagui’s new game starting end of march as a substitution for Don’t Forget The Lyrics ! .
It is indeed heavily influenced by Don’t Forget your Toothbrush and its clone created on TF1 after Nagui got fired from France 2, called “Vous ne revez pas” – (“You are not dreaming”), look here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmX7pW774yw. (Note : that ep. was made for Women’s Day, explaining the full women audience)
Is it me or is the jackpot countdown on Pointless is more more slow with single digits counting down slower than normal?
Yes it is (I think the music’s slightly remixed to suit it) and I’m glad they’ve done it. I’d have slowed it down even more personally, but at least someone’s done something about it.
The lighting’s gone very goth this series, hasn’t it?
Don’t know if the music’s remixed, but it’s certainly more intrusive. On the first show, I thought it was just a really bad error with the sound levels which someone ought to have picked up before transmission. But it turns out it’s actually worse than that.
Mmm, I remarked on Twitter that Pointless isn’t really a show that requires it, and it does seem a bit tacky and unneccessary.
They’ve slowed it down so much that they’ve lost the impact of it stopping. One of today’s answers got down to 2 and by the time I realised it had stopped, the moment had rather passed.
Elsewhere on the web, conversation and links on a quiz format containing questions going from the obscure to the banal as they progress. The writers know these as Quiz Bowl questions. Patrons here will be more familiar with the pyramid style from University Challenge, where it seems to have been the rule since about 2003.