I am so tired today. HOWEVER, tonight at 11pm UK time 5Hole are piloting their new Massively Multiplayer Talkshow With Prizes Jury Duty through their UStream page. It’s normally quite good fun watching Double Cross being recorded, hopefully this will be too.
Edit: Well this is either late or cancelled. Never mind!
You can now get tickets for the new series of Million Pound Drop from Applause Store. The series returns on April 22nd.
I revealed a couple of months ago that it was originally due to return in the second week of April (16th) but Channel 4 delayed the start date by a week due to the pre-emption of their schedule a couple of weeks ago which has delayed everything by 7 days. Not long to go now until Bothers Bar’s favourite new game show of 2010 returns to our screens 😀
I’ve just noticed that Endemol have managed to sell ice to eskimos, and there’s a Dutch version coming. Amazing.
Still, it’s a shame about those Australian ratings eh?
Million Dollar Drop is doing well in Australia. Over 1m peak watched the first episode and the following episode was the 2nd most watched TV show in its slot. Don’t try and spin the numbers in a negative way please, just post the facts 🙂
Alright then!
http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2011/03/kitchen-rules-but-million-dollar-flops.html
Don’t try and spin the numbers in a POSITIVE way please, just post the facts.
I’m just waiting for Thursday night’s ratings to come in (should be later this evening, then I might draw a COMPLETELY IMPARTIAL graph.
I’m too tired to do a graph now, but Thursday’s ep scored 730,000. It will have to wait until Saturday, but it will be quite pretty.
Jury Duty is for Gamesville in addition to a few other people. It’s very weird. It’ll probably be a truncated edition since, if we’re not giving away actual things during the demo, no reason to go through the entire endless thing. No idea if it’ll end up working but it’ll be funny either the intended way or the embarrassing way.
It’s a weird mix of QI, Around the Horn (ESPN show, not sure if you get it), Quiznation, and America’s Got Talent. Basically, there are already a ton of talking-heads shows. No one cares what we have to say. It’s why they disappear so quickly. We’re going to talking still, but we’ll be getting a lot of input from the audience and chat and twitter. When we bring them on to talk live through Skype or something the three “Judges” can “overrule” the person if we find what they say dumb, boring, uninteresting, off topic, or anything like that. If we let them stay through the entire time they’ll either win a small prize or get to answer a trivia question for a prize.
So if you have actual things to talk about and don’t act dumb and uninteresting, we won’t buzz you out and you can stick around.
Sounds like Just a minute in video form?.
http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Just_a_Minute
It sounds a bit like The People vs Jerry Sadowitz that was on CHannel 5 about ten years ago and I really liked.
For the record, we do get Around the Horn, it’s shown on ESPN America on cable and satellite (and we have a radio show called Fighting Talk which is basically exactly the same thing).
Still trying to see if we’re doing it today. We’re getting plagued with tech problems. This is very involving. If we can’t do this tonight, we will do something else regardless. It’ll either be this or the demo for our new GSN radio show War of the Words. Jury Duty is incredibly involving and technical and takes a ton of prep work, and with MIP coming up I just haven’t had all the time in the world to do what I want.
In more bad news for Endemol and Joe, over in France, TF1 have cancelled their latest Big Brother incarnation, Carré VIIIP (yes, for some reason, they put three ‘I’s in VIP), just two weeks into its run because of terrible ratings.