Very quick as I’m in a rush, Broadcast reporting that Channel 5 have bought the rights to Silent Library, the show where people gather in a library and must perform painful and hilarious tasks whilst not shouting, and whilst their friends try very hard not to piss themselves laughing too loudly, for a cash prize of up to £2,000 (wooooh!)
This has already been done in the UK as Fist of Zen on MTV UK, of course.
In other news: Does anyone know anything about this?
And here’s some fun: If the Eurovision 2011 was jury only, Italy would have won. Possibly quite predictably, Blue did much better in the televote than the juries.
No clue, but a show deliberately designed as Brains vs Brawns with equal amounts of intelligence and physical ability in each game is a fairly obvious idea…
So, the country that complains the most about bloc voting would have actually been better off had it been televoting only. Hmm.
There were rumours on ESC forums that Blue gave an absolutely awful dress rehersal performance on the Friday night. The juries vote on that dress rehersal performance.
IIRC Jade Ewen only managed 7th in the televote in 2009!
It’s also been done by CBBC as ‘School of Silence’, less physical pain and more gunge, natch.
I never saw School of Silence, was it an actual reversioning of the Silent Library format or was it a different show based on the same idea?
From what I’ve seen, differentish show. The rounds before the final are ‘training’ and therefore don’t actually mean anything.
I’m aware it’s a different show, but I’m interested to know if it’s ‘official’ or not.
Same basic concept, don’t think it was an official reformatting.
Brig, catch-up TV is your friend. There are episodes on the I-player for another week.
On the substantive point, don’t think it’s an official reworking.
Different format.
‘School of Silence’ series 1 is CBBC channel’s highest rating show. On it’s sixth repeat cycle.
The single highest rating for a CBBC show is 993,000 for in the first week of November last year. There are more people watching that than Channel 5.
in that same week had 479,000 viewers, the highest single transmission of a game show. I don’t doubt that is phenomenally popular, though whether it’s got higher aggregate ratings than the million showings of I don’t know.
Amidst the shock of the news of Jeff leaving, the finals of Series 64 of Countdown get underway today.
As in the last series, the top two seeds are miles ahead of all the others, and are expected to meet each other in the Grand Final.
And, as in the last series, one of the original seeds couldn’t make it due to other commitments. This time round, it’s original #6 seed Graham Hill.
This means that there’ll be two ladies in action over the coming week and a bit, as Michelle Nevitt gets to play again. However, she finds herself up against none other than #1 seed Adam Gillard – whose eight victories in January were all with scores of 102 or more, including two in the 120s, and featured no shortage of nine-letter words…
Andrew MacNamara’s promotion from #8 to #7 seed, meanwhile, only means that he faces Edward McCullagh – who, like Adam, twice scored 120+ and found plenty of niners during his octochamp run in February. He also came within an ace of a perfect game in his third outing, being denied by probably one of the most difficult conundrums ever.
One still wonders why this series is finishing around two weeks earlier than usual…
And I should add that, as in the last series, the #2 seed is from Northern Ireland. 😉
Just 2 gameshow tidbits I wanted to discuss:
1. Deal or No deal’s 140 thousand offer. Is this the first time the banker has offered higher than the mean in liveplay at the 2-box?
2. Quite unbelievably Fee Fi Fo Yum is back for a second series. To give you an idea as to how bad it is, even the official description uses the word “cringe” (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011jw6g/Fee_Fi_Fo_Yum_Series_2_Go_Go_Giant/)
Not the first time an above average offer has been but according to Mister Al’s stats, I think the only meaningful one before this week was a £13k offer on a £5k/£20k finish.
(As always, I stand to be corrected)
Fee Fi Fo Yum isn’t back for a brand new series as they recorded series one and two back to back last summer. Same how Jungle Run recorded their episodes. Mass production on the cheap.
It can make sense sometimes. If a show is expensive enough that you need to invest 2 series into it, you might as well make the two series back to back and get your money’s worth rather than sending everyone away for 6 months while series 1 airs.
I believe Wanted was commissioned for a second series before the first aired, for similar reasons.
Because responding to Brig’s tweets on the Bar will never get old (*), does that make dumbbells the Stud of gym equipment, and a cross-trainer the Omaha Hi-Lo?
(*) though it’s possible that it already was old the first time I did it and everybody has been too polite to tell me.