This week is SO EXCITNG if you’re American, or know how to work an American proxy server:
- It’s The Bother Series of Poker Grand Final! Six months of exciting poker action, and it’s it’s all going to boil down to tonight’s Superstack game. There’s decent money on the table and even though you probably can’t win the league you can still get a part of it. (8pm, Tonight, Full Tilt)
- The Amazing Race Australia (Monday, Seven Network)
- Fort Boyard 2010 – This week at the comedy time of 8:01pm. But ignore that, they’ve just released some of the adverts for FB 2011 and they’re brilliant.
- Wipeout – New season has two episodes this week, a “sneak peek” on Tuesday and its regular episode on Thursday. I think this has been on a downward spiral for a while, but new season, new obstacles so. (Tuesday and Thursday, ABC)
- 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow – The US version. More action and less counting, by the sounds of it. (Tuesday, ABC)
- The Challenge: The Rivals New season of tough and surprisingly entertaining MTV reality show. This time former rivals are paired up in Costa Rica. Oh-ho, what will they think of next? (Wednesday, MTV US)
- Expedition Impossible – Mark Burnett’s new adventure racing series that sounds a bit like The Amazing Race. (Thursday, ABC)
- The Krypton Factor – If the rumours are true, Challenge TV will be showing the 1995 revamp of the show from next week. This hasn’t been shown since original broadcast, I don’t think. (7:30pm, Saturday, Challenge)
- Penn and Teller: Fool Us (Saturday, 8pm, ITV1)
I’ve probably missed a few things off the list, so feel free to share.
The Krypton Factor – As mentioned on my twitter feed it looks like Sky have picked up the archived rights to both the 1993 and 1995 series. So if the scheulde is right then next Saturday at 7pm will be the 1993 grand final, followed by the first heat of group A from the 1995 series.
Also Sky continues to put more funding into the channel by securing an archived deal with 2waytraffic to show Millionaire’s 12 question format shows from 2007 under the Classic Millionaire name.
As a massive surprise, Sky has also made a deal with Fremantle/ITV/Talkback Thames (or whoever owns the rights) to buy an entire series of Blockbusters. Many will remember in autumn 2004, Flextech purchased 25 episodes of the 1992/1993 series for their Gameshow Gods strand. Although many on the Challenge forums requested more episodes to be purchased/shown, the network refused to purchase any more and wanted to focus on newer programming than old. It looks like Sky have picked up the rights to show nearly 180 episodes from the 1992/1993 series. This will be split into two runs. The one that is airing now and another run in the autumn.
Shows I never thought I’d see again, number 4154: The Krypton Factor v 2.5α. Not really bothering with the iconic assault course. Observation rounds based on CGI. Following the Red Arrows while some of Anne Dudley’s finest music plays in the background. And, of course, the Super Round that makes no sense even while we’re watching it. From what everyone’s said, it’s got to be better than The Marriage Ref.
Cheers, Mr. Travis!
Certainly CHallenge is being plugged more on channels like Pick TV, and they threw a fair bit of money at filming new links to a Ninja Warrior special that ran on Friday, rather than using the American version unedited.
Incidentally – fun fact, Gareth off of Who Dares Wins last night was, I’m pretty sure, the Champion on the Michael Ball Hold On To Your Seat pilot.
Talking of which.
Any ideas if that show has got a full series commission? For money to be chucked at two non-broadcast audience pilots, I’d have thought it should have got the nod from ‘those upstairs’ at ITV Towers by now..
..or have they capitulated again, played safe and ordered another 5,000 odd episdoes of The Chase instead?
It’s been intimated that the show has not been picked up.
Something very strange happened today, (20th June)
4pm and no connection to the 4.30pm show, are you sure there have full 180 episode right?
That’s what I’ve been told from the source and he got the information directly from Challenge himself.
Turns out there is something wrong with the master copy of that episode, thus it was not used, saying that it was never used in 2004 either, which is a shame.
Something very strange happened today, (20th June)
4pm and no connection to the 4.30pm show, are you sure there have full 180 episode right?
Entirely unrelated but YouTube now has a couple of very brief clips from what I presume is the Spanish version of Scavengers. Of note is the fact that they appear to play as four individuals. Amusingly, not only do they find a dead Scavenger on board Cyclops the Captain’s attention is drawn by a couple of skimpily dressed female aliens. This must be years before Jack Harkness.
Ooh, link please! Or is Scavengers the same name in Spanish.
Searches for “Scavengers 01” and “Scavengers 02” should find them. It’s very strange seeing green and blue scavengers.
The FB commercials are pretty funny, especially the Charlie’s Angels spoof with the new female characters…
The one with Passe-Partout and Passe-Muraille playing football gives a neat non-spoileriffic preview of the fort’s new look.
re: That TAR Australia article- from what I heard, they are going to the US, so that might be wrong info…
Great news that Challenge have started showing Blockbusters again but from the looks of things, they’re picking up from where the Gameshow Gods strand left off. On June 11th 2011 at 5pm, Bob’s first words to camera mentioned a contestant introduced right at the end of the last show. Now, surely if June 11th was the first showing of Blockbusters on Challenge since 2006, they’d have started off with the first show of the series where Bob introduces the revamped set, surely? They took it off briefly on July 15th but it looks like as of this Monday (August 1st 2011), they’re reshowing it in double bills at 2pm weekdays – my question is will this be a rerun of block one from 92-93 or will this be the promised showing of block two? Could someone please enlighten me? 🙂
Firstly its the RE-run of the first block, secondly I have to ask are you saying challenge has skipped some of the first episodes?
Also I have to ask anyone else here: How many series did Challenge? Its now being claimed there brought two series S10 and S11 which both add up to 180 episodes.
Challenge has only broadcast 72 episode, were are the other 108? form that series?