Well look it’s:
- Only Connect (BBC4, Monday, 8:30pm) – Choirboys vs Brasenose Postgrads.
- The Krypton Factor (ITV, Tuesday 7:30pm)
This week joined by special guest publication:
- Relic: Guardians of the Museum: (BBC1, Thursday 4:35pm) where some kids do some things at the British Museum. Official synopsis: “Three children from Newcastle are summoned to the British Museum in London to meet the spooky tour guide Agatha. Together they have just one night to uncover the secrets of a relic held inside the museum, but they are not alone – dark forces are out to get them. Defeat the Dark Lord and they become Guardians of the museum; fail and they shall never leave!”
Come on other things! Try and pique our interest just a little bit!
Also, nothing fascinatingly interesting being recorded right now, tomorrow is the last recording day for Pointless seemingly, and all SRO can offer is Ant and Dec’s Push the Button, being filmed at the audience unfriendly Pinewood Studios at the end of February. If you quite like the idea of dressing-up and audience researchers who use the wrong version of “to”, BBC through Applause Store are recording a new panel show called The King is Dead in February where celebrities give arguments as to why they should hold hypothetical positions of power. Simon Bird off of The Inbetweeners is the big name for it.
Just gotten round to watching the latest Accumulate!
…Is it my imagination or is Dan Peake getting more and more subtly mad each week? Absolutely in a good way, mind.
(Also – Is it just me who often finds it hard to make out the Speculate to Accumulate answer cards this series?)
…Also – Awful pun with coldslaw. But aren’t the best puns?
I don’t know about ‘this series’, but certainly ‘this week’, yes.
Were they the two worst teams I’ve ever seen on Only Connect?
Part of me wants to puckishly respond “I don’t know. Were they? Is this the first episode you’ve seen?”, but that’s not exactly constructive.
I thought both teams were likeable, and the show doesn’t suffer from the scores being relatively low, especially when the conclusion is as exciting as that one was. It’s great to see teams amaze you with the difficulty of the questions they can answer, particularly in later rounds, but it’s also a real secret thrill when you can get one that they can’t.
In a few series’ time – and it’s a joy to be able to say “in a few series’ time” with confidence – I fear that the contestants’ standards will get so high as people just get better at playing the game that questions may have to get harder naturally, which isn’t the most viewer-friendly thing. Lots of fun to come, though.
Maybe, but the viewers are going to get better at answering them as well, in theory, so maybe more ‘not the most new viewer friendly of concepts,’ if at all, rather than generally not viewer friendly.
I don’t actually think that the questions overall are that much harder than at the equivalent stage of the first series. Indeed, I don’t think it tremendously matters if they get slightly harder overall.
By this third series, the audience is getting to know what to expect, whether from seeing a previous episode or from word of mouth. The teams know that they have to talk to each other in order to share information – scribbles on paper don’t work in the game, never mind on television. Regular viewers find the subtle harmonies in the questions on each show and through the series (like in the best music, I can’t put into words what they *are*, but I can tell they’re there). And Victoria has found her voice and keeps the show motoring along like a darling.
Best of all, there’s always something different coming up: if you can’t get *this* question, there’s another one along in a minute. Might even learn something on the way.
ooh ex contestant on krypton factor this week.
also i think the yellow contestant has been somewhere before, either university challenge or only connect!
Only Connect, he was one of the Mathematicians.
Is it just me or is Ben Shepard turning into a bit of a Jeremy Paxman during the General Knowledge Round (Telling the contestants to ‘come on’!)