Thanks to Dan Peake for the heads up, but they appear to be casting for a new series of Blockbusters. 18 year olds and up. Won’t be successful because it doesn’t have Bob Holness in it. Predict they will keep the handjive for effect.
Meanwhile! It is Sorority Girls on E4 this evening at 9pm, and what will today’s piece of Paul Ross-erbilia be? Find out… LATER!
Edit: It’s fun idea for a quiz, from the Carlton area in 1999, it’s Mind the Gap!
You have to be a paid member of Starnow to apply for Blockbusters…?
You can apply through Beonscreen for free.
Do we know who TalkbackThames are making Blockbusters ver4.0 for?
Well the money was on Challenge when they mentioned they bought a teatime classic, but that now looks like it’s Deal or No Deal, so not a clue basically.
Nope, I think you were right the first time!..
Applied through Beonscreen as I have an account there. Blockbusters will always be one of the all-time classic game shows, and I have always wanted to be on it ever since I was a kid. I used to love trying to answer the questions, even if I had no real idea what they were asking at the time! 😀
Soriority Girls on E4 was quite good fun and certainly fairly eye-opening if your knowledge of the US Greek system is as bad as mine. It was interestingly sympthetic to US ideas, and although the Sigma Gamma thing comes across as a quite culty and strange (the first twenty minutes set this up quite well), the people in it seem the decent sort. I didn’t think it was *that* funny, which tends to sort the good competitive reality shows from the great ones (although I am notoriously grumpy) but nonetheless I thought it was quite entertaining and interesting. Next week involves girls running around in their pants by the looks of things which is probably what got the commission.
Basically if the format involves people jumping through increasingly ridiculous hoops to join strange cults, I’m in.
This evening I’ve also discovered Tool Academy isn’t actually about DIY. Yes I know, some International Gameshow Analyst *I* turned out to be.
MTV did something like this a few years back- but it’s probably the same situation as in the US; no major sorority would touch the show with the proverbial ten foot pole (because they would have no control on how they would be edited and what was shown and such), so they got a very small one to participate.
Here they got girls from five different sororites to make a new one for the UK – Sigma Gamma.
It’s very much in the competitive reality mould – 50 girls whittled down to five in a number of initiation tests and rituals.
About ten minutes into Sorority Girls, I could feel my brains leaking out of my ears. The rest of the show was seen in subtitles, and with the BBC World Service forcing the grey stuff back into its cranium.
There is something interesting and worthy of comment in that programme; I’m going to have be careful not to make personal attacks against the contributors.
I didn’t see it, but mostly because anything that involves cliques and cults in a university context is very much something I do not wish to see. Too many wonderful memories of university life I don’t want spoiled.
690K for OC last night…is that a high for the show?
We’ve had overnights of around 790k recently.
So Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway to return next year after the Geordie duo sign a new 2 year ‘golden-handcuffs’ deal with ITV.
http://www.officialantanddec.com/news/2011/11/08/snta_is_coming_back-5740
I keep reading ‘Sinitta’ in the URL.
Ha. Never realised that. Can’t wait for the return. They’ve said that they have lots of fresh ideas, hopefully they wont change anything major, but it sounds exciting. Probs be on around February time.
I hope they have, because I can’t think of the last time I found SNT particularly exciting.
Someone’s made a good point about product placement on Twitter. Would it now be possible to give away the things actually advertised in the ad breaks of the show itself?
The new product placement rules could spice up the format a bit. Not actually a bad idea giving away prizes from one of the show’s ad breaks. IMO, there should be more PP on British television.
Can you actually send ideas into the show (Gallowgate/ITV Studios)?
Part two of the Mind the Gap video features some hilarious fireworks.
Oh wow I barely noticed them hahaha
Incidentally it’s a good theme tune, until Michael Strachan discovers the change pitch button for the “mind the gap” soundbite.
MATTHEW, not Michael, there. That’ll teach me for not reading properly.
At least you didn’t put Michaela.
As you’d michaela fool of yourself if you did that.
Ahem, I apologise. A bit. Not much.
Vernon Kay’s Play Your Cards Right pilot films in December:
http://www.sroaudiences.com/application.asp?show_id=724