It’s *almost* CHRRRIIISSSSTMASS!
- The Bother’s Bar Festive Freeroll – Last call for this, it’s 8pm this evening and is free to play for an £11 prize. If you want to play, make sure you’ve signed up to Brig’s Poker Club – I will need to approve you before you can register for the tournament, so don’t leave it until 7:55pm to do. More details. The trophy and medals for the BotherSOP 2012 will be revealed next week, hopefully. (8pm, Sunday, PokerStars)
- Home for the Holidays – Vernon Kay fronted reality show from the Will MacDonald stable. Two newlyweds stay in a large mansion for a week with both their extended families. WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN? Well they could win half a million. Daniel Nettleton aka the Tree of Temptation is involved with this, so some of the tasks might be quite funny. (8pm, Sunday, C4)
- Deal or No Deal – Panto Season! (4pm, daily, C4)
- Fear Factor – it was fun last week. (Monday, NBC)
- Who Wants to be a Christmas Millionaire? They’ve not revealed the celebrities for the Monday night live show yet. The New Year’s show records on Tuesday – presumably the celebs that don’t get to play on Monday. Edit: No I’m wrong, the NY special recording today. (8:30pm, Monday, ITV1)
- Who’s Still Standing? – US show doing a Million Dollar Mind Game, episodes being burnt off over the Xmas period. Quiz with trapdoors based on a popular Israeli format, hosted by Ben Bailey. (Monday and all week, NBC)
- World’s Strongest Man – back on Channel 5 and back between Christmas and New Years where it belongs. And actually a bit before! (from Tuesday, 7pm, Channel 5)
- The Cube Celebrity Special – Jason Grimshaw and Hayley Cropper from Corrie take on The Cube. (Saturday, 6:30pm, ITV1)
- Christmas University Challenge – although rather boringly, it just sounds like an episode from their Graduates series running over the festive period. (6:00pm, Xmas Day, BBC2)
- All-Star Family Fortunes Christmas Special – TOWIE vs Benidorm. (7:00pm, Christmas Day, ITV1)
Also! Rather excitingly, we’ve been sent an OFFICIAL trailer for Fort Boyard: Ultimate Challenge. It will be shown at 7:45am on Sundays from New Year’s Day on CITV and ITV1, with repeats at 5pm on CITV the next day, for ten weeks.
You’ve left out the Deal or No Deal Panto specials.
As for Millionaire, eight celebs have been confirmed for the special shows but doesn’t state which ones will appearing on which show.
Tom Fletcher & Dougie Poynter from Mcfly, Matt Cardle, Heston Blumenthal, Amir Khan, Lee Mack, Richard Madeley (second appearance on the show) and Sara Cox.
Yes I have, I will correct that.
I’m at my parents’ for Christmas, so I’m afraid I can’t be joining in with the BSOP this time ’round. I’ll be with you from next year, tho’!
Christmas University Challenge is actually a mini tournament of 8 shows. There’s 5 heats so I’m guessing the lowest scoring winners don’t make the cut for the semis.
Yes, it’s the Graduates thing.
I don’t quite get the scheduling, Tuesday is Episode two (don’t know about episode one), it’s on daily other than Friday.
Quick, grab a pillow, I’m about to talk schedules.
Mon 19th (ie tomorrow) at 1930 (as in, *before* the student show).
Tue 20th at 1930 (1830 in Scotland).
Wed 21st at 1900 (1830 in Scotland).
Thu 22nd at 1930.
Christmas Eve at 1640, neatly clashing with Winter Wipeout there.
Christmas Day at 1800.
Boxing Day at 2030 (Tue 27th at 1830 in NI).
Tue 27th at 1830 (Wed 28th at 1830 in NI).
Hope this helps someone.
Right, I was half watching Home For The Holidays whilst playing cards. I can’t say I found it very arresting to be honest.
1.43m for this last night I’m told.
Which is better than I was expecting, I think.
So, they’re going to take all the expectations, all the promotional work, and squander it on half-an-hour of facetime for people we’ve never met before, and quite possibly won’t meet again. The actual challenge – putting baubles on a tree, then standing on top of it – is all a bit Raven. (From here, a good thing.) With added catsuits. By far the most interesting bit of the show.
The final bit, the Christmas Tree o’ Temptation. What on earth was that about? Vernon’s explanation made an insufficient amount of sense, particularly for viewers who had been relaxed by the undemanding first three parts. And the host’s choice of knitwear.
I hope this series is a success, they’ve thrown lots of good things at it. For comparison, Million Pound Drop got about 1.5m two weeks ago.
Half the viewers from Sunday didn’t bother with Mondays show – no surprise, it’s nothing special at all.
It remains to be seen how The Bank Job does but I wish C4 would stop looking for these one week events and start concentrating on weekly formats instead.
Home For The Holidays…
Take a car worth double the ‘penalty’…Then flog it afterwards!
Or am I missing something…
Probally a no sale clause in their contracts
How enforcable is that? Could they make the contestants prove they still have the car say in a year’s time?
a couple questions from Italian The Money Drop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9swPQvVgrI
too bad we won’t get an episode on Christmas day 🙁
One year on from the first Who Wants To BE a Millionaire live special, tonight’s episode was much slicker.
That’s because ITV used common sense and gave them a full 90 minutes and not the usual 60-75 minute slot. Also Victory TV actually learned from their previous specials this year and had no pointless filler. That said, it would’ve been more logical to record the New Year special tomorrow and have Kate and Heston carry over onto that show rather than record it last night.
Full credit to Chris Tarrant since he was doing rehearsals earlier today at Elstree, driving to London to do Radio 2 for Steve Wright until 5pm then heading back to Elstree.
Is that far?
Anyway, you’re absolutely right, that would have been the logical thing to do, to the point that I thought that was going to be the case when I wrote that thing up there. Still, though.
Elstree Studios to Broadcasting House is about 13 miles via AA Route Planner but he was working until 5pm so he had to battle the rush hour traffic in central London to get back to the outskirts.
I’m enjoying Home For The Holidays a bit more this evening now I’m concentrating in it and it’s begininng to heat up.
Micky Flanagan clearly couldn’t give a toss and the editing in the challenge was very poor, too much Vernon not enough actual action. Still, though.
I’m particularly interested as to what the endgame is going to be. Sadly it seems like it’ll end up as an anti-climax, but still.
Also Vernon pronouncing “Audi” as “Ordi”. Hmm.
I sometimes wonder if he hyper-Boltonises some words for effect, to the point where nobody has ever pronounced it that way.
FIFTEH THOWSAND POWNDS
I like the idea of the temptations here tonight, but once again the cash values make the jeopardy a bit on the rubbish side, imo.
P.S. Fort Boyard – annoying American for us Brits, annoying Brit for the Americans. I couldn’t really get beyond the annoying American in that promo.
Not only is the World’s Strongest Man on 5, it includes the qualifiers at ExCeL.
Also the presentation feels better than previous years. Dunno if they’re going to change it for the proper contest though.
New Run for Money (courtesy of KeshiHeads):
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzM0NTMyMzA0.html
Incidentally I’m in talks to make a Nottingham version where all the players are in cosplay. Honest.
Oh, awesome! Please keep us posted.
I could dress as a Hunter, but am horribly unfit. If you need any, er, unfit behind-the-scenes gophers then I could see what I could do…
Yes I am looking forward to seeing this.
I’m fit-ish, but I want to take part so I’m doing it all dressed as Yuri from rare-as-hell 360 game Tales of Vesperia.
It’s very thin on the ground, but we are getting there.