What a pair of Bobby Dazzlers, etc.
The UK Eurovision act is meant to be revealed sometime tonight. Engelbert Humperdinck is the name going round Twitter right now. Surely not?
Edit: It’s Engelbert Humperdinck.
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Or, for people young at the time, here’s the original:
AMAZING.
In Amateur Adventure Hour news, those lovely but very faintly scary people who did The Fortress, the admirable Fort Boyard tribute, have posted the first and final parts of their zero-budget Blockbusters pilot. As ever, they get a hell of a lot right, the technical production veers from professional class to betraying its admitted budget and back again, the players’ gameplay is arguably a shade rusty in parts and it’s fast-paced, fun Blockbusters action with its heart firmly in the right place to tide us over until Simon Mayo makes it to screen. I hope Mr. Rose and company can keep up the excellent work upon leaving Brookfield.
Speaking of which, a recent Radio Five Live interview with Mayo suggested they made forty episodes in the trad. arr., half to be shown in the spring and half to be shown later, and also a one-off single-episode celebrity tournament (six celebrities, including Paul Daniels and the lovely Debbie, Fatima Whitbread and I can’t remember the other three) where they had to reformat it as they went along in order to get it to fit the single episode.
In other news, there’s going to be a third series of Limmy’s Show! on BBC Scotland, so fingers crossed that there’s enough new material to give Falconhoof some more runs out; if not, we can just keep watching this one because it won’t stop being funny.
Interestingly it sounds like Challenge Blockbusters is an hour long.
Even better, someone’s put a playlist with all eight Adventure Call episodes together.
Konnie Huq was one of the other listed celebs to appear.