Exciting things abound:
- It’s the Budget! Because isn’t politics, right, the biggest gameshow of them all yeah?
- Four Rooms returns for risky buying and selling, C4 at 8pm.
- The new series of the bladdy Apprentice begins this evening on BBC1 at 9pm! Look out for Twitter quoting the contestants sounding like idiots!
- And it’s the final ever Accumulate!, and you can certainly bank on Dan Peake coming out with a pun or two!
That’s your High Finance Wednesday, here on Bother’s Bar.
Thanks for the nod, Brig!
I was very disappointed Awe turned out to be a real loch, because I was banking on ‘loch and awe’ coming up as a gag.
Let’s Accumulate!
Wow, Chris looked like a beetroot on the Mother Day’s Millionaire! Certainly not been living in the UK recently by the looks 😀
Here is an interesting question. When the civilian editions return, will it be a 50/50 split between the player in the studio and a player on the call and lose line?
Hope they sort out the music too. It feels a bit flat without the background music and the little jingles! (Such as the one when the contestant walks off the set)
Enjoyed both Four Rooms (think Cecelia’s a great addition) and The Apprentice.
That Ricky Martin’s come a long way since Total Wipeout, evidently.
Small reference to Pointless on 10 O’Clock Live tonight. Also with Richard Osman cameo.
http://youtu.be/4qWHL-Z2Uf4?t=1m18s
Just thought I’d point that out.
Minute To Win It’s getting a runout in France – M6 has picked up the rights. So there’s nice.
Brig
The Amazing Race Latino America season 3 with subtitles is up on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Yey8h9d8Y&feature=g-all-lik&context=G2473fa5FAAAAAAAAAAA
Cheers
Nobody is talking about The Hunger Games and whether it is game show fanfic or not, so I won’t start, but sports journalism site Grantland has a rather cute comparison of fake game shows depicted within The Running Man and ones which have come to fruition. Lovely idea for an article and very cutely executed (double bonus points for the picture of Jesse Ventura… in a wig!) but I can’t help feeling that Brig is so much more au fait with the state of the art that he could probably have written it even better still.
Yes – great article and also one of my fave films of all time.
I quite like the idea of Korean Running Man, it’s celebrities play games in a building.
I will go and watch The Hunger Games during the next week. I hope it’s as good as Battle Royale.
Stuff it, I’ll start.
I would argue against listing the television coverage in an in-universe PGS.com, as the event is primarily used to maintain a particular social order, and could continue if the television cameras were withdrawn.
Out-of-universe, Collins freely acknowledges the influence of fly-on-the-wall television for her work, and there are certainly familiar elements. At heart, though, it’s girl-against-the-machine, a tale as old as David vs Goliath.
Further discussion feels off-topic for this place.