So after a two week break, the Bother Series of Poker IS! BACK! and tonight it’s an exciting double stack double money double fun tournament. It starts at 7:30 and it’s open to anyone who wants to play. The details are here.
Benidorm take on The Only Way Is Essex on ITV1’s The Big Quiz at 8pm, which is sure to be extremely exciting.
In other news, here’s an episode of Backdate with Valerie Singleton.
Backdate was a favourite of mine when I came home from school. I assume this was the replacement for Think Tank?
Rob is correct, filled the first half of the Channel 4 Quiz Hour in late 1995. took over the reins for two series in 1996, competing directly with BBC2’s established and more successful .
If there’s an edition of lurking around on the intertubes, I may be persuaded to compare and contrast the two shows in a future Week. Only fifteen years after the event…
http://youtu.be/80jGzYTrWH0
Nice one.
[tips hat]
Thank you, kind sir. I have a theory about these two shows, but want to see if it’s just my memory playing tricks.
Had to be, since Action Time were behind both shows.
Of course, after Backdate ended, C4 showed Fifteen-to-One and Countdown together, rather than having the two alternate at 4:30 every three months. 😉
Oh, you just beat me to it, Iain. 😉
When did Sky drop Don’t Stop me now? aka ’10 ways to leave a tv talent show’
It has been replaced by Simpsons repeats on my EPG.
I liked the set but the talent was mediocre.
Looking at the Digiguide archive the last show aired on 1st April. That was show 3 out of 8. No doubt it bombed. They’ll probably burn the other 5 on Challenge later in the year. I remember Sky deciding to shift Nothing but the Truth to Sky 3 (Freeview channel) halfway through the second series.
I want to know whose idea was it to air it at the same time as The Voice and Britain’s Got Talent.
Given that it doesn’t look like anyone here actually bothered to watch it (there’s Brig and one other in a comment thread a while back), I can’t say I’m surprised that nobody else did either…
I didn’t think it was *that* bad, but I can’t say I mourn its loss particularly.
It’s basically (from what I can tell, having also not watched it) the logical conclusion of the Endemol slot machine.
Singing + Trap doors + Amanda Byram + Big cash prize + needless celebrity guests = complete failure to profit.
Nothing particularly offensive (it’s no High Stakes) but there’s really nothing we haven’t seen a hundred times before.
And yet I don’t even think it’s an Endemol format. Clearly it’s contagious.
Magnum Media, according to UKGS.c
I watched the first two via Sky Anytime. It wasn’t the best thing ever but it was quite good. They got through enough acts on each show (three singers, three comedians and three variety acts). I felt the final was quite rushed though. The audience picked the final three from the number of survivors (usually four/five and they performed again but only for a minute.
I gather everybody switched off when they saw Louie Spence appeared on the first show.
Double Your Money from 1955, full episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8reZZciFkpA
Gone now sadly.
Blast. Was going to watch the third part this evening.
Was this the first ever episode? Because I’m pretty sure it’s floating around the internet in one form or another. It came up as part of Frank Muir’s TV Heaven in the 90s and I expect lots of people taped it.
I think it was also shown as part of that BBC4 evening on panel games.