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What we know: teams of two from different generations take part in a quiz. The older member builds up a bank, the younger member tries to win it.
If you and your chums prefer to do something ker-a-zee for ITV2 with Rufus Hound, he’s fronting a hypnotism game I Know What You Did Last Week – details and application form here (looks like a pilot).
I wonder what happened to Mesmerized with Dale Winton (was it?)?
MEANWHILE!!! Endemol doing a comedy gameshow pilot called The Bodyguard (from SRO):
From the producers of ‘Total Wipeout’ comes a brand new comedy game show pilot The Bodyguard.
For the first time ever, the BBC is opening the doors to reveal The Celebrity Bodyguard Training Academy and for one night only three contestants will become superhero Bodyguards.
Each of our trainee bodyguards will be teamed with their favourite celebrity and must be willing to take a hit for them…quite literally. Proving their worth in a series of fun but challenging games, they’ll need to put their bodyguard skills to the test.
Only one of our trainees will successfully graduate through to the Final and get the chance to win a cash prize and be crowned The Ultimate Bodyguard.
Danny Wallace did the Mesmerized pilot. It was made by CPL shortly after I arrived in 2008, although I wasn’t involved beyond going to the studio and offering a couple of last minute opinions.
For various reasons I will refrain from expressing an opinion on it here…
I don’t remember ever hearing that it hadn’t been commissioned, but I think after four years or so it’s a safe assumption that it won’t be.
Don’t Blow the Inheritance should be good, by the way, but then again I would say that wouldn’t I 😉
Cheers Paul.
I’m convinced Dale Winton was involved in some sort of hypnotism game show. Perhaps it was something else, or perhaps I have made it up.
P.S. The Bodyguard sounds terrible, and is certainly an “interesting” commissioning decision for the BBC. Everyone got bored of Wipeout (and Don’t Scare the Hare was an unmitigated disaster) how about we try another physical game show from Endemol in that slot?
Hopefully it’s just a pilot.
I don’t know, it sounds like The Masterspy but with giant boxing gloves.
You give it far too much credit. It will be like Don’t Scare the Hare but if you make a mistake, instead of triggering an irritating animation sequence, you’ll cause a very minor celebrity to be knocked off something / knocked into something / covered in something.
I might be doing everyone involved a disservice, of course. We’ll see.
I’m totes looking forward to the pilot which will have two people left in the audience by the end, one of whom might be me.
While we’re in New Thrills territory, some shows in weeks 27 and 28 have caught my eye.
* Tipping Point (ITV, 5pm weekdays from 2 July) Ben Shephard, four players, one extraordinary machine.
* Let’s Get Gold (ITV, 9pm from Thursday 5 July) Sports groups do entertainment routines hoping for cash from a celebrity panel. Vernon Kay hosts.
* Fort Boyard (TV5, 5.30, Saturday 7 July) I presume this is the 2011 series.
Re: FB: almost certainly, unless they’re airing the 2012 series three hours ahead of France 2 which also debuts that day.
Tipping Point we’ve covered previously although I didn’t know it was strating that soon.
Fort Boyard 2011 and 2012 on the same day?
Oh, French TV, you really do spoil us.
Tipping point.
That’s a quick recording turnaround from the press release. Also, given it was mentioned it would air in ‘Q3’ I guess the 2nd of July is the earliest date in Q3 they could run it – not wasting any time there, ITV.
Also, sort of hoping there would be a real studio audience booked to turn up (and if it was a Saturday afternoon, I would don the undercover hat and offer to review it) but it does sound like most of it is now loafing around in post-prod.
Let’s Get Gold sounds like the most hopeless ‘Not an actual Olympic tie-in, but just this side of ok so LOCOG won’t be on our case’ that only ITV and Vernon Kaye could get involved in.
The Bodyguard – am I the only one who thinks this reads like an insurance policy by the BBC and Endemol, just incase the yet to be seen Richard Hammond’s Endemol produced ‘comedy’ hidden camera show flies like the pervebrial piano?
It just has this air of ‘lining up the next card in the pack’ about it.
Whilst I’m in a minor nit-pick mode.
Adobe Flash 11.3. Just how on earth did this ever get beyond Beta test mode and out onto the wider interweb?
Great if you like listening to streaming radio stations underwater, or with added sound crackles and glitches – but I don’t. Let’s hope 11.4 is on it’s way soon. Mind you I got away easily. At least I can watch YouTube clips. That’s more than some that pressed the ‘upgrade to 11.3’ icon with relish.
Just a warning if you haven’t yet..
Nice to see some new UK gameshows, looking forward to the first week of July.
On the other hand, this might be the new voice format in Holland: http://www.absolutely.nl/showformat/Its_Raining_Weather_%28Wo%29Men!.html – or it might not be. The title is hilarious though.
Rufus Hound hypnotism thing now called Mash Da Mind, friends try and predict what their hypnotised friend did, more questions right, the further the flight.
Good luck with that. Tickets at SRO.
There has been a show that sounds quite like this hypnotising show in Germany. There were five tasks and the hypnotized contestant was shown one half of a clip while sitzing in a studio with four friends a host and some audience. the clip featured them on a day on which they were hypnotised, doing embarassing things. then they had to predict what they have done exactly (multiple choice) and they had to allow the host to show the rest of the clip. Allowing to show the clip made the contestant go on a dream holiday (the episode i’ve seen featured gran canaria) on the first task and taking one of the four friends with them was the reward on showing the other clips. predicting what they’d done exactly gave the contestants 100€ pocket money for the trip. there was a buzzer so they could stop the clip even when they had allowed it and so they were able to think out loud. the tasks got more and more embarassing, they were stupid and even i felt embarassed for watching them do them. the contestant i have seen was afraid of being unfair when not allowing to show all the clips, because she had to choose which friend was allowed to come with her. rating were horrible, the host (once a very well known one in germany, jörg draeger) failed with everything from that on and it was pure trash. i hope i’m mistaking and that you get a good game show that features hypnotising. i’ve never seen a good one…