Christ.
Still, it’s sort of in our wheelhouse, Friend of the Bar and upcoming CELEBRITY Line Up contestant Tom Scott and The Technical Difficulties have second series of their fun reverse quiz podcast out. Go check it out.
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Some actual news…
New Egghead Dave started today replacing CJ on the new episodes which surprised me completely as I didn’t even know they’d picked a new one! It evidently wasn’t through a third series of Are You An Egghead?
“enjoy the MILF” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAZo-OSZzQs
Yeah! I thought he said that and was a bit surprised!
Speaking of Avanti un Altro, what’s the point of the person who takes the lid off the scrolls at the beginning? Are they celebrities, or just someone they pulled out of the audience?
I think they’re just members plucked from the audience, I’ve seen a couple of them already.
you are correct. in season 1 there were two models, but to save some money they were not confirmed for season 2.
hosts from Rome like Bonolis love to interact with the studio audience, even by giving them tasks.
I am being told that the Jinx theme is custom-made, maybe it is a mix of different themes.
This is, I think, my favourite studio quiz in the last four-five years or so. I’m madly in love with it. How does it rate? Are people happy enough with the entertainment value the show provides that they don’t mind the fact it hardly ever gives away anything?
There will be a proper Weekend Special for it coming in the near future.
L’Eredità is still on top, and Avanti trails by a good 5% share, mostly because the population of Italy is quite old in average, and old people don’t like change, preferring more “quiet” and traditional shows like L’Eredità, which is still running since 2002
however, the same situation occoured last year but in the final days, Avanti went… ahead and took on the lead. we’ll see.
Also, what’s the piece of music that plays when The Jinx walks out? I need it. I need it so bad.
Been months since I posted ratings report on here.
Credit to DMN on Digital Spy.
Saturday 29th September
A Question of Sport: 2012 Olympics Special: 2.6m (17.4%)
Total Wipeout: 3.2m (18.8%)
The National Lottery: Secret Fortune: 3.6m (15.7%)
QI XL: 1.3m (5.5%)
Red or Black? Part One: 3.5m (16.2%)
The X Factor: 8.7m (37.7%)
Red or Black? Part Two: 3.1m (15.4%)
Comedy World Cup: 0.6m (2.5%)
The Million Pound Drop Live: 0.9m (4.3%)*
* Million Pound Drop ran for over two hours.
I have been told on twitter from a banned poster that.
“Million Pound Drop was the most popular programme at 9pm with highly educated young females. Advertisers love it.”
Friday 28th September
Baggage: 544k
The Million Pound Drop Live: 968k *
* Million Pound Drop had Greg Rutherford and Louis Smith on the show.
MPD will be on soon in The Netherlands, quite curious what it will be hitting for the ratings.
The figure of Baggage isn’t that good is it?
“Million Pound Drop was the most popular programme at 9pm with highly educated young females. Advertisers love it.”
I like how “he who shall not be named” keeps segmenting the audience group perhaps next year it will be “highly educated young females who are aged precisely 24 in Manchester who wear pink clothes”
I don’t know where the idea that Endemol Joe can’t be named comes from, he’s a twat but he’s hardly Voldemort.
and a liar as well. Since he still got a tendency to crow about “his shows” on my twitter feed but end up deleting his own comments minutes later but denies it.
I’m still convinced he’s a clever parody.
By the way there’s absolutely no way that anyone would have such detailed demographics within, what, 24 or 48 hours of a show being broadcast.
I don’t know about clever but I can believe it’s a parody.
#pedantry corner…
Sorry, but to be a parody/satirist you have to emulate a proper piece of work/writing/broadcasting etc and chuck in a gag or two and stretch it to it’s ‘just this side of believeable until the laughing wrecks it’.
Private Eye beyond the letters page and before the serious stuff at the back, The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You, Look Around You..
So, therefore unless there is genuine security door entry swipecard holder from Endmemol Uk breathlessly tweeting about how great the companies shows are every 8.3 seconds (and I wouldn’t know as Twitter has passed me right by) then Endemol Joe can’t really be classed as a parodist.
Prat, maybe, but (s)he doesn’t appear to be producing tweets of a satirical nature – just repetitive promotion for the largest indie tv producer in this fair land.
The closest thing I have to news is that new episodes of The Ellen DeGeneres Show are being broadcast on Really as of today.
Now it may nominally be a talk show, but for a talk show, it doesn’t half feature a lot of game elements, and Ellen is often somewhere on the Beadle-Edmonds axis. You’ve seen a lot of the elements before in other forms; supposedly one time they featured a proto-Hole In The Wall, with a ball pool instead of a water pool. Essentially everything about the show is sponsored – the show is effectively 15% comedy, 5% dancing, 80% advertising in various forms – but it’s sometimes of sufficient interest to be worth a mention here.
Perhaps half the games are nominally embarrassing and end up awarding the same prize to both or all the contestants, and once every couple of weeks or so they have a blatantly rigged game where one of the contestants is revealed to be someone who works on the show, or perhaps Ellen herself. (In this latter case the other contestant is blindfolded and does “embarrassing” things while Ellen pretends to play along… but doesn’t.) Lawks!
One running gag is the “1000% not rigged, completely honest $1 billion wheel” where contestants come up and spin a wheel which lands upon a comedic fate, having very very narrowly missed landing on the ultra-thin “win $1,000,000,000” segment, defying the laws of physics in its motion. The Wheel of Beauty is a slight variant on this, and you can work out what sort of light slapstick hilarity will ensue, and the eventual pay-off in a matter of seconds.
Many of the interviewees and other celebrity guests will play along with various games – often sponsored, sometimes not. In one episode I saw, someone called Jesse Tyler Ferguson (who I have no reason to know other than through this passing appearance) gamely answered – or, far more often, failed to answer – reasonably difficult-sounding political trivia questions, and had pans of coloured paint etc. flicked at him for each missed question.
‘sall I got – not much, but a little more than nothing. Now I can kill this Jesse Tyler Ferguson tab that I’ve had open for months.
I think the game element Ellen is most famous for is trapdoor quiz Know or Go. Of which there is an app, reviewed in the iThing section which I would link to but fear I’d lose my writing if I swap tabs on my iPad.
Here you go: https://www.bothersbar.co.uk/?page_id=3505