Well this is potentially a very exciting development. Eight feet tall robots smack the living hell out of each other.
Only in the US for now (beginning on SyFy in February) but we’re already coming up with ways for Craig Charles to sign-off a UK version. Chris Jericho’s potentially a very good host for this by the way, he was a surprise hit fronting conveyor belt quiz Downfall a few years ago even if the show wasn’t.
Oh, I’d watch that!
I know these are properly technogically set up and every thing (and I just wish I had the cojones to go across the road and ask Prof Noel Sharkey what he thinks about it, but I still go into geek meltdown if we pass on the road), but they do look a bit like men in rubber suits to me. Reminds me of a thing I once saw in the US, (not on TV, just in some arena in Philadelphia) called Kaiju Big Battel (sic) [www.kaiju.com] . Basically Godzilla/Ultraman type characters wrestling. I seem to remember it being very cool, though I may not have been fully sober at the time.
No great surprise but the BBC have recommissioned Pointless for 183 more episodes.
http://www.c21media.net/archives/93720
Six of those are celeb specials with the rest split into three daytime series – so knowing the BBC mixing them in with blocks of repeats that’ll keep them going a couple of years.
…Hm. Was the problem with Sing If You Can really that the stunts were too Knockoutesque and not Fear Factory enough?
TruTV seems to think so.
http://gawker.com/5962191/killer-karaoke-combines-singing-and-danger-is-the-only-show-you-should-watch-with-your-grandmother-this-thanksgiving
Naah. The problem with Sing If You Cannot (© Ratings Bear 2011) was that it had too much Keith Lemon. ITV was right to test the appeal of Mr. Lemon, and might have concluded that he’s not a mass-market proposition before commissioning LemonAid.
I heard that that bloke off of Skyfall was kicking up trouble in the Bar the other day.
Javier Bardem?
No, Brig just sent him home to sleep it off.
(adapted from my friend Alex)
Oh, very droll, Chris. That one is going to Outpost Gallifrey.
Amazing Race Australia won best non-scripted entertainment show at the International Emmys apparently. Well deserved, for the first series at least.
To cast your minds to this post I made on 11th November.
https://www.bothersbar.co.uk/?p=6483&cpage=1#comment-54522
The guy from the Valle d’Aosta region who picked the Arrivederci on two occasions (7th and 11th Novemeber) returned for a third time on last night’s show. Due to the length of the game they had to continue from where they left off tonight. At the first offer he was given a cambio (swap) and swapped his box 16 for box 7. Box 16 was revealed tonight to contain €10,000. He refused the offers of €70,000 and €45,000 late in the game and kept €30,000 and €500,000 at the end. He rejected a final offer of €150,000. It was revealed his box contains and therefore wins the top prize of €500,000.
You couldn’t even write the script for this guy,