Yes, the episodes of Tipping Point on during April/May 2013 are repeats. The third series films soon.
We’re going to have a feature on the recently comissioned (in Germany) Cash Crash for you this weekend, and on Sunday night it’s game seven of the BSOP -as it warms up outside, it’s warming up on the felt. It’s open to anyone who wants to play and is willing to stake the $5.50 stake, so come and join us.
In other repeat news, I believe next week’s editions of The Chase are repeats. Would be lovely if this allowed 5 Minutes to a Fortune to pick up some viewers.
Four Rooms comes to daytime on 29 April: specifically, that oh-so-obvious 1.45pm slot.
Good news for viewers who are missing Victoria Coren and Alex Guttenplan on their tellies: the Only Connect / University Challenge special from 2011 is to be repeated immediately after this year’s final on 29 April. On BBC2. And not on BBC4.
Ooh, interesting news about Four Rooms. I think they’re doing primetime ones as well, so I wonder when they will go out. Ta.
Interesting use of a repeat. I’m 99% sure our trophy still stays BBC Four on it so expect that to be the channel of choice come mid-May for series 7 and then 8, but with figures of 1m+ now being regular don’t be too surprised if they don’t hang on to it after that.
I’m stepping down from the show as of this month so I’m past caring, but for all the talk about it I think if it was going to transfer to BBC 2 I think it should’ve happened before now.
Could be a dangerous middlegame for BBC Four to propose a qns crfc (queen sacrifice).
Thursday’s series 2 premiere of Cube China, with new opening titles and some new games:
They’re playing for just cash now too, it seems. And the top prize is 500k yuan.
Wait, no, it’s 250k as usual.
In Germany tonight: Celebrity Opdenhövels Countdown on ARD. They seem to have changed some bits and they have made it into a saturday night prime time edition. I hope it’ll find a bigger audience then the weekday civilian editions did last year (it’s been a long time so they had enough time to make great changes…).
Aand (I’m really looking forward to this) the TV Total segment “Elton zockt”‘s saturday night edition. Contestants can win up to 100.000€ against Elton, but if they lose, one of their most valuable or most beloved items will be destroyed. Elton will host the show himself until he will be part of the game in the finale round. So it should be quiet great I suppose. (And the host of the finale round, Sandra something (has hosted “Unser Star für Baku” too), is also not bad). It’s certainly interesting to see whether this TV Total segment has enough potential to be a series of saturday night events…
Cheers, will be giving that a watch.
If you want to watch Opdenhovel’s Countdown:
http://kinofilm2020.ucoz.com/index/ard/0-33
Starts 7:15, finishes 9:45 UK time.
Here’s the “official” stream- it’s not blocked in the US…
http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/shows-im-ersten/livestream-opdenhoevels-countdown?documentId=14095514
Looks to be totally different than the last run- they aren’t playing as a team, there are “Beat the expert” challenges…
Yeah. It’s not quite doing it for me to be honest and I can’t quite put my finger on why – i think I quite liked the iteam based challenges they used to do and now it feels a bit bitty.
Though the challenges are good- that “Bungee Noseball” was hilarious..
Yes, bungee noseball was funny (the sort of thing you only see on German television), and I quite enjoyed the handbrake parallel parking.
And now the host of Millionaire in Germany is doing Name That Tune on the recorder…
To anyone interested in the new format, four celebs compete.
The first game is a free for all, winning events earn money, coming last earns zero.
Several sets of games are played, a set normally consists of a member of the public coming on to show off a skill then the celebs trying to beat it (€5k to the winner which is usually the MOTP, €500 to the runner up). This is followed by a quiz round, this isn’t worth money but the worst performer has to sit the next game out. The other three then do a challenge, winning is worth increasing amounts of money as the show progresses and a small amount of money is given to the player placing second. Repeat for two hours.
Presumably (we’re not there at time of writing) top earning celeb plays for €100k for charity.
Oh, if a celeb beats the MOTP, the MOTP still gets 2.5k.
According to the translation, the winner gets their total doubled, so I’m guessing the total amount that was possible is 100,000.
This climbing using vacuum cleaners would be perfect for SDR….
Most of the post-quiz challenges had SDR potential, I thought.
It’s a shame dodgy technology basically ruined the end game, there.
I noticed that- figured they would have given them the last 6,000 no matter what happened in that retry since it was for charity..
Elton zockt is not too bad. Could do with an injection of pace, but the premise is good. Elton is great (as always) and the games so far have been relatively good. Wolff Fuss (German football commentator) is pretty decent.
Will watch Opdenhövels Countdown at some point as I do like the look of it.
We appear to still be on new episodes of The Chase and today’s Final is certainly causing some Twitter commotion so do have a look at it.
As mentioned elsewhere 1001 Things… have stopped numbering the rectangles – a crafty way of glossing over the point where they pass Q1001?
Over on Pointless it appears we’re into the final week of new shows before some repeats start next week.
As for Four Rooms at 1:45 – a. that’s a rubbish time for a good show to be going out and b. it’s basically Big Money Dickinson’s Real Deal (although perhaps less big now it’s in daytime) so why have they chosen a very ‘Real Deal’ kind of slot for it?!
I’m beginning to believe those responsible for the scheduling at Channel 4 have lost much, if not all, of their collective sense.
With regards to The Chase, wrong decision in my opinion.
When I first heard about Daytime Four Rooms I thought that it might be half-hours in the 3:30pm slot but then again that’s hardly proved a successful slot, really, has it?
ITVs reasoning on The Chase ending is this:
https://twitter.com/ITVChase/status/326379442136047616
…something which has never been mentioned on the show to my knowledge but it does sound like they watched it back a few times to make sure. Does strike a bit of Beat The Pack’s endgame flaw, though!