Watching Big Brother. Has anyone noticed this?
Mole Michael
Ben Linus, from Lost.
From Wikipedia: He began as the antagonist but becomes something of an uneasy ally to the main characters; even so, however, throughout the series, he is persistently characterized by spontaneous coldblooded actions and the shroud of moral ambiguity, Michael is the People’s Puppet.
Actually while we’re here:
Matthew Fox, Dr Jack Shephard from Lost.
Callum from Big Brother.
Mmm. Whilst we’re here! Hold ’em on Sunday night from 8pm – $5.50, open to anyone.
Meanwhile in other news, I spent Saturday night watching TNT’s 72 Hours, basically yer standard adventure race with MOTP – a briefcase full of cash ($100k) is air dropped by helicopter about twenty miles away from the contestant’s start point. Teams consist of three strangers, and the first team to get ALL teammates to touch the briefcase wins the cash. The three teams are armed with only GPS, a radio and a bottle of water for each player – no food, and they must stop racing and make shelter at sunset. Along the way they must reach three ‘supply drops’ (ie checkpoints) where they can pick up supplies to help them survive and/or equipment for a challenge lying ahead (a harness for a tyrolian traverse, a boat for a six mile island hop, that sort of thing). Teams can also take an hour penalty and call in a relief drop which gives them extra water, some food, warm clothes and so on. As a point to point race, route strategy plays an interesting part.
The locations are very camera friendly, the host is basically Jeff Probst Junior, there’s enough friction for drama (you can’t leave a player behind) and as it challenge it feels properly demanding. There are worse ways to spend an hour.
Biggest issue isnthe use of supply drops as a sort of catch-up point. Once a team reaches one they have to radio in for the supplies to be dropped, subsequent teams won’t have to wait. The final drop feels very off, like they deliberately stall it for the second place team to arrive, although that might be a genuine timing luck.
How does it get around the Drop Zone problem that ‘competitive hiking is hard to televise effectively’?
Paolo Bonolis was interviewed, among other things, about the future of Avanti Un Altro!
he said that he expects Season 3 to run, like the second one, from September to March. after that, Paolo’s contract will expire and there is no way to tell what will happen next.
he also said no primetime specials 🙁
Fort Boyard news… although tread carefully 🙂 http://www.legorafi.fr/2013/06/10/fort-boyard-un-candidat-oublie-dans-la-cellule-dune-epreuve-retrouve-7-ans-plus-tard/
Ha ha!