Not a very exciting week, but actually quite an interesting weekend:
- Your Face Sounds Familiar – the show that everybody is just calling Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes starts on Saturday night where celebs such as the man with the hardest working ethic in television Alexander Armstrong, Bobby Davro and the like spend the next six weeks impersonating other singing celebs on live television (although I think there’s a pre-record element this week). It’s been massive in Spain, I can certainly see the attraction (especially if someone is comically bad) so keep an eye on it. (ITV, Saturday, 7:30)
- Intervilles – yes, the original It’s a Knockout With A Live Bull celebrates its fiftieth anniversary on France 2 on Saturday night with an exciting one-off (it’s not actually been on for a few years) featuring the towns of Dax and Saint-Amand-Les-Eaux, the two places that featured in the first final in 1962. Surely that’s 51 years then? Never mind. Olivier Minne is one of the hosts. Coincidentally, Fort Boyard starts next week! (France 2, 7:45pm UK time)
- Just 1 Thing – The pilot for this records Saturday night at Elstree. If you go, do tell us what you thought. Already wins award for “best/worst use of numeral in a title since Unan1mous“.
NEWS OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE – seems someone has either managed to do the editing job of the century, or otherwise managed to get hold of the master tapes for Catchphrase music:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL45D42E89C067FA8F
Alas, they are all the short 10-second versions but if you look around the same user’s files there are some “in full” ones that last 20 seconds or so. Some of these definitely are cut-and-shut versions taken from TV tapes.
Whoever you are, catchphrasemania86…
…you’ve made an old man very happy. Thank you!
I may have to get a mobile phone just so I can set my ring tone to be one of these. But which one?
Actually it’s neither.
The music has been ripped from the Catchphrase VHS game. Each Catchphrase on the tape lasted ten seconds.
Carol Vorderman’s new gameshow Revolution has been cancelled: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/4989251/Carol-Vordermans-quiz-show-is-out-for-the-count-before-even-being-aired.html
To make a story about a 15 month old pilot not going to series is a bit desperate I think, although I understand the intrigue if a show films a series and then doesn’t get broadcast.
So Fort Boyard 2013 starts next Saturday. Week 1 Trailer is online (Contains Spoilers). From the clips ive seen it looks like there keeping with the music they introduced last year. What i’m sorta not liking is the amount of games that arn’t really gonna be against some kind of clock (Pere Foras show and Cafe Willy as well as other games from last year). Other than that the new games look pretty fun and i like the Pere-Foras and Passe Muraille trying them out.
Looking Forward to next week!