I’ve got my 31 Questions badge and David M Green signed photo… have YOU? There is still a week-and-a-bit to contribute to the next series of Bother’s Bar favourite low budget cable access show if you are that way inclined.
We’re all about the crowdfunding at the moment seemingly, look out for a “fund Brig a Playstation 4” Kickstarter soon.
In audience news:
- They’re recording more episodes of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown in Manchester, recording dates 12th and 16th December. Recording session times suggest either a lightning fast turn around for four shows or recording lots and editing into two shows.
- The Cube records 13th-17th January at the Fountain Studios in London.
- Chef Simon Rimmer is hosting a new quiz/cookery show called Truffle or Tripe? where contestants answer questions to earn prized ingredients whereas people who answer less well get less useful foodstuffs. Then they make a meal. It sounds like a quizzy reversioning of Ready Steady Cook. It records in Islington January and February variously and sounds like it’s for Channel 4.
Dale Winton’s doing a new lottery show where couples get to win items on their wishlists.
FINALLY, because I’m fed up with finishing second every year my Sundays are busier than they were there will be no Bother Series of Poker 2014, look out instead for the Bother’s Bar Monthly Open due to be held on the first Sunday of every month. Details will go up on the BB Poker Page nearer the time. The BSOP and Mix It Up Real Good may return at a later date.
Speaking of cookery shows: Did anyone of you watch last years “The Tast” on ABC in the US? Well it was quiet a success and will launch next year on Channel 4 in the UK. In Germany it has started a month ago or soemthing and is running on Sat.1. It appears to have a very loyal audience (Though FC Bayern Munich was playing, the ratings were really good for Sat.1) and I started to watch some bits on youtube (thanks to Prosieben/Sat.1 geoblocking everything else). It is really fun to watch. The judges are a great team and I can see, why they are already looking for season 2 contestants. When I’m back in Germany, I will definitely watch it. This blind tasting might be interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryiTiaz-8W8 . I’m surprised they even have their own little tune they use as background music most of the time. Normally Prosieben/Sat.1 likes to use bad charts music…
Well it’s called “The Taste”…
It will be interesting to see how it does over here, judge Nigella Lawson is currently undergoing a nasty and quite public divorce case, and it sounds like most of the public are right behind her.
Don’t know if it’d work in other countries, but there’s a show in the US called Cutthroat Kitchen with an interesting premise- four professional chefs are given $25,000 each at the beginning of each show to bid on sabotages they can inflict on each other in each round (things like not letting them taste test their dishes, forcing them to use a Swiss Army knife instead of knives in their prep work, having the exclusive use of an ingredient or forcing someone else to use an ingredient, etc.) They have to use their money carefully, because whatever they have left at the end is their prize, but they have to survive the three rounds (each a different dish, with a judge who has no knowledge of the sabotages that were used and who used them) in order to keep the money..
In Holland (And Belgium) it has been running as a coproduction between RTL and VTM, with two Dutch chefs and two Belgium chefs. Although quite cheaply produced (set looks awful), the battle between, the blind tasting and the format itself are quite appealing and it works pretty well.
It airs on Tuesdays, 21.30 timeslot in NL – does fairly well. Not a huge success, definitely not a flop. Not sure if it returns next year. Not sure how it rates in Belgium though.
Here’s interesting – if Shut Up and Sit Down met TV game shows, this is the likely result:
They’ve done this in Japan:
http://youtu.be/g4aChA2G-u0
Haven’t watched it yet (so look forward to looking stupid later), but surely Traitor with Tony Livesey did this already?
Oh, yeah. But that had an added bluffing element that made it rather similar to Liar of the same era.
I’d have done the (probably cliché) thing of not revealing the identities of the werewolves, so that we could play along too. Obviously the ‘night’ death selections would then be carefully edited.
Do you think people would prefer that, or would prefer knowing who the werewolves are from the start?
I think it’s the sort of thing you’d need to edit together first and make a decision after watching, because I’m not sure.
I’ve finally watched this now, I like Werewolf as a game (I liked it when it came up on Wie is De Mol last year). I am surprised they didn’t jig it so there was a round of discussion first, the guy from Conan did literally nothing, but thanks for turning up. Enjoyed the graveyard stuff, the host seemed rather surplus to requirements.
Bother’s Bar’s already got someone to back on January’s second series of Splash as PAUL ROSS is revealed as a contestant by Tom Daley on The Jonathan Ross Show!
“I loved it, Five stars *****”