with it’s inevitable shark-and-other-things jumping on June 22nd.
That’s about the time we can expect to see episode two of series three of Total Wipeout, ho ho.
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with it’s inevitable shark-and-other-things jumping on June 22nd.
That’s about the time we can expect to see episode two of series three of Total Wipeout, ho ho.
A month later than last year, with 18 episodes too, so could run into mid-October – though Dancing with the Stars gets in the way mid-September.
In less exciting news, the BBC are to recommission Total Wipeout again too, with a fourth series expected to begin sometime this decade and end by 2042. So You Think You Can Dance also getting recommissioned, whilst Strictly gets a budget boost which I doubt will solve any of it’s problems.
I reckon the damage has already been done on Strictly Come Dancing. They’ve had two poor and controversial series, with the household and some online opinions has now given up on the show.
No surprises with Total Wipeout, although the endless repeats are now getting reasonable figures.
Is it conceivable, then, that if the next series of Strictly is also poor, controversial and gets creamed by XF (assuming the two continue to clash in the schedules), then Auntie might have to sit down and wonder whether it might actually be worth pulling the plug on it?
But then that would also mean the end of heavy doses of Claudia after Eggheads… 🙁
they could give claudia a daily chat show in the same slot. It could imaginatively be called ‘The Two Show.’
i should be in tele me!
Should be The Other Show. Because BBC2 is ‘the other BBC1’.
Comission X100
Claudia’s Winks?
Brig is right, the show isn’t going to go away, they need to tweak it to make it work again.
They got too cocky for their own good in 2009, most people know you cannot mess with Simon Cowell. Even Bruce Forsyth went overboard with his personal attacks to The X Factor but since then it’s been very quiet. Having Alesha Dixon didn’t help as when Cheryl Cole joined Simon’s panel we know she has been through the audition process on Popstars: The Rivals and has got a singing background. While Dixon hasn’t got the dancing experience.
The show can work but they need to go back their roots and have 10-12 couples, have the first four weeks with a men/women rotation and bring back the results show as a separate show on the same night, thus.
5.30pm – Hole in the Wall
6.00pm – Strictly Come Dancing (even at 6pm it got nearly 10 million and doesn’t clash with The X Factor)
7.30pm – National Lottery (possibly In It to Win It, since it’s the most popular format and will get a boost from SCD)
8.20pm – Casualty
9.10pm – Strictly Come Dancing Results
9.40pm – Outnumbered
Hmm… maybe I should challenge Jay Hunt for BBC1 Controller.
But Strictly still does very good numbers regardless of whether it’s being beaten by The X Factor or not. I don’t think it’s going any time soon.
So here’s a thing that was crossing my mind (as I catch up on Only Connect from Monday):
I can’t think of any other quiz show (with a tournament structure) that explicitly makes the quiz itself more difficult as the tournament proceeds; all the ones I can think of seem to expect the *competition* to be more challenging, while the *questions* remain at about the same level.
Do many do this behind the scenes but not admit to it? Certainly OC’s the first time it’s definitely been noticeable.
I think the Intelligence/Mental Agility tests on The New Krypton Factor were supposed to do this. I don’t remember enough to know how effective this was though.
They always said in the old days that the Intelligence tests were harder in the later round too – and also the plane-simulator thing allegedly was harder.
Response was, iirc
Plane sim -> Plane Sim onto ship/Helicopter Sim -> Real Plane/NASA Space Shuttle Sim
Intelligence 2d -> forget -> 3d
I’m fairly sure UC and Mastermind ratchet up their questions a bit during later rounds but it’s fairly fine divisions of levels and not very noticeable. Brain of Britain most definitely has harder questions later, though none of these examples seem to make any play about it.
Seems that we here in the States cannot get enough of “Wipeout”. It’s been one of the relatively few bright spots in ABC’s summer schedule, at lest as far as the ratings are concerned.
Folks just love to see other folks fall into the water. . . or the mud. . . or the muddy water. . . or the foam. . . or the watery foam. . . or the muddy watery foam. . .
The past two seasons, ABC has paired “Wipeout” with “I Survived A Japanese Game Show”, and it is difficult to figure out why. ISAJGC was not able to hole “Wipeout”‘s audience durign its first season, and things only got worse last year.
There a wipeout game on Ipod for 2.99. I didnt like it.
There’s also one out for the Wii, although I didn’t buy it.
Big Red Ball Challenge.
Seriously. Mindscape have done better (i.e. Fort Boyard).
Three specials for Wipeout Series 3 – Ladies Night, Blind Date (a variation on the couples), and Family Edition, which I’m told will be Generation Game style – so mother/son, father/daughter – and all over 18!