Do you remember that thing that was briefly discussed a little while ago about DJ Tim Shaw being put inside a box for thirty days or until someone finds him and wins some cash?
It’s actually been going on for a few weeks, and seems to have had little-to-no publicity. So here is a link.
Pah. Iain Lee’s Shoe In Box was much better.
I’ve been watching the delay for the last twenty minutes, it’s quite absorbing.
I’ve come to the conclusion that there would be a BRILLIANT horror film to make out of this concept.
If anybody does recall last night I mentioned that Home Bargains were selling The Kids Are Alright electronic game for a fiver or something and joked The Colour of Money will soon appear on their selves.
Turns out The Colour of Money has yet to appear on their shelves but the US version of Deal or No Deal’s electronic game has for £6.99. I am sure you cannot buy this in any other shop (except Home Bargains) in the entire country.
argh, that should be last year, not last night.
I spotted the US version of Deal or No Deal when I was last in Toymaster, I think.
I spotted the electronic The Kids Are All Right game in Basildon Market once.
No, I wasn’t tempted.
I saw a Terry Wogan’s Perfect Recall in ASDA the other day for, I think, a fiver… maybe seven fifty. Wasn’t tempted either.
It seemed very light on cards. If I worked it correctly, you could only play four whole programmes before you ran out of questions.
Ouch. That’s a rather major flaw of any quiz based boardgame.
A robbery’s just happened at the EPT Berlin: I presume the robbers don’t realise that the chips ain’t worth anything:
http://www.4flush.com/online-poker-news/european-poker-tour-event-robbed-at-gun-point/4704/
Here’s an unrelated thing, right.
I’ve been thinking about doing a quiz or something along those lines for the Uni’s TV station. And, as I was bored and YouTube channel hopping, I discovered La Cibile, and in short, LOVED the format. So which leads me to a question. What’s the ins and outs of copyright material concerning individual rounds in a show? I mean, I can’t just take the entire format and halve the prizes by 100, but how far can I go?
Shakey ground in the UK.
Wasn’t the La Cible (which itself was the French version of a FOX format from America called Face:Off) format done by the BBC using Fred Dinage as the host on weekday lunchtimes somewhere around the early 2000’s?
I gather you mean Pass The Buck.
It did have an opening round similar to that of La Cible, but its end game was completely different.
Some links to help readers. The UKGS review of Pass the Buck. My 2003 description of La Cible, which doesn’t take into account the subsequent tinkerings.
Looking at it again, the final round strikes me as something for Accumulate! when it’s played for a daily cash prize.
I thought Push the Button seemed much better this week than last, though still got the easiest end game in TV history – all you have to do is basically remember a couple of numbers!
Had the dead soap star game too – though would still like to see something more effective than just one lump sum being wiped off. Perhaps Grand Slam style the cash could fall until you get a correct answer, and then the others begins to fall etc.
I sky+ Push the Button and fast forward to the end game. Yes, possibly the easiest end game in history. Who Dares Wins had proper tension tonight with the second money list.
Yes, the very welcome return of Who Dares Wins after too long off our screens.
(POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOLLOW)
There were quite a few good moments besides that second money list, with Christian and Rob getting the name of the policeman in Only Fools And Horses wrong, Cyril and Mellissa giving just one answer and not being the only ones surprised that David wasn’t among the top 50 boys’ names in England and Wales (would Nick have been told through his earpiece or something like that that it’s 64th?) and Kristi and Joe giving a good Drifters rendition – but losing that list and the game in the process.
If anyone wants to know, “Saturday Night At The Movies” reached number 3 in the UK in 1964.
Also felt it worked better this week. The audience, for example, was sane enough not to offer commiserations to a team asked to backstage so they couldn’t watch the first game being played.
The two ‘structure of telly’ gags this week were ‘mouth-bleep the phone’ and the ‘salt and pepper not included’ gag from last week.
The game structure seems to be, then, time trial opening game which takes up the entire stage, quiz where up to £15k can be lost, audience vote entertainment challenge worth £100 per % the winning team got off the losing team, and a simultaneous time trial game for the fourth.
Whereas amusingly I didn’t enjoy iut quite as much as last week, but I can’t put y finger on why. I guess any show that has a wide variety of games will have peaks and troughs though.
Well, admittedly this week nothing hit the greatness of the yodeling last week.
Even as someone who is pretty good on sport trivia, that final list on Who Dares Wins tonight was impressive.
They merely had to recall the entire men’s 8 in rowing + the cox, our team eventers (an other 5) and Chris Hoy for £50k.
How many times has the £50,000 been won on a list?
I don’t know many non-rowing fans who could have named the coxed 8 though. I’d have probably got 15 max.
I know who Acer Nethercott is from watching the 2004 and 2005 Boat Races, but I wouldn’t have guessed him either.
Have to admit that Nick built up the tension brilliantly when Christian and Rob answered Ed Clancy thinking that he was a rower instead of a cyclist.
About four or five times I think.