So you might have seen Buzzerblog tweet and write about this yesterday (all our stories stem from Buzzerblog these days, apparently), ITV are sending out casting notices for a new daytime show called Pick Me!
Edit: Updated casting details. Stephen Mulhern hosting pilot, it films on May 6th in Manchester. Hilarious yet challenging battles of wits promised. E-mail possessedcasting@itv.com if you’re interested – good luck.
Edit Edit: Off camera audience tickets are also available for people who just want to watch, tickets SRO. Let us know what it’s like if you go, hmm?
In Pick Me! everyone in the audience is a potential winner but if you want to play for a prize, you have to get picked. So make sure you stand out from the crowd; don your best fancy dress costume, wear your most OTT t-shirt, or bring along a brightly coloured homemade sign. The more outrageous the better.
The interest here is that it’s from Possessed TV, run by the most interesting man in daytime Glenn Hugill. My gut’s not big on that description, although I’m sure it will be brilliant, but what if it isn’t? Who becomes the most interesting man in daytime then? Hugh Rycroft? Judge Rinder? Who?
In other news JOIN US for the live Bother’s Bar Schlag den Raab-cast on Saturday night from 7:15pm where we commentate over the LIVE edition of Schlag den Raab (this month with €1.5m on the line) until the boring bits when David Bodycombe and Daniel Peake have quizzes of their own lined up. It’s sure to be a laugh riot, with some tense bits as we go full armchair producer and criticise German live production decisions, inevitably.
Pick Me sounds a bit like Lets Make a Deal to me.
It is definitely not Let’s Make A Deal, I’m informed.
May I direct you to updated details (now filming in Manchester). Applications very welcome.
https://twitter.com/naominim/status/590928644744314880
You may, I will update when I can get near a computer.
Stephen Mulhern!
We will also have a section of the audience for people who don’t wish to be contestants, so if you want to come and watch but don’t want to appear on camera you can apply for audience tickets via SRO (http://www.sroaudiences.com/) If you want to be part of the group from which Stephen will pick the contestants you’ll need to apply to the email address above.
Thanks Paul.
I can’t make it, but if anyone is going do let me know.
Paul, is this your creation?
Nope, all Glenn’s work. I am part of the Possessed development team, though, and am one of the execs on this.
Glenn =^_^=
Always imagine him walking out at some point in his leather jacket and saying “I have a challenge for you.”
I have just sent an email off now.
Always good to see recording happening up here in Manchester, and it will be interesting to see the premise of the show.
In other news, Richard Osman is rather unexpectedly a panellist on tonight’s Celebrity Juice. Always quite fun when a slightly different side comes up on that.
In other other news, I’ve done a little bit of rationalizing and tidying-up with the new edition of WordPress, you shouldn’t notice much although I have activated the unspectacular mobile theme, so you should find the place a bit easier to use on a mobile (if you don’t like it there’s a link to the full site at the bottom). Now you can slag off The Link whilst on the move!
Any unexpected issues please let me know.
I wonder if this will be a summertime replacement for The Chase. Someday, ITV needs a grand slam of daytime quiz shows from 2:00 to 6:00 right after the news. They’ll need to find a great quiz show to go along with The Chase, Tipping Point, and (as long as we know it’s coming back) 1000 Heartbeats.