And would you believe it, it’s a crunch period at my real life work so I won’t have much time to actually do or watch anything. We will see what we can do though.
It’s the Eurovision Song Contest this week, the semi-finals on Tuesday and Thursday (8pm, BBC3 with Scott Mills and Mel Giedroyc) and the big grand final is this Saturday (8pm BBC1 with Graham Norton, Nigella Lawson is “doing” our points) which will see Electro Velvet STORM to a 21st place finish. Before that at 7pm on Saturday is a Who Dares Wins Eurovision Celebrity Special, I’m intrigued to find out how many possible Eurovision based lists you could do (“national finalists with ‘La’ in the title”) but evidently there’s at least eight.
International viewers can watch both the semis and the grand final streamed on Eurovision.tv.
MEANWHILE on Thursday Wednesday night in the US it’s the first episode of long-awaited worldwide quiz sensation 500 Questions. If it’s rubbish and doesn’t do very well remember that we told you so. However how will Richard Quest fare against the Demographics Dragon? We’ll soon find out! Edit: Here’s Buzzerblog’s review.
Here’s a super thing, The Extraordinary Story of The Crystal Maze on Buzzfeed, with interviews with Richard O Brien, David G Croft, James Dillon, Sandra Caron and a contestant.
In other news, Tellycopter (NBC’s UK formats branch) have a runthrough in London THIS Thursday (21st), although I don’t know for which of their formats because they seem to tweet me on rotation, but if you’re interested drop contestants@nbcuni.com a line.
Quest: Welcome! To Million Second Quiz!
Wait. Wrong show. But yeah. Basically same stuff. Only, this is worse.
This question obviously won’t get attention to country with bad quizzing tradition.
I do have a question. Will Quest ring a bell at the beginning of each show?
On a side note. I’m starting a bet here that nobody will survive until question #2. The odds is 1-to-10
Any takers?
Who would win in a fight between Demographics Dragon and Ratings Bear?
The Demographics Dragon is the toughest ratings beast as yet determined.
‘Schlag den Star’ is back in the summer on Prosieben. Another series of celeb vs celeb. One of the shows is Elton vs Lukas Podolski (ex-Arsenal player).
Seasonal #QTEFOC. What’s fourth in this sequence?
1. Breakdance
If it’s what I think it is, I can’t give you 4th, but I think I can give you negative 16th
I want to say El Robocop, but I suspect it isn’t.
It is.
Uno: el brikindans
Dos: el crusaíto
Tres: el Maiquelyason
Cuatro: el Robocop
Pick that one out; five points for Brig!
Maybe “seasonal” was too big a clue, but any Eurovision lyric that teaches you a dance with exactly four moves is ripe for a QTEFOC, especially when the sequence is as loopy as:
1. Breakdance
2. Cross-step
3. Michael Jackson
4. Robocop
The source is, roughly, translation of Baila el chiki chiki, the Spanish entry from 2008. It finished sixteenth, with a bullet.
(Next: LT United.)
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Ah nice one. I remember the robotic dancing, but I couldn’t recall the other bits.
Cracking tune though.
Ah, 2008. The year the Serbian crowd booed every entry that dared to not take it seriously. Like the pirates.
Series 9 of The Cube begins June 3 (yes, a Wednesday), according to the ITV press release:
http://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week23/cube
Given that it’s already online at ITV, I guess we can ignore the part at the end about “The information contained herein is strictly embargoed from all press, online and social media use, non-commercial publication, or syndication until Tuesday 26 May 2015.” 🙂
Ta!