Great news for fans of 2015’s OFFICIAL second best new show Taskmaster, TVRecordings have tickets for a recording on the evening of 14th March (presumably there are more to come) at the Fountain in Wembley.
The contestants will be revealed in due course. My understanding is that series two and three will be being filmed at the same time, although whether that’s just one task filming block and two different studio filming blocks I don’t know.
In other news I chanced across an episode of Sticky Moments On Tour on Youtube last night. Sticky Moments was a show where Julian Clary set quizzes and challenges to people plucked from the audience queue in the hope of being the grand champion and winning a rubbish prize, kind of like The Generation Game for late night, and being any good took second place to being game. Rude but never quite vulgar (JC always went big on innuendo) it feels a bit tame by 2016 standards but is still capable of providing some big laughs, I hope more turns up at some point. This was one of Julian’s many collaborations with Paul Merton. On Tour was basically an excuse to dress the studio up and pretend they were somewhere else on a weekly basis, a bit like The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow but more camp.
This vid has the first couple of minutes cut off unfortunately.
In other news I’m on a bit of a US Remote Control kick at the moment, but I would probably kill a man if there was a promise of an upload of a UK edition with the legendary Tony Wilson, Frank Sidebottom, Phil Cornwell and basically most of the stars of The Fast Show before they were famous.
For those who can’t get enough Mole action, The Mole BELGIUM episode 1 is now available!
Episode 1 is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MiWHmZ41sA
(Their snazzy website is: https://demol.vier.be/home )
I’m not going to run a Suspect List for it, but having watched it, I’m going to put this out there… I reckon The Mole Belgium is just as good as The Mole Netherlands… and quite possibly better.
It could be because Episode 1 is very strong, but I reckon Belgium is as clever as Netherlands, and the challenges have been bigger. It’s got the same filmy style, and it very much helps that there’s more money available. There’s a moment with a bottle that sold it for me. The host has a more friendly style with the candidates, having dinner with them etc, like in the UK, but not in the Netherlands one.
Though the reveal at the end with the green/red screens wasn’t nearly as good or dramatic, I’ll still be watching this one with interest.
And having finished it, it is closer to the UK style than the Dutch style on average (though it is in between). Liking it…
(Also, worth Google Translating the bit in the taxi after the elimination…)
ITV, celebrity version, Tuesday evenings, please. SORT IT OUT, TELLY PEEPS.
I’d love to show you a program that seems so British in its presentation (it’s very Bake Off-esque), I wonder whether it’s an adaptation or a new format.
Made in Denmark airs on DR1 (so it’s not geblocked, you can watch it on dr.dk/tv) and it is currently in its second season.
Seven craftspeople from all around the country work with different materials each (this year we have clay, horn, brass, silk, silver, concrete and wood, last year included paper, iron and leather for example). Each week they visit one in his workshop and the other six learn a bit of his wokr to fulfill several tasks. It’s told very quietly and you feel like you really understand what it takes to work with this particular material. The craftspeople are very well casted and they are interesting characters on their own.
The tasks are very Bake Off-ish. The first one is a technical challenge where important knowledge about handling the material is taught by the craftman of the week. The second one is totally freeform and the participants can do whatever they like with that material (sometimes they bring something they have prepared with them) and it will be judge by an important person who knows the material (i.e. in the leather task of the first season the chief designer of one of Denmark’s biggest shoe brands came to judge).
It’s not important how good you are in each week though. There is an eighth episode in which everyone will compete in front of an all star arts and crafts jury and the overall winner is chosen by them.
I have only seen three episodes of it, but it seems to be a hit in DK and I loved every single episode. The second season has only just started and you can understand it without knowing Danish imho. Though I speak quiet some Danish, so I can probably not really judge that.
That format is starting to ring all sorts of bells in my head.
I’m not sure, if it’s similar to a format I had years ago (one of those ‘thought about it, never wrote it down’ ideas)
But, I’m now thinking that it was this something very similar to a working format that our one time regular pet ‘troll’ Endemol Joe once blurted out on here?
I’m sure it was.
Rings bells, sure I’ve billed this on one of the Irish channels…
[goes off and searches]
Ah! Craft Master on RTE1 a couple of years back. Similar, if not the same, as Nico’s show.
In other news Shane Richie manages to have a picture taken of him holding some Win Your Wish List question cards!
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Pretty ironic considering he doesn’t actually ask the questions mind!
If Bother’s Bar has just one legacy, I’m glad it’s fuelling the resurgence of Host’s Holding A Question Card in promo shots.