And You Decide with Mel Giedroyc is on BBC4 on Friday at 7:30pm. Looks like there are still tickets left at the O2 Forum if you fancy spending £40.
Ken Bruce is premiering each song on his Radio 2 show, although if you don’t fancy that they’re also going to be on the BBC Eurovision blog once they’ve been played.
In other news Matt Allwright has been announced as the host of the BBC’s new upcoming daytime quiz The Code. The Code sees variable teams of 1-3 answer questions in order to find the code to a safe which starts with £3,000 and increases by £500 every time a team fails. 25 x 45 minute episodes in the order, we liked Matt Allwright on The Exit List so we’ll see.
Also For What It’s Worth has been recommissioned which is good news I think because I think it had something. The press release suggests 23 episodes, which is a strange number.
I remember The Code. As far as I was aware, Andrew Castle was to host it and it was all about loading a credit card with money and then finding the 4-digit pin code to win it. They even had an online game for it some time back (a video of which is still on my YouTube channel).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQSa20oA6tA
The way they’ve re-jigged it sounds like it makes more sense, replacing the credit card with a safe, and Matt Allwright getting to host something else after his amazing job on The Exit List can only be a good thing. I’ll look forward to seeing it when it airs.
Different format with a similar idea I’m afraid, that one was Endemol IIRC, this one’s by Gogglebox.
Incidentally we talked about Endemol’s The Code here:
https://www.bothersbar.co.uk/?p=5517#comment-32956
And it led to a hilarious post here:
https://www.bothersbar.co.uk/?p=5526#comments
Thanks for linking to the Endemol fruit machine thread, Brig.
Weirdly I was thinking about that very thread over the weekend, but couldn’t be bothered to actually search for it.
I’d forgotten my The Bus Job format, while packed with Endemol bating gags, you and someone else actually liked the idea.
I reckon the 23-episode commission sandwiches Easter, with regular schedules being replaced by films for two days. (Not that I know when Easter is, mind.)
Well Easter is the end of March and they’ve just put out a contestant call, which would be quite fast work.
Do you celebrate what Germans call “Pfingsten” (my online dictionary calls it Whitsun). It’s exactly five weeks after easter and there is at least a one day break in Germany. That could be a reason why it’s this odd number then.
Not as a public holiday, no.
May has double bank holidays within 23 weekdays of each other; so it could well be intended for then.