We’re hearing that Bang On The Money, the Rickie and Melvin fronted Saturday evening gameshow spectacular, is starting a week on Saturday on ITV. It was piloted two months ago and only filmed last week, so that’s fast.
Bang On The Money tasks teams to hit targets exactly (i.e. “bang on”) in a variety of challenges. Looking forward to it.
Edit: The terminally dull 15 to 1 is back on Channel 4 in Deal Or No Deal‘s 2:10pm slot from April 11th. A lot of people have been waiting over ten years for this irony.
Edit Edit: This is wrong as it turns out, there’s still an ep of You’re Back In The Room to go out, apols.
Was mucking about to see what sort of formats are being shopped around, and a couple I found interesting (in various ways) are:
WRECKING BALL- an Israeli Q&A format (seems like all the new Q&A formats are Israeli right now); Team of three contestants have to answer questions by standing on platforms on the other side of a set of “wrecking balls” that are then released- if they are on a correct answer the ball will almost touch them but not quite (due to physics)- the balls on wrong answers will be given an oh-so-slight push that will knock people off the platform and out of the game
TOUCH- Another Israeli format (from one of the BOOM! creators)- this one is simple, contestants are shown pictures, then are shown the same pictures with things changed about and have to identify the differences- this one is heavily app-based
WORST COOK- This is an Eastern European elimination cookoff format with a twist. 10 very bad cooks start the show and cook in front of a set of judges. The twist is that the BEST cook each show is eliminated and given a prize; however there are only 9 prizes- the loser of the final week only gets the title of Worst Cook of them all..
COUNTDOWN CHALLENGE- This is a Korean format (same distribution company as The Genius, among others)- a team of 6 have 200 minutes to complete a course; they can buy time to get help, but the better the help, the more time it costs- and the more time they have left at the end, the more money it’s worth.
Worst Cook sounds like it’s literally Britain’s Worst Driver but with cooking.
I quite like the sound of Countdown Challenge.
I think they actually did a Britain’s Worst Cook spinoff with the worst performer having to run a roadside kebab van. This was about 15 years ago on Channel 5 so good luck with me getting specifics.
Amazing, here’s a list of all the Britain’s Worst… spin-offs:
http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Britain%27s_Worst
I’m loving the anti-masterchef format.
I guess the dishes they cook are way to ambitious for the chefs actual ability, otherwise if it was a free choice, you could get some decent cooks going on the show, and deliberately stuff it up for comedy value.
I guess they don’t plan on airing the US version of Fool Us in the UK anymore- Jonathan Ross is out as the host, replaced by Alyson Hannigan (best known for How I Met Your Mother and Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
http://tvline.com/2016/03/31/alyson-hannigan-penn-teller-fool-us-host-the-cw/
Am I going mad or are there some random Vimeo videos embedded in some of these comments?
Same thing here- it’s whenever a number comes up by itself…but not if it’s spelled out.
So if I type five, it’s OK, but let’s see what happens when I type 5…
Wowsers, that’s weird, although Jetpack updated today. I will see what I can do at the weekend.
Yep, looks like a Jetpack bug, another update seems to have sorted it.
Jonathan Ross is out as the host of Penn & Teller: Fool Us, replaced by Alyson Hannigan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (Not April Fool, it seems.)
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/31/alyson-hannigan-penn-teller-fool-us-season-3
Although the joke’s apparently on me for not seeing the other link about 20 lines above. I’ll hang up on myself now.
Anyone know how it’s been doing for C5 on Sundays. It’s the first thing I’ve watched religiously on C5 in years.
Don’t know much about Alyson Hannigan but I thought half the magic (excuse the pun) of the format was that Jonathan Ross and Penn & Teller have a bit of history and that really comes across on screen rather than it just being fronted by a rent-a-host, as this appointment seems to be.
800k +-200k.