That’s right Star Schlaggers, join us this Saturday from 7:15pm as we attempt to educate, inform and entertain as professional dancer Massimo Sinató battles national side Handball goalkeeper Andreas Wolff for Elton’s €100,000 suitcase. They both have a beard but one’s got a hat and the other looks suitably intense. Music will be provided by hip-hop artists den Absoluten Beginnern and Felix Jaehn feat. Alma. My favourites! And during the boring bits we’ll have our usual larking about I’m sure so do join us!
In other news schools quiz Top Class with Susan Calman starts on CBBC today at 3:55pm, and Dara O Briain’s Go 8 Bit returns with Marcus Brigstoke and Gina Yashere tonight at 10pm on Dave.
Finally here’s the Australian take on Strike It Lucky, which is what happens when you take the format seriously. It’s interminable. I quite like how the theme is a bit like our theme but with the notes in a different order.
Top Class was pretty good. Obviously, the questions were pretty simple for an adult. However, it is worth watching just for Susan Calman has hosting. She was amazing, should definitely do more game shows.
She was surprisingly strict with the kids answering the questions in the quick fire roumd.
Was she? I thought she was quite lenient.
Anyway it was alright, format very similar to Uni Chall, but with a fun bit in the middle where the teacher gets questions on modern pop culture, followed by a specialist subject round and a quickfire final.
I liked the graphical representation of questions (although the sting that starts each round was annoying). The questions seemed a bit long for the timed quickfire bits.
Strict in a good way. 😉
Colin Murray’s back on Fighting Talk! It will no longer seem a bit odd when the hosts do the in-jokey introductions, after a mere three years.
Meanwhile: Bake Off Brinkmanship:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37344292
And it’s off to Channel 4.
Probably the smartest move of the channels available, but it can only ever get ‘good figures for Channel 4’ from there I suspect. Maybe that’s enough.
I wonder if the long layoff between series will hurt it though (they won’t be able to air a new series until 2018 apparently)…
On the other side, we could hope against hope that a UK version of The Genius could come to fruition on the BBC? (I read that that BBC classified GBBO as a factual program and not as an entertainment one for budgetary purposes- and there are ways you could classify The Genius as factual…)
I think it would be a big ask to show The Genius at 8pm on Wednesday nights on BBC1, to be honest.
Another point of interest: my understanding is C4 have the rights to the format but not necessarily the stars. Love can afford to throw millions at them, but what if they say ‘no’, and if Mary Berty says ‘no’ is she off the US version as well? Interrsting times.
Thinking in broader context: Just what does ‘a format’ entail, anyway? In discussions I’ve had in the context of computer games, I’m given to understand that the only thing that can be regarded as derivative is the *look*; the ruleset – the thing that actually defines the game – cannot be copyrighted.
To what extent does this apply to gameshows? Were all those variants of Bob’s Full House licenses of the same format, or were they derivative ideas with visual and some mild structural differences? And – drifting back to Bake-Off – if the BBC were to retain the principle stars, to what extent – hypothetically – could they produce a clone? Are we only talking aesthetic components, or would the ’round’ structure and the themed weeks be out-of-bounds.
(This is completely ignoring, of course, whether the BBC would *want* to do that! I’m just curious where the specific limitations lie)
It’s all rather nebulous:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_format
In theory the BBC certainly could create a baking format with the existing talent, not set it in a tent, not make it a weekly elimination, and probably get away with it.
Whether that would be worthwhile I don’t know.
I think this is a case of being penny loaf wise but pound cake foolish..they’re losing the hosts, and at least one of the judges seems to be against moving either…
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/sep/13/sue-perkins-and-mel-giedroyc-to-leave-great-british-bake-off
(Interesting that C4 thinks they can make money off of it even with only half the audience- but with this news I’d doubt it.)
Mel & Sue have departed the show following its move to Channel 4, according to the BBC. I’m not in the least bit worried, due to a particular paragraph on UKGameshows.com:
Looks like the production team and the BBC have had issues for a while:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/sue-perkins-and-mel-giedroyc-to-step-down-as-great-british-bake/
It might not have been all about the money, though it probably had a big part (If they had more cordial relations, they might have been willing to cut down their money demand for other considerations-and maybe the BBC could have gone to about £20 million/year and split the difference)
Without asking people to play lawyer, what’s the thoughts of people about this dispute?
Hair and the Painting Challenge yes are clearly shows that follow in its footsteps, but what legal format points do they have? Do they really claim to own any elimination based things with judges providing it could be a little twee, what’s the differentiator? Is it the specifics of having three challenges too, I guess? Ahhh, Pop Idol/X Factor all over again.
Wonder what the spat also means for commissioning of Love shows on BBC in the short term… will Pottery Throw Down/Sewing Bee just come to their end after existing commissions?