The world might be in a bit of a state but in the world of gameshow and competitive reality entertainment it’s probably fair to say that in primetime we’ve never had it so good. Let us return to the Bother’s Bar Board of Excitement as we explore the next week or so:
- Monday 10th – Dara O’ Briain’s Go 8 Bit – Last in the series on Dave featuring Jason Manford and Ed Byrne. You can listen to the theme and incidental tunes from compser Liam Tate on his Soundcloud if you haven’t already.
- Tuesday 11th – Taskmaster – Our current favourite show, do catch up with it on UKTV Play if you missed the first episode last week.
- Wednesday 12th – The Great British Bake Off – Tu-dorn’t want to miss this episode, it’s Tudor week!
- Thursday 13th – The Apprentice or Hunted look these are fine if you like that sort of thing but not actually that exciting.
- Friday 14th – Actually Friday’s a bit rubbish. Just go out.
- Saturday 15th – Schlag den Star! Yes! We will be back commentating over Schlag den Star next week so do come and join us. Olympic medallist Fabian Hambüchen takes on “cult comedian” Bülent Ceylan. We’ll have all the news AND the usual experimental quizziness LIVE.
- Sunday 16th – The Crystal Maze – It’s been 21 years and tonight we discover if you can film an episode at the Live Experience with some celebrities and if it’s still the best show ever.
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Monday 17th – Rebound – Actually this is during the day but we’ll feature this here because a) we quite liked the first series and b) here’s the lovely Sean Fletcher holding a question card. Nice.
In the meantime I want to watch more foreign formats as we’ve not been doing quite so much of late so if there are shows out there you think I should watch you should definitely let me know. I’m trying to cut down on Twitter (because it’s actually not much fun these days and the cut-through is actually really bad, such is its ephemeral nature, and it means I will actually start doing useful things like reading books again) but I will still pick up your ‘at’ replies and DMs several times on a daily basis so don’t worry about that.
Here is an episode of Geh Aufs Ganze! (Go All Out! seems to be a translation) that has turned up on Youtube. It’s the German version of Let’s Make a Deal which I used to quite enjoy watching. Quite large prizes for a six-day a week early evening show if you consider £1 would have been worth around 3DM. It’s easy enough to follow if you don’t speak the language:
Meanwhile I read You’re Back In The Room has been axed! That sold to an impressive amount of markets given how flash in the pan it was.
That meet the parents dating show with Holly Willoughby starts next Saturday in the 7pm Go For It slot, preceded by a new series of Tipping Point Lucky Stars
I’m trying to rack my brains as to the similar parent dating show thing that the BBC used to show years and years and years ago in a bit of a graveyard slot all I remember is it featured a scary bloke (although not Jeremy Kyle) with his fancy lie detector machine
Meet My Folks…? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_My_Folks
I mentioned Meet My Folks here the other week, it actually began on Saturday nights but flopped so badly it was dropped and the last few episodes burned off late on Friday nights – although I remember reading at the time that those Friday night episodes did so well in terms of audience share that Lorraine Heggessey asked for other ideas of shows that might work in that slot. Nothing came of it, though.
Meet My Folks was very badly executed, though, there was no presenter so everyone had to constantly explain what they were doing and it just emphasised how contrived the whole thing was. Also it had a dreadful theme tune.
Geh Aufs Ganze actually translates more to Go all In or Risk It all. If you should find the 1000th episode on youtube (it’s up there somewhere) it is really great fun! The running gag in that episode was the possibility to win 1000 vhs cassettes!
Thanks, will do. I was sure I had come across Risk It All as a translation before but thought that was for Riskier Was (Wipeout).
It’s almost right as well. Riskier Was would translate to Risk Something/A Bit which makes it sound a lot less exciting really…
After participating in 109 consecutive shows, a contestant has won the jackpot on Pasapalabra in Spain. The win of €1,866,000 is the biggest since the show switched from Antena 3 to Telecinco. – http://www.formulatv.com/noticias/60153/pasapalabra-david-leo-garcia-bote/
The real question is:
Is Rebound popular enough to have a celebrity series?
Golden Balls was popular, but never had a celeb series. Just saying. 😉
Golden Balls was only so-so popular really compared to either of the current two teatime monsters. The Chase is effectively two to three times as popular.
Celebrity specials are not a good metric of how successful a game show is. Benchmark got five celebrity episodes but still did appallingly.
I don’t think Celebrity Golden Balls would work, with celebrities lying to each other.
They would never lie, which defeats the point of the show.
Yeah, sorta the same reason Celebrity Mole in the States wasn’t for charity. It’s one thing to be playing for charity, and “I did better so my charity gets more!”, but something like Golden Balls where there’s a more implied ‘you’re taking from another charity’, just feels like it’d be open for horrible PR for anyone who steals at the end, especially with higher prizes.
Ricky Gervais has created a gameshow which ABC has picked up here in the US..
http://deadline.com/2016/10/abc-orders-ricky-gervais-game-show-five-to-survive-1201835468/
(the hook is that Gervais will be interacting with a group of 5 kids who act as a lifeline- if the contestant misses a question, the kids can save them if they can get the same question correct- there will be another host with the in-studio player)
This is Ricky Gervais’ Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old, surely?
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5th Grader. 😉
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Never mind, just saw your tweet.
Also that’s a rubbish name, that would suggest having to get five questions correct to stay in, an imperative.
Just got around to watching Geh Aufs Ganze. Good family fun. My favourite bit is the closing credit for creative consultants Howard Huntridge and Richard Hearsey, presumably brought in as Uberzonkmeisteren.