- The clocks going forward (2am, Sunday) – don’t forget the clocks have gone forward. It’s now OFFICIALLY Summer.
- The Amazing Race (Sunday, CBS) – this has been highly entertaining so far, and I’m in the unusal position in that I quite like all the teams left in it. Considering the nature of liquid, I was quite surporised and impressed when the boys’ champagne tower held up, where the top levels were just one glass on top of another on top of another.
- Only Connect (8:30pm, Monday, BBC4) – David’s favourite episode apparently! The first semi-final, the Archers Admirers vs the Gamblers. My money’s on the Gamblers.
- Survivor (Thursday, CBS) – the previous episode must be one of the all time greats, if not THE all time greatest episode. Boston Rob and Russell, two completely brilliant players of the game, trying to outsmart each other is absolutely terrific telly, and if persuading Tyson to change his vote which ultimately did him in was genuine and not producer contrived then I’m very, very, very impressed. And you’ve gotta love Colby.
- The Door (9pm, ITV, Good Friday and Easter Saturday) – just saw the trailer on the website, this might actually be rather good if you like this sort of thing, which I do. Enter a room, do a nasty task, get out before everyone else does – very Estate of Panic, which is rather what I was hoping it would be like.
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Out there thought: Chris Tarrant as Master of the Fort.
im not trying to be smug, but i would like to refer to a comment i left a week or so ago:
sphil says:
March 20, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Just saw an ad for the door during casino royale. Rather excitingly, it looks rather estate of panic-y/ fort boyard. At no point was I excited, but now I am!
but i am actually genuinly excited. why was this billed as crystal maze esq to begin with, it seems nothing like?
and erm, not that out of there i dont think, i reckon he’d be very good.
amanda as a runner as well?
in which case, that would surely make philip schofield the pere de fou character…
You did indeed!
I’d never have been convinced before, but watching the interviews, I think he actually might fit quite well. Also, he probably is quite a close cultural equivilent we have to Patrice Laffont.
So, bijecting, what would M. Laffont’s equivalent of Le Tiswas du-pompt-à-moc be?
Who Dares Wins this week, then.
(SPOILERS MAY FOLLOW)
Suda and Danielle’s first challengers, David and Mary, knew many American solo artists but didn’t know that Barry Manilow wasn’t one to have had a UK number 1. (Surely Kernick doesn’t know off by heart the rather esoteric facts he states, like Manilow’s best UK chart position being 8 – rather, he is told them through an earpiece or something like that?) They then completely underestimated the girls when it came to countries whose names begin with a vowel.
S & D had no problems getting to £10k with their knowledge of Johnny Depp films, but had their doubts as regards the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Eventually, the three movies so far earned them another £5k.
Then up came Tex – certainly one of the oldest Who Dares Wins contestants thus far, if not the oldest of all – and Alison, who impressed with their knowledge of world currencies, including three from Southeast Asia (ringgit, baht, dong). They didn’t impress as much with common surnames in Britain, Murray not being among the top 50, and that meant a tiebreak list.
(Suda must be of Sri Lankan descent as, incidentally, Perera is a very common surname there.)
The four contestants rattled off most of Roald Dahl’s best-known works before Tex claimed to have heard “A Twist in the Tale” somewhere, and he and Alison unsuccessfully chanced it. If I’m right in thinking, this is merely a description for Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected (as well as a collection of short stories by Jeffrey Archer). But Suda and Danielle couldn’t work out the correct name for Dahl’s collection of poems about unsuspecting animals – and ultimately it cost them their crown, as their opponents plucked out his Revolting Rhymes from seemingly nowhere.
In all fairness, Danielle’s quiz credentials (as Travis pointed out two weeks ago) ultimately didn’t come to very much, as she and Suda finished with two wins less (and £35k less) than previous champions Christian and Rob, and six less than James and Daniel, the stars of the last series.
Anyway, after the first Lottery plug, which included seven different digits in the Dream Number – the probability of which, I’m sure Mister Al knows, is 1 in 604,800 – Tex and Alison had to name postwar FA Cup winners. They had no problem getting the four most obvious – Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool – before Tex brilliantly came up with the likes of Newcastle, West Ham and Sunderland, to take them to £15k. (If anyone wants to know, Sunderland’s underdog win in 1973 was against Don Revie’s Leeds.) He also provided plenty of banter, while £7.5k must have meant a lot to Alison, as she was in tears afterwards.
I was agog at their Roald Dahl knowledge. Some list-learning going on there?
I was slightly surprised that they didn’t come up with The Enormous Crocodile or The Magic Finger.
Anyone know the reason why they persisted with the Roald Dahl list on WDW after both teams had given a wrong answer? It seemed a little unfair to me – I would have preferred seeing a competitive second sudden death list.
It’s the rules!
The Spanish version had a tie breaker where the challengers and champions each gave 3 successive wrong answers. After this a new tiebreaker began.
which included seven different digits in the Dream Number – the probability of which, I’m sure Mister Al knows, is 1 in 604,800
Unless I’ve completely misunderstood what you mean by that, I reckon what you’re describing actually has about a 6% of happening for any particular draw. In fact, last night’s draw was actually the third time it’s happened this year!
Oh drat, you’re right!
I made the mistake of doing 1/10 x 1/9 x 1/8 x 1/7 x 1/6 x 1/5 x 1/4 when it is indeed 1 x 9/10 x 4/5 x 7/10 x 2/3 x 1/2 x 2/5.
Then the probability is 189 in 3125, or roughly 1 in 16.53 – which is indeed around 6%, and far, far greater than 1 in 604,800.
Ah well, just shows I’m only human.
Today’s Only Connect may well be my favourite episode ever, so don’t forget to flick over to BBC4 after Uni Chal.
I forgot Only Connect! I’ve added it now.
Last night
Who Dares Wins – 6.04m (25.7%)
The Phantom’s Over the Rainbow – 5.22m (23.9%)
Anton Du Dec’s Pass the Baton – 5.05m (21.5%)
Who Dares Wins was the ONLY show to hit 6 million and became the most watched show on Saturday night. Bravo Kernick Kernowles and 12Yard! They now become the second lottery show in the current comission run to achieve first place. David Young has certainly got a two lotto show power trip on his hands.
Anton Du Dec lost out on the head to head with Kerknowles but also lost out to The Phantom’s quest to find a new Dot. However, 5.05m is respectable for the channel and Ratings Bear will no doubt miss out on tucking into his Easter Sunday dinner, GRRRRR!
Just caught push the button for this week. Was an especially weak episode I felt. It really highlighted the rather boring format I felt. Curiously, I was just watching copycats on cbbc, and found it a far more watchable format! Come on ant and dec, SAM AND MARK are catching you up for gods sake!
One episode of Your Number Please has now appeared on the squarey download service thingy.
I just thought I’d post this as it’s one of the best things I’ve seen for a while.
Run for Money! It’s a Japanese show, which I think there was an American version of a few years ago. Cha$e? Maybe? I didn’t watch it, and this is the first I’ve seen of any version of the show.
19 ‘celebs’ have to run and hide from Hunters for 90 minutes to win a prize that goes up 200 Yen every second. Along the way there are several missions to go along with a cheesy story. But, I found it REALLY entertaining. It’s long, but gets better and better. Hunter-freezing guns rule.
Part One:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj6-ckOcCYw
The next parts are linked under each video.
I’ve written up explanations of all the missions and stuff here, but it’s probably mostly self-explanatory:
http://com4.runboard.com/bkeshiheads.f10.t2017
Oh, nicely found! I think someone here found a clip of the last ten minutes of an episode when Cha$e (indeed) came out, at about the same time as Estate of Panic, but an entire episode is quite a find, let alone a 90-minute 19-player one.
Ooh brilliant stuff! Will put this on main page in a bit.
Just watched the latest “Minute To Win It”. It has not yet been cancelled, despite declining ratings.
NBC is putting on its bravest face, and one wonders if they are not deluding themselves. While they are not using the “h” word (rhyming with ‘”quit”), they are acting as though America were falling head over heels for MTWI. There was a casting call this afternoon at Universal Citywalk. (I did not attend: I’m not the kind of bloke they’re looking for as contestant material!) They’re still touting the games played on NBC’s website, and now they’re announcing a “bonus” episode (presumably a repeat) for this upcoming Wednesay night.
On tonight’s stanza, one contestant did walk away with $125,000.