New gameshow from the creator of Deal or No Deal

4 August 2006 Rob Buckley Post a comment

What’s this one going to be about? They’ve got “opening boxes completely at random” covered…

SHOW ME WHAT YOU’VE GOT

For ONE NIGHT ONLY!!

From the creator of ‘Deal or No Deal’ comes a brand new gameshow which is part chance and part general knowledge and to win the prize, the contestants have to overcome not only the odds but their nerves!

The show will be taped at 7pm on Tuesday 8th August in The ITV London Studios, SE1 on the South Bank, approx 5-10 mins walk from Waterloo.

If you’d like to join us for this pilot show, booking is now open, so do apply quickly!

You may apply for tickets by calling 020 8684 3333

No luck for Lucker’s Rani

4 August 2006 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

come out on DVDThe Sun seems to have put a foot wrong for a change. The Beeb is now denying the Currant Bun’s story from yesterday that Zoe Lucker is up for the role of the Rani. No word on whether The Rani will be appearing in the third season, but with a different actress playing the role.

It has been pointed out that the Rani rumour has some interesting timing, given the pretty rubbish Mark of the Rani has just come out on DVD and might need some promotion…

Bang. There goes an afternoon

3 August 2006 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Thanks to Paul, via Lisa, for ending all my productivity this afternoon with links to the Beeb’s Doctor Who Years, three half-hour guides to Doctor Who during the 60s, 70s and 80s. Clips from every story, plus Blue Peter, Nationwide, et al, complete with entertaining captions. Save you having to wade through them all, if you were never a Fan (with a definite capital) of the old series.

Took me forever to remember the originating format came from The Rock & Roll Years. Curse my encroaching senility.

Just how many ways can the Sci Fi Channel get it wrong?

3 August 2006 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Here’s the Sci Fi Channel’s reason why Stargate SG-1 (running for 10 years and 200 episodes) is the world’s longest running science-fiction show, not Doctor Who (running for 40 years on and off and approximately a billion episodes):

Guinness awarded the title of longest-running sci-fi series in tv history to Stargate, which took the title away from X-Files (at the 203rd episode, technically). Both shows overshadow Doctor Who in that they had consecutive episodes. Doctor Who while it ran several hundred episodes, had long gaps of not being in production, far longer than a regular hiatus. The show was revived several times and I’m told one of the gaps between production was over ten years.

All they had to do was say “longest running US sci-fi series” and they’d have been off the hook, but no, they just had to start making stuff up…