The TV Thread

[Liverpool Rover]

This weeks House Of Games was one of the worst. Someone guessing that Queen Victoria was crowned in 1918 was one of the highlights

[Futtocks]

22 minutes ago, Liverpool Rover said:

This weeks House Of Games was one of the worst. Someone guessing that Queen Victoria was crowned in 1918 was one of the highlights

In a fairly recent episode of the podcast The Rest is Entertainment, Richard Osman talked a bit about studies into the psychology of some of the more spectacular wrong answers you hear on game shows.

A lot of the time, when it is a subject someone has no confidence of knowing about, they hear the opening words and then panic takes over and the rest of the question doesn't really register.

[Red Willow]

1 hour ago, Liverpool Rover said:

This weeks House Of Games was one of the worst. Someone guessing that Queen Victoria was crowned in 1918 was one of the highlights

Awful, one of them has a first class law degree. She think Bayern and Pete are anagrams of each other

[The Hallucinating Goose]

2 hours ago, Liverpool Rover said:

This weeks House Of Games was one of the worst. Someone guessing that Queen Victoria was crowned in 1918 was one of the highlights

And quiz shows tend to be dumbed down for celebrities as well... 

My favourite rounds on House of Games are, 'I'm terrible at dating', and 'where is Kazakhstan'. History and Geography are my passions and I normally do very well in those rounds. 

What are other people's favourite rounds?

[Red Willow]

Those are my fav rounds too. Also love the kids questions

[Futtocks]

8 minutes ago, Red Willow said:

Those are my fav rounds too. Also love the kids questions

The kids' questions are like playing Russian Roulette - each question is either something possibly answerable or something entirely mad - and I love it.

[Liverpool Rover]

57 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

And quiz shows tend to be dumbed down for celebrities as well... 

My favourite rounds on House of Games are, 'I'm terrible at dating', and 'where is Kazakhstan'. History and Geography are my passions and I normally do very well in those rounds. 

What are other people's favourite rounds?

They’re two of my favourites. Every time where is Kazakhstan come up there is always someone who says “oh no!”

[Spidey]

16 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

And quiz shows tend to be dumbed down for celebrities as well... 

My favourite rounds on House of Games are, 'I'm terrible at dating', and 'where is Kazakhstan'. History and Geography are my passions and I normally do very well in those rounds. 

What are other people's favourite rounds?

That one plus the music one, guess when the words start & identify by 1.2.3 seconds

[Futtocks]

4 hours ago, Spidey said:

That one plus the music one, guess when the words start & identify by 1.2.3 seconds

The "Anagrams from Names" round always has an extra edge when some of the contestants have really long names. 

The question-setters on the show are amazing!

[RayCee]

I really enjoyed the Traitors UK Season 3 although it can be frustrating to watch too. Perhaps getting convincingly lied to and tricked eventually creates paranoia. 

Now a spoiler alert for any who have yet to watch it.

 

I was surprised that having voted off two traitors at the final two round tables and the Seer (Francesca) then finding another one at a private reveal that she still thought there were more traitors about. I get the others may not have been sure as it wasn't revealed that Charlotte was a traitor when removed. 

If I was Francesca, I would have been saying "I think that only the Faithful are left". Why she didn't...

Edited February 2 by RayCee

[graveyard johnny]

THREADS  is on the bbc iplayer - a sign of the times?

[The Hallucinating Goose]

The Chase celebrities is so fixed... the celebs just won £120,000 cos the chaser didn't know the capital of Dominican Republic. How does a chaser not know a capital city?!

[RayCee]

2 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

The Chase celebrities is so fixed... the celebs just won £120,000 cos the chaser didn't know the capital of Dominican Republic. How does a chaser not know a capital city?!

I knew it but I've met plenty of people who simply do not know things like that. It depends on your interests. That said, there are quite a few countries I don't know the capital of.  

[The Hallucinating Goose]

1 hour ago, RayCee said:

I knew it but I've met plenty of people who simply do not know things like that. It depends on your interests. That said, there are quite a few countries I don't know the capital of.  

But you're not a chaser who's whole life is to learn general knowledge trivia and defeat people with that knowledge.

[RayCee]

1 hour ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

But you're not a chaser who's whole life is to learn general knowledge trivia and defeat people with that knowledge.

I get that and in my comment about people's knowledge, I wasn't thinking about the Chasers which was missing the point you were making. 

Edited February 2 by RayCee

[sam4731]

12 hours ago, RayCee said:

I really enjoyed the Traitors UK Season 3 although it can be frustrating to watch too. Perhaps getting convincingly lied to and tricked eventually creates paranoia. 

Now a spoiler alert for any who have yet to watch it.

 

I was surprised that having voted off two traitors at the final two round tables and the Seer (Francesca) then finding another one at a private reveal that she still thought there were more traitors about. I get the others may not have been sure as it wasn't revealed that Charlotte was a traitor when removed. 

If I was Francesca, I would have been saying "I think that only the Faithful are left". Why she didn't...

I thought the two twists at the end (the seer and the eliminated player not revealing what they were at the endgame) always meant that it was destined that two would be left.

It made sense for the rest to get rid of Francesca and Charlotte to cover all bases. The fact that it only takes 1 person to want to vote again,  means that if you vote to end the game, you look immediately suspicious. It's a lose lose situation.

I like the twists though but they need binning off for the next year if they don't work.

[RayCee]

13 minutes ago, sam4731 said:

I thought the two twists at the end (the seer and the eliminated player not revealing what they were at the endgame) always meant that it was destined that two would be left.

It made sense for the rest to get rid of Francesca and Charlotte to cover all bases. The fact that it only takes 1 person to want to vote again,  means that if you vote to end the game, you look immediately suspicious. It's a lose lose situation.

I like the twists though but they need binning off for the next year if they don't work.

That's why you'd have to tell others why you want to end the game before the fire vote otherwise, as you say, you would appear to be a traitor. It would be a huge risk. 

[sam4731]

7 minutes ago, RayCee said:

That's why you'd have to tell others why you want to end the game before the fire vote otherwise, as you say, you would appear to be a traitor. It would be a huge risk. 

Whatever reason you give for wanting to end the game is going to look hugely suspicious.

[graveyard johnny]

have adverts basically took over every tv channel? seems to be more adverts than programmes these days - watch a channel for 1 min then its 3 mins of adverts with no escape as a given

[RayCee]

18 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:

have adverts basically took over every tv channel? seems to be more adverts than programmes these days - watch a channel for 1 min then its 3 mins of adverts with no escape as a given

Commercialism is alive and well.

[Gerrumonside ref]

1 hour ago, graveyard johnny said:

have adverts basically took over every tv channel? seems to be more adverts than programmes these days - watch a channel for 1 min then its 3 mins of adverts with no escape as a given

Switch your telly off and read a book!

[Futtocks]

2 hours ago, graveyard johnny said:

have adverts basically took over every tv channel? seems to be more adverts than programmes these days - watch a channel for 1 min then its 3 mins of adverts with no escape as a given

The official limits haven't been changed recently as far as I know. Be grateful you're not living in countries with less regulation.

If you watch shows from the USA, you can often tell where their (much more frequent) ad breaks are skipped over in the UK broadcast.

[graveyard johnny]

1 hour ago, Gerrumonside ref said:

Switch your telly off and read a book!

the tv times? thats a like a book innit?

[Derwent]

12 hours ago, Futtocks said:

The official limits haven't been changed recently as far as I know. Be grateful you're not living in countries with less regulation.

If you watch shows from the USA, you can often tell where their (much more frequent) ad breaks are skipped over in the UK broadcast.

I watched a “half hour” long episode of a US sitcom recently on Netflix. It lasted 19 minutes.

[Jeff Stein]

Normally I avoid anything with celebrity in the title, but Celebrity Bear Hunt on Netflix is great fun. The celebrities are good value, generally come across well and often funny. The challenges appear tough, but I think not as tough as keeping a straight face when dealing with Bear Grylls. I have never seen any of his other shows, but he does appear to be pompous, humourless and given to making pronouncements, which, if one gives them even one second of thought, turn out to be utterly empty. It is strange for such an entertaining show to have such a vapid central character