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Richard Osman's House Of Games (BBC2)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Can't say I noticed the difference in the Broken Karaoke round :eek: - I really wasn't paying proper attention! But it's not a round i particularly like anyway.

    My definite favourite of all the rounds is Where ls Kazakhstan - I absolutely love that one and wish they'd run it every evening!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,030 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Like the new Word Cloud game.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Is anyone else driven mad by how Richard pronounces Stephen Mangan's surname??

    Or is that how he pronounces it himself?? :eek:

    It's up there with Ken Dockerty in the nails- on- blackboard stakes!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    And this week it's Aislinn Bea :(

    Still enjoying the new series though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Is anyone else driven mad by how Richard pronounces Stephen Mangan's surname??

    Or is that how he pronounces it himself?? :eek:

    It's up there with Ken Dockerty in the nails- on- blackboard stakes!
    I've heard him being called that by different English people. I think Stephen has strong Irish connections and used to come here on holidays a lot as a child. Mayo, I think.

    Another name they always mispronounce is Dara O'Briain's. It's always Daaaaawra.

    Anyway, my favourite rounds are Where is Kazakhstan?, I'm Terrible At Dating, and of course, Answer Smash.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,257 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    That tinfoil hatter who claimed the Manchester bombings were a false flag is one of the guests on it now


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Didn't know that about Rufus Hound. Hmmm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Have to say I'm not enjoying this week's shows half as much as usual..... the only one with a bit of spark about them is Josie who is absolutely lovely - the rest are just dull, and Rufus although I've enjoyed him in shows in the past is bordering on dislikeable (not sure if it's because of the post above, which was news to me).

    But of a dud week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,257 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Have to say I'm not enjoying this week's shows half as much as usual..... the only one with a bit of spark about them is Josie who is absolutely lovely - the rest are just dull, and Rufus although I've enjoyed him in shows in the past is bordering on dislikeable (not sure if it's because of the post above, which was news to me).

    But of a dud week.

    I'd never heard of the guy before the story about the tweet tbh. Have seen him pop up on a few panel shows since and find that try as I might I cant disassociate him from it. Plus he has an extremely punchable face.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    I'd never heard of the guy before the story about the tweet tbh. Have seen him pop up on a few panel shows since and find that try as I might I cant disassociate him from it. Plus he has an extremely punchable face.

    Well, that was quite the little temper tantrum he threw this evening!!

    I've seen him in lots of things over the years, and have to say i always enjoyed him..... but i just want this week of HOG to be over now.

    Anyone else get the distinct impression that Scott Mills can't stand Rufus?

    As an aside, all I can EVER see when I see Scott Mills is that lobster from Under The Sea :D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Well, thank the lord, normal service seems to have resumed on HoG!

    A funny, competitive, lively bunch this week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    House Of Games is making an appearance on BBC1 with a marginally increased budget and slightly better known contestants


    https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1324764547211821057


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    What's that all about???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Lordy, how orange is Denise?? :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    How the fk can grown adults not know where the Golden Gate Bridge is????

    Whatever about not being able to find it in a map.....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,728 ✭✭✭brian_t


    Skid X wrote: »
    House Of Games is making an appearance on BBC1 with a marginally increased budget and slightly better known contestants

    That's interesting. They are moving A Question of Sport to an hour earlier (7.30pm) to make way for it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    How the fk can grown adults not know where the Golden Gate Bridge is????

    Whatever about not being able to find it in a map.....

    Two rounds that illustrate the level of teaching and learning in the UK are I'm Terrible At Dating and Where Is Kazakhstan. The sheer ignorance of places that are household names is amazing and depressing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    How the fk can grown adults not know where the Golden Gate Bridge is????

    Whatever about not being able to find it in a map.....


    Why would they?

    I wouldn't be sure what city it was in.


  • Registered Users Posts: 225 ✭✭voldejoie


    I always find it funny when the contestants are blown away by an answer, especially in answer smash. The Elon Musketeers answer tonight was really straightforward and they seemed to think it was really impressive!

    I tend to prefer it when there's at least the illusion of competition too, with Angela winning by so much each day I haven't enjoyed it this week as much as usual.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    The only interest now is will she be the first to get a "fifer" (yes) and by what margin.

    I suspect she's been rather lucky in her opponents! And they are somewhat not bothered by now probably.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Yeah, watching tonight's show now, and I'm rapidly losing interest - it's just a whitewash.


    And none of them are particularly interesting characters.


    Roll on next week!


  • Registered Users Posts: 225 ✭✭voldejoie


    This is the line up for next week, from the show's Wikipedia page:

    Week 7 (23–27 November 2020): Rhys James, Denise Lewis, David James and Isy Suttie

    I watch with my niece and she really fancies Rhys James, so is very excited :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    David James better hope for plenty of console game questions.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Second highest tally overall despite being the first five timer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    The BBC2 NI Continuity chap didn't trail tonight's premiere of the BBC1 House Of Games Series at the end of the BBC2 show, sloppy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    So is this the posh version with well upholstered arm chairs?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    So is this the posh version with well upholstered arm chairs?


    I hear talk of a House Band

    I would like to be on record as the first person to say I prefer the original classic BBC2 full sugar version of House Of Games.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    These big money transfers always lose something. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    I wonder if anyone else has presented three quiz shows on BBC1 and BBC2 on the same evening before now?

    I quite liked the live band playing little bits of songs. It reminded me of Name That Tune with Tom O'Connor.

    Now where did I leave my Werthers Originals ? :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Well, that was all a bit..... odd.


    The trailer on Twitter showed them all japing around the place looking like they were in Taskmaster.



    Apart from the band, that was just another episode of HoG - or am I missing something? :confused:


    (Thankfully looking like it'll be a bit more entertaining than this week's series, mind you!)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    The spelling rounds are getting laughably easy these days - have they run out of properly difficult words or something??

    Mind you, David James still managed to get pancreas wrong - like htf???

    But how lovely to hear Denise Lewis pronouncing her H's properly! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    For anyone that the time doesnt suit when this is on or doesnt series link it , theres a youtube account called Mundo that has the episodes every day about an hour after they air. They have pointless too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Where is Kazakhstan was a car crash today. Embarrassing, how the hell can anyone put the Sphinx in Botswana?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Where is Kazakhstan was a car crash today. Embarrassing, how the hell can anyone put the Sphinx in Botswana?

    Still my favourite round of the whole show!

    And at least they all knew the Sphinx was in Egypt, the last lot couldn't put the Golden Gate in California which was a far bigger clanger in my book!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    True true! I swear if the question was which county is the Angel of the North they'd all put it in Scotland .


  • Registered Users Posts: 225 ✭✭voldejoie


    Where is Kazakhstan was a car crash today. Embarrassing, how the hell can anyone put the Sphinx in Botswana?

    I laughed so hard at Isy saying she knew where it was, and was bracing myself for her to go to Morocco or Algeria or another north African country...and then she went pretty much as far south as she could :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Someone this week has a VERY irritating laugh. I'm only 2 round in and it's annoying me intensely already.

    Had to Google 3 of the 4 of them, hope Anton does well!!

    I really hope they do Where is Kazakhstan, featuring N America :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Terrible panel of non entities and Anton du Beck. Not going to watch the rest of the week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,030 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Terrible panel of non entities and Anton du Beck. Not going to watch the rest of the week.
    Yep, very poor lineup.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Last week's series actually turned out alright in the end!

    This week I'm taking a serious dislike to Jessica, whoever she is. She was really mean to Karim yesterday, and just has a sharp, sarky way about her.... not in the spirit of HoG at all!!

    Love Judge Rinder!!! Although I think he's over-egging the fuddy-duddy pudding just a bit!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Last week's series actually turned out alright in the end!

    This week I'm taking a serious dislike to Jessica, whoever she is. She was really mean to Karim yesterday, and just has a sharp, sarky way about her.... not in the spirit of HoG at all!!

    Love Judge Rinder!!! Although I think he's over-egging the fuddy-duddy pudding just a bit!

    just a bit. When they showed a picture of the Jonas Brothers he asked "what do they do?". the guy is only 42


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    just a bit. When they showed a picture of the Jonas Brothers he asked "what do they do?". the guy is only 42

    To be fair, I've never heard of them either!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,030 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    This week I'm taking a serious dislike to Jessica, whoever she is. She was really mean to Karim yesterday, and just has a sharp, sarky way about her.... not in the spirit of HoG at all!!
    Not a Taskmaster fan obvs..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Basq wrote: »
    Not a Taskmaster fan obvs..

    I saw all the hype about that recently, and gave it a go.... no, not a fan I'm afraid!! Just does NOT do it for me!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Did the House of Games Night not happen this evening? No sign of it in my recordings.....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Did the House of Games Night not happen this evening? No sign of it in my recordings.....

    no it was definitely on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,728 ✭✭✭brian_t


    When was it on. I thought it was replaced by the Babs film as a tribute to Barbara Windsor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    brian_t wrote: »
    When was it on. I thought it was replaced by the Babs film as a tribute to Barbara Windsor.

    right before It Takes Two as normal. unless I imagined it. I'm beginning to doubt myself now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    no it was definitely on.

    Ah, no it wasn't!

    It's the weekly HoG NIGHT I was on about, looks like it got ditched for the Barbara Windsor tribute.

    My faith in my Sky box is restored!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,030 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Yeah, the "HoG Night" wasn't on, but regular HoG was.


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