Awful quiz show answer of the day 31-01-2019

On today's edition of Tipping Point a contestant was asked which month was named after the first Roman emperor Augusta. The contestant answer was July! The answer of course is August.

Matt's new rabbit

Details have emerged of Matt Berry's new sit com. Year of the Rabbit is a spoof historic detective drama. The show will reunite Berry with Matthew Holness who gave Matt his big break Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Other actors who will be appearing include the veteran actor Alun Armstrong who will be playing Matt's character Father in Law, Keeley Hawes plays a mysterious lady and Paul Kaye of Game of Thornes plays a bad guy. Year of the Rabbit should be on Channel 4 later this year.

Hey Bill read these

US chat show host Bill Maher is continuing his war of words with comic book fans. He suggested to them that they should grow up by reading novels by authors like Toni Morrison. Here are a couple of examples that printed graphic entertainment is not just for kids

Watchmen

Once described by Time magazine as one of the greatest novels of the 20th Century. Alan Moore writes word and Dave Gibbons provides the art for this deconstruction of the superhero genre. Featuring graphic scenes of sex and violence Watchmen is definitely for kids.

Sin City

Frank Miller writes and draws theses tales that take their cues from such hard boiled crime writers like Mickey Spillane. Featuring tales of tough guys and dangerous dames 2 films were made out of the series. Maher's main dalliance with the crime genre was as a guest actor on an episode of Murder, She Wrote that also guest starred Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad fame.

Panther rules

At last night's Screen Actors Guild awards Black Panther came away with the Best Ensemble Cast in a Feature Film award. This comes after Black Panther became the first comic book film to nominated for Best Picture Oscar. Other winners include Glen Close collecting Best Leading Actress in a Film for her role in The Wife. The male equivalent was won by Rami Malek for his role as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. Sandra Oh collected another prize for her role in Killing Eve when winning Best Female Actor in a Drama Series.

Wrong kind of tumble

Olympic medal winning Gymnast Beth Twedde is suing the makers of the Channel 4 programme The Jump. The show featured a group of famous participants competing in various winter sports with the main focus on Ski Jumping. Tweddle is making the claim after having surgery on her neck and spinal cord after crashing into a barrier during a landing. The case will be watched over by makers of programmes of the same vein.

Awful quiz show answer of the day 24-01-2019

On today's Tipping Point contestants were asked which national Football team would a member of the Tartan Army would support. One buzzed with the answer of Newcastle United. That answer is wrong for a huge number reasons. The correct answer of course is Scotland.

NTA 2019 results

As is always the case with NTAs the most popular shows and stars. Ant & Dec won best presenter as usual, while This Morning much to the ire of Piers Morgan won the Daytime show award.. There were some new winners, Peaky Blinders beat the likes of Call the Midwife and Doctor Who to the Drama award, Last year's big massive ratings hit Bodyguard took away 2 awards New Drama and Drama Performance for Richard Madden. The Lifetime Achievement award went to Richard Dimebly.

Simon's new home

After leaving BBC Radio 2's Drive Time before Christmas Simon Mayo has announced his new music broadcasting home. Joining the newly launched Scala Radio in March. Scala will be playing Classical Music and will be in competition with BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. Simon will continuing his Friday Afternoon Film Review show with Mark Kermode on BBC Radio 5 Live..

JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION!!!

On today's Tipping Point the question in which city was the race course Aintree located in. A contestant buzzed only to admonished a fellow contestant who came from the city concerned only for the buzzer rang to indicate that they had run of time to answer the question. The answer of course is Liverpool.

Not remembered in a good way

The death of Windsor Davies brings to mind that the TV show that was his biggest hit It Ain't Half Hot Mum is rather viewed in an not flattering light despite being written by the pairing of Jimmy Perry and David Croft whose other shows Dad's Army and Hi-de-Hi are more fondly. The following are 3 shows that ran for varying lengths that caused a bit of a stink.


The Black and White Minstrel Show

Running for 20 years between 1958 and 1978 and based around the idea of a group of performers doing musical show numbers. However the fact the Male performer black up their faces is what makes so weird. Axed even though it was still popular by BBC high ups who now were embarrassed that the corporation could be involved with such a programme.

Mini Pops

In it's first year of broadcasting Channel 4 aired a show aired at Children called Mini Pops. It had children performing pop hits while dressed as the actual pop stars. There were complaints that children should not be performing sexually provocative songs or manner. The show was axed after one series.

Heil Honey I'm Home!

In what must be the most tasteless sit-com in UK Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun find out their new neighbours are Jewish. Made by the fledgling British Satellite Broadcasting the pilot for the show was broadcast and then a full series (the part of Eva Braun was recast) was into production. However when BSB merged with Sky the series and the most bad taste idea UK TV has ever known came to an end.

Windsor Davies (1930-2019)

The death of Windsor Davies has been announced. With his Welsh accent he naturally played roles from that region however he was actually born in the London borough of Canning with him moving to his Father's homeland of Wales. In one of his early TV appearances he appeared in Doctor Who exterminated by a Dalek.. His big break came with It Ain't Half Hot Mum as a stern Army Sergeant who has to put with a troop of Army entertainers. Davies enjoyed some chart hits with co star Don Estelle. Another Sit-Com hit for Davies was Never the Twain in which he and Donald Sinden played rival antique dealers whose shops just happen to next to each other and their children have married each other. Davies final TV acting role was in an episode of My Family.

Windsor Davies R. I. P.

Awful quiz show answer of the day 17-01-2019

On today's Tipping Point a contestant was asked what was the full title of 1987 Timothy Dalton starring James Bond film The Living .... with the contestant giving the answer The Living Dead. Anyone with a passing knowledge know The Living Dead is a cult horror film. The answer to the Bond film question is The Living Daylights.

Not afraid of ghosts like my Dad

An new Ghostbusters film has been announced. Added to the anticipation for this new film is the fact is that will be directed by Jason Reitman whose father Ivan directed the first 2 films. This could be considered bit of a change of career direction for Jason. He shot to fame with the teen pregnancy comic drama Juno which won one Oscar for it's script and was nominated for 3 (including 1 for Jason as Best Director) others. However Jason recent films have not enjoyed the same level of success with the most recent being The Front Runner the true story of disgrace US politician Gary Hart starring Hugh Jackman. Sony/Columbia will be hoping the new film will be avoid the fate of the last Ghostbusters film which featured an all female team was a huge box office bomb in 2016.

Awful quiz show answer of the day 15-01-2019

On today's Tipping Point a contestant was asked Diana Fluck was the real name of which movie star. The answer given was Audrey Hepburn. The correct answer is Diana Dors. Hepburn was born Audrey Rutson.

Is this the end Andy?

In the first round of the Australian Tennis Open Andy Murray lost his first round match to Roberto Bautista in a 5 set match. The fact that Murray put up a fight may mean he could go onto Wunbledon this year. We have 6 months to see what happens.

Signs you are watching a maverick cop show

Tonight on ITV sees the start of the latest series of Vera which is one of the many entries in the sub genre known as the maverick cop show other examples include Lutther, A Touch of Frost and Rebus. Here are 4 signs that you are watching a maverick cop show.

The main character has a very tense relationship with their superior officer. As seen in A Touch of Frost, Luther and Rebus

The main character will often shout even at colleagues. As seen in Vera, Luther and Rebus

The main character has standard costume such as wearing large coats and hats. As seen in A Touch of Frost, Vera and Luther

The main character will resort to measures to nail the culprit that in real life would see the case thrown out of a court of law. See A Touch of Frost, Luther and Rebus

Andy is calling it quits

After a hip injury Andy Murray is calling time on his Tennis playing career.The winner of 3 Slams (2 Wombledons and 1 US Open) in a time when the sport was dominated by 3 players Roger Federer, Rafel Nadel and Novak Djokevic. Among his other achievements is winning 2 Olympic gold medals and leading Great Britain to the 2015 Davis Cup by winning every rubber he played. Andy Murray well be remembered as a sporting great.

No host for the evening?

For the first time in 30 years the Oscars could not have a host. The situation has arose because of decade old tweets of a homophobic nature by original choice for the role Kevin Hart. If no new host is found then those presenting awards will introduced by an off stage announcer. Those who are being lined up to replace Hart will have their past scrutinised very heavily..

Cash winnings

At the end of the recent run of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? half the contestants won cash wins of above £16,000. However 2 went away with just £1,000 while another won £4,000. Meanwhile on Tipping Point today the winner won £4,450 half of that sum accounted for by a double counter boosted drop of over £2,000. Some winners are not so equal.

Killing Eve at the awards

Last night in Los Angles this year's Golden Globes awards were held. The winner of Best Actress in A TV Drama series was Sandra Oh for her role in Killing Eve. Among those she beat to the award was big name movie star Julia Roberts. Today in the UK the short lists of the National Television Awards (NTA) were announced. Up for Favourite Drama Performance is Jodie Cormer. She will be up against Richard Madden who won Male equivalent Golden Globe for his role in Bodyguard while another Jodie is up for the award. Jodie Whitaker for her first series as the Doctor in Doctor Who. The NTAs are next month

Not in front of the kids Iggy

In 1986 US rock wildman Iggy Pop enjoyed a UK Top Ten with Real Wild One (Wild Child). Iggy performed the song on Kids show No 73, during the performance Iggy mimed a sex act with a toy bear. Iggy in his defence claimed that this was the type of thing kids did but this did not stop him being considered Persona Non Grata on UK TV for a good few years. You can see this incident and others. They are Pop acts 5 Star and Matt Bianco being swore at during phone in segments during Going Live and Saturday Superstore while on the latter The Dammed drummer turned Pop star Captain Sensible in a state of intoxication attempts to stand on a chair only to fall off and helped up by Keith Chegwin.

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Where are Del and Rodney going to live?

Ealing Council has announced that Harlech Tower is to be demolished. The tower block became famous for being the real life stand in for Nelson Mandela House in.   Only Fools and Horses In real live Harlech Tower was 13 miles away from Peckham. After the demolition the land will be used for building new homes.

Prize winnings comparsion

After 2 editions of the current run of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? there have been 3 challengers who have tried their luck, The first won £125,000, the second £32,000 but the last only won £1,000 which host Jeremy Clarkson dismissed as nothing. This week on Tipping Point 2 winners have won the jackpot of £10,000 while another walked away with £2,900. It appears that Tipping Point is the show to go on if you don't humiliated by the host.

TV ratings 01-01-2019

The first night of the year saw telly big guns facings each other. Emmerdale narrowly beat Doctor Who with the ITV Soap getting 5:17 million viewers while DW got 5:15 million viewers. In a rare head to head clash Coronation Street beat Eastenders with 5.39 million viewers with the latter getting 4.74 million. The big draw was BBC1's crime thriller Luther which got 5.63 million viewers. The disappointment of the was the opening show of the latest run of Who Wants To be a Millionaire which got 3.39 million viewers upstaged by fellow ITV quiz show The Chase which got 3.86 million viewers.