Here’s the YouTube link to S2E05 of 31 Questions, which aired on C31 Melbourne & Geelong 8.30PM last Saturday. This is the one with special guests John Blackman and Dicky Knee (a)LIVE in the studio. Both an absolute pleasure to work with.
It was a tight battle between this week’s contestants, Dani and Rohan (AKA the guy from Big Brother). One of them even won.
And man, it was pretty surreal doing schtick with Dicky Knee. I used to love “Hey Hey, It’s Saturday” when I was growing up back in the 90s, before the Internet. What a vastly different media landscape we live in now.
Speaking of which…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CjhQNSros0
And you can now also follow the REAL Sophie Loughran on Twitter: @SophieMLoughran
Only 2 episodes to go!
Kind regards,
David M. Green
We just realised Anthony, Sophie and I ALL have the middle initial of “M”. What are the odds?
It was 31 Questions S2E04’s premier on C31 Melbourne & Geelong last Saturday evening. And now available in fabulous web-based YouTubed form (where available).
Special thanks again to Dan Ilic and Rex Hunt, who both made cameos in Ep 4. And the fabulous editing work from Dan Jones and Anthony McCormack.
Coming up on tomorrow night’s show, it’s the John Blackman episode with special guest… John Blackman (SURPRISE!), as well as Dicky Knee!
John Blackman was on Melbourne radio station 3AW with Philip Brady and Simon Owens again on Thursday night. He made some downright lovely comments about me and the show:
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Good on Philip Brady for asking the tough questions. Parking is shocking around RMIT University, especially during the day.
Couldn’t have done it without an incredible team.
And in late breaking news, 31 Questions has an ALL NEW time slot for New Zealand’s Face Television. We’re now on Thursdays 9.30PM, starting September 12. Apologies to my Kiwi friend(s) for our ever-changing start date.
S2E03 of 31 Questions premiered on C31 Melbourne & Geelong Saturday evening. See above.
I enjoyed repeatedly slapping Anthony. And special thanks to this week’s contestants Richard and Simone. It was a tight game. Though not quite as tight as THIS WEEK’S game… Tune in on C31 Melbourne & Geelong Saturday 8.30PM (Look out for cameos from Dan Ilic and Rex Hunt!).
In other news, to the surprise of many (including us), Season 2 began airing in Brisbane this week! It’s now on the 31 Digital schedule, Tuesdays 9PM. Those Queenslanders have obviously been preoccupied with deciding the next federal government, so no hard feelings. It’s not like they also did it last year as well.
Na, Brisbane you’re great.
We were due to start airing in New Zealand on Wednesday, but thanks to our good friends at Australia Post, we’re now premiering NEXT week: 9.30PM Wednesdays on Face Television from August 21. Apologies if you haven’t worked out how to use YouTube.
But more importantly… 31 Questions BEGINS IN SYDNEY TONIGHT 9.30!
That’s me aged 9 in Darling Harbour. I assume that water feature is still there? I remember being excited because I’d seen it in the opening (or was it the closing?) titles of Aerobics Oz-Style before Agro’s Cartoon Connection. Anyway Sydney, I’ll talk to YOU on Twitter later this evening.
As for Adelaide… well I discovered their fabulous community television station has gone through some structural changes recently. I’m not sure exactly why. But I do know that their name, phone number and address have all changed. I also discovered this after I mailed them the first 2 episodes. In a media format they no longer accept.
As far as I can tell, it’s no longer called “44 Adelaide”, but rather “Channel 44”. Good move, in my opinion. Why limit yourself to Adelaide? They’re looking at the big picture. And the picture is magnificent. Assuming you’re in the Adelaide metropolitan area where the picture is transmitted.
Doesn’t look like 31 Questions will be airing in Adelaide until September or October. Though we might get a repeat of our first season before they start showing Season 2. I’ll keep you updated.
I’ve been getting more requests for ways you can throw money at me, and to a lesser extent, the show. I can now announce there are TWO types of mugs available from the 31 Questions online store:
Perfect for holding all types of liquids. And for the fabulous price of $20 + postage, you can support me, 31 Questions, community television AND own a mug.
31 Questions S2E02 aired on C31 Melbourne & Geelong on Saturday 3 August 2013. Could we have conjured a more “game showy” picture than the one in the above YouTube preview image?
If so, I’d like to see it.
Anthony McCormack did a sensational job editing/booty-shaking this one. And I love his Don Bradman gag. Sequentially, this was actually the third episode we shot for this season, and from memory there were quite a lot of problems that night. So it’s good to see it wasn’t a complete write-off (like the first two!).
Other 31Q things…
Thursday evening marked my first time on Melbourne radio station 3AW. I had a chat with Philip Brady, Simon Owens and John Blackman about the show (mainly mine, not so much theirs). Both John and Simon have made appearances on 31 Questions. Their episodes are coming up in the next few weeks.
Amazingly in this media-saturated modern world of ours, the 3AW webcam video of my interview was on YouTube within minutes. Saves me uploading the audio myself. Check it out (stay watching right til the end to see some innovative signaling from the panel operator):
Here’s an interesting bit of news. I was about to reveal it on 3AW before getting sidetracked, but in our upcoming fifth episode – which was actually the sixth one we taped and will air in Melbourne on August 24 – not only is that the episode John Blackman makes an appearance, but the dude contestant that week is Rohan Zorz, who just Monday entered the Big Brother house as a “latecomer” contestant on Channel Nine!?!
I find this all very bizarre. Usually Big Brother contestants appear on game shows AFTER they’re kicked out of the house.
Unfortunately, a cursory glance at the #BBAU tweets shows a general hatred of Rohan. Exactly how this legion of teenage girls with anti-Rohan agendas will affect 31 Questions is yet to be fully understood.
At the moment, we’ve got the classic DMG mug for sale for the reduced price of $20. We’re working on some new designs, so keep checking to see what we’ve got in stock. All proceeds will go towards the future of 31 Questions (there’s already been talk of a third season 😉 ).
See you Saturday for Ep 3.
Kind regards,
David M. Green
Still not going to watch Big Brother.
There it is! Fresh from the C31 Melbourne & Geelong sliver of the television spectrum, 31 Questions Season 2, Episode 1 for your YouTubing pleasure.
Or if you’d prefer, you can always wait until it airs in Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide or New Zealand. Up to you. Next city to get the 31 Questions televisual treatment is Perth on WTV this Sunday 11.30AM.
Interesting side note, this is the difference between a guy who wears a question mark jacket, and a guy who wears a question mark jacket ON TELEVISION:
Tout that!
Special thanks also to our official sponsor for Season 2, Mind Games: purveyors of fine puzzles and board games.
And get a load of this…
As a special offer for 31 Questions fans, if you go into any of the Mind Games stores in Victoria (and hey why not, try this at their Queensland stores too), if you mention 31 Questions and can correctly answer a question from this week’s show, they’ll give you 20 PER CENT OFF your purchase! HOW FREAKING AMAZING IS THAT!?!
How great is saving money?
No, that’s not one of the questions.
Kind regards,
David M. Green
Ironically, there’s a Season 1 gag about “mind games”, which I wrote and recorded before I was aware there was an actual store already called “Mind Games”.
