My Kind of Music
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Revision as of 12:44, 29 August 2010
Synopsis
It's Name That Tune but hosted by Britain's Favourite Host (as voted for by his close family) Michael Barrymore!
This attempted game show-, people show- and a music show-in-one didn't do a bad job, to be fair. Three couples put their musical and performing knowledge to the test for a big cash prize. Each show would begin with a song and then the contestant would be introduced. Various rounds would then be played, which could simply be guessing songs or naming the song they are given clues to. The trademark Barrymore "vox pops" of old biddies and desperate-for-fame schoolkids filmed during the summer in shopping centres were ever-present. Another round involved the contestants singing, and then asking questions about the background to the song. The team with the most money who would play Musical Families for a chance of the big prize.
Musical Families tried to be a new concept for a round, but not a very good one. Contestants tried to guess the names of four musical stars who had been formed into a fictional family. The idea was that the mother and father were old enough to have had their two (fictional) children - not a particularly strong clue. Anyway, Bazza would read out long description clues of each person in turn, à la Going for Gold. The first three people were worth a thousand each and the fourth won the jackpot of £10,000. But isn't £13,000 a decidedly odd amount of money to give away?
A lot of Michael Barrymore's appeal was working with the audience, and hecklers were usually welcome for a quick joke. Other than that, the format didn't quite work but at least the graphics were nice.
Subsequent series saw a few tweaks - including a new musical charades-type game which worked quite well.
Key moments
Michael singing (reasonably well) every week in the studio with someone "he met whilst filming".
If the contestants didn't know an answer, he'd sometimes offer it to a member of the audience for the same money. A nice touch.
On one show, a contestant brought his mother and girlfriend along to sit in the audience, and Barrymore mistook the former for the latter, to much hilarity. And even more so when it turned out that the contestant's mother was Italian, and didn't speak English - so he had to explain to her in Italian what Barrymore had just said.
Trivia
Mike Reid, former presenter of Runaround, wrote some of the questions.
One episode featured Paul Potts, who would later go on to win Britain's Got Talent.
Barrymore's former wife, the late Cheryl Barrymore, was credited as programme consultant.
