We feel a bit flat today. On Saturday evening we had four close friends around to watch the launch of "The Colour Of Money" on ITV. Regular readers will be aware that our son Paul came up with the idea for the game in 2007 and developed it with his colleagues at 12 Yard Productions. In early 2008 everyone here in the Instanta office was trying the game out and having a great time with it. It was launched in a blaze of publicity with Chris Tarrant as the host. We really enjoyed the show and had a great evening with a lovely dinner that Marion cooked but on Sunday morning we were disappointed to wake up to highly critical reviews in the press and on the TV gossip internet forums. We all know that friends are unlikely to be critical but we have spoken to plenty of people who enjoyed it immensely and I really hope that it gets the success that it deserves. It's a big change from Saturday morning when our favourite critic Charlie Brooker in the Guardian devoted his Screen Burn to the show in a very positive way. We'll just have to see how the ratings go over the next week.
If you didn't get the chance to watch the show, here is a taster. Remember it's an entertainment game show, not rocket science and it really does build up loads of tension.
And if you want to try the game for yourself you can play it
Back tomorrow.
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