Kit Yates tweets to tell us that the second series of Dara O Briain: School of Hard Sums will be shown Wednesdays at 8pm from 1st May on Dave. Kit also makes this bold claim: “I set the problems so let me know if you have feedback”. Pedants, go! That’s @Kit_Yates_Maths on Twitter.
The following promo is available. I notice that YouTube commenter Vergast has left the following considered review: “This is a thing? Aweome!”
More information: Dara O Briain: School of Hard Sums on Dave.
A tweet purporting to be ((Yes, I know, but it was retweeted by Thomas Woolley, who should know.)) from the press office of UKTV, the company that owns the channel Dave, has confirmed that the TV show Dara O Briain: School of Hard Sums is to return for a second series (we at least thought we knew this in July). It also says that production company Wild Rover are looking for maths students to take part. The tweet asks you to email maths@wild-rover.com to express an interest. You might remember that the first series, which aired in April-June, did very well compared with other programmes on the channel.
Fans of scandalous gossip (and TV channel Dave’s recent foray into maths based light entertainment, Dara O Briain’s School of Hard Sums) will be interested to note the following tweet from Marcus Du Sautoy:
“@pip6390: Is there another series of school of math in the pipe line?” yes! Filming in the new year.
— Marcus du Sautoy (@MarcusduSautoy) July 24, 2012
This presumably refers to the show mentioned above, which featured Marcus as a maths question/task-master, providing both fiendish puzzles and mathematical insight – but who knows? People say all kinds of things on Twitter.
Would you be interested to see another series? Which puzzles would you include? Comments below.
Last night saw the debut of Dave’s ‘School of Hard Sums’, a slightly strange but enjoyable maths show from Dara O Briain and Marcus du Sautoy. Was the show a success? Today Dara tweeted:
So, would viewers of Dave actually want to watch a show about maths? Turns out… yes. We got double the normal audience. Yay for maths!
— Dara O Briain (@daraobriain) April 17, 2012
Of course, the show received a good deal of advertising – but it seems like good news nonetheless.
School Of Hard Sums, the Dara O Briain-fronted maths game show from Dave (based on the Emmy-award nominated Japanese comedy-panel format Comaneci University Mathematics) starts an 8 episode run 16th April at 8pm on Dave. A page at the British Comedy Guide says:
Showing how maths underpins everything in the world around us, each programme sees two main problems for Dara to crack using numbers and equations, while a second comedian attempts a solution with more physical methods. To discover how many different people to date before choosing a partner, Dara uses the Optimal Stopping Theory; trying to predict a football score, Bayesian statistics come to Dara’s rescue.
Source: Dara O Briain: School Of Hard Sums.