Getting ahead of Beat Luke Littler in the burgeoning Streamers Coming Up With Sports Formats That Don’t Involve Buying Rights genre Red Bull, Disney+ and ESPN have announced Max vs 100 (which genuinely is actually a great title, really rolls off the tongue) which will see Formula One superstar Max Verstappen take on 100 other karters, some of whom are celebs, around a specially made track at Silverstone starting at the back and hoping to get to the front. Mo Gilligan’s hosting.

They say 101 karts on a track has never been done before, I wonder if they were inspired by some Mario Kart mods that were doing the rounds some time ago. It will be interesting to see if it has anything like this level of chaos.

They also did a professional driver vs ordinary contestants on De Mol a few years ago, with Mario Kart style power-ups, and it was great so there’s that – this won’t have the power-ups, obviously. It’s happening LIVE on Disney+ and ESPN on September 16th.

In other news a new trailer for Netflix’s Wonka’s The Golden Ticket has just come out. We thought the first one looked like it’s had some money thrown at it and still feels like a great idea for a reality game, the new one doesn’t change that fact, AI Gene Wilder is the sticking point, it’s a shame we won’t be able to find out really how many people watch it and don’t mind it, don’t bother watching it, or WATCH IT BUT WITH A CROSS LOOK ON THEIR FACE LET ME TELL YOU. It does feel unnecessary, they’ve gone with the modern Wonka branding which is similar to but not the same as the original film so it’s not like they needed to do it. Still, though. They’re keeping quiet on what “a lifetime supply of money” means – £10 a month for life! Who knows.

A big September for streaming between these and various Physical 100 spin-offs. And on terrestrial The Box with Gary Lineker starts 5th and 6th September. Content!

Edit: Bradley’s hosting a quiz pilot in Maidstone on October 2nd. I can’t make it annoyingly, but if you can tickets are available from SRO.

Edit Edit: And now Your Time Starts Now aka The Button 2.0 has been commissioned for eight eps for Channel 4, the suggestion is winning families can keep returning to double their winnings if they come out on top, potentially into millions (which sounds unlikely to happen at risk of losing the lot). This does suggest we’re getting twenty-eight weeks of Taskmaster Universe content next year which is… a lot.

Edit Edit Edit: Christ it’s all go today, TV Zone has the Last One Laughing 3 cast as “Lee Mack, Katherine Ryan, Harry Hill, Katherine Parkinson, Michelle de Swarte, Jon Richardson, Morgana Robinson, Roisin Conaty, Josh Jones and Series one Runner-Up, Richard Ayoade” and it looks like, although it isn’t stated, that Mel Giedroyc is in the Jimmy’s chat-buddy role.

September is very exciting for fans of Netflix’s Physical 100 ‘franchise’ (urgh), Physical 100 Italy joins on September 11th and Physical 100 Mexico on September 16th. It looks like they’ve both properly gone for the big, dramatic sets – central to Physical 100‘s appeal I think, but it looks like Italy’s challenges (from the trailer at least) are remixes of existing P100 tasks but Mexico’s look a little newer and so more interesting. Of interest is how closely it sticks to the original South Korean editing style, I’m hoping episodes are slightly shorter but we’ll see.

And now something that should have physical things in it but doesn’t, but is a really interesting find (I presume, I can’t watch it properly until I finish work tonight) – the 2000 Fox Krypton Factor pilot (presumably) hosted by Pat O’ Brien uploaded by The Game Show Vault. Didn’t make it to series, but likely of interest to Krypton Factor nerds.

You should be able to take bets on LOL, but my gut is saying the winner won’t be Lou Saunders or Daisy May Cooper.

In case that tweet hasn’t embedded, eps 1-3 of Last One Laughing: Halloween go out October 23rd, episode 4 October 30th on Prime.

In other news, there’s a Samsung FAST Channel dedicated to The Cube now, if you want.

Some fun for the quizzers out there, FOTB Royal_Flush has across the past two months or so run a quiz tournament of his own format called The Drain during his Twitch streams (currently on a break but returning to Thursdays and Saturdays in a few weeks), episodes are currently being chopped up and put out on Youtube.

Here is episode 1.

Looks like episodes are going up nightly at the moment. There’s plenty of other good quizzing on the channel to watch as well.

Netflix have announced Beat Luke Littler, a one-night live darts spectacular on October 30th where 20 amateur dart players play against him in one leg of 501 and if they win they win £501,000. Auditions in London and Manchester (alright, Andy Burnham) and open to all – you can apply here if you want.

Given that darts is all about consistency, as years of Bronze Bully has showed us, someone throwing darts fairly cold is going to be at a disadvantage against someone who has been throwing for a while so you’d assume most of the twenty contestants are going to be disadvantaged and your best shot is to be one of the early ones. What if someone manages to win early, does the broadcast stop there? Can they afford multiple winners? Wasn’t peak Littler about 18 months ago? So many questions!