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!

You’ve undoubtably heard the news that three-time World’s Strongest Man Tom Stoltman is joining Gladiators which begins filming this weekend – no idea what his name will be, I would presume it would reference his WSM-past so something like Atlas, probably (“He knows Fingal’s Fingers better than anyone it’s… HUSAFELL!”), but it will be interesting to see how he adapts from Strongman to things that require a bit more agility and certainly more shock and impact – will he get Powerball? I’m guessing he’s not going to be doing The Wall any time soon. you’d presume he’ll never lose Duel. Is he going to be more liable to injury? Don’t know, but I’m sure stories will come out on The Socials across the next fortnight. There’s also a new event coming, you’d hope more than one but supposedly not.