The Mirror reporting that Irishman Darragh Ennis, a former contestant, is the new Chaser Bradley teased end of last year.
I think it’s fair to say pretty much nobody predicted that, so well done if you got that at home.
In other news, Beat the Chasers starts on Monday 27th at 9pm and runs nightly. I suspect this is rather hopeful, but we’ll see.
After a recent comment I thought I might do a video on me doing impressions of your favourite gameshow sound effects using nothing but my extremely talented deep registered voice.
This means I need to know what sound effects you want. Get your choices in by Friday night and I’ll do it over the weekend. No limits to what you suggest but I’ll probably limit the video to 15-20. That’s even if we get 15-20 suggestions.
Edit: Now closed, thanks.
Daily Easter Monday – Wed, 9pm,
ITV
Here’s something a bit different, a three-part dramatisation of the Major Ingram coughing scandal on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, based on a hit play by James Graham.
Michael Sheen (Celebrity The Chase) plays Chris Tarrant, Matthew Macfadyen (Spooks) plays Charles Ingram, Sian Clifford (Vanity Fair) plays Diana.
Interestingly it sounds like they’ve written it to allow some official narrative doubt in mind – I haven’t seen the play so have little to compare it to. Should be an interesting three hours at any rate, let us know what you thought in the comments.
Right, are you free from 9pm this evening for about an hour? I’ve been alerted to playfromhome.us which offers a couple (literally two right now) games you play Jackbox style on your mobile devices and I figured I’d do a live stream. Anyone can play and join in, but ideally I want a panel to bounce some live chat with, so if you have Discord and want in then let me know.
Jump to 6:35 in for the start of the broadcast.
Hot on the heels of first series Turnabout turning up, we were alerted to ten minutes of first series Four Square, with Michael Groth off of That’s Life hosting.
I think you’d struggle to define it as a future classic from this clip to be honest (which doesn’t get as far as The Maze unfortunately, which was everyone’s favourite round surely), the game is rather ponderous – each square has *two* questions associated with it and it only goes the opponent’s colour if the second one is answered incorrectly.
Here’s something fun that turned up on Youtube last night, a full episode of the rather unpolished first series of BBC daytime favourite Turnabout.
(Do subscribe to Chris Toone’s channel, there’s loads of really interesting stuff on there.)
Apart from obvious format differences, here were the things I picked up on: