And there’s not much worth bothering to write about.

It sounds like Jeopardy‘s launching New Year’s Day and Wheel of Fortune is launching January 6th. We reckon The Traitors is launching first week in Jan and will once again be three-nights-a-week.

The Poll of the Year will launch 2nd January as it tradition. If things are missing from the New Shows list do shout so we can add them in time.

Lots of Advent games going on in The Social Medias, #dealvent, #wallvent (might be a bit late to join that one if you haven’t started) and #adventcalendarofgames all Things That Are Happening.

Cold innit?

Edit: New Year’s Day has Riddiculous starting 3:45, The Chase 4:45 and Jeopardy 5:45pm. Presuming they all move to 3/4/5 for the rest of the week, but I don’t know in what order.

All the information is in the tweet. Amused by the Team Fortress-ification of Greg.

I thought applications opened a while ago, however there seems to be a new push – knock yourselves out.

In 2021 I mused on Twitter AS IT WAS BACK THEN that wouldn’t it have been a good idea if there was a Deal or No Deal advent calendar? You have the natural daily box opening, perhaps there could be a bank offer behind some of the numbers, absolute easy cash-in from all involved. THEN Dan Peake thought that was a fun idea, let’s do it for real. Two successful years later it’s spawned a TV revival.

Well, it’s BACK for 2023, albeit this time it’s going to be not on Twitter (as it is now). There’s a WEBSITE (dealvent2023.com) and there’s a Discord server. Members of the Bother’s Bar Discord will see announcements, but for hysterical banter I suggest signing up to the Dealvent Discord.

The game’s afoot! You’ve got until Tuesday to collectively decide on an envelope number on the website. Good luck, wait until you see what I’ve got in store for you!

The Traitors Interactive Game Book is out today. I wasn’t sure what to expect with it, so I was quite surprised to discover it’s basically a Choose Your Own Adventure gamebook as you negotiate your way through a game of The Traitors. There’s an interesting mechanic in that if you lose, you only have to go back to the beginning of that day rather than the beginning of the game, so no real need to hold your finger on the previous page in case you make a bad decision.

It also includes bonus content, the missions are replaced by various knock-off versions of popular social deduction games you can play with friends with a pack of cards and slips of paper.

The writing is quite witty, as you’d expect from The Word‘s Alan Connor, some quite amusing jokes and observations on What Other People Are Like from your perspective as a player.

I’ve only “done” Day One so far as it came out at midnight, but if that sounds interesting to you you can download it instantly on Kindle for a tenner, other bookshops are available.