Once again, it’s our old friend The Million Pound Drop, because apparently it is very difficult to create multiple-choice questions where only one of the answers is definitively correct:

“Which actor played Doctor Who for the longest period?

• Sylvester McCoy
• Paul McGann
• Christopher Ecclestone
• David Tennant”

The correct answer, and the one that the couple left free was David Tennant, the reasoning being that he was the Doctor for four series. But hang on, the question does not ask who had the most series as Doctor Who, it asks who was the Doctor for the longest period, in which case (looking around) the correct answer is Sylvester McCoy who played him from 1987, had a break, then appeared in the Paul McGann movie in 1996 giving him a period (what the question is asking) of nine years. I did idly wonder if McGann would be the answer, seeing as he’s technically the doctor from the TV movie until the first Christopher Ecclestone episode but I think that would be a year shorter.

Only Endemol can etc etc.

22nd November is when Deal or No Deal will be celebrating the fifth anniversary of the third week of it being on air – an unusual thing to celebrate by all accounts, but then DoND is that sort of a show. At least it isn’t calling itself “six in Big Brother years”.

Old faces are promised, as well as a hilarious VT and a twist which could add thousands of pounds. The idea that the show was ever as popular as it was was mainly because of Bother’s Bar is mysteriously being swept under the carpet.

I might go into the internet archive to see what exactly people were saying about the show five years ago (it’ll never last, that sort of thing). Does anyone have any favourite comments?

Not strictly gameshow related, but something that may prove of interest, legendary sort-of-Crystal-Maze-in-a-haunted-house 90s PC game The 7th Guest is getting a release on iDevices next month. It was one of the first games to use full motion video, and is effectively Professor Layton fifteen-years ahead of Professor Layton, with added blood and horror.

What with You Don’t Know Jack making a resurgence (they’d better bring it out for the UK, is all I’m saying), we’re truly entering a golden age of videogames that are a little bit like gameshows sort of.