Show Discussion: Busted

By | May 4, 2018
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Whenever you want,
Netflix

We’re very excited to see more Korean variety programming come to Netflix (COME ON, THE GENIUS), this one sounds a little bit like Whodunnit? and looks like it might be great fun.

The Netflix blurb:

Tackling different mysteries in each episode of this game show, seven sleuths get closer to solving the biggest one of all: What happened to Project D?

Episodes run to about 90 minutes. The first two are up right now.

Show Discussion: Taskmaster S6

By | May 1, 2018
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Wednesdays, 9pm
Dave (also UKTV Play)

It says something about a show that we’re willing to put up a show discussion post every time a new series comes up, but there’s usually so much to comment on regarding Taskmaster it seems the best way really.

So here we are again. The victims for season six are:

  • Alice Levine!
  • Asim Chaudry!
  • Russell Howard!
  • Tim Vine!
  • Liza Tarbuck!

I reckon Howard will be the one Davies tends to pick on, Tim Vine will do well in most of the objectively judged tasks and Liza Tarbuck will end up winning. Levine and Chaudry are unknown quantities for me in this regard (although I can at least say I liked Alice on Big Brother’s Bit On The Side years ago)

The show has gone from a tight six episode run to a slightly flabbier eight episode run to a supersized ten episode run. We felt the hit rate for tasks for the recent runs was a bit lower (although to be clear the show was still entertaining) so we at least hope there’s not too much filler across the next ten weeks. And there are three more series of ten to come.

It’s badly timed Schlag den Henssler this week!

By | April 30, 2018
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That’s right! Forget the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? revival this Saturday, it’s all about the next exciting edition of Schlag den Henssler.

We haven’t quite worked out what we’re going to do yet, WWTBAM? is such an important show we might just watch that and join SdH for the final couple of hours which would give us an excuse to talk about how good or bad the Millionaire revival is LIVE. We’ll see.

Edit: Looks like we’ll live commentate Millionaire as well.

Things

By | April 26, 2018
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Some things:

  • The 100k Drop begins May 7th (Bank Holiday Monday) on Channel 4 at 4pm, avoiding the big two but still clashing with Bother’s Bar and pensioner favourite Tipping Point.
  • There is a Taskmaster book coming out on September 6th. £9.99 on Kindle, £12.99 paperback according to Amazon.
  • And speaking of Taskmaster I’m VERY PLEASED UKTV Play don’t seem to be splitting the audience by showing them a week in advance this time round so everyone can discuss on the same page. Phew. The new series starts on Wednesday 2nd May. There is an exclusive task though.
  • Not a gameshow but likely to appeal to people who like them, the second series of excellent Brazilian drama 3% is on Netflix from this weekend. “… It’s what Survivor would be a bit like if it was done through the prism of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror and The Hunger Games by way of the board game The Resistance. It has violence but not excessive amounts, it is rated 15,” is how I originally described it.

It is La Carte Aux Tresors tonight

By | April 25, 2018
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From 7:55pm UK / 8:55pm in France. It’s on France 3 so you’ll need to use a naughty stream or the dark arts to watch. I’m busy tonight (in fact the next few days are going to be a bit quiet Barwise as I’m about to receive and set-up an exciting new computer – in theory Schlag den Henssler commentary and Game Night from my couch rather than an uncomfortable computer chair – exciting!) so will watch on catch-up at the weekend.

Here are the pre-titles and titles. I gather the original score composer has returned to redo the music.

In other news, this looks like Carnage.