You might have read in the news this morning about the tragedy in Argentina, ten people (seven crew including the two pilots, three sporting celebrities) died in a helicopter crash whilst filming reality show Dropped (pretty standard survival fare, originally Norwegian IIRC – drop people off in inhospitable places and see how they cope finding food and shelter) in the La Rioja province.

This looks spectacularly unfortunate for Adventure Line, who lost a contestant (and crew doctor) filming Koh-Lanta a few years ago. If that looked like there might have been an error of judgement, this looks like pure accident, although the incident is still being investigated. Our thoughts with everyone involved.

So you might find you’re able to answer some of the questions. The celebs involved are: Tom Holland, Reeta Chakrabarti, Patrick Marber, Steve Pemberton, Katie Derham, Steve Jones (not that Steve Jones).

That is on BBC2 tonight at 8:30 after University Challenge, you can donate through the website.

If you were on Twitter last night you might have became vaguely aware of a German TV show that was going out involving giant versions of board games and wondering what it was.

So thanks to Nico W we might have a Special Feature on it upcoming soon. It’s called Das Spiel Beginnt, and intended as a large irregular Saturday night event show in the spirit of, and to replace, Wetten Das?

If you want to watch it (be aware it’s three hours long), then right now you can watch it ungeoblocked on the ZDF Mediathek – requires Flash.

And if the idea sounds familiar, here’s the feature we did on Family Game Night.

After The Voice (around 9:30pm),
On the BBC Red Button, also the BBC Eurovision site and Eurovision.tv

It’s time to find out which act and song, which will inevitably be slightly too worthy but some people will say “look it’s not completely rubbish” but nobody would actually buy, we’re sending to Austria in May!

Join Scott Mills on the red button or on various internet sites from about half nine.

Here you go:

BRAND NEW BBC QUIZ SHOW

Do you and your friends love brainteasers, cross-word puzzles and tough TV quizzes? Can you answer questions on Only Connect and University Challenge for fun?

Then this is the quiz for you.

We are looking for smart and interesting contestants for a brand new BBC quiz show that tests your general knowledge and mental agility skills to the limit.

We are looking for individual players as well as teams of up to three players who share a common passion, hobby or profession, who have what it takes to take on the fiendish puzzles in this challenging word game.

To request an application form please email casting@saltbeeftv.com or call 07954 834 114.

The closing date for applications is March 31st and auditions will be held in London,  Belfast, Manchester and Cardiff.

All applicants must be aged 18+ and UK residents.

And that’s from Green Inc. and Saltbeef TV. Good luck!

So last year Fremantle in the US thought it might be an interesting idea to go through their large back catalogue of formats and redo some of them to appeal to a youth audience. The result of that is Buzzr on Youtube. After an apparent successful go at Family Feud and Password earlier this year, this week sees the launch of its first “season” with FF, Password and Body Language (which is basically charades).

What this means in essence is a) shouting, b) “Youtube personalities”, c) shouting, d) short formats for short attention spans, e) shouting and f) at 33 I’m too old for this shit. And g) shouting. And h) single entendres. Not forgetting i) shouting.

AND SPEAKING OF “YOUTUBE” “PERSONALITIES”, if you had March 21st booked for Schlag den Brig 3, we’re having to postpone it (although we still fully intend to do it at some point). Soz.