This is the one going out on BBC2 later in the year, and I’ve heard it’s also a bit of a giant series so you’ve a fairly decent chance of getting on – you are welcome to try again if you didn’t manage to get on previously.

Teams of three (although singletons are encouraged to apply and they may be able to put a team together for you) are encouraged to write to onlyconnect@parasolmedia.co.uk with a contact name and number and they’ll send you an application form. Closing date is March 17th so get your skates on. You will need to be 18+, auditions will happen around the UK. Good luck!

Edit: Might as well lump this in here, we’ve been informed of some intriguing things re: 15 to 1. Contestants will get THREE attempts to reach the final a bit like Pointless, it’s 19 heats and a grand final (as predicted), if two people tie after the forty questions during a heat both names will go up on the leaderboard. Also it’s filming soon but no audience call anywhere, so make of that what you will. Presumably they’re going for a less dry angle, but I’ve also the heard the questions are still quite hard, so we’ll see (although I’m still not massively confident, although I can’t fault them for trying to mainstream it up).

We’ve hit a rich seam of news. Hold on tight!

• When you think afternoon quiz, what do you want from a host? You want gravitas with a lightness of touch of course. Therefore we can think of no better choice of host for ITV’s upcoming afternoon quiz Ejector Seat than the one, the only Andi Peters! Instead of pushing the big button to start the X Factor winner’s CD being manufactured, he’ll be pushing the big button to tip a losing contestant’s chair backwards. And you can watch this recording up in Manchester over the next few weeks if you fancy it, tickets at SRO.
• Chocolate Media (a branch of NBC Universal) have a new daytime quiz lined up for ITV called The 21st Question, where ten contestants face-off against each other in a general knowledge quiz but only the last person left standing will get to answer the 21st question for the cash prize. Gethin Jones is hosting and it’s ten episodes in a sixty minute slot, so likely to be one of this year’s The Chase summer replacements then. Just under three minutes a question maths fans, so expect lots of “tension”.
• Applause Store had a show up this morning called The Link filming in Glasgow (although AS seems to have gone down at time of writing so you’ll just have to trust me), where you answer questions and have to figure out the link between the answers. We liked this when it was called Connections and on in the eighties.
• Pointless is filming a bunch of new episodes in variously in March through to May at Elstree. Tickets SRO.
• Finally there’s a new BBC3 panel game called Junk hosted by Joe Lycett where comedians try and win unwanted items bought in from the audience. What looks like a pilot films at Wimbledon March 11th.

There’s a new ITV adventure show casting (I’ll stick my neck out here – likely to be ITV2) promising BIG MONEY for you and four friends if you fancy it (that link won’t work because it’s just a cut and paste poster, but this one should) :

You can click on the poster if you want to make it bigger. Closing date is Friday week. The last time an adventure show was advertised in mysterious circumstances it was Release the Hounds, we don’t believe this to be it unless they’re changing the format to match the new German version. We don’t know what this is but then stepping into the unknown is the basic definition of an adventure isn’t it? So there we are.

I’m playing cards today, so apropos of nothing, here’s an episode of Knights and Warriors. 

We did a thing on this years ago.

I say Superbowl Special, I’ve got no idea who is in it or anything. Anyway it’s the first Sunday of the month so that means it’s time for the Bother’s Bar Monthly Game, $5 +.50 to play, a $5 rebuy available within the first hour and if you survive the first hour there’s a $5 add-on allowed as well. Join us, it’ll be fun and it all starts at 8pm (ten minutes late registration allowed). You’ll need to be part of the Bother’s Bar Poker Club on Pokerstars to play – this is free, but I’ll need to accept you before you can register for the tournament so don’t hang around. All the details are here.

If you can’t make this one put March 2nd in your diary for the next one.

So we’ve actually had a basic inkling of this show for a while, but someone’s tipped us off with some more exciting details. Basically the new Remarkable ITV1 show intended for the 4pm Tipping Point slot is called Ejector Seat, and sounds like a chess-clock quiz meets Graham Norton’s Big Red Chair – your seat moves along a track until you give a right answer, and if the track runs out you flip over backwards. Prize around £10k, live studio audience. Too slapstick for 4pm? We’ll see. Host is yet to be named, although the press release is coming soon.

So there we are.