According to a story on Broadcast, Impossible? will be returning to run alongside Big Brother. Good.

Meanwhile The Amazing Race Australia continues to do things much more interestingly than the US one has done for a while – I love the fact there’s a task at each location and not just a series of point to point races in taxis, and particularly liked the idea of having a tough logic puzzle as a roadblock just before the Pit Stop in the same location (although I think they’re missing a trick by not putting such things online for the viewers to have a go at in their own time). I also think they may have missed a trick in not making this the resolving leg of a non-elimination leg, with a team Marked for Elimination and having to endure a 30 minute time penalty if they don’t win, how much more exciting could it have been to watch them sweat it out as they watch the other teams complete the task and pass them?

Meanwhile Meanwhile, it looks like John Archer and Ben Earl are finally off to Vegas tomorrow. Who are they? They’re the guys who managed to fool Penn and Teller. Fool Us finished recording its series recently, looking forward to it!

Hold on to your hats kids, it sounds as though Fort Boyard is deffo coming back to UK screens, but in a twist, it’s going to be for older kids. I believe they will be shooting some US episodes as well. To be honest going by the Contestant Call it sounds like they’re trying quite a few things out (18 year old team captain and 13-15 year old team mates?).

But what of the exciting French show beginning July 2nd? Here’s what we’ve gleaned:

• 13 new games, two of which are returning faves (the mud wrestling and the fight with the pugil sticks on a beam) with some high-tech twists, apparently.
• The cells are now decked out in the style of a carnival, the jungle or high tech.
• Three new characters – the mud wrestler, Justice White and The Firefly.
• Teams must now get seven keys again.
• It sounds like The Firefly will help on the high-tech games, whilst Justice White is who the teams go to if they don’t get their seven keys, he’ll give them the chance to make them up for a price.
• Pere Fouras is now in charge of the Council, and this time, it sounds like a modified version of the betting from 2009 is returning – now this time you win or lose Treasure Room time if you win or lose the bet.
• Can’t wait!

The answer is, of course, when the host right at the beginning says “this is not a gameshow.” Anyway, here’s some Silent Library (based, of course, on a segment of popular Japanese show Dauntaun no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!) It’s a celebrity edition with punk (presumably) band All Time Low playing. The idea, of course, is that one or more people are picked at random to take a punishment, they and their friends laughing at them must try to remain as quiet as possible to win the money.

It’s mildly entertaining, I could see it being a minor hit on Channel 5 if done the right way.

Very quick as I’m in a rush, Broadcast reporting that Channel 5 have bought the rights to Silent Library, the show where people gather in a library and must perform painful and hilarious tasks whilst not shouting, and whilst their friends try very hard not to piss themselves laughing too loudly, for a cash prize of up to £2,000 (wooooh!)

This has already been done in the UK as Fist of Zen on MTV UK, of course.

In other news: Does anyone know anything about this?

And here’s some fun: If the Eurovision 2011 was jury only, Italy would have won. Possibly quite predictably, Blue did much better in the televote than the juries.