Embarrassingly, I was so engrossed playing the Game Of The Moment, Elden Ring, I completely forgot about the Stool Pigeon! So sorry it’s late. Anyway, here we go in no particular order:

A daytime version of One and Six Zeroes has been commissioned already – current working title is One and Four Zeroes.

Think I’m calling bollocks on that one, the scheduling for One And Six Zeros isn’t screaming confidence and Dara’s not going to do daytime surely. Would the game even be compelling played for much lower stakes?

Masterchef Australia hurriedly rushed a “cook for the cast of Neighbours” challenge into production after news of its cancellation, just to avoid the “you were filming here for ten years and never bothered?” criticism when it airs in a few months.

Channel 4 have recommissioned I Literally Just Told You, but they haven’t announced it yet because they’re waiting for the fuss around Jimmy Carr’s gypsy joke to die down.

I thought this was recommissioned a while ago, it’s been C4’s only successful 10pm show in ages.

Sarah Millican might be appearing on the next series of Taskmaster. She posted in her newsletter that she had to cancel a part of her tour due to “TV commitments” and those commitments lasts as long as the studio recordings of Taskmaster. So many internet people have put two and two together.

The original team of researchers for De Slimste Mens Ter Wereld has about 19 people in it, the German one will have about 3. Will be interesting to see, how good this works out.

As someone who did four own-brand episodes, it already felt like a lot of work to come up with interesting things to quiz about and although it might not seem like it, it’s a big eater of ideas so best of luck to them.

Well I can’t say it was especially worth waiting for, there were a few more but I’m not sure they were either really our thing or didn’t pass the feeling of truth test. Still, we’ll keep them on hand as ones that got away if they turn out right.

6pm Sunday is an unusual timeslot for such a big money quiz with a big name host (it’s Dara). We have our doubts about it, but it’s dangerous to bet against King of Daytime Hugh Rycroft.

Edit: sorry got a bit overexcited, it’s 13th March not this coming Sunday. Apols.

Also great news for fans of the theme tune for Lightning! The new series begins March 14th on BBC2.

We were alerted on Twitter yesterday evening that the entirety of the 1978 series of The Krypton Factor had been uploaded to Youtube. And that is, frankly, pretty exciting. A few series one eps from 1977 were already up there and it’s always fun to see a format progress. Thank God they dropped the personality round.

However we explored Anton’s Youtube Channel and there’s some absolute Krypton Factor gold on there. Here’s an ep from 1982.

I love this so much. The bombastic nonsensical title shots, also featuring Apprentice-style contestant introduction shots. GORDON BURNS HAS A MOVING DESK. Gordon Burns being able to deliver pieces to camera whilst the desk is still moving. Pre-assault course chat. The intelligence test having a Taskmaster-esque secret solution. Everyone looking about twenty-years older than their age suggests.

This might well be the peak of the show before its big 1986 revamp, there’s quite a lot of fun (read: largely unnecessary) stuff here which didn’t continue on.

If you’re stuck for something to do this weekend, from 12pm until the early hours on Twitch on Saturday Ash the Bash is doing another marathon 500 Questions stream for Mind UK (donate here), and if you watched the last one you’ll be intrigued to know that Lewcario is returning to continue his epic run with 168 questions to go.

The TV show frankly wasn’t all that. Or any that, really, but as a proper endurance quiz (they will actually get through 500 questions) it was quite compelling last time around, so worth dropping into throughout the afternoon.

New ITV quiz R¿dd?culous is looking for contestants. Also Henry Lewis looks a little bit like Alex Horne apparently, so that’ll attract people just flicking through the channels. We have no idea how exciting the cash prize is (my guess is £10,000 as I think it’s set for the 3pm Lingo slot so better than a kick in the teeth) and I think this is the first contestant flyer we’ve had with a QR code like it’s 2015. Nice.

In other quiz news, Beat the Chasers is filming in March, tickets SRO.

Finally, a bit of an end of an era – series 33 of Fort Boyard this Summer will be the first without its iconic tigers who are being pensioned off – they’re deciding to get in before new French laws will force them in a few years time.

The show is likely to have to go through some sort of creative renewal in the upcoming years anyway as it’s likely all the animal content will eventually need to be removed. The question is: what do you replace it with? It’s not going to be easy for a show to lose an integral part for thirty plus years, there are surely only so many combinations of rope, height and water, and without the chills where are the thrills going to come from? Still, if 32 series have taught us anything, you can never write Fort Boyard off. Should be an interesting Summer. We’re currently discussing this on our #fortboyard channel on the Discord.

There have been reports today suggesting Sitting On A Fortune is coming back – fine, not offensive just whatever, something’s got be wasted against Strictly.

But nobody seems to have reported that it appears to be a two for one with Moneyball. The Moneyball they had to change the title of. The Moneyball where they had to halt filming because the apparatus stopped working. The Moneyball that was just a ball travelling left to right quite slowly for big cash prizes. The Moneyball that was pulling about 1.5m on a Saturday in Winter. The Moneyball that was, reportedly, axed.

Yep, that Moneyball. That’s the proper story!