Thanks to TV’s Michael Harmstone for alerting us to this, we’re two months from Mol season and today Arvo released the cast photo.

Who are these people?

Probably most important, new host Rik van de Westelaken (middle) – newsreader, quiz show host, sometime host of Moltalk and winner of WIDM 2015 (discussed here). One of the ten celebs behind him will win money by completing tasks and uncovering which one of the ten is being paid to work against the team for our entertainment. But who is the mole?

• Nikkie de Jaeger – Dutch make-up Youtube star. Over 11m subscribers!
• Evelien de Bruijn – DJ and host.
• Jamie Trenité – Adventure and Science show host.
• Evi Hanssen – Flemish presenter, ex-host of Expedition Robinson.
• Rick Paul van Mulligan – Actor.
• Robert van Beckhoven – Professional baker.
• Merel Westrijk – Newsreader and morning show host.
• Niels Litooij – Electronic musical artist
• Sarah Chronis – Actress.
• Sinan Can – documentary maker.

And Michael points out that the WIDM Instagram has been dropping hints that they’ve gone to Colombia this year, although WIDM has a habit of splitting over a few places.

Not long to wait, usually it starts first week in January, and hopefully someone will be providing English subs. Ditto the Belgian version which will probably start around March. Exciting!

I’ve never done this before, but Danny Kerner has pointed out that there are recently released Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy games out on Switch in the US, and I’m currently in a bit of a WoF and J! mood.

Presumably some of you will have done this sort of thing before, is it easy? How would you go about doing it?

(I know I could probably just Google it, but we’re all about the community).

Incidentally, keep Saturday 15th December free for 13th Night: Bother’s Bar Festive Game Night. More details nearer the time.

Incidentally, if you have a Switch quiz itch to scratch, Trivial Pursuit Live! has just come out and presuming it’s a straight port of the (years old) PS4 one is pretty good fun. Closer to Buzz than the board game.

Also it’s Fireworks Night.

When I heard a few days ago that Netflix in the US has a collection of handpicked Jeopardy episodes up now, I wasn’t expecting them to be on UK Netflix.

But they are! 45 episodes. So there you are.

Right, I left my Anonybox open all afternoon, let’s see what interesting gossip you didn’t want to put your name on you have come up with:

• Letterbox is still boring. – Well, yes.
• In the U.S., a local station in Philadelphia has airing a local game show called “The Class-H Room” (no, really, that’s how they spell it) for about a month now. It pits teams of students and teachers against each other. All episodes have uploaded on YouTube. – I can’t work it out, is that meant to be a pun? It’s Canada’s Smart Ask all over again.
• The worst “Tell us a fun fact about yourself” response I ever heard at a quiz show audition was, “I’ve been arrested for murder twice”.
• I have been present at several pitches for pretty straightforward quiz shows at which someone has suggested “what if we made them wear shock suits?”. It has never once improved anything. – Yeah, I mean at most it’s a round of Distraction isn’t it? Where do you go from there? At least with something like Russian Roulette once you’ve comically screamed and fallen through the floor you’re literally out and the show progresses.
• Crystal maze live is moving its London maze to the trocadero in the new year. Completely new games apparently too. – yes indeed, 32 of them apparently. Little Lion had been trailing a mystery announcement for ages and people assumed it would be something new and exciting, and there’s me going “it’s probably just going to be a new Crystal Maze.” I am skill.
• James Acaster should be on every series of Taskmaster, in disguise if necessary. – When Taskmaster first started, I loved the idea of it but thought it should be a bit more argumentative. Seven series later we finally have an aggressively entertaining panel and it’s getting its biggest ever numbers. Good.
• Enjoyed inside number 9 live Halloween Ghostwatch remake, although compared to Ghostwatch in writing it’s a little lacking and the other program flashbacks are….we’ll there just a bit to silly in my taste. Needed to be PERFECTLY edited to work altogether. Though I will applied the crew for having the nerve to do a thing like this in this modern day and age and actually working, sorta…. makes me wonder what a proper official Ghostwatch remake would be like…. ( and I know there was a short story sequel by the original creator!) – fascinated by the puntctuation here but yes I watched it on catch-up having forgotten it was on and enjoyed it although I think there were probably one or two elements too many, less is sometimes more. I laughed when I heard it lost 30% of its audience about ten minutes in.
• Edit: Facebook considering an international version of The Mole. Ooh!

And there we are! Join us next time for your fascinating anonymous opinions and gossip the next time we open the Stool Pigeon!