Tomorrow’s a big day as three of the Chasers (Anne Hegerty, Paul Sinha and Mark Labbett) go on Tipping Point: Lucky Stars (point of note, the logo behind Ben in these celeb specials features a colon but the titles do not) in what must surely be the ultimate quiz challenge. That’s at 6pm on ITV.

Tipping Point is not known for its tough uncompromising questions, I saw a celeb special a few weeks ago which had lots of questions where the answer was a word in the question, although now I can’t think of one off the top of my head.

We were alerted to this on Twitter the other day, somebody has uploaded an episode of the much maligned gritty Telly Addicts reboot from 1998. Is it actually that bad? Probably not in retrospect, its main crime being being a completely different show to the show that people had liked perfectly well enough for the previous ten years, now with lousy unmemorable theme tune.

But delve into the suggestions from that and we hit what is surely peak Paul Ross with UK Gold’s TV quiz Telly Stack from 1996. The first round and the final is quite good fun, I find the second round a bit tedious.

And we still haven’t finished! Because also for UK Gold here’s the impossibly cheap Goldmaster with Mike Read, part Mastermind specialist subject round, other part lengthy quickfire quiz. Intrigued how Read just refers to the contestant numbers in the buzzer round rather than the contestant’s actual names.

Fun at the weekend as someone pointed out that the Taskmaster House is listed on Foxton’s Estate Agents for rent for the low low price of £4,117 per month.

This three bedroom and two bathroom, 1,009 square foot des res features both a “modern kitchen” and “guest WC” and is within a short distance of Barnes Bridge, Mortlake and Chiswick railway stations in London’s popular Zone 3 district.

On top of four grand you’re likely to have a hefty council tax bill, and with an energy efficiency rating of 1 (out of 100) high heating costs too – it might have a modern kitchen but apparently no insulation. This is probably why it also has an environmentally friendly rating of 14 (out of 100).

Why not try and predict which room is the one they put all the plastic sheeting up around?

I’ve often wondered how this works for filming, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen the letting, but at some point in the next six months they will be filming two more series there.

The last in the series is tomorrow night on Dave.

Edit: Hot of the Twitter Press:

We know you’re sad #Taskmaster 3 ends tonight, but Hugh Dennis, @joelycett @lollyadefope Mel Giedroyc & @noelfielding11 will join us for S4!

— Dave (@Join_Dave) November 1, 2016

Quite a good line-up, not a Noel Fielding fan but can understand what he might bring to the table. Lolly Adefope is in my blind spot. I think Joe Lycett will be good value, and Mel and Hugh are old hands.

Saturday, 9:30pm
Right here and on Youtube

A new Jackbox Party Pack has been released and that sounds like a good excuse for another Game Night! Join us as a panel of eight battle it out over games of wit, creativity, knowledge and bluff in a bid to become Game Night champion.

And whatsmore we’re MORE INTERACTIVE than ever! YOU can answer the questions, YOU can spot the lies and YOU can judge the answers! Your responses can and will affect the results of the evening. All you need is a smart device (or a second window), go along to jackbox.tv put the four-letter room code in and a name and join the fun.

I will also be keeping an eye out on Twitter if I can and reading out your messages, please use hashtag #bbgn.

Not only do we have a ton of new games to play, for the first time we should be able to stream the sound. I’m afraid we’re still streaming at about 3 frames per second, but what can you do.

The live stream will be embedded here and will go live at 9:30pm. It’s aimed to finish at 11:30 but it’s LIVE so might go on for a bit longer. Dip in and out or join us for the whole evening as you see fit, but do join us!

[Don’t forget it’s Bother’s Bar Game Night on Saturday! Do join us from 9:30pm.]

How does Stephen Mulhern get so much work? Surely it’s impossible to front as many shows as he does. And you’re right, it IS impossible, and that’s because everyone on telly claiming to be Stephen Mulhern these days is actually a franchisee, able to use his image, likeness and approximate character under license.

The REAL Stephen Mulhern hasn’t worked since getting accidentally whacked on the head by an errant potato on the set of Globo Loco, the kids show from 2003-4 where kids tried to predict the winner of wacky Banzai! style challenges ably assisted by the crime novelist Peter Cocks, better known as the guy who beat up Paul Ross on Endurance UK after getting slapped about one to many times.

I’m afraid this is the best quality episode on Youtube. And it doesn’t seem to even feature the spinny sofa potato throwing game.

We were quite excited to see that the very first episode of Challenge Anneka was uploaded to Youtube last night. Provided you don’t count the very very first which wasn’t so much an episode as a happening, putting on an event on the River Thames for Children in Need in a day all played out live.

What strikes me as being quite interesting is that when you talk about reality TV (which is quite a nebulous concept in itself) and its beginnings no-one ever really mentions Challenge Anneka and yet clearly whilst the ideas have been refined over the past thirty years, many of the elements are already here. It basically invented logistics as entertainment and as such so many shows owe a debt to it, from makeover shows such as Ground Force all the way up to things like DIY SOS and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Thankfully they didn’t use Logistics With Anneka Rice as the title. It was quite interesting when ITV did a reboot they spent much more time on the human interest angle when really we all wanted more of Anneka getting a spreadsheet out and commanding trucks to go places.

Of course these days it looks a bit contrived, a bit like a lot of modern reality television (a lot of it feels very set up – just apparently barging onto Wogan!) but we were less media savvy in the 90s. It’s impressive how many companies were willing to throw in some chipboard just to get a plug on the BBC.