Saturday,
7:15pm UK/8:15pm Germany,
Pro Sieben or naughty internet streaming

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That’s right star schlaggers we’re back for another evening of celebrity challenges and commentary fun and frolics.

Join Dan, David, special guest regular Lewis, very possibly Scott if he checks his Twitter DMs and myself as we watch two German celebrities battle it out over fifteen games both spectacular and mundane for Elton’s €100,000 case – LIVE.

During the boring bits we’ll have our own games and gossip, and we’ll try and remember to read out your tweets on the #bbsds hashtag. I will also be EXCLUSIVELY REVEALING the date of the next Bother’s Bar Game Night and telling you how to get involved.

But who are our two gladiators battling it out on Saturday night? NONE OTHER THAN Olympic gymnast Fabian Hambüchen and “cult comedian” Bülent Ceylan. An abundance of umlauts but who has got what it takes to lift Elton’s big money suitcase? Musical acts are Sarah Connor & Henning Wehland and Clueso! My favourites!

I’m afraid it’s a bit more of a pain to watch the show live than it has been previously (although we’re also informed that our commentary has been enough). However are all the details you need – if you know of a better, simpler, reliable naughty Pro7 stream then please let us know:

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This stream is commentary only. You will need to have a naughty stream running at the same time for the visuals. We are likely to be about 15-20 seconds behind the visual stream (and about a full minute behind if you’re watching an actual satellite feed), sorry.

This is the stream we will be viewing. (this now requires a username and password – get one from here) Put the name and password in where it says “jetzt kostenlos anmelden”.

This may work as an alternative but it’s a bit pop-uppy.

You can also try looking up “Pro 7 Onlive Live” although we can’t guarantee dodginess of links.

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Tschüß!

[Before we begin a reminder that it’s Schlag den Star on Saturday! Join us for gameshows and fun but not necessarily in equal measure LIVE from about 7:15pm UK time.]

Hey! We’ve not done this for a while but yesterday we were alerted by a French chum to an amateur take-off of La Carte aux Tresors called Le Qlub aux Tresors (Le Qlub appear to be some sort of French youth collective) which is surprisingly well done on a couple of Go Pros, video cameras and iPhones. Three contestants solve clues and do tasks in a race to find and unlock the treasure including getting a transfer tattoo and trying to find (what looks like) their dads in a car park to get a lift to the next destination. It does not have the helicopters but you can sense the ambition – we quite enjoyed the large amount of graphics and little biography bits of the places you get just like on the show. We also enjoyed watching the contestants try the gambit of trying to hitchhike lifts to the first destination by going up to cars and saying they’re from Carte aux Tresors, despite the fact the show was axed in 2009. They’ve even incorporated some elements of physical adventure challenge the show liked to provide as well.

The music’s used a bit haphazardly and the first fifteen minutes are probably a bit dull if you don’t know the language but it’s definitely worth sticking with, I was getting really into it by the end. This is episode two, apparently episode three is on the way.

If you quite enjoyed that somebody seems to be uploading archive episodes of the original right now.

It seems every quiz on the planet (three of them) has a Christmas cash-in book coming out so we thought we’d have a look at them. We’ve looked at the Kindle versions of each book, looking at it using the Kindle App on an iPad. This may or may not be the way the book is intended to be played or read, but we’re still waiting for a quality tablet quizmaster app so you can look like how they do it on the telly so I want to know if it works decently as a surrogate.

Also if you click through any of the links I’ll get a cut, because why not. Prices are as of at time of writing.

• The Chase: The Greatest Chases
  £11.99 Hardback
  £9.99 Kindle

  If you bought the first book and were a bit disappointed that it only included the multiple choice questions you may get on better with this one, featuring as it does effectively fifty games worth of questions, ten each against each of The Chasers. Each game includes four rounds of seven multiple choice quizzes followed by the contestant’s half of The Final Chase (with a bit of background to explain why that Chase was so memorable), around 25 questions, so you’re getting around 2,500 questions for your money written by some of the finest in the business – but be aware that they come directly from the show so if you’re a very avid viewer they may seem familiar. A pity. Also a pity is that this version seems to be a step back from the first book in terms of quizmaster fiddliness – the first book effectively had all the content printed twice, the second time with the answers in bold, deliberately designed so you could play it by yourself or with friends. This one requires you to click on links to flick to the answers (and then doesn’t give you a link back) so if you want to recreate a Final Chase it’s going to be irritating.

• Think Tank: Can You Bank On The Think Tank?
  £14.99 Hardback
  £9.99 Kindle

  A little bit of effort has gone into the layout of this one – the quizzes are interspersed with pictures of smiling Bill Turnbull and assorted Think Tank members. There are enough questions here for thirty games (interestingly I can’t work out if they’ve been directly taken from the show or not) laid out in such a fashion you can play a game *a bit* like the show – round one with the eight different reponses, round two a straight set of nine general knowledge questions, round three a set of either/or questions (if you’re playing with chums you’re encouraged to argue for an answer like the Think Tank do on the show). The fourth round are Questions: Impossible meant to be done as a head to head which looks like an amalgamation of the way the final rounds work but without the listing of the wrong answers to guide which is a bit of a confusing measure given how the rest of the book seems to ape the show pretty well. It even works quite well on Kindle, it uses links but helpfully there’s a link back with each answer (it’s not like Think Tank is a quickfire quiz anyway).

• A Pointless History Of The World
  £11.99 Hardback
  £8.99 Paperback
  £9.99 Kindle

  Right I can only claim to have flicked through this one, but after the last two money-for-old-rope books of mainly quizzes it looks like Armstrong and Osman have returned to a book style more similar to the first two – lots of humourous two-page-ish essays on aspects of history followed by a quick Pointless board or question. We may come back to flesh this out a bit later.

The world might be in a bit of a state but in the world of gameshow and competitive reality entertainment it’s probably fair to say that in primetime we’ve never had it so good. Let us return to the Bother’s Bar Board of Excitement as we explore the next week or so:

• Monday 10th – Dara O’ Briain’s Go 8 Bit – Last in the series on Dave featuring Jason Manford and Ed Byrne. You can listen to the theme and incidental tunes from compser Liam Tate on his Soundcloud if you haven’t already.
• Tuesday 11th – Taskmaster – Our current favourite show, do catch up with it on UKTV Play if you missed the first episode last week.
• Wednesday 12th – The Great British Bake Off – Tu-dorn’t want to miss this episode, it’s Tudor week!
• Thursday 13th – The Apprentice or Hunted look these are fine if you like that sort of thing but not actually that exciting.
• Friday 14th – Actually Friday’s a bit rubbish. Just go out.
• Saturday 15th – Schlag den Star! Yes! We will be back commentating over Schlag den Star next week so do come and join us. Olympic medallist Fabian Hambüchen takes on “cult comedian” Bülent Ceylan. We’ll have all the news AND the usual experimental quizziness LIVE.
• Sunday 16th – The Crystal Maze – It’s been 21 years and tonight we discover if you can film an episode at the Live Experience with some celebrities and if it’s still the best show ever.
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  #hostholdingaquestioncard

  Monday 17th – Rebound – Actually this is during the day but we’ll feature this here because a) we quite liked the first series and b) here’s the lovely Sean Fletcher holding a question card. Nice.

In the meantime I want to watch more foreign formats as we’ve not been doing quite so much of late so if there are shows out there you think I should watch you should definitely let me know. I’m trying to cut down on Twitter (because it’s actually not much fun these days and the cut-through is actually really bad, such is its ephemeral nature, and it means I will actually start doing useful things like reading books again) but I will still pick up your ‘at’ replies and DMs several times on a daily basis so don’t worry about that.

Here is an episode of Geh Aufs Ganze! (Go All Out! seems to be a translation) that has turned up on Youtube. It’s the German version of Let’s Make a Deal which I used to quite enjoy watching. Quite large prizes for a six-day a week early evening show if you consider £1 would have been worth around 3DM. It’s easy enough to follow if you don’t speak the language:

You know the drill, you can click for a larger version:

Meanwhile here are a collection of title sequences for Ultra Quiz. Enjoy.

And a second series one which is better but I can’t embed.