The Golden Globes. The BAFTAs. The TV Quick Awards. The humble game show never wins any of them, but we say YES! to great game shows and now you can say YES! in our annual Poll of the Year. The vote is open and you have until Wednesday 13th to make your voice heard.

Here is our Polling Page, and here is the UKgameshows.com one (which basically leads to that one anyway).

Happy New Year! Details of the Poll of 2015 will go up tomorrow evening.

Anyway apropos of nothing I found myself listening to Dave’s Mr Gameshow podcast (iTunes link) the other day which I had no idea about except it turned up on the recommended podcast section of my iTunes. It’s a mildly amusing series of half hour shows hosted by Mike Wozniak as Mr Gameshow ably assisted or otherwise by Diane Morgan (Philomena Cunk from Charlie Brooker’s XWipe) in the increasingly prolific gameshow as comedy farce genre, where two comics you probably haven’t really heard of in theory battle it out over a series of quiz rounds but are really just there to gamely react to what’s going on. I do like the Know Your Enemy jingle. Anyway it’s quite funny, although you’ll have worked out in about three minutes flat if you’re going to listen to the whole run of six episodes or not.

However in looking for more information on it I came across this terrifying monstrosity. You could buy this, it will almost certainly murder you in your sleep:

It’s almost New Year! And that means it’s time for another Jools Holland New Year Hootenanny. Do you remember when everyone thought it was live and what a great guest list it had until the year you flicked across to BBC1 for Big Ben (“the epitome of Greenwich Mean Time” according to Gethin Jones) and saw him playing live on stage elsewhere? Great days. Anyway tomorrow’s one was recorded three weeks ago, for the avoidance of doubt.

But if you can’t wait for him to tinkle the ivories on his boogie-woogie piano with his rhythm and blues orchestra, here appears to be the only episode of early Channel 5’s Name That Tune with Jools Holland on Youtube, with a camera pointing at a television.

Happy new year!

Well today might be December 28th (and a Bank Holiday Monday to boot) but on January 2nd TWO exciting things will be happening:

• The new series of Wie is de Mol? launches in the Netherlands. It’s a Saturday, expect english subs to follow in the following days. Our yearly coverage and discussion can be found here.
• Prepare for an outbreak of poll-io, the Poll of the Year 2015 will launch, and happily there’s no show deciding to launch in the last week of the year to confuse matters and no evident one-off pilots to consider. Good.

Happy New Year!

Edit: I’m doing some end-of-year tidying up, if you’re a gamer you can feel free to add me as a friend with any of the following:

Steam: Add me on Steam if you want.
Playstation Network: Ditto we can be chums on PSN for high score fun if you’re that way inclined. BrigBother ought to do it, but this handy link should do it as well.
WiiU: And I’m BrigBother on WiiU, although I don’t turn it on very much.

OK I’m not going to put the full vid on here as the naughty one on Youtube is cropped and might not be there forever, but Carrot in A Box from the 8 out of 10 Cats Christmas Special might have been the best and funniest ten minutes of television this Christmas. You can find it in the right place here. Somebody is channeling Sangmin here…