In honour of the US putting their clocks back the weekend just gone, Only Connect has moved to 7:30 leading into University Challenge. Fans of people laughing slightly too hard at something slightly clever will be pleased to learn this is apparently to make way for the second series of The Quizeum on BBC4 at 8:30.

I do think that’s a bit rude.

Edit: Also quite interesting, the origins of The Almost Impossible Gameshow clarified.

Also: Series one of The Million Pound Drop starts tonight at 9pm on Challenge – really interested to see how it’s edited.

Edit edit: 182,000 for The Quizeum, the first series launched with 685k. Well done everybody!

Release the Hounds? Hellevator? Estate of Panic? Get outta town, it’s all about Terror Towers with Steve Johnson from 1994.

Whilst we’re here, here are EIGHT EPISODES of Bother’s Bar favourite Box Clever with Emelyn Hughes. Thanks to Gordon Donaldson on Twitter for the heads-up.

And it’s this one: the-crystal-maze.com.

Fingers crossed we will actually be going to this when it eventually opens next year.

The first one didn’t seem to do very well (I gave up around episode four) but it had its fans, and I suspect it doesn’t hurt being a) cheap and b) made in Northern Ireland (quotas ahoy!). It annoys us less than The Quizeum and we still enjoyed Fiona Bruce’s hosting.

Anyway if you were hoping for a second series, looks like you’re in luck:

Some great news coming up re: Hive Minds especially if you want to take part

— Hive Minds (@hivemindstv) October 27, 2015

We were super pleased to discover that Possessed, a production company composed of loads of people Bother’s Bar approve of, are in the very early stages of developing the Genius Game for the UK. Genuinely this is A Bit Of A Result, they’ll ‘get’ the format better than anyone.

However, they also get that there’s nothing like it on British television and that this makes it a tough sell for commissioners. This is where you come in. The hope is that with genuine people demonstrating a genuine enthusiasm for the format, when they show it to commissioners it will help open the door and then the game should sell itself.

They need as many people as possible (at least 12) to wax lyrical about the show – simply explaining what they love about it. They need everyone to give passionate, coherent responses that will make a commissioner give them the chance to show the format at a detailed level.

If you really like the show (and if you’re here you probably do), have Skype and a webcam and would be willing to take part in a call with Possessed staff (and possibly other fans) which will be edited and shown to the relevant people then send an e-mail to possessedcasting@itv.com with ‘The Genius Game’ in the subject line and you’ll be e-mailed back with more information. A broad range of people is ideal so do please get in touch whoever you may be.

If you didn’t watch Schlag den Raab last night and didn’t follow along with our commentary, this is the hardest I’ve laughed at a TV show all year. It has everything. It involves a sit-down Segway thing called Freee which Raab and contestant Markus are going to race around the studio lot.

And on the off chance you want to listen to our LIVE reactions, have this playing at the same time, it’s in roughly the right place.

I shall list the reasons why it’s amazing under a cut so you can watch it unspoiled if you want.

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