And with thanks to Lewis Murphy for hinting at the absolute correct title for today’s post.

As threatened, Prickly Heat hosted by Julian Clary and pre-Big Brother Davina McCall sent 32 up-for-it boys and babes to Magaluf. By day they played It’s a Knockout style games on the beach, the home nations at beach war with each other. By night they get up to the sort of things you apparently get up to in Magaluf. Good clean fun then, and Sky One got four years out of it (with Denise Van Outen replacing McCall for the final series).

Look out for pre-fame Alex Jones off of The One Show here, as well as ex-Challenge TV link man Kieron Elliot.

In other news, Bother’s Bar fave De Slimste Mens starts a new run on Dutch TV from Monday after a very successful run last year. A UK version still does not exist.

If you have been following Aussie Mole (as we have) or even indeed if you haven’t, you might have seen links to The Fabric of Reality TV, a blog about reality TV challenge design. David the guy who runs it is after feedback regarding his excellent guides (so far exhaustive guides to The Mole, Survivor and The Crystal Maze) so why not take a look?

Right, if I can’t find Simply the Best…

@BothersBar Could do the superior french version http://t.co/oi5lwjkI1o

— Chris Ambery (@ChrisAmbery) July 16, 2013

Which is fair enough really. Nothing says Summer more than getting chased round by a bull.

In other news, here’s the promo for Take on the Twisters starting Monday.

Well I wasn’t expecting Bother’s Bar Summer week to be quite as difficult as its turning out, basically none of the shows and title sequences I’ve tried to find appear to be on Youtube so the rest of the week is going to be Prickly Heat with Julian Clary and Davina McCall.

TODAY THOUGH: the show that combined Richard Fairbrass and algebra years before Takeshi Kitano’s University of Practical Mathematics, set in the Jordanian desert, it’s The Desert Forges!

Youtube’s got some episodes of the German version (same title) if you’re interested.

Meanwhile Danny From The Script From The Voice has joined Jessie J in leaving The Voice. Look out for Sport Relief Does The Voice next year.

As nobody can be bothered to do anything interesting at the moment because it’s so hot, for a while let’s take a look at our favourite Summer-y shows!

Amazing 90s Italo-quiz Luna Park had a Summer version. The titles would be best described as “not especially subtle”:

IN OTHER NEWS Catchphrase are looking for contestants, details via SRO (where you’ll also find a link to Rufus Hound panel show pilot Name That Toon), Keith Lemon’s Through the Keyhole films next week.

Also Reality Blurred has a super-interesting interview with the producer of Whodunnit?

The Julia Bradbury MULTIPLE eggtimer quiz begins on ITV on Monday 22nd in the 17:00 slot, so all of you wishing The Chase gets a break get your wish. Last year in the Summer afternoon Chase slot they tried out Tipping Point which turned out to be a triumph, so we’ll see if Julia Bradbury can overcome the “URGH, this isn’t THE CHASE” audience as deftly. I hope the show is more appealing than the title.

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown is getting a six week run, because it is more popular than both Countdown and 8 Out of 10 Cats, presumably. There was a bit more to 8/10C’n (I’m not bloody writing the whole thing again) than rude anagrams, so we’ll see if they have enough jokes to sustain a six week go.

AND FINALLY! BSOP champ and Only Connect contributor Ben Justice has posed with his trophy for the BSOP Hall of Fame. Nice shirt, Ben!