Oh God, if I didn’t already have too much to do and too little time, I’ve discovered that TVE have have got some interesting stuff in their archive, including A la Caza del Tesoro from 1984 (That’s Treasure Hunt). The theme tune is quite Depeche Mode.

Anyway, do have a look around and see if you can see anything interesting. I know La noche de los castillos is likely to fall into the “sort of thing we like” section.

Also if you missed Joe’s thing, the new show where the host tries to put off the contestants is called Control although it sounds like it’s been reswizzed a bit – Christine Bleakley is fronting it, but it soiunds like she’s not really the baddy, Control is. Not, presumably, the Control off of the old Fry and Laurie sketches ha ha ha HA, two pilots film in a fortnight.

… but it looks like Fort Boyard is coming back for its 22nd season after all in it’s native France. As one of France’s biggest exports, is it simply too big to fail?

Most interestingly given it completely tanked in the ratings last year literally anything could happen. Will it stick to two teams? Civilians? Celebrities? Old school? New school? It’s going to be an intriguing Summer.

In the meantime, Patrice Laffont’s first episode of GSN original dating show Baggage begins – when else? February 14th on a channel I’ve never heard of NRJ.

Edit: I’ve just heard it’s going back to the old-school one team style. So there we are.

Fox trying to get the first dig in before The Voice invites comparisons, inevitably.

This went out during The Superbowl last night.

Hello, sorry I haven’t been updating the Bar much this week, I’ve been on a bit of a live poker roll (speaking of which, details of BSOP Game 3 are now up).

So to tide us over until the Board of Excitement tomorrow, the new You Don’t Know Jack video game is released in the US this week which appears to be getting 8/10s in a lot of places, and hopefully the one I have on delivery will work on my XBox when it arrives in a week or two. So here’s a clip of the short-lived but underrated TV version of it.

You can read a transcript of the entire first episode of the show here.

It seems reasonable to mention that 3rd best show of 2009 Accumulate! with Dan “Dan” Peake starts the difficult third album (series) tomorrow on RU:ON, although the question is less “Are you on” and more “is this thing for real?” Let us hope for some quality punnage.

It is also The Million Pound Drop, there’s already a post for series four discussion so I would like to direct you there now.