Studio Lambert to remake De Verraders for the BBC (as The Traitors):

It’s an adventure game very similar to Werewolf/Mafia and its ilk – an informed minority take on an uninformed majority – the team earn silver bars by completing adventure challenges, they vote out one of their own (who they believe to be one of the three traitors) meanwhile at night the traitors decide on who to “kill”. At the end the people left do a split or steal decision (YAY) to determine who wins what. Hopefully Studio Lambert can redefine the Prisoner’s Dilemma genre. Hopefully it’ll be as good as their Race Across the World.

The English Wiki page is here. Quite interestingly for a hidden role game, the whole thing’s done largely from the perspective of the Traitors, you as a viewer won’t need to figure it out.

Yes you ARE correct to dig the graphic design.

We completely forgot to watch David Mitchell’s Outsiders that started on Dave last night, basically Taskmaster In Tents by the sounds of it, and opinions have run the gamut from “boring” to “OK” to “much better and funnier than anticipated”, so I look forward to catching up with that in due course.

Anyway for some reason it got me thinking about pretty good outward bound survival show Bare Necessities on BBC2 around the turn of the millennium, hosted by apparent patron saint of Bother’s Bar Ed Hall and Hugh McManners, where two teams of office worker-y types would be set survival/camping challenges and awarded points by survival expert McManners (usually they’d be docked points for self-inflicted wounds i.e. the reason they’re hungry is because they refused to skin a rabbit, that sort of thing), hoping to have a time advantage for a final challenge which would determine if their final night was in a nice hotel or once again in a tent.

Rather nicely, there’s an episode on Youtube look.

Pondering if Metro have broken an embargo as nobody else seems to have reported it yet, but quiz giant (and The Chase question writer) Olav Bjortomt is apparently the new Egghead. It starts on Monday at 6:30pm on Five.

The article suggests it’s in the Radio Times, so perhaps not.

Rather wonderfully, Chris (well worth a Youtube follow for this sort of thing) has uploaded the first ever episode of CBBC’s Get Your Own Back.

A few things of note, thirty years on:

• I always really liked the Brain Box bit – good music, fun physical element, but it really needed to be either a) a bit longer or b) needed some other element as there’s not enough score variance in it really. This is less of an issue when the show stopped being eliminatory.
• Has any other show used the “obvious correct answers beginning with a letter which yours cannot” mechanic, from the Gunk Dunk? I always thought this was a mechanic that’d work pretty well in a more comedy-based quiz and I don’t think I’ve seen it used anywhere.

I also highly recommend Jack’s Throwback Attack’s interview with Dave Benson-Philips.