Fans of Deathgame Mystery Dramas rejoice, the newest one from Korea launches on Netflix today, Squid Game, where 456 people compete in eliminatory kids games with a deadly twist and one will remain to win a lifechanging amount of cash.

Obviously this ticks a lot of my boxes, and along with the excellent Alice in Borderland it’s been a good year for Deathgame Mystery Dramas on Netflix, which already was doing quite well with 3%.

Also well done to Agatha Christie who basically invented the Deathgame Mystery Drama and the eliminatory reality format with And Then There Were None.

Also! A reminder that it’s Schlag den Star tomorrow from 7:15pm UK and we’ll be watching along in the Discord as usual – likely the penultimate one of the year as The Masked Singer is about to take over Pro7’s Saturday nights.

Finally it’s your last chance to enter the Bother’s Bar There’s No Limit Competition to win a BIG CASH PRIZE, entries close 23:59 tonight.

“Usually dispatched within 1-2 months” according to Amazon, but at least there’s a Kindle verison as well.

The new Taskmaster book contains 101 tasks and clues to find a silver head of the Taskmaster, who doesn’t otherwise feature on the front of the book. IS THIS A CLUE? Will there be clues hidden in the upcoming series of Taskmaster starting on Channel 4 next Thursday?

I will read the book but obviously I can’t be bothered to do the actual treasure hunt, but I look forward to watching all the explanation videos that will inevitably pop up on Youtube. Will the real prize be the friends we made along the way?

It’s happening, I suspect it will be a car crash, but who should be the new GamesMaster? And who should host? And has anyone watched any of the Top Gear Gaming Show?

In other news, join us in the Discord on Saturday for what’s likely to be the penultimate Schlag den Star of the year, from 7:15(UK)/8:15(Central Europe).

US started its new season yesterday and one of the new “things” is an old “thing” – Wheel of Fortune has a new arrangement of Changing Keys, one of its old – and most remembered – themes (coincidentally written by the show’s creator Merv Griffin).

So I ask you viewers: what’s the best rearrangement of an established theme?

Ant and Dec announced Limitless Win earlier this week, promising the world’s first limitless jackpot and a never ending money ladder.

RED. RAG. TO. A. BULL.

With expectations set for BIG MONEY, I’m giving YOU the chance to win some big money of your own – £7.99, the equivalent of buying 2 Unlimited’s No Limits album on iTunes.

To win, all you must do is guess what the MEAN average prize for the first five eps of Limitless Win will be, and then as a tie-break, what you reckon the highest amount of money in play on the table will be. If that still can’t break the tie, the winner will be picked at random from those eligible.

As we don’t know the complete format of the show yet, there are a few things to take into account:

• As far as we’re aware, the run is five episodes, so to keep the playing field level in case this turns out to be incorrect, we’ll only take the results from the first five episodes to establish the figures.
• If the final contestant on episode five doesn’t complete their game within the episode, that game will not count towards the statistics.
• Someone who crashes out with nothing will count as £0 for the purposes of working out the mean prize.

Great stuff. My decisions are final and just one entry per person, I reserve the right to disqualify anyone I choose who I suspect of cheating. You must get your entries in by 23:59pm (UK) 17th September 2021 (that’s this coming Friday), the show records next month for 2022 broadcast so it will be a while before this all resolves. I’ll come back next Saturday with the range and average of your responses though.

How do you enter? You can’t now, the compo’s closed. Look out for the results next year!

Watched the C4 Black to Front Countdown special today hosted by Sir Trevor MacDonald and he was brilliant at it, like he’d been doing it for years. In fact he’s one of those names where you wonder if he’d ever been in the running before because you think about it as an idea and it takes no time at all to come to the conclusion “yeah that sounds right.” He’d probably have made a brilliant full time host for it around a decade ago, but seeing as we had a question mark over Anne Robinson taking the job at 76 this would be an even more difficult square to circle. You wouldn’t think it by watching though.

I cannot claim to be a Countdown aficionado but found this to be an extremely fun episode, with some great solves by Dr Anne-Marie Imafridon on numbers games that looked like they should have been easy but aren’t.