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Don’t Hate The Player

By | April 21, 2024

Over the weekend we’ve ended up watching all four eps of Adventure Line’s new French Netflix reality show Don’t Hate The Player (Mauvais Joueurs – Bad Players – in French). In it, a cast of 13 players hosted by Claude off of Koh-Lanta travel to Mexico to take part in a “social experiment”, one winner… Read More »

We are 20

By | April 19, 2024

That’s right, happy birthday to us and what an exciting time to be a gameshow website, a dying genre in a dying medium. What does the future hold? Spoiler: it will probably a bit like how it is at them moment, with infrequent updates when new shows come on, new videos to promote, poll results… Read More »

The 8 Show

By | April 11, 2024

This looks Very Much The Sort Of Thing We Like, a new Format Of Death K-Drama starting on Netflix 17th May, apparently based on the web series Money Game. What’s on Netflix, via AsianWiki, has the plot down thus: “8 people in need of money are invited to appear on reality variety show Money Game.… Read More »

99 to Beat

By | April 3, 2024

I don’t know who’s giving the ITV commissioners a kick up the backside recently but TVZone reporting this evening they’ve just commissioned another interesting format, 99 to Beat. Not a massive fan of the title to be honest, prefer the Dutch title, De Alleskunner (the all-rounder) but there we are. In it, 100 players take… Read More »

23 Days

By | March 27, 2024

As Bother’s Bar, a dying site representing a dying genre in a dying medium meanders towards its twentieth birthday (April 19th, don’t get overexcited), an increasingly expensive signpost to its rather more dynamic Discord (deets in the sidebar), you might want to know some things that are happening in that Discord this weekend: In other… Read More »