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Something to look forward to.

By | January 29, 2025

TV Zone reporting The Sun reporting that The Inner Circle, a pilot recorded by Amanda Holden last year, has been commissioned by the BBC for Saturday nights. Edit: 25 episodes for daytime, 6 celebrity ones for Saturdays. We opened the Stool Pigeon last August, and this is what someone had to say about it: Amanda… Read More »

Poll of the Year: POTY Mouth

By | January 26, 2025

The Traitors has Uncloaked. Bake Off has Extra Slice. The Apprentice has You’re Fired. This Year, The UKgameshows.com/Bother’s Bar Poll of the Year has POTY Mouth. Monday around 9pm the polling report and results will be found on UKGameshows.com. You should definitely read that first! Here, under a cut, will be the percentages and a… Read More »

A nice problem to have

By | January 25, 2025

7.2m overnight for the Traitors final last night, and 4.8m for Uncloaked immediately afterwards (surely making it the highest rating chatshow effectively of the modern era). Incredible. The main show will certainly be over 10m in +7. And this leaves the BBC with actually a bit of a problem I think – at some point… Read More »

J Nash

By | January 23, 2025

Not gameshow or formats really but important to the site nonetheless so indulge me, extremely sad to hear about the passing of legendary Future Publishing writer (amongst other things) Jonathan Nash, a man who encapsulated more than anyone why I loved computer magazines, specifically Future Publishing ones, in the 90s, someone I was thrilled to… Read More »

You could also do this for much less money with any deck of playing cards

By | January 21, 2025

Last night we discovered The Traitors Shop, for all your backstabbing needs. Their big front page item right now: Death Match, the absolutely thrilling elimination card game as seen on TV. The box suggests four players, the description suggests 4-6 players, it also suggests 15 Death cards and a Life card so really you could… Read More »

Poll update

By | January 20, 2025

The votes have been counted. There will be a wailing and gnashing of teeth. Eyebrows will get raised. And you’ll find out exactly what you’ve voted for next Monday (27th Jan) just after 9pm (that’s after Quizzy Monday finishes on BBC2). The main write-up will be on ukgameshows.com, the more detailed numbers and longer tails… Read More »