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Amazon Prime in the UK. Just series four for now.

The effort that’s gone into this, Russian university students did their own version of Fort Boyard about five years ago, sticking reasonably closely to their duel format of about ten years ago but with a couple of more modern additions. I really like some of the ideas here – dolphin in the attic (probably could… Read More »

The Sun reporting that The Cube will have a seven-figure top prize (i.e. £1m). To be honest this almost feels like too much money and at the very least is going to require some format reworking. It’s not as simple as “add more games to the ladder” – if people were scared enough to risk… Read More »

BBC Press reporting that Michael McIntyre’s set to front a new BBC primetime show called The Wheel which involves members of the public trying to win big money with celebrity experts on hand. It sounds like it’s set on a big ferris wheel, which is quite a clever way to get round social distancing. Also:

We’ve mentioned this at the Bar previously, and look out for a Plays Badly in due course, but it was announced yesterday that Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, the battle royale video game inspired around knockabout physical gameshows like Takeshi’s Castle, Wipeout et al launches August 4th. You can pre-order it now on Steam for £15.99.… Read More »

I’m 39 now, is Minecraft still A Thing? No matter, some enterprising Russians have decided to make an entire episode of Fort Boyard in Minecraft. It’s the return of popular Bother’s Bar subseries Amateur Adventure Hour! You can turn English subs on. And it couldn’t be better timed! Fort Boyard returns to France 2 for… Read More »