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It’s Schlag den Star on Saturday!

By | December 9, 2019

I hope you will be able to join us for the final Schlag den Star commentary of the year this coming Saturday from 7:15pm, actor Wotan Wilke Möhring takes on World Cup hero Jens Lehmann for €100,000 in a contest being advertised with “high testosterone” and “real men!” In other news, Vanna White takes over… Read More »

You are invited to a murder…

By | December 5, 2019

Apparently it’s murder-mystery week at Bother’s Bar, so here’s a fun thing that’s just turned up, Youtube channel TVM (a very promising channel which specialises in TV production music) has come up with the clean opening and closing themes to Cluedo, not a great show, but a hugely evocative theme. Thought experiment: who’d play who… Read More »

Très excitant!

By | December 3, 2019

Edit: A WordPress Jetpack update seems to have borked Twitter embeds, so the story here is that Boyard Land opens on December 21st on France 2, and here’s a link to a tweet with the titles.

The Tuesday Murder Club

By | December 3, 2019

As we all know, Agatha Christie invented the elimination reality format in 1939 with And Then There Were None. In the Whodunnit? book post from a few days ago, Clicky asks the following question: Speaking of which – does anybody happen to have a good reading list of “And Then There Were None” homages? I’ve… Read More »

Something to think about

By | December 2, 2019

We’re only a month away from the Bother’s Bar/UKGameshows.com Poll of the Year 2019, the fifteenth anniversary. The traditional gift for 15 years is crystal, and you can be sure we’re working extra hard to force a Crystal Maze joke for the intro. This year we’re probably going to move to Google Forms, if only… Read More »

More Better Late Than Never

By | December 1, 2019

When we watched ABCs Whodunnit? all those years ago, the format wasn’t frankly all that (having one rather large hole) but the world building was quite fun. There were two tie-novels released – Murder in Mystery Manor and Murder on Mystery Island, both written by Anthony E Zuiker, better known for creating the CSI franchise.… Read More »