To celebrate the return of The Circle last night (tl;dr – they’ve Big Brothered up the presentation, it did 1.3m from the Bake Off lead in, it all feels a bit like the next Rising Star, if you enjoyed it last year no reason to assume you won’t this year, I expect I will follow… Read More »
Here’s some fun, this channel has started uploading episodes of Challenge TV’s 2001 non-hit Stake Out. If you don’t remember, Stake Out was the show where people staked £250 of their own money in a “ruthless” quiz. Winners could keep winning and turn it into thousands. That was the plan. Unfortunately, so legend has it,… Read More »
Hi ya! A quick reminder that there’s no Bother’s Bar commentary for the 21/9/19 episode as your commentary team are running round London solving puzzles and/or are on holiday. Normal service planned to resume next episode.
Back in the early-mid 90s, I used to spend my Summer Thursday nights watching Giochi Senza Frontiere, the Italian perspective version of Jeux Sans Frontieres, on Rai Due, back when cable used to have foreign channels. It was excellent, really lavish sets and games, and there was a Great British team as well, represented by… Read More »
And so we will be “doing” our annual Christmas Cash-in Round-up. Have you spotted something that’s coming out that Bother’s Bar types might like? Add them in the comments.
… there probably won’t be a commentary. Don’t worry, we’re not stopping! It’s just badly timed, most of us will be running around London solving puzzles for DASH on Saturday, and our US contingent will be helping running a convention. Blame the schedulers. Max Mutzke and Teddy Telebrhan will be battling for Elton’s €100k suitcase… Read More »