Tired of Pointless and The Chase? CBS Drama appear to be showing US Wheel of Fortune (from a few years ago – series 32) weekdaily in a double bill from 5pm, repeated the following afternoon at 1pm. I wonder if it’s only a matter of time before Jeopardy? In other news, Jeremy Clarkson hosting a… Read More »
The Winter Olympics starts today. To celebrate I was going to search for a video of Ice Warriors to put up, but I searched for Ice Warriors and Knights and Warriors came up instead which is frankly far more entertaining, so here we are.
Sorry, Eurovision, You Decide, where Mel Giedroyc and Mans Zimmerlow will present the six acts vying to finish 24th at the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon in May. That’s 7:30pm on BBC2. New series of Tenable and Go 8-Bit start next week (I’m told the first ep for that is on UKTV Play now). Doesn’t… Read More »
This may be of interest to some of you (although you’ll need Netflix to watch it), a Japanese anime series called Kakegurui (Compulsive Gambler) which appears to have just joined the service recently. Specifically you’ll probably enjoy it if you have a Liar Game/Genius itch you want to scratch. I’m just going to quote Wikipedia… Read More »
This came up on my Youtube feed the other night, probably one of my earliest memories of the genre, The Giddy Game Show, where Bill Frasier challenges Bernard Bresslaw (as a gorilla) and YTV continuity announcer Redvers Kyle (as an alien thing) to a load of playalong picture quizzes. The Ker-whizz of it’s day, really.… Read More »
As Dan Peake points out on Twitter, today is the fourth anniversary of groundbreaking internet television broadcast Schlag den Brig. Which means it’s four years since I decided I was happy to be in front of a camera. I almost considered doing it as Bandage Man from The Genius. #imbackingbrig In all sorts of ways the… Read More »