Haven’t had a post for a few days, er nothing interesting’s happening until later in the week er, what’s topical? The eclipse? Nothing relevant. Big Ben shutting down? Ah! Well in that case here’s an episode of little remembered kids quiz Clockwise with Charlotte Hindle, featuring an end game with Big Ben. Sort of. … Read More »
He was 89. Here’s a very early episode of Play Your Cards Right, probably my favourite show of his, from Youtube in tribute.
Since we mentioned it in the Barrel Scraping post, the new hip and fresh A Question of Sport starts tonight on BBC1 in the new hip and fresh timeslot of 10:45pm (except for people in Northern Ireland). It is then repeated on BBC1 at 7:30pm on Friday (except for people in Wales), which I valiantly… Read More »
I was having a mildly entertaining conversation on Twitter last night regarding gameshow criticism and how often people are quite often initially wrong, started off with a link to the DS Forum re: the first series of The Chase. It is often important to keep in mind the self-selecting nature of DS and Twitter, and… Read More »
Don’t worry there are new and interesting shows to talk about next week. However this caught my eye whilst trawling the tickets sites, from the BBC it’s the new A Question of Sport logo! I’m slightly surprised that in one of the things they wanted to do when the BBC outsourced this new series (to… Read More »
At 8pm, which is interesting. This is the civilian series. When the time comes I’ll probably just bump the old CM post up so the conversations can continue. Of note: it’s up against Only Connect. Nerd off!