Here’s some Monday night fun, do you remember Israeli format The Money Pump? It’s a bit like Million Pound Drop if the contestants couldn’t talk to each other. We discussed it here. Anyway it looks the show’s creator put up an English language pilot recorded for CBS, look: ITV Studios had the rights to… Read More »
Back in April the Global Poker League started. Its aim was to “sportify poker” but sportifying in the American sense, where teams have silly nicknames and a league system that’s a bit obtuse (with good mainstream sounding words like “conference”). Designed as a mixture of online and live events the season was meant to culminate at… Read More »
Yesterday evening I did my second ever Escape Room (two for two, thanks for asking). It was, as usual, tremendous fun. And also as usual you can’t really talk about it with people who haven’t done it. If you didn’t watch Race to Escape first time round, now you can with Spanish foreign subtitles. Pity it… Read More »
Not specificially gameshow related but likely to be of interest to readers, there’s an Android board game Humble Bundle currently going where you can spend about fiver and get a metric ton of board game conversions (we’re all about Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride and Galaxy Trucker). It’s a pity it’s limited to Android, if I’m going… Read More »
I missed the first ten minutes of Only Connect last night, coming in just as round one was finishing up. Therefore I missed Victoria’s pre-show message about there being a mistake in the show with relation to the Gang of Four, only wondering what was going on when she popped up again during the credits.… Read More »
Thanks to CeleTheRef for alerting us to a show that I think is worthy of your time – Il Più Forte (The Strongest) which airs on the Italian version of Discovery’s DMAX. In it rugby player Martin Castrogiovanni and MMA fighter Alessio Sakara tour Italy looking for everyday sorts of people who might be “the strongest”. The first… Read More »