Coming soon to CBBC: Top Class with Susan Calman, a show which aims to find Britain’s smartest school and looks excitingly like it has a passing resemblance to top 80s quiz First Class. I hope there are Paperboy and Hypersports rounds! What’s behind the spinning golden disc! Etc! Anyway I’m only mentioning this here because here’s… Read More »
There was loads on Monday and on Saturday we’ll have another one for Go For It, so in the meantime here’s something that might have got lost in the shuffle that Chris M Dickson posted about on Monday: Take a look at a 1985 US pilot for a show called Finders Keepers, which has nothing… Read More »
So much going on today, I’m putting this here as a sort of waymarker in case you can’t be bothered to scroll down the page. Banish those Olympic blues, Show Discussion posts a go-go. The new series of Think Tank begins at 3:25pm on BBC1. Debatable with Patrick Kielty starts 6pm on BBC2. That’s followed… Read More »
It’s been a long time coming but according to The Mirror Deal or No Deal is finally being let go with the final unaired episodes being shown in the Autumn. Whatsmore is the suggestion that it will be getting a two week “farewell tour” which sounds like quite a fun idea and it’s a shame they… Read More »
So! The other night I discovered someone had uploaded several episodes of Bother’s Bar mid-90s favourite Incredible Games after a recommended link chain going through The Alphabet Game, Andrew O’ Connor’s Joke Machine and Mouse Trap. They’re all from the David Walliams fronted first series which was certainly the funnier of the two, but the second series… Read More »
Do you remember back in the good old days of 2010 we had a brief love affair with the Canadian show Mantracker (“the Interceptor your Dad would like”)? It was on the Extreme Sports Channel, I don’t know if that still exists, I can’t be bothered to look it up. Recently I found myself trying… Read More »