There’s another 24 hour gameshow marathon happening today, this time in Las Vegas whilst the Trivia Championships of North America are in town. This one is promising international quiz celebrities as well as a load of geeks. It starts Noon PDT, which is 8pm UK time, details of the line-up are here, the Twitch stream… Read More »
Things happening in the next fortnight: Alphabetical with Jeff Stelling takes over the The Chase slot from Monday promising 200+ questions an episode. It’s based on Pasapalabra (itself quite an extreme European reversioning of The Alphabet Game) which has a legendarily difficult endgame with a jackpot that rollsover when it isn’t won which has gone into seven figures… Read More »
I’m actually putting this up here as a reminder for me to watch it after it was suggested to me last week, it looks like a Japanese brainpower quiz played by universities – this episode seems to be Oxford vs Tokyo and looks quite interesting and entertaining. Youtube can translate auto-detected subtitles on the fly… Read More »
Here’s a suggestion that the format of the air rifle competition could be adapted into a gameshow. I’ve just remarked that fencing is the The 21st Question of the sporting world i.e. because it’s complicated. What have YOU noticed?
It’s The Olympics this week which will pretty much take up most of television over the next fortnight (the football starts tonight even though the opening ceremony isn’t until Friday) and I thought “wouldn’t it be great if I could illustrate this, right, with a clip of Rio from Gladiators playing Hang Tough hence rings… Read More »
Pleasingly, Rose d’Or and Bother’s Bar favourite Wild Things is returning for a third run. If you and a partner would like to win £10,000, send wildthings@zodiakmedia.com an e-mail by 12th August. Good luck!