I know it’s only felt like days since the last series of University Challenge finished, but both Uni Chall and Only Connect return for brand new series from 8pm next Monday night on BBC2, until inevitably some cooking show rudely bumps Only Connect down to 7:30pm for a bit in a few months time. In… Read More »
We’re going to give you a very quick primer into what we refer to as “the dark arts”. Fort Boyard starts on France 2 at 7:55pm UK time. Usually you would not be able to watch France 2 in the UK, but thanks to the internet you can cheat a bit. The easiest way is to… Read More »
Here’s some fun that our French friend Cosser pointed out to me, an episode of La Chasse au trésor (singular, as it was then) filmed in 1980 for 1981 in Quebec where they hadn’t taken account of how the temperature changes would steam up the camera and decided it looked so poor they couldn’t broadcast it until TV5 Monde… Read More »
On ABC in the US this last week an exciting new (old?) block of shows, Sunday Fun and Games, starring Celebrity Family Feud (a known entity), The $100,000 Pyramid and Match Game, all shows that have been done before (indeed C/FF has been a going concern for a while), Pyramid recently on GSN, Match Game variously… Read More »
Trailers for the new, emotional series of Robot Wars have gone up on the BBC’s Youtube page. There are also trailers for the upcoming second series new run of The Getaway Car. Tomorrow night in the US is the new Sunday Fun and Games strand on ABC featuring all new episodes of The $100,000 Pyramid, Match Game and… Read More »
With the UK facing it’s own *political* Sliding Doors scenario on Thursday, that gives us a great if very tenuous excuse to link to a full episode of La Piste de Xapatan, not one of our favourite Jacques Antoine shows to be honest but not without interest, a woman hunts for statues in a cave whilst… Read More »