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Trapped Doors

By | June 18, 2016

With thanks to Buzzerblog for spotting this, Endemol Shine have a format called Trapped Doors knocking about, a show where couples must escape a series of concentric circles banking money along the way by picking good doors. Run out of keys and it’s game over. The game doesn’t sound all that, it’s a scratchcard basically.… Read More »

Comedy timing

By | June 15, 2016

Great news for fans of comedy sort-of gameshows (or at least Unscripted Of Interest), the new series of Murder in Successville starts on BBC3 on iPlayer (with a proper broadcast at some point in the future) TODAY, episode one is Vicky Pattison. Certainly the Jaime Laing episode last year was the hardest I’d laughed at… Read More »

The Chase Family Edition

By | June 14, 2016

This might be a fun idea, ITV looking for families to take part in family editions of The Chase. You can apply here, players need to be 16 or over and they want several generations ideally. You’ve got until October to register interest, so it will be a while before we see how it affects… Read More »

Euro 1983

By | June 12, 2016

Last night we found the intro to pan-Scandinavian version of Treasure Hunt Skattjakten on Youtube from 1983, the intro has an incredible synth-jazz-fusion theme tune, not unlike the sort of thing you could find on a Spectrum demo in the early to mid-80s (Edit: It’s from Jean-Michel Jarre’s 17 minute Magnetic Fields Part 1, which might… Read More »

Decimate is looking for contestants

By | June 10, 2016

Yes! Despite the fact that it’s dull and nobody watches it the BBC has decided they’re going to continue making Decimate UNTIL YOU LIKE IT. Still if it’s on you might as well apply and possibly win a bit of money, here’s the link to the online application form. Good luck!

Big Broth-urgh

By | June 8, 2016

It was Big Brother launch night last night where a selection of basically identical people who were sexually confident and up for a fight entered the new look slightly migrane inducing house for a shot at £100,000. Joining them in a second adjacent house are The Others, six people secretly aiming to take down the… Read More »