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Win Your Wish List is back tonight

By | February 6, 2016

At 8:30pm on BBC1, and this time there’s a new entry into the Host Holding a Question Card in a promo shot stakes: This is clearly the Bother’s Bar legacy, and what a legacy to have. We will get round to doing that feature on classic Host Holding The Question Card promo shots we’ve been… Read More »

Taskmaster Tickets

By | February 5, 2016

Great news for fans of 2015’s OFFICIAL second best new show Taskmaster, TVRecordings have tickets for a recording on the evening of 14th March (presumably there are more to come) at the Fountain in Wembley. The contestants will be revealed in due course. My understanding is that series two and three will be being filmed… Read More »

It’s science (sort of)! It’s entertainment! It’s Dara!

By | February 3, 2016

Johnny Ball for the new millennium Dara O’Briain will be hosting the new Robot Wars alongside Philippa Forrester for the new millennium Angela Scanlon. Jonathan Pearce is back! .@DaraOBriain & @AngelaScanlon to present #RobotWars reboot on @BBCTwo, & new logo unveiled https://t.co/7fpjI3bw7V pic.twitter.com/6qSGXdr98f — BBC Press Office (@bbcpress) February 3, 2016 An intriguing choice and… Read More »

A-Maze-ing

By | February 2, 2016

So last night I started playing popular hipster puzzle game The Witness on my PS4. Do you remember The Witness? Everyone was banging on about it last week. Anyway it’s a game built around mazes, some on panels, others cleverly built into the environment. So here is an episode of early 90s US kids show… Read More »

Terry Wogan

By | January 31, 2016

We were very sad to hear of the passing of interviewer, DJ, gameshow host, Eurovision commentator and sometime holder of the world’s longest televised golf putt Terry Wogan when we got up this morning. He was 77. It is a bit obvious but here is the first episode of Blankety Blank in tribute.   And… Read More »

Pint of Guinness

By | January 28, 2016

So this turned up in a forum I was reading this morning, a show from the US 1979/80 called The Guinness Game, where people bet on records that may or may not be broken. The game element is basically lousy but the record breaking elements are quite good.   What’s really interesting is that lousy… Read More »