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The stench of failure

By | November 5, 2023

We don’t yet know how Survivor is doing in the consolidateds – we should find out how the opening weekend did on Monday (it seems to be hanging around 10th in the trending list), but having said for weeks before the show starting that the post-Strictly weekend timeslot was quite a big misstep, well it’s… Read More »

The Easiest Challenge in the World

By | November 1, 2023

Incredible scenes in last night’s Joko & Klaas vs ProSieben finale on ProSieben last night. It’s called ‘The Easiest Challenge In The World’, all they have to do hit a button within five minutes, ‘you’ll figure the rest of the rules yourself’. That’s it. There are some other gubbins around, but all other rules have… Read More »

I fear for Survivor UK

By | October 24, 2023

To be clear, I don’t think it will be rubbish, I’ve always quite enjoyed it with the caveat that I can also get Survivored out – the versions you can stream on Prime and so on feel like they go on too long and there’s little variation in the challenges which all fall into precisely… Read More »

It’s the Countdown US Pilot

By | October 21, 2023

Wink Martindale’s Youtube channel posted this this morning, the 1990 US Countdown pilot, hosted by Michael Jackson (not that one). Immediately I quite enjoyed the synth-rock-tastic interpretation of the theme tune as was de rigeur for US shows at the time, so it was quite surprising to hear our standard UK Countdown clock jingle for… Read More »

The Golden Age of 7/10

By | October 18, 2023

Last week the BBC launched a quiz streaming channel on iPlayer and that’s you know, fine and great and all that, but it looks like it’s all quite modern last few years stuff. So it’s annoying that yesterday they launched an international BBC Gameshow FAST Channel (can be found on the US on Freevee) and… Read More »