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It’s 1960s Genius Game

By | June 2, 2025

There’s currently an orgy of archivery going on on Youtube and Buzzerblog’s Christian Carrion has been uploading lots of interesting things (I can’t keep up) – it’s their 24 Hour Gameshow Marathon for Child’s Play this weekend from 5pm UK Saturday incidentally – including this, the pilot for a US show called Make Your Move.… Read More »

Straight out of 2019

By | May 22, 2025

Variety reporting that Netflix are about to do a streamer reality show called House of Streams where eight content creators live in a villa create content for a grand prize of Bitcoin. We wondered what the first show to give away a Bitcoin grand prize was back in about 2015 so I’m pleased that a… Read More »

Just because it’s got a Doctor Who in it doesn’t mean we should be all Doctor Who fan about it

By | May 16, 2025

We’re halfway through the series (original Show Discussion post here) and doubtless you have discovered by now that “The” Genius Game has not been the hit we were hoping for, and that is a shame as I think production have broadly got the format right and the mistakes its made I think are understandable. I… Read More »

Destination X Preview

By | May 10, 2025

NBC broadcast a 20-minute preview for Destination X last week and recently ungeoblocked the Youtube version. This might be worth having a look at as it’s a similar UK/US production model to The Traitors, so even if not exactly the same it’s likely that many of the challenges and locations overlap. What we’re hoping does… Read More »

Some French Summer intrigue

By | May 3, 2025

They showed the second 35th anniversary special of Fort Boyard on France 2 on Thursday night, this is the one with Jean-Pierre Castaldi in it. They begin filming the new series very soon, but there was a bombshell press release on Friday where M6 revealed they’ve poached Olivier Minne who is set to become a… Read More »