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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Mmm, we’ve been quite down on this in the past despite everyone in TV being adamant it’d be massively successful over here, I just don’t think the format as is/was lends itself very well to being a weekly show (and if you’re going to have prizes worth playing for, a daily show is out of… Read More »
Of likely interest, the BBC have launched a quiz one on iPlayer, amongst others (including a Louis Theroux one, an arts one and a history one). It seems to include recent offerings, so don’t go expecting anything historical. Knock yourselves out.