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The Gameological Society are doing a regular feature on UK shows from a basically intelligent American perspective. First up: Pointless.

Well look, I don’t really watch either The Voice or Britain’s Got Talent but you can’t have failed to notice that one is doing rather better than the other. And it’s no good pretending that these two shows aren’t in competition and are after different audiences when production people are gleefully tweeting figures when The… Read More »

Whatever you’re doing this Bank Holiday Weekend have a good one! I’m working. Still, tonight we have a free game of limit 7 card Stud starting at 8pm, that’s open to everybody so do come and join us. Probably the best thing on Bank Holiday Monday is CITV are running an entire day of Fort… Read More »

Bob Stewart, creator of US shows such as The $10,000 Pyramid, Password, The Price is Right and To Tell The Truth has passed away at 91. So as we’ve already done US Pyramid when Dick Clark died, here’s an episode of The Pyramid Game from 1990.

I’m busy over the next few nights but there are some entertaining foreign shows on, and happily because they’re on for ages there’s a chance I might get to see some of them. Tonight at 9-11pm UK time is the Spanish version of popular Italian fun king of the hill quiz Avanti! You can watch an official… Read More »

It’s not just the US that’s bought into The Chase, according to Nico there’s a celebrity German version coming on NDR. Also according to Broadcast The Bank Job might be heading for daytime. I think it’s a good idea, it’s a decent format suffocated by production idiots who would be less bothered about impressing the kids… Read More »