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Happy Valentine’s Day

By | February 14, 2023

We were wondering what we were going to put for this today, then yesterday out of the blue Youtube archivist Neil Miles put up a video with the opening few minutes of Sky One’s legendary Wife of the Week, a show where Christopher Biggins tasks homemakers to compete to see who is best at, er,… Read More »

Big Slick

By | February 6, 2023

Here’s some Monday fun, a video with the very first edition of Card Sharks in the US, which is pretty slick, and the very first edition of Play Your Cards Right from 1980, which feels like it could topple over at any time. Brucie hasn’t quite got his patter down yet, nor his card turning… Read More »

We love a car crash

By | February 2, 2023

A Vice report that’s floating around on the ongoing nightmare of Studio Lambert’s take on Mr Beast’s Squid Game video: Squid Game: The Challenge. Of course the main difference between Mr Beast and this is that by all accounts there haven’t been many high profile complaints about how contestants have been treated on Mr Beast’s… Read More »

It’s Schlag Saturday!

By | February 1, 2023

Join us on Saturday night in the Discord from 19:15 (UK) for the first Schlag den Star of the year where journalist and chatshow host Johannes B Kerner will take on actor Moritz Bleibtreu in up to fifteen mystery events to win Elton’s €100,000 briefcase.

Riiiiiiiggght!

By | January 30, 2023

I’ve been watching a fair amount of old Catchphrase on Youtube lately. The original started in January 1986, meaning that the show is *almost* 40 years old, yet the original set design in all its space pink and blue neon glory still looks great, Ed Welch’s music package is still great and particularly those titles… Read More »