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Well the revival is anyway, the original US format’s almost forty years old now and I’ll just let that sink in for you. And what an incredibly solid performer it has been over the past ten years, anchoring ITV’s weekend evenings and filling in on ITV2 all the time extremely successfully. And why not? It’s… Read More: Catchphrase is 10 on Friday »

Over the past few months (crikey) we’ve been greatly enjoying the ADC Collection on Youtube‘s uploads of Ultra Quiz 84, and the first half of Ultra Quiz 85. For reference, here is the semi-final of the first series of Ultra Quiz from 1983. Each series follows the same broad format based loosely on the Japanese… Read More: Ultra Quiz »

Go on then. In other news, Amazon Prime “dropped” Survivor Australia Season 9 yesterday (Blood vs Water) from last year. No idea why they’ve skipped S8, perhaps that will surprise turn up later.

Gambit Game, the online Youtube homemade version of The Genius starring all your favourite internet nerds starts tomorrow night from 8pm UK on Youtube. We’re told, from TV’s Ben Justice who is a contestant, that it’s really good. We’ll be discussing it in #geniuschat in the BB Discord (linked in the sidebar). The Youtube page… Read More: Gambit Game starts Sunday »

It had completely slipped my mind that this was happening, but it is and it launches on Amazon Prime from April 21st. It’s the all new Fuuuun! Takeshi’s Castle! (which is what my browser’s autotranslate has called it) and when we say all new, it seems to use lots of the ideas from the original,… Read More: Fuuun! Takeshi’s Castle! »