Inspired by a Twitter comment earlier I’ve been asked what the best films in the burgeoning escape rooms of horrible death genre are. Escape rooms are ripe for horror – they are confined spaces that by their very nature are difficult to escape threat from. But it’s likely they’ll also have puzzles and people doing… Read More »
Protip: if you don’t mind watching it a year behind (i.e. they’re showing the 2021 series this Summer), and you want a version that cuts a good twenty minutes off the runtime, not by cutting the game content but by cutting most of the sketches (like all the recurring ones) and extraneous stuff, do take… Read More »
ITV2 and streaming on ITVX, six weeks, 2023. Reports suggesting it’s going to be an “all walks of life” Big Brother, and it will feature tasks, nominations, public voting and live evictions. Six weeks feels awfully short for a civvy Big Brother, but I always thought once I turned about thirty that an hour a… Read More »
The BBC are reviving Gladiators! I think there are a lot of question marks over what Gladiators looks like in 2022 (2023 presumably), not least in terms of what would be allowable with modern health and safety – we all want Pyramid back, but it caused so many injuries. And this feels like an *expensive*… Read More »
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We mentioned it a few years ago when it first started, but I want to signal boost Gladiators TV’s The Gladpod which just finished its second run which has had dome tremendous interviewees the last few weeks and is well worth catching up with for Glads fans – the previous episode’s guest was the King… Read More »