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Christmas cash-in time! Just 18 months after they stopped showing it. I am, as ever, happy to try and offer thrilling consumer advice – has anyone seen any other exciting Christmas cash-in items?

To cash in on the new series beginning on Saturday night, Barnstorm have released the The Wheel app for iOS (and presumably Android very soon). Like a lot of modern gameshow apps, it’s quite aggressive in trying to persuade you to buy into the microtransactions, but where Barnstorm shines is that there’s usually a local… Read More: Bother’s Bar Plays Badly: The Wheel on iOS »

God you wait ages for a post and then something breaks so you do two at once: Japanese adventure Tag show Run For Money is coming to Netflix from November 15th. I don’t know if they’re subbed old episodes or new episodes or what, but we got really into this years and years ago. You… Read More: Run For Money’s coming to Netflix »

Joko & Klaas Gegen Pro7 is back on Tuesday nights in Germany, and we’ve been watching the last few series live in the Bother’s Bar Discord (do come and join, 7:15pm UK, you’re not obligated to contribute) and it has become apparent that really, nobody’s producing an equal right now. In it, Joko and Klaas,… Read More: Kings of the Challenge Show Genre »

I’ve just extended the lease on The Bar for another two years which will take us past the twentieth anniversary on 19th April 2024 – put it in your diaries – after that we’ll see what happens, by which time something that gets 1.5m in primetime will be seen as “a massive international format sensation”… Read More: Two more incredible years »

The shortlist here. Of note: The studio entertainment category is an embarrassment of riches this year, there are about six shows on the shortlist which feel like they’d be good winners. Right now I back Stealing the Show as it’s smart and funny (even if it is, if we’re being honest, basically Richard Osman’s House… Read More: It’s the Rose d’Or noms! »