Thankfully as it gives me something to write, I got home this evening and some family friends had come to visit and they recommended The 1% Club to people in the room, which I concurred with, and so I put it on over dinner after they’d left and fun was had by all. But my… Read More »
The Sun had it this morning and now he’s confirmed it: Rotating co-hosts for the forseeable, the jostling to become the show that inevitably replaces it is going to be a lot of fun – it’s been on a slow decline for a fair while but it’s still pulling in very respectable numbers, I can’t… Read More »
So I realised when playing Netflix’s Trivia Quest yesterday that although none of the questions relate to US minutiae, I hope you’re geared up for US history, US geography, US entertainment and crucially US sports. No real attempt to localise for local culture. This is always going to be a problem for streaming services. You… Read More »
A new “thing” dropped on Netflix today hot on the heels of interactive quiz cartoon, a quizoon if you will, Cat Burglar, is a new daily trivia quiz Trivia Quest based on the app of the same different name (Trivia Crack). Each day you can face 12 (or if you want to have a crack… Read More »
We watched the first episode of Gordon Ramsay’s Future Food Stars (hashtag #FFS LOL) which promised to fill the Apprentice shaped hole currently in BBC1’s Thursday night schedule. It was quite interesting – Ramsay going big on investing in the person not just the business and as such there will be tests of character as… Read More »
Happy 25th birthday to Channel 5! For the first five years or so of its life it was probably THE place to go for The Sort Of Things We Like – four series of Fort Boyard, two brilliant series of The Mole, The Desert Forges, Whittle and of course a show that predated the escape… Read More »