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Quizone

By | July 4, 2021

Here’s a fun little curio FOTB Alex bought up on Twitter yesterday, an Irish RTE kids quiz called Quizone from around 2007. In it, three teams of five school friends must find the answer to a question (a bit chestnutty, but probably quite difficult if you’re of the age) using books and “the Quizone.tv Safe… Read More »

RIP Paul Koulak

By | June 30, 2021

This probably ought to get a bit more than a straight retweet as a tribute, but there we are: For me, the highlight of this first ten years of work was this version of Variation No. 1, the tune that played on the old zipline game where they had to swim to a ship and… Read More »

And now Romesh is doing Weakest Link

By | June 27, 2021

Anne Robinson starts her tenure as Countdown host tomorrow. But tonight The Sun has the scoop that Romesh Ranganathan is being lined up to host a rebooted Weakest Link, intended for Saturday night and played with celebs for charity. It’s a good booking (for years I thought it should be Robert Rinder but I can… Read More »

The Sidemen “Do” The Wheel

By | June 27, 2021

This has exploded in my timelime (and Harry linked to it in the The Wheel thread), popular Youtube troupe/gaming team The Sidemen have frequently done one-off own brand versions of hit gameshows, this time they’re doing The Wheel on the proper set with the proper music and everything. Of course Vikstar was a celebrity expert… Read More »

Toujours Plus Fort! DLC

By | June 24, 2021

Having joked that after the last two editions going for about £30, Microids will probably charge £30 for the recent DLC update for Bother’s Bar tolerated Escape Game Fort Boyard I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Toujours Plus Fort! update costs just £1.69, which for some pretty good updates and five (count ’em)… Read More »