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Job sharing

By | April 12, 2021

Sally Lindsay takes over Tenable at 3pm today, hosting the remaining 25 episodes of the series. What other examples of gameshow job sharing can we come up with? Off the top of my head: Dermot Murnaghan and Jeremy Vine on Eggheads for a bit. Various rota-ed hosts on the old Channel 5 lunchtime shows, Brain… Read More »

What could a pedenda be?

By | April 8, 2021

We were catching up with The Great British Bake Off For Stand Up To Cancer yesterday night featuring Anneka Rice, and it opened with a Treasure Hunt take-off. In December 2022, Treasure Hunt, one of Channel 4’s most iconic shows, will be FORTY years old. Surely this calls for a one-off special? Richard Osman said… Read More »

The Whole 19 Yanks

By | April 4, 2021

Here’s a fun thing that’s just been uploaded on Wink Martindale’s Youtube Channel – the US pilot for The Whole 19 Yards with Chris Hardwick. We watched the Spanish version Les Ultimos 20 Metros which we *think* was the first version to air years and years ago (here’s an episode with the same challenges in… Read More »

It’s Easter Weekend!

By | April 1, 2021

Do you know how hard it is to keep finding relevant egg-based things for this every year? Do you ever think about that? No I don’t think you do. One of these days I’ll just link to a random episode of Eggheads and be done with it. So here’s an episode of CBBC’s Why Did… Read More »

The Void

By | March 29, 2021

Voids are normally completely empty spaces, but good luck to ITV in redefining the English language as this void is a 520,000 litre pool of water in “one of the biggest bespoke water tanks ever constructed for a gameshow”. Look here’s the press release. Ashley Banjo (who has completely blocked hosting Can’t Touch This out… Read More »