Thanks to the Bother’s Bar Discord for bringing this up, the very first game of Wonga on The Big Breakfast, the end of the live millennium nine-hour special. When they bought it back as a semi-regular thing, they added a seven minute chess-clock.
Let’s open the box and dive in: Might be a bit banal but the BBC are currently looking for a new daytime quiz show for BBC1, so there is a massive amount of companies pitching quizzes to them at the minute. There’s around 25/30 companies pitching with 6 of them being sent to the next… Read More »
Greek Supermarket Sweep and its stylish host. Rylan take note, although it doesn’t have our banging theme.
Channel 4 press release for The Answer Trap, a new daytime quiz hosted by Anita Rani where teams try and place items in one of two lists, except some of the items have been dreamt up by THE DEVIOUS Bobby Seagull and Frank Paul competing against each other to trick the players and don’t fit… Read More »
Anne Robinson’s the new permanent host of Countdown. When Nick Hewer took over we thought “that is an interesting piece of stunt casting” – he went on to host it for almost a decade and is now retiring at 77. Clearly this is also an interesting piece of stunt casting, we’d be lying if we… Read More »
In other news, various episodes from seasons 34-37 of Wheel of Fortune are now up on Netflix.