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Watching Telly: Le Maître du Jeu

By | August 11, 2022

Here’s some fun, FOTB Ryan Vickers went and saw the new Quebecoise version of Taskmaster being filmed and he’s written a report. Take it away Ryan: Taping occurred on Friday, August 5th at the Rialto Theatre in Montreal.  We were let in early and I sat in the balcony (limited standing space was downstairs).  We… Read More »

Bother’s Bar Plays Badly: Koh-Lanta

By | July 24, 2022

Content! Sometime in the last week Koh-Lanta (French Survivor) surprise dropped in the UK Switch e-Shop, despite meaning to have been released last Autumn. Searching for it on XBox, it’s also been released there as well, so we thought we’d buy that one to really show off the potential of the Series X, ahem. We… Read More »

Show Discussion: One Question

By | June 23, 2022

Fridays, 8pm,Channel 4 (and all on All 4, apparently) I am ridiculously excited about One Question. There’s no time limit, no buzzers, no complicated rules. A sofa, a chat, just one question that could win our players £100k. Not only that, we give them the answer. Tricky part is we give them 19 wrong answers… Read More »

Watching Telly: Cheat

By | May 27, 2022

Just got back from Elstree for my first Watching Telly for several years. Exciting. They seem desperate for audience members, so if you’re free Friday/Saturday hit up SRO. So here’s a new show set to go out on Netflix whenever. Superficially it’s a bit like Bullshit – it basically involves answering questions and trying to… Read More »

Show Discussion: The Games

By | May 9, 2022

Monday to Friday, 9pm,ITV Well it’s been delayed several times, it’s gone through several name changes (I’m told this was going under The Real Olympics at one point when it was due to up against the actual Olympics, which is certainly a choice, then The Real Games which is terrible) before seemingly landing on what… Read More »