Ooh, Dave (U&Dave, sorry) are doing an escape room show, only about ten years after the zeitgeist and about 35 years after The Haunted Dungeon on Ghost Train on Sunday. The Way Out is based on a Belgian format (of course) and will see Mel Giedroyc guide/infuriate teams of comics led by Ed Gamble and Nish Kumar through four different rooms, with the team with the fastest cumulative time at the end of the series being the winner. Hopefully there will be lots of shouting at each other, although one of these teams seems quite a bit more competitive than the other on paper.
It’s nice to see Dave dipping its toes into this sort of thing, we quite liked Battle In The Box and I can’t think of any Dave originals since, they seem to struggle to breakthrough a bit nowadays, and you don’t even get comedians making jokes about episodes appearing on Dave many years later anymore, sad. Hopefully they have given it the budget to do it justice.
Here what the German version on Amazon Prime looks like (that you can’t watch in the UK):
We still think the best televised escape room show was Sci-Fi’s Race to Escape with Jimmy Pardo, of which one episode exists on Youtube, even if it was more five discrete puzzles in a room against the clock than an interconnected woven escape room per se. This isn’t the episode sadly, but we loved that when it took one team forty minutes to spot a giant number written in some shelves they had the balls to let it play out minute by excruciating minute to hilarious effect when I dare say lesser productions would have panicked and thrown the answer at them. Proper shout at the screen stuff.
What about escape the night?
Goodnight, JV.
Judging by Mel’s photo, it looks like we have to call it “Th£ Way Øut” – which for me is fine with a Norwegian keyboard, but for you guys… er…
When I was at about nine-years-old at school I had a Norwegian penpal, but I assumed the Ø was someone writing an O and crossing it out as if it was a mistake.