Here’s some fun, I’m on Fingers on Buzzers this week talking to the lovely Lucy and Jenny about running the Bar and that. Also this week featuring Paul Ross!

You can listen to it here, or subscribe on your podcast provider of choice.

They’ve done some good stuff lately, have been enjoying their history of quiz and interviews with prominent behind the scenes staff.

If you’ve come here from the podcast, hello! You join us in a particularly dull period of the industry. Why not join us for Game Night live tomorrow from 9pm?

And to celebrate, Jackbox have put (almost) their entire back catalogue on Humble Bundle, so you can pick up Jackboxes 1-4, Fibbage XL, Drawful 2 and nine US You Don’t Know Jack games for about £15. Steam only, but you can’t argue it isn’t good value. With thanks to the various people who have alerted me to this.

In the meantime, here’s an episode of Go For It! from 1989 which has just surfaced on Youtube from a very good archive channel.

I remember a slightly older version of it with families and bags of sugar were involved somewhere, although I’d also be about five or six at the time so probably not reliable. Amused by how arbitrary it all is. Plus! Dr Alan Marion Davies! Of “whatever happened to him” fame!

Apparently set in some sort of Land of the Giants.

I’d like to be able to illustrate this with a video but they don’t seem to have put a clip up on Youtube yet, but you might want to watch the final part of last week’s (series two, episode six) Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier on UKTV Play if you didn’t catch it on Dave, specifically the final part which is about useless skills and makes heavy references to Bother’s Bar favourite You Bet!, ending with Jon trying to name the make of five hand driers by sound alone. The final payoff won’t make much comedic sense if you hadn’t watched the rest of the show but never mind.

Edit: Ah brilliant, one has shown up (h/t Jonathan in the comments).

At Bovingdon Airfield, near Hemel Hempstead. Tickets SRO.

Now I *thought* the idea was to do this live (like the very successful German one) as a stripped show early next year, but evidently this isn’t going to be the case. I hope the long lead time won’t lead to accidental – or otherwise – spoilers, I note it’s unlikely the audience will be around for the unveilings, although it does mean they’d have to be pretty careful in referencing past contestants in any host-led intros.

Of course we also apparently have Celeb X Factor to come this autumn. One of the interesting things about The Masked Singer as a format is that it manages to avoid D-List-never-heard-of-them sniping from the audience that tends to happen when the line-ups are released as by the time they’re unmasked it’s too late, you’ve watched anyway, and you’ve probably decided whether you’re going to stick around for the rest quite early.

Of course, the hilarious thing is (especially after the comment in the Stool Pigeon earlier this week) is that ITV have already flirted with this sort of thing before – just 18 months ago they did a one-off called Guess the Star, a concept that had been knocking around for a while. The comments, in hindsight, are amusing (“If it was a bit weirder it could have come out of South Korea,” an astute Brig Bother).

Put it in your diaries, Bother’s Bar Game Night 15 is happening on Saturday 17th August (i.e. Fort Boyard‘s having a week off for rugby) 9-11:30pm-ish.

If you want a guaranteed shout at being a contestant on the Jackbox 6 Launch Game Night, you need to be a champion, and for that you need to be a contestant. And for that you need to mention your interest on this thread, or DM me on Twitter (DMs are preferred as replies might get forgotten about). We are always after potential new blood so if you’ve watched but not put yourself forward, now’s the time!

We’re going to attempt to use whizzy new broadcast software as Google Hangouts is closing soon anyway. On your part you will need to be on Discord (I’m BrigBother #9399 – it’ll be very useful if you’ve added me as a friend) – you will only need a microphone. It’ll be a bit ‘anything can happen’ as we get our heads round getting it all to work but fingers crossed it’ll be OK.

Otherwise I look forward to seeing Team Audience in the Youtube Chat on the night!