We were alerted to a new podcast the other day which may be of interest to readers, Hey Riddle Riddle sees Jackbox alumni Adal Rifai, Erin Keif and John Patrick Coan riff off riddles and lateral thinking puzzles. First episode quite funny and fun, even if the riddles featured are a bit old hat. It’ll be interesting to hear what it’s like when they’ve found their feet. Webpage featuring links is here.
Show Discussion: Gino’s Win Your Wish List
Saturdays 9pm,
Channel 5
Reboot of the National Lottery BBC quiz (which we quite liked) but now hosted by popular Italian chef and Celebrity Juice regular Gino d’Acampo. And on a very different channel.
Also new: it’s played with families and there are physical challenges. We look forward to seeing how that all fits in the format, or whether they’ve changed the floor-timing concept to fit.
As pointed out by a wag, this would be the perfect format for Gino as he won’t have to actually ask any of the questions in it.
Watched it? Let us know what you think in the comments. 9pm seems a bit late for this sort of thing these days so the scheduling is ‘brave’ or ingenious. Or both.
It’s Schlag den Star tomorrow
I know! A Thursday! Quite early as well, 6:15 UK start [Edit: No it’s 7:15, P7 shows local times now, thanks Thomas Preece] on Prosieben. Two celebs battle it out for €50,000.
We won’t be covering this mini-series (I won’t be home for most of it, for a start), normal service returns when Schlag den Henssler returns from its Summerpause.
Coining it In
There was a period, after UKGSC/BB Poll Hall of Shamer Tipping Point became successful, where format developers were looking into arcade machines as the basis of the next big hit format.
Ladies and Gents, I present to you, filming on August 7th at TVC, Rollin’ In It with Stephen Mulhern. A pilot for a quiz based around coin rollers. The object is to land a coin completely on the white lines, not touching the black.
It’s surprisingly difficult to find examples of these on Youtube, so here’s footage of an app:
Speaking of Stephen Mulhern, where’s In For A Penny got to? Big Star’s Little Star will start going out on Saturday nights from this weekend.
The Crystal Maze is on tonight
At 8pm on Channel 4. They’re probably counting this civilian run as series five, so if they split the six episodes down the middle and air the others at a later date that can be series six and then that makes this reboot as successful as the original, actually.
Tonight is especially interesting as occasional Bar commenter Will is a contestant. Let’s hope he doesn’t make a tit of himself! But if he does the last celeb special consolidated under a million, so there probably won’t be any repercussions anyway.
IQTV
About a fortnight ago we pondered “whatever happened to IQTV?” The high-class quiz streaming service was due to launch in July. And after months of not very much, it appears to be launching next week and you’ll be able to watch through Virgin Media as well as various apps and for £3.49 a month promises to be “the exclusive home to the country’s favourite intelligent quiz TV shows and brain games” [apart from Youtube]. [And Challenge.] [And sometimes Dave.]
I honestly can’t see this doing anything at all, the initial offering appears to be ‘over 100 episodes’ which doesn’t sound like a great deal for the repository it’s set itself out to be. Also I can’t claim to be a massive quiz nerd so it’s probably not for me, but they are aiming for an ABC1 50+ demo so fair enough really.
If I’m to buy into it it would need something unique and difficult – obscure shows, or even US Jeopardy or something. Still I wish it best of luck, their webpage is here.