That’s right, it’s July 9th which means it’s my birthday! And one step even further away from the desired demographic. Hold your applause. To celebrate here’s a video of someone winning the birthday jackpot on Quiz Call about ten years ago. Which seems to be squashed for no discernable reason.

Want.

The cast are just average Joes who get the full "The Genius" edit treatment to hilarious effect while trying to escape together before they descend into madness.

— Bumdidlyumptious (@Bumdidlyump) 6 July 2018

Thanks to James for spotting this, according to the Radio Times Bother’s Bar favourite !mpossible is getting a shot at the big time, taking over the coveted Pointless 5:15pm slot from July 16th. Presumably as a launchpad for !mpossible Celebrities, presumably coming to Saturday evenings soon.

Congrats to Rick Edwards, Hugh Rycroft and team. People had been suggesting this was a good idea, we will see if the internet is correct. I don’t know how long it will be running there for, it looks like the last 10 episodes of the 30 episode session recorded earlier this year. After that who knows? It probably could get away with repeating from the beginning, there will have been an awful lot of people who wouldn’t have seen it early afternoon.

I said I reckoned Liza Tarbuck would win it before the series started, it looks like that bet is coming good now.

Presumably we’ll be very close to an official S7 cast announcement as you can now get tickets to that set of recordings, recording 19th to 25th July at Pinewood.

Edit:

Series 7 line-up revealed!

• James Acaster
• Jessica Knappett
• Phil Wang
• Kerry A Godliman
• Rhod Gilbert

Acaster and Gilbert the only names I’m familiar with (although I’ve heard of Wang), I look forward to finding out about the others in due course.

Simon Fox tweets:

@BothersBar Flicking through TV channels in hotel room in Latvia and there seems to be some sort of Russian reality show which I think involves celebrities training dolphins (there’s definitely 4 judges voting out of 10) pic.twitter.com/avZ7eJ33Zc

— Simon Fox (@FoxyRhino) 30 June 2018

Obviously this has caused some controversy.

Not gameshow related but likely of interest (as we do from time to time when there’s not much of note), last night, having been on my to do list for sometime, I discovered The Dragon’s Tomb, from their Youtube:

Everyone hates learning the rules to tabletop games. It’s like going to one of those long timeshare presentations before getting your free vacation: if you want to have fun, you have to suffer through boring torture first.

That is… until now!

My name is Jeff Kornberg, and I make “How To Play” board game tutorial videos on my channel called “The Dragon’s Tomb.” A lot of other YouTube channels currently make similar kinds of videos, but most of them get the rules wrong, go on too long, or have boring hosts who are nerdy. My channel aims to fix all that. Each one of my videos concisely covers all rules of each game, while being hosted by someone who isn’t a nerd (me).

I am planning on making a “How To Play” video for every board game that exists, so if you get a new game, please wait until I make a video for it before attempting to play.

Here is a very short five-minute tutorial on Carcassonne:

Viewers, I wasn’t aware I wanted a niche Look Around You-esque take on boardgame rules tutorials in my life, but now I do I want a ton more of it. Pointing out it’s a joke probably isn’t ideal, but I suspect it’s the only way I’ll get you to watch the vid. Jeff absolutely nails the measured tone and presentation of this sort of thing – it’s probably about 30-45 seconds in you start to realise it’s not what you think it is, and the tutorial is even funnier if you’re aware of what he does with the source materials. This video series is a blast.