A producer has been in touch:

On Tuesday 17th October, we shall be filming a run-through of a brand new high-stakes quiz show. Hosted by award-winning comedian Jason Manford, this is a game that tests knowledge and nerve, a dramatic quiz show format that’s not for the faint hearted.

The event will take place next Tuesday afternoon at The Bedford in Balham.

If you like to join us for an afternoon of fun and excitement, then apply now through this link: http://www.sroaudiences.com/application.asp?show_id=3054

Quite short notice, but if you’ve got nothing better to do then go for it.

This has just popped up on my Youtube, an episode of Game Show Gauntlet I recorded with Cory Anotado of @pacdude and Buzzerblog fame last week.

We’ve covered GSG before, previously two people battled it out over challenges based on US and international gameshows, there were lots of games and it was fun.

Recently it’s been bought back in a Solo Mix format – five challenges, and then only the most brave and courageous can risk their winnings on Box 23. You’d struggle to call it balanced, but it’s an entertaining half hour regardless. Top two at the end of the series come back for an explosive finale.

The Weakest Link Children in Need Special ticket ballot is open.

Actually it might have been open for a while, lines close tomorrow afternoon so get your skates on, sorry.

It’s filming on Monday 6th November at Elstree, interestingly, as I was expecting Salford.

Blurb suggesting only seven celebs, which seems a pity.

What’s going to be very interesting is the game’s going to have a slightly different dynamic. Previous celeb specials had them play for their own charities, and as there can only be one winner self-interest rules similar to how the civilians play. Since this time they are presumably all playing for the same charity (Children in Need), will the voting reflect a true indication of how good the contestants are, or will they nakedly still vote off threats towards the end?

If, several years after the show has finished, the main takeaway from BBC execs is “hur hur, Anne Robinson insults some celebrities,” you might as well just do a one-off revival of What’s The Problem With Anne Robinson.

Shiny!

Of possible note: looks like Xander and Richard are no longer on a platform. I always wondered what the point of moving Xander’s desk to the ground was just for the Pointless Final, must save ten minutes in studio time not bothering.

You can get tickets for this recording run of Pointless from SRO. They’re recording variously across the next six weeks.

If you missed our incredible recreation of The Golden Shot on Bother’s Bar Game Night yesterday (two hours twenty in, if you want to skip) you can still watch it! But it was trailed as a classic TV game that technology broke that I had fixed from the ground up. What did I mean by that?

Here to demonstrate is the episode of The Golden Shot from Ant and Dec’s Gameshow Marathon from 2005. The episode is in chunks here (I expect the subsequent parts will show up in the options at the end), of interest is the end game where the home viewer must direct the crossbow to hit the target to win a car. The problem playing it on digital television is that it takes time for the television to uncrunch the signal being broadcast which was not really an issue when signals were analogue so the contestant had a rather impossible task of playing with lag. Amazingly they did exactly the same thing when they bought it back for Vernon Kay’s Gameshow Marathon two years later.