Show Discussion: Celebrity Hunted

By | October 10, 2017
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Tuesdays, 9:15pm
Channel 4

Celebs go on the run for Stand Up To Cancer. They are:

  • Jamie Laing and Spencer Matthews from Made in Chelsea.
  • Jay Macguiness and Siva Kaneswaren from ironically titled pop band The Wanted.
  • Steph and Dom from Gogglebox.
  • AND! Anneka Rice from Treasure Hunt!

They’ll be trying to evade capture for 14 days, doing all sorts of things that come across as stupid because of unfair secret production rules we are not privy to. But this time… for charity!

We’ve tried so hard to get into Hunted. Perhaps this will be the ‘in’ I’m after. Let us know what you think in the comments.

A third civilian run has been filmed and will apparently be going out in the new year.

Ooh, they’ve updated the Pointless set

By | October 9, 2017
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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.

The Golden Shot

By | October 8, 2017
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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.

Bother’s Bar Game Night 7 – tonight from 9! #bbgn

By | October 7, 2017
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Saturday 7th October,
9pm-11:30pm UK
Here and on Youtube

Tweet us! #bbgn

Yes! We’ve finally had another idea for an Arbitrary Final and a free Saturday evening to try it out so it must be time for another Game Night! Through the power of the internet seven panellists will vie to win the evening playing games of knowledge, comedy and bluff mainly drawn from the Jackbox series of games in order to become the champion.

But it’s not just our seven panellists, YOU the audience are the eighth panellist. As well as playing along and making decisions on your smart devices, one audience member every game will get to play representing the audience and trying to earn the precious BOTHERPOINTS required to give themselves the advantage in the Arbitrary Winner-Take-All Endgame. You can join in the fun by going to jackbox.tv on a second screen.

And tonight, for the first time, a member of the audience with a microphone will get to represent the audience in that endgame. WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN?

The stream will show up here and on Youtube and we go live from 9pm, so why not come and join us?

What’s your considered opinion on Danganronpa?

By | October 4, 2017
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I’ve heard interesting things about a videogame series called Danganronpa for a while and I’m aware a new installment has just been released on PS4 (and indeed the first two are also out on it). Has anyone played it/them?

I love the sound of the formatty premise – Battle Royale meets The Mole, elite high school kids with special powers forced to murder one of their own to earn their freedom from a sadistic bear, but they have to get away with it after standing trial with their peers. It’s all done in an anime/visual novel style.

I’ve really enjoyed the Zero Escape games. This sounds like it might scratch a similar itch. Would I (and by extension: you) enjoy this? Is it too weird?

It’s Bother’s Bar Game Night 7 on Saturday

By | October 3, 2017
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From 9pm and we’re looking for panellists. If you’ve got a microphone and are available from 9pm to 11:30pm on Saturday (camera not necessary) I’d like to hear from you – leave a comment or find me on Twitter. If you don’t want to be a panellist you can still play along anyway! Get your second screen out and watch our live stream here and on Youtube. The Audience is the 8th player, and this episode a member of the audience with a microphone will get to represent the entire viewing public in the exciting Arbitrary Grand Final at the end of the evening.

If you’ve not seen it before, we play a load of Jackbox Games live, as well as some bonus concocted stuff (including own brand smash-hit worldwide marble racing quiz sensation The Road to Sortition). Earn points by winning games, the player with the most points gets a tiny advantage in the winner takes all Arbitrary Grand Final. Here’s a playlist.

In the meantime if you didn’t fancy sitting through five plus hours of our Schlag den Henssler Watchalong this weekend just gone, I’ve made a quick and dirty edit of the two main own-brand events.

First, the revival of amazing eighties quiz Connections!

And really the main event, the non-copyright infringing David J Bodycombe’s Puzzle Mansion!

Enjoy.