That’s right, join us here and on Youtube on Saturday night from 9pm for Bother’s Bar Game Night 6 where a panel of people try to outwit, outplay and outlast each other in a series of games of knowledge, creativity and bluff (mainly from the Jackbox series) in order to earn points which will help them in the Arbitrary Final. Once again the Audience will be the eighth player and will be playing along interactively as well, answering questions and judging answers, hoping to beat the panel into submission!

If you want to join the panel I need you to let me know by tomorrow afternoon as I intend to make a casting decision tomorrow night. You will need a microphone and Twitter so I can direct message details.

But if you don’t want to be a panellist make sure you join us with second screen in hand on Saturday night for about two-and-a-half hours of Interactive Fun.

Ooh, an episode of Run the Gauntlet has turned up on Youtube hosted by Inspector George Gently himself, Martin Shaw.

As a child of about eight I loved this, as a 35 year-old I find the races a bit long-winded and it’s a bit irritating that it’s quite difficult to work out who’s on what team as the helmets might be different but the vehicles are largely identical. Martin Shaw is very much the thrillseeker but he sounds a bit bored commentating.

Has anyone ever seen a Meteor or a Supercat outside of Run the Gauntlet?

The music remains synth-tastic tremendous though.

I don’t know how long this has been going on for, but I’ve started noticing subtitled South Korean entertainment shows are joining Netflix. This is brilliant news if it goes further as we’ve long thought Korea to be a bit of a hotbed.

This evening I’ve been watching Hidden Singer, a fun idea where a popstar is joined behind doors by five impersonators and an audience of 100 have to try and eliminate the fakes by listening to them sing and through a process of elimination if one of the impersonators can fool the audience they win a prize.

Fun idea, research suggests it’s been around for a few years and sold to a few countries. Being Korean it extends the idea to about 30 minutes longer than it really needs, but still.

It’s a shame the captions are only subtitled when nobody’s speaking but even so we look forward to seeing what else Netflix buys up. It’ll be a lot easier to get people to watch The Genius if you can just say it’s on Netflix!

As unboxing videos go this is a goody, a guy named Neil Robinson managed to obtain an actual real clock from the original Crystal Maze Futuristic Zone and got it to (very almost) full working order.

I don’t want to overload the post with videos so here’s him trying to fix it and here’s the finished result. I’m enquiring with him whether the clock makes the noise or if he’s playing it off camera – I had always assumed they added it in post (I actually can’t work it out from the vid – it sounds a bit faint but when he shows his screen it’s not on Youtube). Even so that is very, very cool.

And he’s got a jacket.

Edit: “I am afraid it doesn’t make that sound. I added it and the ambient noise to the video.” So there we are.

Well alright I thought they’d wait until the Autumn, but it looks like The Crystal Maze is coming soon. I suppose the Summer doesn’t hurt Fort Boyard.

I mean the title says it all really, Bother’s Bar Game Night 6 is happening between 9 and 11:30-ish on Saturday June 3rd and I’m looking for panellists. Could YOU use your knowledge, creativity, fortune and bluff to end up as the night’s champion?

You will need to be happy using Google Hangouts and speaking on microphone – a webcam will not be necessary. You’ll need a second screen to play the games on.

If you’re interested to need to let me know here or on Twitter. I’m usually oversubscribed so please don’t be offended if you’re not chosen. We’ll be Very Interactive and once again the audience will be acting as the 8th player in each game and could win the entire night, and there might be an opportunity for an audience member to join us in representing the audience in the exciting Arbitrary Endgame.

If you want to know the sort of thing you’ll be getting up to, here’s GN5:

I’m hoping to get another episode in before Jackbox 4 gets released towards the end of the year.