You can get ready for 65 minutes of playalong appability for 5 Gold Rings on Sunday by downloading the official playalong app.
Presumably it’s also (or will be also) on the Apple Store as well. Edit: Link for Apple device.
Remember: if they ever mention the amount of people playing as a percentage, that means the numbers are disappointing.
As a reminder, we’ve seen the Dutch show, it’s OK.
It’s pancake day! That means it Shrove Tuesday. ‘Shrove’ derives from the word ‘shrive’, absolution through confession, so here’s an episode of Simon Mayo’s Confessions!
Look, our content diary is basically empty until 5 Golden Rings on Sunday.
I was alerted to this this morning and my initial thought was “blimey”. It’s an episode of La Chasse aux Trésors from Lorelei in Germany recorded in 1982. The final treasure is atop a large stone building. Most people would just use the stairs. Our skyrunner, Philippe de Dieuleveult, has a better idea, one you can’t imagine even Anneka Rice would do. You can skip to about 50 minutes in.
Also quite fun is discovering in the video notes that the skyrunner for the short-lived German version, Rätselflug, was none other than German TV legend and long-running host of Wer wird Millionär? Gunther Jauch.
MORTAL KOMBAT!
From Friday 24th February variously worldwide,
Netflix
Now this is quite exciting and no mistake, Netflix enters the obstacle course reality competition genre (Christ) with the Sylvester Stallone produced Ultimate Beastmaster, apparently filmed on the old [Total] Wipeout ranch in California.
In each episode 18 contestants, hailing from the US, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico, Germany and Japan compete to complete the ultimate obstacle course, the Beast. The winners of the nine preliminary episodes will compete in the final for the honour of being the Ultimate Beastmaster. Edit: We misinterpreted this, each episode has 12 contestants, there are 18 contestants from each country across the series.
Each of the six participating countries have their own set of hosts and commentators, for us in the UK we will presumably have ex-Millionaire host and American football player Terry Crews and FOX Sports broadcaster Charissa Thompson but it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if there were options for watching the other streams, or at least foreign dubbing.
We hope this leads to Netflix trying its hand at reality competitions (cough The Genius cough), or at the very least it will be interesting to see what they might buy-in for international audiences if this is successful.
Because of the nature of the broadcast, you must be prepared for spoilers if you enter the comments, non Beastmaster chat should probably go in the post previous.
We’ve mentioned them before, French youth collective Le Qlub have made another episode of Le Qlub aux Tresors for your delectation and delight, based on La Carte Aux Tresors. This one’s quite snowy, and appears to feature a bit where one team pretends their car has broken down just to hold up the other teams, if my understanding is correct. Quietly impressed that they can persuade random members of the public to get in their cars to give directions on the pretext of having a camera.
We actually discussed this in comments about a fortnight ago but we’ve seen requests for applications from a few places now, ITV are doing a water-based game called Cannonball which appears to be basically It’s A Knockout in a giant pool, with extra emphasis on the blob from Wipeout.
Too light to set the world alight I very much suspect, but here’s a random episode of the Dutch original, Bommetje!, so you can see what it’s about: