What appears to be 2024’s HOTTEST new Live Experience: the gameshow-style quiz and gameshows that try and ape the feeling of being on a gameshow, except with your friends and optional alcohol.

The first off the blocks that we heard about a little while ago is Quiz Boxing, open in London right now and Belfast coming soon. In it, 4-12 of your friends answer questions on screens in something set-up a bit like a boxing ring. 60 minutes, £25 per person.

Next! It’s open in Sheffield it’s ‘activity bar’ Gameshow All-Stars, this I think is meant to be closer to a bar where you also play games ‘loosely inspired by’ TV classics such as Countdown, Plinko off of The Price is Right and, erm, the Batak wall from Bodyheat? £15 a go, or you can go for the premium package which includes four drinks for £65. There had better be more than Coke for £12.50 a throw, blimey.

Finally threatening to open next year is Gameshow Studios, which looks very big scale going by the website but there’s not much there yet.

Meanwhile Chris, the erstwhile ex-host of the original escape room blog Exit Games now has a new site on Challenge Arcades – stuff a bit like The Crystal Maze Live Experience. Fingers crossed he picked the name for the genre that best catches on this time around.

Finally, friend of the bar and top German electronic musician Daniel Logemann is running a German Fort Boyard 1990 marathon watchalong on Youtube from 5:45pm UK tomorrow, it’s a good show, probably the best version of the 1990 version of the format (you heard). You can win autographs from Reiner Schoene and Rita Werner. Link here for a host’s message and here for the shows themselves, from 6.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I hope it is relaxing for you, because the first week in January is going to be crazy.

The Mirror reporting that TV institution, well, a show that has been on for fifty years anyway A Question of Sport has been axed.

The Paddy/Ugo/Samantha refresh, one of several to try and appeal to younger audiences throughout the years, failed to catch fire.

I’m not a sports sort of person, I can’t say AQoS is something I ever really loved, but I appreciated its wide variety of rounds and ideas, some more successful than others, frequently, er, inspired by more successful relevant formats, mainly I’m sad they never found an arrangement of the theme tune better than the one they had in the eighties (and some of them since have been absolutely turgid).

The other defining thing about A Question of Sport, most shows increase the stakes as they progress, A Question of Sport gave out about 70% of its points in the first round. Incredible.

At 24 years, is Sue Barker the longest running female host of a quiz?

About a decade ago you couldn’t watch A Question of Sport on iPlayer. Did anyone get to the bottom of why that was?

A Question of A Question of Sport, there.

And there’s not much worth bothering to write about.

It sounds like Jeopardy‘s launching New Year’s Day and Wheel of Fortune is launching January 6th. We reckon The Traitors is launching first week in Jan and will once again be three-nights-a-week.

The Poll of the Year will launch 2nd January as it tradition. If things are missing from the New Shows list do shout so we can add them in time.

Lots of Advent games going on in The Social Medias, #dealvent, #wallvent (might be a bit late to join that one if you haven’t started) and #adventcalendarofgames all Things That Are Happening.

Cold innit?

Edit: New Year’s Day has Riddiculous starting 3:45, The Chase 4:45 and Jeopardy 5:45pm. Presuming they all move to 3/4/5 for the rest of the week, but I don’t know in what order.

All the information is in the tweet. Amused by the Team Fortress-ification of Greg.

I thought applications opened a while ago, however there seems to be a new push – knock yourselves out.