So here’s fun, I was watching The Chase US on Challenge last night, and then looked at my Twitter feed this morning and it looks like not only have Challenge got day and date on US first run episodes, they’re actually airing them hours before they go out on GSN. So spoil away!

In other news reports are saying that Gemma Collins has quit I’m a Celebrity, which is a shame as she’s been entertaining (although almost certainly would have been voted into the Bushtucker Trials when she became eligible).

I wonder which of the Chasers will crack and do the jungle first? I can’t believe it’s not been offered.

Lewis Murphy has returned with a new run of Fifty50 podcasts, this week he’s joined by Dave Mattingly to chat about what’s going on and what’s happened since the last episode.

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In other news, here’s The Golden Shot from German channel Sat 1 in the eighties:

So if you didn’t join us for Schlag den Raab last night, this is a thing that actually happened live on German television last night for €2.5m. It’s game fifteen and the entire night rests on the player’s ability to hook a ring on a string on a hook.

Meanwhile this was probably our favourite game of the evening – snatching – the object is to grab the stick that didn’t match any of the shapes or colours that showed up:

The next episode will be December 20th.

Saturday 15th November,
7:15pm UK (8:15 on the continent),
ProSieben and naughty internet streaming

Well it had to happen sometime – I couldn’t make the last commentary a fortnight ago so Stefan decided to pull a sickie and defer the episode for two weeks until after I had moved house. However he’s BACK and so are we this Saturday for more live action fun action. Again he will be defending his jackpot (this episode standing at €2.5m) from a member of the public over 15 mystery games. Well 14 and Blamieren oder Kassieren.

And again we will be providing sort-of-live commentary, which doesn’t really work as live commentary because of all sorts of delays. HOWEVER it will likely be fun to listen to, and will likely feature all sorts of fun and games along the way. So why not come and join us? David J Bodycombe, Daniel Peake, Lewis Murphy and myself (*) should all be along.

The musical turns this episode are Bother’s Bar favourites Die Fantastichen Vier and The Script. I know! THE The Script!

Here are the deets.

Here are all the links you need:

The direct link to our live Youtube commentary stream is here. This stream is commentary only. You will need to have a naughty stream running at the same time for the visuals. We are likely to be about 15-20 seconds behind the visual stream, sorry.

This is the primary stream we will be watching live and basing our commentary on.

That stream will probably go down at some point during the evening, here’s our first back-up one. If it all goes down, once we’ve finished panicking, we’ll put up links to streams we can find on here and on Twitter.

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(*) Provided my modem doesn’t decide to brick itself between now and then, obviously.

I’m a Celeb starts on Sunday and the BIG NEWS is that Craig Charles is allegedly in the line-up. The question is: what will Ant and Dec take the piss out of first? Let’s take a look at the toteboard:

• Coronation Street – EVENS
• Red Dwarf – EVENS
• Takeshi’s Castle – 5-1
• Radio 6 Funk and Soul Show – 15-1
• Robot Wars – 25-1
• Cyberzone – 250-1
• Funky Bunker – 2500-1

In other news, the suggestion is that Michael Buerk off of the amazing 999 is going in, so hopefully Juliet Morris will be about with a guide to not getting eaten by crocodiles.

Featuring Robert Peston, Patrick Marber, Sophie Grigson, The Actor Kevin Eldon, Kate Mosse and Steve Jones (the geneticist not the ex-T4 host). And Victoria Coren-Mitchell in Pudsey Bear ears no doubt. Tonight 8:30pm on BBC2.