Urgh, the ennui.

Mario Kart 8 is out today, and to celebrate here’s a clip from kiddies Run the Gauntlet Superchamps which used to be on Channel 4.

Good afternoon.

The next Bother’s Bar Poker EVENT will be Sunday at 8pm UK time. It will cost $5.50 to enter. You are permitted ONE rebuy in the first hour if you deign to lose all your chips, and after an hour everyone still in is permitted to purchase additional chips. The payout structure has been modified so it’s more likely to pay out more places ($7.50! Whoo-hoo!). You are all welcome to play, make sure you’ve joined the club first.

In other news the pretty good but a bit buggy Pointless app is 69p right now.

That’s all the weather. FOR NOW.

By translating THIS page, they’ve started filming today:

• The Treasure Room’s been renovated. Or at least they’ve stuck some new iron-y bits around the outside of the entrance and hung a tiger mask outside the gate.
• FOUR new cells. A number that I would ordinarily describe as “a bit disappointing”, and will describe as “a bit disappointing”. However that is not the same as four new games.
• Apparently the new cells are themed around ecological soundness this year. There’s a game where contestants must find aluminium cans and throw them into a grinder, although it sounds like the room or the grinder gets smaller as the game progresses (likely the room in the Star Wars trash compactor stylee). A game called “the Ketchuperee” involves lots of tomoatoes. More intriguingly, it sounds like the Interactive Cell is being replaced by The Hall of Illusion, where the contestants must take dexterity tests whilst being subject to optical tricks.
• Actually we know that can’t be it because we know there’s a game cell themed around a fire barracks. And a cell that looks like the entrance to a sewer, when they’ve already got a perfectly good game based around a sewer. They really should start using the underground space again.
• The Watchtower is now home to Quebecoise magician Vincent C’s Magic Academy, and contestants will need to work out puzzles based around magic tricks.
• New adventures include biking over narrow beams in the air and staying upright on a moving log, by the sounds of it.
• LaBoulle’s not returning. From pictures it looks like the gong is now in the Treasure Room. It’s suggested that he’ll be replace by “a muscle man”, but surely that’s Mister Boo who we know is on the Fort this year. As is Judge Blanche and Willy Rovelli, so it’s unlikely they’ll be a big change in structure.
• A fuller list of new events will undoubtably be released once the filming of the French show has ended. The show starts airing on France 2 next month.

Here’s another quite boring show, it’s the promo tape for the recent Fifteen to One, offered without comment but in such a way to imply comment:

 

The new series of Celeb 15-1 will run on Friday nights at 8pm in June on Channel 4. They’ll probably do OK.

In this: the Summer of Boredom we’ll take any glimmers of excitement we can get. In this case I’ve started a proper full-on discussion page for Korean show Crime Scene, linked to in the menu bar.

Also Big Brother starts on 5th June. That’s a fortnight today. Fun advert.

No it’s too late, this is a thing now and it’s YOUR FAULT. I asked myself “what’s the most boring game you can remember?” Of course the first answer that popped into my head was Take on the Twisters. However there was of course another show, one which looked as though it might be exciting, but managed to fit ten minutes of tedium in between fleeting moments of interest. I am of course talking about 101 Ways To Leave A Game Slow.

Steve Jones being A Thing seems a long time ago now, doesn’t it? Anyway this is what was said at the time (four years ago now, blimey). Try and work out who the production people are in the comments.