French Fancies
Some Youtube fun that’s old TF1, here are some official uploads of some old Endemol France shows such as A Prendre ou a Laisser, Money Drop, Le Bigdil with Vincent Lagaf and others. Why they’ve rebranded the old Money Drop channel for this I don’t know, but we’ve always quite enjoyed the TF1 style for this sort of thing so knock yourselves out.
Show Discussion: You Won’t Believe This
Tuesday, 10pm,
Channel 4
You won’t believe this, but I was so busy watching I’m a Celeb that this completely slipped my mind hence the late post. Ellie Taylor presides as a pair of people helped by professional interrogators try and work out which other person’s unbelievable story is true for £5,000.
I’ll try and find time to watch it over the next few days, but in the interim if you have opinions you can stick them in the comments.
Dealvent 2022
Look I know Twitter is dead now and everything but after the success of #dealvent last year, Daniel Peake and I are doing it again this year. You aren’t going know what’s hit you. Follow @dealvent2022 for deets. It’ll probably be *even better* than the ITV1 pilot.
Crap Knock-off Corner
It’s a phrase oft repeated in circles that you can’t copyright an idea, just the implementation of an idea and that’s good news for us because there’s nothing that gives us more painful, painful joy than a crap knock-off game that’s clearly been, er, “inspired” by something more popular that sells in the hope that your gran or whoever has never really heard of it and you might get it as a “will this do” Christmas present. If you see anything out in the wild, do get in touch.
Thankfully, FOTB Dan Peake has found such a thing:
Do click through and read the rest of the threads. We need to get a Plays Badly of this with an actual Chaser involved, in the ideal world.
Run For The Money
From Tuesday 15th November,
Netflix
We used to be big fans of Run For Money back in the day, and even though it’s still a going concern on Fuji TV (and has been for almost 20 years) where it runs periodically with a new ep coming New Year, here’s an international spin-off on Netflix, where it’s gained a superfluous “the” because nobody at Netflix understands television, but it’s made by the same people and appears to be the same game and we’re still extremely annoyed nobody’s done an episode set at Alton Towers yet.
Basically: go out on the run, stay on the run as long as possible clocking up cash as you go. If you get caught by a Hunter you’re eliminated and win no money. You can wimp out and “surrender” at a phone box and take whatever money you’ve accumulated, or you can go all the way for the big money. Along the way to stop them from just hiding out they’ll be obliged to go on missions where they’ll have decisions to make, usually some sort of element where they can up the prizemoney by risking more Hunters on the field, a decision that does not have to be unanimous, a task where *not* completing it will reveal their location, tasks to earn advantages to save them from Hunters that sort of thing.
It’s great fun, although I’ve not watched it for the best part of a decade so I don’t know what sort of modern twists we’ll be looking at. What I do know is that the runtime seems to be the best part of three hours, so you probably won’t be watching it all in one sitting.