If you’re about on Saturday night, join us for a watchalong of an old episode of Joko & Klass vs Pro 7 on the Discord for some fun game ideas from 9pm.

Two things bought to my attention! First, Discovery UK have made another series of Bother’s Bar favourite Beauty and The Geek for Discovery+ completely out of the blue, hosted by Mollie King and Matt Edmondson. It’s been almost twenty years since it was done in the UK and follows on from a few successful reversionings globally.

Meanwhile the BBC have released some information on “exciting new factual entertainment shows” two of which are relevant to our interests. The first is called Unbreakable (we’ve got Unremarkable gags lined up don’t worry) sounding every bit as exciting as Celebrity Prized Apart:

And secondly Warrior Island for BBC3:

Exciting new adventure challenge series, Warrior Island (w/t), follows eight young people who want to reset their mind and body.

Set on an exotic island paradise, the new series for BBC Three and iPlayer, made by Baft and Emmy Award-winning TV company Wall To Wall West, will follow eight young people who feel stuck in a rut as they are cut off from the modern world in a month-long programme of transformation aimed at improving their health and wellbeing.

Each of them will be paired with a ‘Warrior’ – experts in their specific fields of fitness and health, from MMA fighters to yogis, personal trainers to endurance athletes – who will mentor and push them every step of the way. Each will have a unique set of skills and an individual approach which they hope will push their trainees out of their comfort zone and overcome the problems they are facing in their life.

Each episode charts the highs and lows of the contributors’ time on the island as they live and train together and culminates with them taking part in a spectacular Warrior challenge inspired by the island’s beautiful but brutal terrain. At the end of 30 intense days, will all eight of the trainees make it through Warrior Island?

Executive Producer Michael Fraser says: “We’re hugely excited to be making this innovative new format for BBC Three. A month in paradise may sound like a dream, but our trainees will quickly learn that this is no holiday, as each is pushed through an incredibly tough regime by their own Warrior, taking on huge physical challenges along the way to test the strength of body and mind. It’s a series that gives a young, diverse cast the opportunity to tackle issues shared by young people across Britain, but within the shape of a brilliantly entertaining reality challenge format.”

Doubtless you’ve noticed this already, but despite the BBC deciding to rerun the “Olympic” “specials” from last Summer in the current Saturday evening slot, which is certainly a choice, on Tuesday night at 23:35 (in England and Wales, do check your local listings) on BBC1 an unbroadcast episode from series one is going out which probably doesn’t have much different to it to the ones that have been going out other than a lack of Moneyspinner round.

Allegedly there may have been “a talent issue” (knock yourselves out, McIntyre haters!), the listing is suggesting Shirley Ballas, Jo Whiley and Chris Packham appearing but the other guests are a mystery. Barrowman?

Limitless Win has just finished, it’s time to announce who won the incredible £7.99 cash prize for being closest to the mean average win of all the teams who took part in S1 of Limitless Win, and looking at my spreadsheet I can see that the winner with a guess of £112,097 compared to the ACTUAL average of £110,625 is German TV’s very own Nico W! Well done Nico.

Let’s see how you did – bear in mind your guesses were taken before the show had started filming and with only a basic idea of what the show was (and with no indication as to how the ladder worked):

RANGE: £8,560 – £487,500
Mean Avg Guess: £104,695.53
Median Guess: £69,500

Your mean guess was actually very good – Just six grand off the actual figure, despte a range that spanned almost half a million quid. Your median guess was well under though.

But it’s a show called Limitless Win and this comes with expectations – as a tie breaker we asked what the highest amount “in play” would be – again you had to guess without knowing the make up of the ladder:

RANGE: £45,000 – £8,500,000
Mean Avg Guess: £1,620,459.20
Median Guess: £1,125,000

The range much more wide-ranging here, as it is your mean guess was well over the actual answer of £1,000,000 which I think is fair expectation given the way the show is pitched. However your median guess was extremely good considering.

Maybe we’ll do this again next year! Or maybe we won’t.

Films March 3rd in Salford, sounds like they’re playing for a cash prize rather than a holiday.

Tickets from the BBC.

Edit: Quite interested to see how they rework the endgame. Surely it’s going to be something a bit cleverer than “are you willing to risk your £5ks so that you ALL can leave with £5k?” surely.

Limitless Win has been renewed but I still think it’s going to be two and out as it seems to be following a pretty standard trajectory for a big money Ant and Dec quiz, as set out by Kubler-Ross in the 1960s:

• HYPE – The show is hyped for months in advance. The narrative of how it came about is set – Ant and Dec play it in a pub, Simon Cowell says it’s just like Deal or No Deal etc. This is GOING TO BE BIG.
• REVEAL – The first episode goes out. It’s a hit! As well it should be with months of hype and Ant and Dec at the helm. People declare it the best thing ever, perhaps “the best new quiz since Millionaire“. It might open with a large win – look at the POTENTIAL.
• REALITY – But it can’t keep that potential up. Somehow instead of increasing its audience, they’re running away. Consistently. Sure, it’s still doing alright, I mean it does have Ant and Dec in it, but it turns out it’s not the Next Big Thing after all. And with that sort of prizemoney being thrown around, maybe even a bit dangerous.
• RECOMMISSION – Nobody wants to admit to making a mistake though, and besides it was doing OK with the A16-34s. It can have a second series – it might even improve in some ways. But the audiences are still disappearing – the format’s just not all that and Ant and Dec are hamstrung by said format.
• ACCEPTANCE – No third series is forthcoming.

With New York Times buying up Wordle, we ask the BIG question: