Might have done a video for this, but there’s really not very much to it.
For some reason they’ve gone with bingo as a kind of bonus reward system, which seems a bit silly given that’s the part of the format they’ve removed.
TV Show and Tell is now LIVE
How exciting. Hopefully it won’t take me too long to get through my current backlog to get round to it.
In other news, don’t forget to join the BB Discord for EXCLUSIVE formatty chit-chat and currently an extremely fun online board games club, which meets live every other Sunday (warning: liable to get a bit sweary) and plays turn-based stuff in between.
Finally, if you’ve got Call of Duty: Vanguard, why not join the Bother’s Bar clan? We won’t actually do anything, but you do get a lovely Boyard as an emblem. On XBox, press Y in a menu to access your “socials”.
My gaming contacts, if you want to add me:
Steam: Add me on Steam if you want.
XBox: We can be chums on XBox for high score fun if you’re that way inclined, where I am Brig Bother.
Playstation Network: I’m not currently on PSN, but if I come back BrigBother ought to do it, but this handy link should do it as well.
Switch: Code SW-2805-5403-1808
Show Discussion: The Tournament
Weekdays, 2:15pm,
BBC1
And so the BBC try out a new format in the apparently challenging post-Doctors slot, this one’s a quiz that’s been devised by the people behind QI and fronted by ex-football captain Alex Scott.
Despite its octagonal title card, our eight contestants will not be battling it out in mixed marshal arts, instead they will be taking on each other in quizzing duels based around a tug-of-war element. The last one standing could win a cash prize, but as yet I don’t actually know what that potential prize is. “Journalism!”
We know several people involved in divising it so we can appreciate the pedigree. We’re also digging the super-electronic set.
But is it an entertaining watch? Let us know in the comments.
Show Discussion: Sitting On A Fortune
Sundays, 7pm,
ITV
Gary Lineker invites contestants to a game of knowledge and strategy in order to win up to £100,000.
Contestants choose where to sit on a row of chairs with the person at the front of the queue facing questions. Getting a question wrong means moving to the red chair at the back of the queue and everyone moving up a place. Periodically the person in the red chair is eliminated. In the final round, the final three vie for the front seat where every question is worth £10,000, but only the person sitting in it after ten questions gets to keep the cash. Edit: Apparently this final round might have changed.
Footballing legend Gary Lineker is untried as role of gameshow host, but he has twenty years of TV experience so hopefully he’ll be as good as Ian Wright. I’m sure the game will be fine (even if it all boils down to “don’t get the last question wrong”). Let’s be clear here: whether it’s going to be successful or not is going to be largely down to whether the chairs move or not, or whether everyone’s going to have to get up and swap seats between wrong answers, and the signs are pointing to “no” here which seems like a missed opportunity.
Watched it? Let us know what you think in the comments.
TV Show and Tell podcast
I know, I know, you want a new podcast where you get THE TRUTH behind all those celebrity stories you may have read about in the “gutter” “media”. Something a bit more interesting for TV nerds is about to launch imminently though, the TV Show and Tell podcast (follow them on Twitter) where TV’s David Bodycombe and format consultant Justin Scroggie chat to the great and the good of the TV world about how TV shows get made.
The first guest in noneother than Bother’s Bar favourite Little Alex Horne.
They’re hoping to launch by the end of the week, so look out for it in your podcast aggregator of choice, but if you’re on the Bother’s Bar Discord David’s posted a short sneak peek of the Alex Horne interview so get on that if you can’t wait.
Abort the Line (Does this work as a pun? Subs please check – Brig)
Oh.
I can’t believe we’re this close and they’ve still not announced a format point that whether someone wins/loses large amounts of cash depends entirely on the whims of Louis Walsh. There’s still time to turn this around SyCo.