New ITV quiz R¿dd?culous is looking for contestants. Also Henry Lewis looks a little bit like Alex Horne apparently, so that’ll attract people just flicking through the channels. We have no idea how exciting the cash prize is (my guess is £10,000 as I think it’s set for the 3pm Lingo slot so better than a kick in the teeth) and I think this is the first contestant flyer we’ve had with a QR code like it’s 2015. Nice.
In other quiz news, Beat the Chasers is filming in March, tickets SRO.
Finally, a bit of an end of an era – series 33 of Fort Boyard this Summer will be the first without its iconic tigers who are being pensioned off – they’re deciding to get in before new French laws will force them in a few years time.
The show is likely to have to go through some sort of creative renewal in the upcoming years anyway as it’s likely all the animal content will eventually need to be removed. The question is: what do you replace it with? It’s not going to be easy for a show to lose an integral part for thirty plus years, there are surely only so many combinations of rope, height and water, and without the chills where are the thrills going to come from? Still, if 32 series have taught us anything, you can never write Fort Boyard off. Should be an interesting Summer. We’re currently discussing this on our #fortboyard channel on the Discord.