I’ve just extended the lease on The Bar for another two years which will take us past the twentieth anniversary on 19th April 2024 – put it in your diaries – after that we’ll see what happens, by which time something that gets 1.5m in primetime will be seen as “a massive international format sensation” I imagine.
If you didn’t watch any of FOTB Ash The Bash’s Quiz Night Live over the weekend, catch up on some of the streamed stuff on his Twitch Channel – it was such a shame the connection in the hotel was so dodgy, but some of the production put on by effective amateurs and hobbyists was sensational, and hopefully the off-air recordings will make their way to the channel in due course.
Jackbox 9 is out on Thursday.
The more observant of you may have noticed that there hasn’t been a call out for contestants for Bother’s Bar Game Night Champion of Champions, that’s because Game Night has been axed. Partly because Simon le Bon was so enthused about the Arbitrary Final we co-created that he bought the entire format out, and partly because, well, other people are doing similar things better so there’s no need for it really. Also I think the newer games go in a slightly different direction to what’s required for a good Game Night game I think.
There are possibilities that things that might once have been deemed Arbitrary Finals may get spun off into their own thing, and there’s certainly something in my head right now that has “DO IIIIIITTT” status, but then I remember I’m in my 40s now and extremely tired (although that might be the COVID booster jab I had yesterday) and it would involve effort, so we’ll see. It would have Jean Michel Jarre’s Oxygene pt 4 as a theme tune and would ideally be hosted by surely-due-a-daytime-quiz-career-revival Russell Grant, THAT’S how good an idea it is.
Enough self-aggrandisement. On the Discord this week Holger’s going to hopefully be streaming Joko und Klaas vs Pro7 on Tuesday night from 7:15pm UK – currently the gold standard in large scale studio challenge shows, and we’re going to attempt a watchalong of the new episode of Die 100,000 Mark Show on this coming Sunday night, although we’re relying on naughty internet streams for that like we used to have to use in the Golden Era of our Schlag den Raab coverage, so be prepared for anything to happen.