We’re going to give you a very quick primer into what we refer to as “the dark arts”. Fort Boyard starts on France 2 at 7:55pm UK time. Usually you would not be able to watch France 2 in the UK, but thanks to the internet you can cheat a bit.
- The easiest way is to watch on a naughty streaming site. The one we use to watch a livestream of Schlag den Star has one and is probably the easiest method. There may well be alternatives.
- You can use a VPN to pretend you’re in France. We use Tunnelbear, free and other paid for alternatives are available. The advantage of this is you can watch live on France Televisions’ pluzz.fr, but also use its catch-up service if you can’t watch it live. If you pay by the amount of data used, an hour of streaming will come to about 1.5gb. Fort Boyard is a little over two hours.
- It’ll probably be up on Youtube in the next few days.
Alternatively if you’ve got satellite or cable you can wait a year and it will probably turn up on TV5 Monde, which kicks off showing the 2015 series next Saturday (the 9th) from 5:25pm.
I have set up a page for discussing the new series, you can reach it from the menu or by clicking here.
The other advantage of a VPN is that you’re not limited to France, we hope to be taking a look at The Runner in the next few days (Reality Blurred have the details here).
In the meantime here are the Fort Boyard Of Thrones titles:
The Runner is a funny one. It’s a really interesting concept but so far the emphasis has been on how viewers can win money and the game itself takes a bit of a back seat. Feels like there’s a lot of untapped potential in the format and there isn’t really much of a ‘chase’ despite that being the core concept.
Watched the first four days this evening and intend to write it up tomorrow – largely agree, although I do think the first ten minutes of Day 4 is as exciting as anything else of the sort I’ve seen. A lot of the rest of it feels like filler though.