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In other news I made the impossibly exciting discovery the other week that Idiotape off of The Genius theme tune released an EP back in May called Re:. It is very good.
A little program from Italy: Il Più Forte – The Strongest
In every episode 8 people are selected but only one wins!
It’s a bit like The Genius for the brawny.
Martial artist Alessio Sakara and rugby player Martin Castrogiovanni travel across Italy seeking for the strongest people.
And forget garnets, score is kept with iron balls!
Eliminated players choose who gets their balls. Before the final showdown, the player with the most balls choose which of the hosts will train him for the final game.
I like how the hosts interact with each other, Martin with his Argentinan accent and Alessio with his thick Roman one.
And even if you don’t like the games, you get to see some Italian countryside
This sounds like my sort of thing actually, will watch over the weekend, thanks!
I liked this! Hosts have got a great chemistry and it’s beautifully directed. Will write up tomorrow.
Warwick Davies list quiz ‘Towers of 10″ is now called Tenable and starts Monday at 3pm.
Yes indeed, there will be a discussion post on Monday, possibly a competition afterwards depending on how the format works.
New from ABC Australia, it’s “Hard Quiz.” Video is a bit funky in places, but it’s all there is for now. (Episodes 2 and 3 also available.)
That was interesting, the format’s no great shakes really and the sound effects are quite annoying, but if you’ve ever wondered what Mastermind would be like if Jimmy Carr hosted it then this answers your question – Tom Gleeson’s style and intonation are evidently quite similar. In that sense it was quite fun.
Doing some research this is a spin-off of a segment of a satirical TV show writ large.
This seems to fall in the area of “my kind of quiz”.
The questions are actually of some difficulty (The question on Sid Vicious in ep2 as an example), but the show has room to make light.
The format itself isn’t hugely original… but I am enjoying the show.