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Wheel of Hammond

By Brig Bother | December 1, 2020

The Sun reporting that Alison Hammond is being lined up to host a reboot of Wheel of Fortune, 19 years after it last aired.

We like Alison (who was also the ref on underappreciated The Time It Takes, let us not forget) but before anyone gets too excited there’s no guarantee the reboot will be successful – it’s the sort of show that channels internationally reboot every few years only for it not to last all that long.

We always thought Ace of Base’s Wheel of Fortune 2009 is itching to be used in some capacity as a Wheel theme.

That New Year’s Taskmaster Line-Up in full

By Brig Bother | November 30, 2020

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John Hannah
Krishnan Guru-Murphy
Nicola Coughlan
Rylan Clark-Neal
Shirley Ballas

Coming New Year’s Eve.

Rylan’s going to win, Krishnan’s going to be the educated-one-with-no-common-sense, Shirley Ballas will be the Kerry Godliman BOSH type.

Here’s the press release.

This year’s big Xmas minigame board game battle

By Brig Bother | November 30, 2020

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Click on the pictures to take you to the Amazon listings, we get a cut if you buy through them, other outlets are available.

IN THE RED CORNER: Richard Osman’s House Of Games Board Game! Featuring TEN games from the TV show!

IN THE BLUE CORNER: It’s In For A Penny with the smiling face of Stephen Mulhern!

IN THE FRUIT CORNER: It’s last year’s Taskmaster game, which now has an expansion pack!

Or perhaps the best minigame of all is pretending to be Danny Dyer on The Wall!

Show Discussion: The Wheel

By Brig Bother | November 27, 2020

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Saturdays, 8:30pm,
BBC1

Michael McIntyre can’t do his Big Show this year for COVID reasons, so they’ve come up with a new format for him, where three members of the public can win a huge amount of money with the help (or not) of seven celebrities.

One of three members of the public is randomly spun into the game and answer questions to build up a cash pot. Get a question wrong and they’re placed back in the pool. Whoever is in the hotseat the end of the show gets to win half the pot, the pot, or double the pot depending on if they answer the final question with the help of the best performing, most average, or worst performing celeb.

It certainly has quite the set. But does it have quite the format? Let us know what you think in the comments.