Here’s some fun, TV’s Greg Scott uploaded his full pilot of Hold On To Your Seat, the English language version of Tout le Monde Veut Prendre sa Place recorded on the French set some time ago.

Of course they filmed two pilots at ITV Towers back in 2011 hosted by Ben Shepherd and Michael Ball. We wrote about the Michael Ball one and at the same time was unfairly uncomplimentary about Ben Shepherd who we like these days, I think it’s because I’m out of the demo now. And will be out of it even further on Sunday HINT.

AVALANCHE.

This is a game I used to play the hell out of when growing up. Set up avalanches! Watch them all tumble! Great. This post inspired by this Kickstarter for a mechanical computing game.

I’ve not played it in about twenty years. Still, though.

Hey Gang, do you remember we pointed out a TV researcher job at the end of February and suggested it sounds an awful lot like Raven?

Well guess what? It’s medieval Mario Party Raven for CBBC.

As doubtless you’ve noticed: that’s a different person playing Raven – this is Aisha Toussant who plays Jules Belmont in BBC Scotland soap River City. It also sounds like James Mackenzie who originally played the role will also be appearing in some capacity.

We’re intrigued to see how it’s been reformatted, 15×30 minute episodes are promised and the press release suggests 16 contestants. That would suggest five cycles of three-day weeks, each one with four people, leaving four people for the final. But that’s speculation on my part.

Obviously I hope it takes a more modern take on proceedings, with fewer games so they can bring the personalities out (*).

(*) I’m being facetious.

By pure chance I’ve just discovered that Bother’s Bar’s OFFICIAL favourite Korean electronic supergroup Idiotape (sonic visionaries of The Genius) have a new album out and it came out just last week and it’s called Dystopian? which sounds like a The Human League album title.

It’s £5.99 on iTunes (for some reason it looks like track 1 is missing on that listing but if you buy the album you still get it) and Google Play.

Edit: Looks like Apple have fixed it.

Series 28 starts tonight at 7:55pm UK on France 2. Edit: 8pm now by the looks of things thanks to the laissez-faire way French television operates, apparently. Don’t worry, the wacky goings on of Parents Mode d’Emploi are still on.

No VPN? OK Live TV will probably be alright, you may find better. Naughty streaming is on your own head. This link seems to work alright but you’ll want some ad-blocking – click at your own risk. Edit edit: That link was decent quality but one of its ads made my antivirus go off so please be careful if you use it in future.

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