Here’s some fun, take on celebrities in quizzes on the BBC Taster site. They’re best of five.
There’s a slightly annoying thing where if you take your cursor of the screen the player buttons stop you from hitting the C option. Still though.
Was there, or was there not, an MSN webseries a bit like this where you took celebrities on in a general knowledge quiz?
In other news, episode five of The Genius is now up.
Tuesdays, 10pm,
Dave
Greg Davies sets absurd tasks and challenges to five comedians whilst Alex Horne assists and keeps score. They’re playing for each other’s prized possessions.
Likely to err more on the side of comedy than game, but it also sounds like The Sort Of Thing We Might Like so what frankly are you going to do about it? It sounds likely to appeal to the sorts of you who may remember We Need Answers on BBC4 a while back, and Horne has suggested in interviews that The Crystal Maze and The Cube are inspirations – if it’s an hour’s worth of Shooting Stars-esque endgames, I think I can get along with that (tasks suggested to have come up so far include “eating a watermelon as fast as possible” and “painting a horse whilst riding a horse”).
Similarly to We Need Answers it was borne out of one of Horne’s Edinburgh Fringe shows, and it’s becoming increasingly apparent he seems to understand the genre pretty well.
There are a few things on today which may be of interest, but probably not interesting enough for full blown show discussion posts so…:
Guess This House – 12:30, ITV. Well someone was determined to pun the title (they were asking for contestants under the name Game of Homes), it’s a 12 Yard Production so I predict it’ll be completely workmanlike and basically fine and their self-aggrandizing Twitter feed will suggest it was 10 years in development or something. Two couples go round houses and try to value them and everything in it, the better they do the more time they get in the final property where one could walk away with £2,000. Saira Khan hosts. Edit: Respect for the holding-a-question-card promo shot!
Saturdays, 8pm(ish)
BBC One
I almost forgot about this but DON’T PANIC 12-YARD STAFF, I have remembered.
Families split by geography do a quiz to win cash and hopefully get a lovely reunion.
Nick Knowles hosts.
OK, I’m out this evening so I’m not going to get to watch until tomorrow, but it looks like the first ep of Science Channel in the US’ Race to Escape is online. Although I’m just getting a black screen at the moment, regardless of using dark magic or not.
I’m hoping it will eventually start working because it’s Very Much The Sort Of Thing We Like – two teams trapped in two identical puzzle rooms and have to solve puzzles to unlock the doors and escape winning up to $25,000 in the process. It’s the sort of thing people thought would make for a good TV show for a while, so I’m excited to see if the reality of the thought matches the fantasy.
You should probably expect spoilers in the discussion in the comments, I would advise posting the “can I get it to work” questions in this post here.
And if this is the sort of thing you’d like to do in real life (without the $25,000 top prize normally), you should give the Exit Games UK blog a look.
Thanks to FOTB Squared Eyes for the heads-up:
Blimey.
Note also three teams, the set looks a little bit the German one, I wonder how much inspiration has been taken from Null Gewinnt which I thought was a pretty good reversioning to make episodes self-contained although evidently not popular enough to get a second run, hopefully the Dutch one will do a bit better.
The show starts on Monday.