If you’re free on Sunday night around 9-10pm BST, we’ll be “doing” some Among Us on the Bother’s Bar Discord – just turn up in the voice channel and play. We’ll be playing on the new map just released. Places limited to ten spots.
In other news, Bother’s Bar Game Night returns on Sunday 2nd May for a Council Election Special, I’ll be asking for potential panellists next week. In my head, the Arbitrary Final is a *cracker*.
You can recreate the titles of TV’s Fort Boyard in some fashion with the new France and Benelux update of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Speaking of, filming for the next series starts next month so it’s almost time to find out what this year’s innovations/things they’ve nicked from other shows are. Exciting!
Sally Lindsay takes over Tenable at 3pm today, hosting the remaining 25 episodes of the series.
What other examples of gameshow job sharing can we come up with? Off the top of my head:
To be clear, not interested in co-hosts or indeed guest hosts, we want shows that had different regular lead hosts during the same series.
Saturday, 7:30,
ITV
It’s Fremantle vs Fremantle talent smackdown on Saturday night as ITV takes on I Can See Your Voice with Game of Talents. Is that meant to be a zeitgeisty take on Game of Thrones? Nobody seems sure.
Anyway this is getting very excited about being a gameshow and a talent show which somebody clearly thought was a COMPLETELY MENTAL idea, and has already described itself as a “show like no other” so that’s already two, maybe three blots on its copy book. On the plus side, it’s been a hit in Spain and it marks Vernon Kay’s return to primetime – it’s been six years since All-Star Family Fortunes finished, incredibly.
Two civilian/celebrity teams try and work out the (eight given) talents of people just by looking at them and some additional clues – it’s Identity basically. The value of each guess is determined by mystery cash balls ranging from £500 to £10,000, with £20k and £50k balls being added as the game progresses. The team with the most money get the chance to win it by guessing which one of four people the final talent applies to.
This seems designed to be extremely Youtube friendly, and will probably live or die on the did-you-see-THAT?-ability of the acts on show and how they can sustain that throughout. Let us know what you think in the comments.
Saturday, 7:20,
BBC1
From the Koreans who bought you The Genius here’s the BBC’s new singing non-singing singing show. TV’s Hardest Working Man 2021 Paddy McGuinness asks a pair of contestants to work out which of the singers in front of them can actually sing and which ones are tone deaf, by watching them do everything other than actually sing. If they can correctly eliminate the bad singers and identify a good singer at the end, they take home £10,000 – but if the final decision is a bad singer then that singer wins the £10,000 all to themselves.
Jimmy Carr, Alison Hammond and Amanda Holden are on hand to help as well as a guest singer.
Watched it? Let us know what you think in the comments.
We were catching up with The Great British Bake Off For Stand Up To Cancer yesterday night featuring Anneka Rice, and it opened with a Treasure Hunt take-off. In December 2022, Treasure Hunt, one of Channel 4’s most iconic shows, will be FORTY years old. Surely this calls for a one-off special? Richard Osman said he’d have loved to have done an 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Treasure Hunt episode – he might not be a producer anymore but this seems like a pretty fun idea to run with.