With all these BBPBs, you are really spoiling us! Yes it’s time to take a look at the EU release of Jeopardy! Playshow, out on XBox and Windows 10 Store as well as PS4. I’ve rigged it up to play across Discord and tonight I’ve been joined by TV’s David J Bodycombe and TV’s Alex McMillan, both giants of the TV quiz setting business, we specifically wanted Alex because we could also test out if it has issues with accents. What we discovered was hilarious, but probably not for the right reasons.

The starter game costs just over £20 and comes with 30 episodes. Handpicked packs of 10-13 episodes are available for a little over £8 each. It seems like quite an interesting way to monetise the back catalogue if nothing else.

Of course being a Plays Badly, the sound mix isn’t quite right, you can hear us fine but the actual game noise is way down in the mix, sorry.

Out today on XBox One, PS4, Switch and Steam (where it seems to be ten quid cheaper than everywhere else), it’s the new Who Wants to be a Millionaire game! From Microids!

TL;DW – the presentation is a bit crap, but the content doesn’t seem too bad to be fair.

Some fun news:

Thing is, I’m not sure of Bradley Walsh as host. I think he’s too nice and it requires someone who can undercut proceedings. I get why they’ve done it, he’s the nation’s sweetheart and he’ll laugh at the obvious innuendo… but when you think about old hosts, they don’t tend to laugh at it, they tend to play it with mock horror for laughs. It’s all very well sneaking into a middle-brow quiz like The Chase, on Blankety Blank where it’s expected it’s a different matter. Maybe it’ll end up being brilliant, who knows.

Do you know who’d be a really good potential host of Blankety Blank? Greg Davies.

I’ve got no idea what this is, other than FOTB Mad Monk (Gary Monaghan’s production company) uploaded it to Youtube recently. It’s in four parts, each about ten minutes, so presumably this is a commercial hour. In it, three guys and three gals go to the Love Cabin to find love, but it’s soon apparent not everything is how it appears. Happy Halloween.

I don’t know if this is a proof of concept or a pilot or what – as a reality show I think it requires too much suspension of disbelief, the contestants seem to get over the stuff that’s going on pretty quickly. As a Black Mirror-esque drama I’m completely up for it though. Most of Monaghan’s trademark silliness isn’t really apparent until the last five minutes, where it turns into Killer Camp.

I’ve been very much enjoying this series of The Wall, which is currently taking a break for a few weeks (presumably so Little Mix: The Search can catch up, although I don’t know. EDIT: Six Nations and Festival of Remembrance, it’s been suggested). Say what you like about the final reveal, and the criticisms are correct and fair, but I’ve shed more tears during that bit than anything else I can remember watching on telly in the last few years in a way that the similarly set-up The Exit List and For The Rest Of Your Life could only dream of.

Anyway I always really liked the credits music. And it turns out it’s on Youtube! There’s a four minute mix of Michael Lord’s suite of music for the show – omitting the ball dropping music unfortunately, but still.

Well it’s by Ginger Fox, but still.

£25 on the Amazon store (I get a small commission if you click through there, other outlets are available) and includes no fewer than AT LEAST EIGHT of the games from the hit TV series. And a cardboard cup.

It’s out October 30th.

Also currently in stock is a Taskmaster Expansion Pack (£12.99) for the board game with 40 new tasks and THIS:

Also out this week: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (Steam on Tuesday, consoles later in the week) and on Friday, the new edition of Schlag den Star on PC (and presumably consoles in Germany).