Broadcast reporting that ITV have commissioned words meets Mastermind meets bingo format Lingo, with Adil Ray to host. Congrats to Buzzerblog for spotting the contestant call out a few days ago and suggesting correctly it “sounded like Lingo“.
My main concern is that an hour of it feels like it might be a bit much. Still, though.
It’s not the first time the format has been tried in the UK, it’s fair to suggest it’s had much more success internationally.
Here’s fun and very likely to be of interest, we’ve very much been enjoying TV Cream’s Stays Indoors podcasts, in the latest episode TV’s David Bodycombe talks about the industry.
It’s available on all your usual podcasting sites, and here’s a direct link to the TV Cream page.
Thanks to the ever joyous Neil Miles Youtube channel, an episode of Game of War has surfaced, from 1997 back when Channel 4 was interesting. It’s a fairly dry re-enactment of famous battles done as a professionally run tabletop wargame – like a proto-Time Commanders, if you like, but with little of the spectacle. Angela Rippon hosts and provides news reports.
Here we are, the brand new Barnstorm app playtested. Sorry the sound is a bit low in the mix, it sounded fine in my headphones (and still does in my headphones, funnily enough). Android version tested.
Saturdays, 6:25pm,
ITV
Here we are then, Stephen Mulhern (almost wrote Merchant then, must be the heat) brand new (filmed a year ago) arcade machine quiz where three celeb/civilian pairs of contestants answer multiple choice questions and roll giant coins down a giant coin rolling machine in the hope of avoiding the bankrupts and going home with thousands and thousands of pounds.
We were at the pilot August 2018 and the game needed a fair amount of tightening up, but from a production value standpoint felt pretty much ready to go.
Watched it? Let us know what you thought in the comments.
Sure, why not.
Can I request a new post on the Bar?!
A random thought popped into my head with the news that Tipping Point is resuming in a socially distanced manner
‘Hosts that get rather friendly with contestants’
Bens hugs on Tipping Point and Les ‘put your arm around me’ Dennis are the starters for 10
John R, in a comment
The correct answer is Richard Dawson on Family Feud.