Don’t forget that this Saturday is our usual Schlag-cast, and I’m now taking volunteers for Bother’s Bar Game Night 19 panellists for 13th June, please leave a message or drop me a DM. Don’t just respond to a tweet because I might forget about it. You’ve got until next Thursday to put your hat into the ring.

Anyway, The Sun reporting that ITV are signing up Gino “Sheffield” d’Acampo for a reboot of non-all star Family Fortunes. He’ll probably say something accidentally inappropriate, it’ll be great.

Gino also recently hosted the surprise gritty reboot of Win Your Wish List on Five. He was alright at it, actually.

Some upcoming Bother’s Bar Community Streams (BBCS) for you to put into your diaries:

• Schlag den Star Watchalong – 6th June – Join us for a watchalong of popular German Schlag den Brig tribute show Schlag den Star, this month featuring Dutch model on model action with Sylvie Meis vs Lilly Becker.
• Bother’s Bar Game Night 19 I Think – 13th June – I don’t want to get anyone too excited and I don’t want to raise anyone’s expectations, but I’ve got a feeling this episode’s Arbitrary Final might be the ULTIMATE combination of skill and luck, surpassing even that of The Road to Sortition. I’ll be open for panellist submissions from midweek, right now we need to be Discord friends (BrigBother #9399) as the direct messaging feature is important.

Did you know Bother’s Bar has a Discord? We don’t use it for anything much but you’re welcome to have a look at it anyway.

Edit: Voting in the semi-finals for The People’s Ben Justice’s Top 100 Gameshows of All Time is now open, voting closes Sunday.

Star Wars Jedi Temple Challenge starts on Youtube next week (June 3rd) after originally being designed as a Disney+ thing, and it looks actually pretty good.

I’m not a Star Wars person and so the lore stuff is likely to grate, but it sounds like it’s been inspired by good shows like The Crystal Maze, Raven and Jungle Run. Nice to see an adventure show that looks like it’s got a budget at any rate.

Incidentally, a new series of Britain’s Brightest Celebrity Family starts tonight on ITV at 8pm.

I’ve spent many evenings during lockdown playing along with Ash the Bash (Wednesday and Friday) and Royal Flu$h’s (Tuesday and Saturday) Twitch gameshow streams and this Saturday they’re doing a charidee marathon of sorts, most of which you can interact with in the Twitch chat. Do drop in as and when, it should be a lot of fun – all subs and bits given on the day will be going to charity. Starts midday UK. Can also donate directly here.

If you missed The Rock’s physical game last year you will be able to watch it on Netflix in the UK from next weekend – the games and set are genuinely impressive looking, but I hope you like inspirational backstory because there’s a looooot of it:

It’s a shame then that it feels like so much of it feels like it’s given over to each contestant’s “inspiring” backstory, over the course of the two hours you’ll see up to 16 video pieces (for whatever reason, one game was just a highlights package in the second of last night’s tournaments). If you add to that the 20% of the show given over to Dwayne Johnson being just a great guy, that means we have a frustrating situation where the key centrepieces, the events, begin to feel a bit like unwelcome guests at their own party.

Me talking about The Titan Games last year

This probably isn’t accidental timing, the second series of the show begins tomorrow (Monday) night on NBC and it appears to have become a pro-am tournament, with the winners of each of the best-of-three match-ups taking on a professional athlete on Mount Olumpus to become the reigning Titan. Here’s a ten minute sneak peek:

Edit: Or at least there was one, The Rock’s made it private.