Show Discussion: Celebrity Murder Mystery

By | March 28, 2020
The Cluedo lineup we the nation needs, no, *deserves* right now.

Friday/Saturday, 9pm
Five

Forgive us for the late post, it had completely slipped our minds.

Six celebrities (Su Pollard, Sheila Ferguson, the Rev Richard Coles, Keith Duffy, Angela Rippon and John Sergent and are dropped into a period murder mystery investigation and must use their wits to try and work out who the killer is.

We’ll probably be all over this when we watch it (it’s only two parts so shouldn’t take long), but even if it’s rubbish we kind of approve of the Koreanisation of TV entertainment, so that’s good.

Any good? Let us know in the comments.

Win Tom Scott’s Money

By | March 23, 2020

Here’s something that we’ve been looking forward to for a while, Tom Scott Presents: Money, a game theory challenge I did a runthrough for.

Here’s the thing: to watch it right now you need access to Nebula, via CuriosityStream, which costs $2.99 a month. I know, it’s yet another video subscription service.

The good news: Tom Scott fans can get 31 days free.

It was super interesting to be a part of, so I look forward to seeing how it finally turned out.

Round Brit-dan Quiz

By | March 22, 2020

If you missed our Schlag Watchalong last night, one of the fun things that came out of it was Dan Peake’s Round Britain Quiz. It’s not a show I have much experience of, and it sounds like the real show on radio is rather less fun, but I really enjoyed this.

Bother’s Bar Schlag den Star Watchalong 21/3/20

By | March 21, 2020

Saturday, 7:15pm (UK) 8:15 (CET),
Pro Sieben and naughty internet streaming

Yo, what are you doing this evening? Not much these days I bet! So why not join us as two celebs battle it out for €100,000 in an empty studio across fifteen mystery games, one of which will be Blamieren oder Kassieren, live on German television?

As ever we will have our Discord open for live chat and quizzing and gossip and stuff, the link will appear here once we go live. Remember it’s a privilege not a right so behave yourselves. To avoid cutting out, we advise turning Auto-sensitivity off and setting it to -85dB or so in your settings.

TONIGHT! Influencer Demi Bee takes on replacement contestant actress and singer Jasmin Wagner. Rita Ora is providing music.


The link to the Youtube commentary stream will be live here from 7:15pm until end of broadcast.

This stream is commentary only. You will need to have a naughty stream running at the same time for the visuals. We are likely to be about 15-20 seconds behind the visual stream (and about a full minute behind if you’re watching an actual satellite feed), sorry.

The Opera VPN has apparently stopped being useful for SdS. Bother’s Bar recommends shelling out for a proper VPN service. Bother’s Bar uses ExpressVPN, other VPN services are available. Matt Clemson recommends Windscribe as a free alternative. We cannot take responsibility for anything you do to your system, so be careful and use some common sense.

To watch it would be useful to sign up for ProSieben’s catch-up service – it’s pretty simple to work out, don’t click the box if you don’t want e-mail messages. You will need to put in a proper e-mail because it will send you a confirmation. 

If anyone knows of any relatively safe livestreams, do feel free to share.

Eurovirus Song Contest

By | March 18, 2020

CANCELLED.

Hmm.

Meanwhile, to answer the question “why don’t they just do a satellite version”…

https://twitter.com/CardCaptorKaren/status/1240278437551640576

The official statement and FAQ is linked here.

With apologies for the amount of comment jumping a post with lots of tweets in it will have.