Hurrah!

Here’s the press release:

The multi-award winning family entertainment show Wild Things is returning to Sky 1 this March for a brand new 10 x 60 series. Once again it will feature couples working together to complete the hilarious Wild Things challenge.

The format involves one member of each team becoming a Wild Thing, a giant woodland furry creature. This also means they are unable to see a thing, so they must rely upon their partner to guide them through a series of physical comedy challenges in order to win a £10,000 prize.

Wild Things delighted audiences throughout its first and second series, which saw presenters Jason Byrne and Kate Humble guide us through some of the most bizarre physical challenges to hit TV screens. The exciting news is that this year each episode will also feature a very special celebrity challenge.

This seasons celebrity duos are: Joe Swash & Stacey Solomon, Keith Duffy & Brian McFadden, Scotty T & Marnie Simpson, Pussy cat Dolls Kimberly Wyatt & Ashley Roberts, Anthea Turner & Bobby Davro, Dick n’ Dom from Da Bungalow,  Lauren Goodgder & Heavy D, Michael Underwood & Angelica Bell, Radio 1’s Dev & Ashley James , Comedians Hal Cruttenden & Mark Watson.

If you want to see celebrity hissy fits, egos getting quite literally bashed and famous faces covered in muck then make sure you do not miss this!

Episode 1 of Wild Things broadcasts on Sunday 12^th March at 8:00pm on Sky 1

Sky channel 106, Virgin 109, Talk Talk TV 301

Wild Things is one of our favourite shows of the last few years, you can read our show discussions of series one and series two in the links.

The Nintendo Switch is out today, so let’s jump back 34 years to computer technology of 1983 with RTE’s Murphy’s Micro Quiz-m (no, not a clue what the -m is all about), kind of a proto First Class meets Ask the Family, but with quite good prizes and buzzer noises. Thanks to David for the heads-up.

You can get ready for 65 minutes of playalong appability for 5 Gold Rings on Sunday by downloading the official playalong app.

It’s free on Android.

Presumably it’s also (or will be also) on the Apple Store as well. Edit: Link for Apple device.

Remember: if they ever mention the amount of people playing as a percentage, that means the numbers are disappointing.

As a reminder, we’ve seen the Dutch show, it’s OK.

It’s pancake day! That means it Shrove Tuesday. ‘Shrove’ derives from the word ‘shrive’, absolution through confession, so here’s an episode of Simon Mayo’s Confessions!

Look, our content diary is basically empty until 5 Golden Rings on Sunday.

I was alerted to this this morning and my initial thought was “blimey”. It’s an episode of La Chasse aux Trésors from Lorelei in Germany recorded in 1982. The final treasure is atop a large stone building. Most people would just use the stairs. Our skyrunner, Philippe de Dieuleveult, has a better idea, one you can’t imagine even Anneka Rice would do. You can skip to about 50 minutes in.

Also quite fun is discovering in the video notes that the skyrunner for the short-lived German version, Rätselflug, was none other than German TV legend and long-running host of Wer wird Millionär? Gunther Jauch.