Netflix Stats and Chill

By | December 12, 2023
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Oooohhhhh this is interesting, going forward Netflix will be releasing stats twice a year for all shows that have been watched 50,000 hours or more and the first tranche, representing January – June 2023 can be found here.

Suddenly I have completely forgotten what shows are on Netflix and when they released, but some numbers that caught my eye:

Physical 100, released 24/1/23 – 235.0m hours
Siren: Survive the Island, released 30/5/23 (so only one month’s ratings) – 11.7m
Cheat Season 1, released 1/3/23 – 6.5m
Too Hot to Handle Germany Season 1, released 28/2/23 – 40.2m
Too Hot to Handle Season 4, released 7/12/22 – 42.6m
Love is Blind Series 4, released 24/3/23 – 229.7m
Nailed It Season 7, released 5/10/22 – 5.1m
The Mole, released 7/10/2022 – 24.0m
Dance 100 Season 1, released 17/3/23 – 16.6m
Squid Game Season 1, released 17/9/21 – 87.2m

Thinking Cheat wouldn’t do especially well is mainly right with a caveat – it’s just inside the Top 3,000 for the period, but that’s out of 18,000 items total (and that’s the stuff that made 50k hours plus). It’s clear to see what sort of content draws the big numbers though, and it’s not that – in actual fact it’s the lowest performer of any Netflix original added that week bar one, and something doesn’t open lower worldwide until Agent Elvis over a fortnight later. The Mole has done well quite given that you’d assume its peak period would be the three months before it would count in this chart, and that it is a fairly poor version of The Mole.

Anything else catch your eye?

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

By | December 4, 2023
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And there’s not much worth bothering to write about.

It sounds like Jeopardy‘s launching New Year’s Day and Wheel of Fortune is launching January 6th. We reckon The Traitors is launching first week in Jan and will once again be three-nights-a-week.

The Poll of the Year will launch 2nd January as it tradition. If things are missing from the New Shows list do shout so we can add them in time.

Lots of Advent games going on in The Social Medias, #dealvent, #wallvent (might be a bit late to join that one if you haven’t started) and #adventcalendarofgames all Things That Are Happening.

Cold innit?

Edit: New Year’s Day has Riddiculous starting 3:45, The Chase 4:45 and Jeopardy 5:45pm. Presuming they all move to 3/4/5 for the rest of the week, but I don’t know in what order.

Apply for The Genius, if you want.

By | November 28, 2023
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I thought applications opened a while ago, however there seems to be a new push – knock yourselves out.

Dealvent 2023

By | November 24, 2023
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In 2021 I mused on Twitter AS IT WAS BACK THEN that wouldn’t it have been a good idea if there was a Deal or No Deal advent calendar? You have the natural daily box opening, perhaps there could be a bank offer behind some of the numbers, absolute easy cash-in from all involved. THEN Dan Peake thought that was a fun idea, let’s do it for real. Two successful years later it’s spawned a TV revival.

Well, it’s BACK for 2023, albeit this time it’s going to be not on Twitter (as it is now). There’s a WEBSITE (dealvent2023.com) and there’s a Discord server. Members of the Bother’s Bar Discord will see announcements, but for hysterical banter I suggest signing up to the Dealvent Discord.

The game’s afoot! You’ve got until Tuesday to collectively decide on an envelope number on the website. Good luck, wait until you see what I’ve got in store for you!

To reveal that she’s actually your girlfriend, turn to page 45, to keep quiet turn to page 23

By | November 23, 2023
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The Traitors Interactive Game Book is out today. I wasn’t sure what to expect with it, so I was quite surprised to discover it’s basically a Choose Your Own Adventure gamebook as you negotiate your way through a game of The Traitors. There’s an interesting mechanic in that if you lose, you only have to go back to the beginning of that day rather than the beginning of the game, so no real need to hold your finger on the previous page in case you make a bad decision.

It also includes bonus content, the missions are replaced by various knock-off versions of popular social deduction games you can play with friends with a pack of cards and slips of paper.

The writing is quite witty, as you’d expect from The Word‘s Alan Connor, some quite amusing jokes and observations on What Other People Are Like from your perspective as a player.

I’ve only “done” Day One so far as it came out at midnight, but if that sounds interesting to you you can download it instantly on Kindle for a tenner, other bookshops are available.