There’s a new ITV adventure show casting (I’ll stick my neck out here – likely to be ITV2) promising BIG MONEY for you and four friends if you fancy it (that link won’t work because it’s just a cut and paste poster, but this one should) :

You can click on the poster if you want to make it bigger. Closing date is Friday week. The last time an adventure show was advertised in mysterious circumstances it was Release the Hounds, we don’t believe this to be it unless they’re changing the format to match the new German version. We don’t know what this is but then stepping into the unknown is the basic definition of an adventure isn’t it? So there we are.

I’m playing cards today, so apropos of nothing, here’s an episode of Knights and Warriors. 

We did a thing on this years ago.

I say Superbowl Special, I’ve got no idea who is in it or anything. Anyway it’s the first Sunday of the month so that means it’s time for the Bother’s Bar Monthly Game, $5 +.50 to play, a $5 rebuy available within the first hour and if you survive the first hour there’s a $5 add-on allowed as well. Join us, it’ll be fun and it all starts at 8pm (ten minutes late registration allowed). You’ll need to be part of the Bother’s Bar Poker Club on Pokerstars to play – this is free, but I’ll need to accept you before you can register for the tournament so don’t hang around. All the details are here.

If you can’t make this one put March 2nd in your diary for the next one.

So we’ve actually had a basic inkling of this show for a while, but someone’s tipped us off with some more exciting details. Basically the new Remarkable ITV1 show intended for the 4pm Tipping Point slot is called Ejector Seat, and sounds like a chess-clock quiz meets Graham Norton’s Big Red Chair – your seat moves along a track until you give a right answer, and if the track runs out you flip over backwards. Prize around £10k, live studio audience. Too slapstick for 4pm? We’ll see. Host is yet to be named, although the press release is coming soon.

So there we are.

Some new shows are filming in the next few months. Maybe we’ll go and see them! Or maybe we just won’t bother:

• The Totally Senseless Gameshow is recording for BBC3 at Wimbledon Studios on 21st Feb. Seems to have a disabled slant. “if you have ever wondered what your favourite celebrity looked like dressed as a giant baby playing table tennis with their hands tied behind their back, then this is the show for you.” (Tickets SRO)
• Amazing Greys: Paddy McGuinness challenges the youth of today to take on talented old people at their own game. Pilot review: “It was a pleasant enough experience but not really a must watch,” although you never know. Filming 25th Feb and variously in March at ITV Studios. (Tickets SRO)
• Keep It In The Family: It’s that Bradley Walsh reboot of Your Kids Are In Charge that the nation has been crying out for. Filming ITV Studios on 17th Feb. (Tickets: Applause Store)
• Big Star’s Little Star: Second series of Stephen Mulhern’s celebs and their kids quiz. Filming 16th-22nd Feb at Wembley. (Tickets Lost in TV)

The penultimate Millionaire is on tonight. Chris Tarrant is doing a fifteen-year retrospective on Feb 11th.

ITV2’s Release the Hounds, fresh from winning a six episode order, is being remade for Germany’s ProSieben under the title Scream! If You Can. It’ll have five contestants and a two hour runtime. I thought the one-off around Halloween last year was a bit disappointing but I’m happy it’s getting another chance to realise its potential. Don’t stuff it up, Gogglebox.

And finally forget the Superbowl this Sunday, the REAL event is the Bother’s Bar Poker Monthly, 8pm start, all the details here.