Password! Jeopardy! Wheel of Fortune! And now Pyramid‘s filming a pilot in Manchester on 25th September, £60k top prize, no word of host.
Trying to work out how £60k would work, there’s decent arguments for 30/30, 20/40 and 10/50 for two Winner’s Circles.
Edit: Oh, of interest, the advert suggests three teams.
Joe Sugg’s Virtually Impossible starts on Joe Sugg’s Youtube channel on September 24th, here’s a trailer claiming it’s the first physical gameshow in VR.
Lads it’s not even the first physical gameshow in VR that’s called Virtually Impossible, and that one made it to proper telly.
It looks pretty fun, though.
Not bad, good stance, but learn from the absolute Master of the Genre i.e. Paul Daniels, you’ve got to make the logo on the card clearer, don’t be embarrassed to sell your show, Stephen! 6.5/10.
If you want three shows to explain the TV landscape of the last 25 years, you’ve got Popstars, you’ve got Big Brother but you’ve mainly got Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, and today marks its 25th anniversary.
We must be due a new documentary on Charles Ingram, it’s been a few weeks since the last one.
We’re EXTREMELY EXCITED for this, as we understand it it’s basically The Genius Mk 2, and it’s out on Netflix on September 26th.
Perhaps The Devil’s Plan will be thing that gets The Genius UK across the line, although by then everyone will be talking about The Devil’s Plan, so that’s an exciting fillip.
In theory, in theory, going by a press release, Romesh and Tom Take on Takeshi’s Castle ought to launch tomorrow in the UK (August 30th), we’ve seen no promo for it at all. And now it looks like we’ll be getting the original Japanese dubs with subtitles on September 26th 27th now.
The quietness is a bit worrying isn’t it? One of our German correspondents suggests their dubbed version was nonsensical and pretty terrible (and sent us a link to this), about ten minutes of people failing the same thing before moving on, and a rather complex episode arc. Nobody watches Takeshi’s Castle for the complex narrative, but you also need light and shade – you need to be impressed by someone who can actually make the challenge occasionally, otherwise what’s the point? Hopefully our edit will be a bit smarter.
Edit: Rom and Tom’s Takeshi’s Castle is now up! Episodes about 40 minutes, so some sharp cuts to the Japanese ones.