Ho, ho and indeed ho, it’s almost Christmas time and this proved quite interesting and useful last year so now the schedules are out, or will be out properly soon anyway, we can point you to things likely to be of interest during the festive fortnight. Right now this list is subject to change, nearer the time it will be pinned to the top so you’ll be able to find it easily.

The work-a-day stuff we’re probably not going to bother with, but if it’s a special or worthy of note I’ll include it.

This has been inspired by Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis’ Festive Forecaster, but thanks as ever to the Herodotus of Game Shows Daniel Hurst (play with his House of Games on X) for making the mental leap and coming up with the name. The list will be under a cut.

Sad to hear of the passing of Sandra Caron at the age of 89, The Crystal Maze was never the same without Mumsey. In lieu of a “best of Mumsey”, this video seems apposite.

In other news Dealvent starts tomorrow, at the bottom of that is a link to the Discord which will be worth your while joining as I’ve some tricks up my sleeve.

I’d like for things to be more exciting, but if ITV are repeating episodes of Deal of No Deal in the afternoons and it’s the end of November I’m not really sure what there is to be done really. Still, there’s always Netflix’s What’s In The Box? to look forward to (or not as the case may be) next month, and it’s interesting that the BBC are putting The Festive Finish Line in the Pointless slot for a bit, although a bit like when !mpossible took over, I think it’s a good auxillary player rather than a main event, although perhaps it’ll lean into fun more with celebrities playing.

Lots of Advent stuffs coming soon, Dealvent is returning, Daniel Hurst’s House of Games is returning, there may be some others as well so look out for those in the next few days.

Shaun Wallace off of The Chase has a new board game out, which isn’t The Chase but features the word Chase. I’ve just realised it’s from some guys who succeeded on Dragons’ Den, so that’s fun.

Yes there is still the intention for a Poll in January even if UKGameshows isn’t on its feet yet.

Edit: Oh! I’ve just been informed that Y Deis went out on S4C last night, so I’ll try and have a look tonight. It’s on BBC iPlayer with English subs, apparently.

…and nobody cares.

Series 3 was commissioned at the same time.

I thought I’d post this here mainly because I found it funny, Youtube comedy duo The Isolation Creations’ main schtick is dressing up as 80s and 90s celebs and taking them off and as such their main appeal is likely to be the older end of my audience, so if you enjoy this have a look at their other stuff on their Youtube channel.

It’s The Celebrity Traitors Unaired Pilot.