Given there have been far fewer Vital Statisticians over the show’s almost forty year run than actual hosts, this is rather fun. Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, who did a great job on the Black to Front special, is covering Rachel Riley’s maternity.
IIt’ll be interesting to see how she fits in with Cats Does Countdown if that continues as we won’t have the extra-curricular knowledge to make jokes about we do with Riley.
Studio Lambert to remake De Verraders for the BBC (as The Traitors):
It’s an adventure game very similar to Werewolf/Mafia and its ilk – an informed minority take on an uninformed majority – the team earn silver bars by completing adventure challenges, they vote out one of their own (who they believe to be one of the three traitors) meanwhile at night the traitors decide on who to “kill”. At the end the people left do a split or steal decision (YAY) to determine who wins what. Hopefully Studio Lambert can redefine the Prisoner’s Dilemma genre. Hopefully it’ll be as good as their Race Across the World.
The English Wiki page is here. Quite interestingly for a hidden role game, the whole thing’s done largely from the perspective of the Traitors, you as a viewer won’t need to figure it out.
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Ian Rankin has killed someone on a Scottish Island and eight amateur sleuths will spend six episodes trying to answer the question whodunnit? Of course Iain Rankin hasn’t actually murdered anyone and no actual murder has taken place, this is a fictional world he’s written that our real contestants, with the help of the real police and actors, will have to figure out for £50,000.
If this sounds a bit like The Murder Game… you’re right! But unlike with a proper real-life investigation we don’t think the people with the poorest procedural skills will get sent out to their deaths. We quite enjoyed The Murder Game‘s slightly ridiculous gothic-y ambience, and the guy who was rubbish but basically won by flipping heads six times in a row. Whilst I suspect this is probably going to err on the side of procedural realism, we hope there’s enough atmosphere and frequent revelation to keep us hooked.
The Murder Game was EIGHTEEN years ago if you want to feel old. Since then Armchair Detectives has had a stab (as it were) at the real-people-solving-fictional-cases a few years back but we can’t think of much else off of the top of our heads. Most TV detective dramas come to a conclusion within 1-2 hours, will we be glued for six? Let us know what you think in the comments.
Yes you ARE correct to dig the graphic design.
We completely forgot to watch David Mitchell’s Outsiders that started on Dave last night, basically Taskmaster In Tents by the sounds of it, and opinions have run the gamut from “boring” to “OK” to “much better and funnier than anticipated”, so I look forward to catching up with that in due course.
Anyway for some reason it got me thinking about pretty good outward bound survival show Bare Necessities on BBC2 around the turn of the millennium, hosted by apparent patron saint of Bother’s Bar Ed Hall and Hugh McManners, where two teams of office worker-y types would be set survival/camping challenges and awarded points by survival expert McManners (usually they’d be docked points for self-inflicted wounds i.e. the reason they’re hungry is because they refused to skin a rabbit, that sort of thing), hoping to have a time advantage for a final challenge which would determine if their final night was in a nice hotel or once again in a tent.
Rather nicely, there’s an episode on Youtube look.
Pondering if Metro have broken an embargo as nobody else seems to have reported it yet, but quiz giant (and The Chase question writer) Olav Bjortomt is apparently the new Egghead. It starts on Monday at 6:30pm on Five.
The article suggests it’s in the Radio Times, so perhaps not.