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Dead Chiffres et Dead Lettres

By | May 5, 2024

It’s being reported in the French press that Des Chiffres et Des Lettres is finally being put to pasture (or out of its misery depending on your point of view) after fifty years. That’s really not bad going considering it’s basically spent the last twenty years of its existence fighting to stay on the screen,… Read More »

This is quite a boring week

By | April 29, 2024

Next week you’ve got The Finish Line series two (BBC1 weekdaily), Double the Money (C4 Thursday), I Kissed A Girl (BBC3 (Sunday), a week of Beat the Chasers (ITV1 weeknightly) and of course The Eurovision Song Contest (BBC1, Tues/Thurs/Sat). This week: Na-da. Nothing. Same old. So here’s a regular feature from the Discord, some BARB… Read More »

Don’t Hate The Player

By | April 21, 2024

Over the weekend we’ve ended up watching all four eps of Adventure Line’s new French Netflix reality show Don’t Hate The Player (Mauvais Joueurs – Bad Players – in French). In it, a cast of 13 players hosted by Claude off of Koh-Lanta travel to Mexico to take part in a “social experiment”, one winner… Read More »

We are 20

By | April 19, 2024

That’s right, happy birthday to us and what an exciting time to be a gameshow website, a dying genre in a dying medium. What does the future hold? Spoiler: it will probably a bit like how it is at them moment, with infrequent updates when new shows come on, new videos to promote, poll results… Read More »

The 8 Show

By | April 11, 2024

This looks Very Much The Sort Of Thing We Like, a new Format Of Death K-Drama starting on Netflix 17th May, apparently based on the web series Money Game. What’s on Netflix, via AsianWiki, has the plot down thus: “8 people in need of money are invited to appear on reality variety show Money Game.… Read More »