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What’s the best chair in gameshows?

By | February 25, 2024

Is it John McEnroe’s chair? Probably not. Is it the Mastermind Chair? Naah. Is it the seat from Tout le monde veut prendre sa place? Nah. It’s David Jensen’s wicked robotic seat from World Wise. Who doesn’t fancy a go on this? 1985, never been bettered. Which is sad really. Keep an eye on that… Read More »

Physical 100: This Time It’s In A Mine

By | February 21, 2024

Fans of surprise breakout hit and watching-things-happen-multiple-times-but-from-different-angles, Physical 100: Underground, season two of the physically demanding Really Nicely Korean Produced Mysterious Voice Guided Elimination Game, starts dropping on Netflix from March 19th. We really enjoyed the first series.

Mike And A Mechanic

By | February 19, 2024

This is our future for the next two or three years isn’t it? ‘X… but with a traitor mechanic.’ The Chosen Ten sounds a bit like ‘The Question Jury… but with a traitor mechanic’. Was extremely tempted to title this post “Unantenmous” as an in-joke for longer-term readers.

Merch

By | February 16, 2024

I am absolutely fascinated by this, The CheapShow podcast are doing an episode on the original Gladiators board game and I’m trying to work out how the hell I missed this as a twelve year old or whatever. At that sort of age I’d have absolutely scoured the toys and games bit of the Argos… Read More »

Some Things For The Weekend

By | February 10, 2024

Or a weekend anyway. First of all this weekend, Holger on the Discord will be streaming the latest series of Wer stiehlt mir die show? variously live on Sunday nights (from tomorrow) or delayed on Tuesday nights going forward (check the Events Tab in the Discord for dates). Who’s Stealing The Show is basically the… Read More »

Dead or Alive

By | February 8, 2024

So here’s some fun spotted on the Discord last night. Non-hit Survivor UK, which was casting for a POTENTIAL second series and was due to close its inbox for applications next Friday, has mysteriously shut early – it’s disappeared from the BBC site, and the online portal has a message suggesting it’s closed/paused. Two possible… Read More »