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A nice problem to have

By | January 25, 2025

7.2m overnight for the Traitors final last night, and 4.8m for Uncloaked immediately afterwards (surely making it the highest rating chatshow effectively of the modern era). Incredible. The main show will certainly be over 10m in +7. And this leaves the BBC with actually a bit of a problem I think – at some point… Read More »

J Nash

By | January 23, 2025

Not gameshow or formats really but important to the site nonetheless so indulge me, extremely sad to hear about the passing of legendary Future Publishing writer (amongst other things) Jonathan Nash, a man who encapsulated more than anyone why I loved computer magazines, specifically Future Publishing ones, in the 90s, someone I was thrilled to… Read More »

You could also do this for much less money with any deck of playing cards

By | January 21, 2025

Last night we discovered The Traitors Shop, for all your backstabbing needs. Their big front page item right now: Death Match, the absolutely thrilling elimination card game as seen on TV. The box suggests four players, the description suggests 4-6 players, it also suggests 15 Death cards and a Life card so really you could… Read More »

Poll update

By | January 20, 2025

The votes have been counted. There will be a wailing and gnashing of teeth. Eyebrows will get raised. And you’ll find out exactly what you’ve voted for next Monday (27th Jan) just after 9pm (that’s after Quizzy Monday finishes on BBC2). The main write-up will be on ukgameshows.com, the more detailed numbers and longer tails… Read More »

Upcoming Attractions

By | January 15, 2025

We are so over 2024, what have we got to look forward to in 2025? Well we’ve scoured the ticket sites, this is what we’ve found thus far: Of course The Wisdom of the Crowd, the idea that if you average out the guesses of loads of people it tends to be fairly accurate, is… Read More »

VOTING OVER!

By | January 13, 2025

The voting for the UKGameshows.com/Bother’s Bar Poll of 2024 has now closed. Thanks very much for all your votes. It will take a week or two to collate everything and write it up so look out for the results in due course. For expectation management, we probably aren’t going to be able to do a… Read More »