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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 »

Laurie Holloway

By | January 10, 2025

Extremely sad to hear about the passing of Laurie Holloway at 86, those of us of a certain age will know him for his absolutely iconic foot-tapper theme tunes such as Game For A Laugh, Beadle’s About, Blind Date, but as is tradition we always like to illustrate with something a bit more obscure and… Read More »

Who doesn’t want it the least?

By | January 3, 2025

We’re three episodes into The Traitors and it’s as entertaining as it ever is, we’re three missions in and they’ve done a bold thing of tying them into the game a bit more – one involving the Traitors having to sabotage in order to murder which is a great added frisson except the producers will… Read More »

Poll of the Year 2024

By | January 2, 2025

Using the new fangled (it’s been here all the time) sticky post feature to annoy you into voting, the 20th running of our annual poll is now open! Details under the cut, you’ve got until the evening of Sunday 12th January to vote.