It’s the Edinburgh TV Festival! Where the good and the great in the world of TV meet up to discuss how brilliant they all are.
In lieu of literally anything worthwhile, here are some talking points. If you click the tweets you should be able to see the responses:
And here’s one I like to call “The Rising Value of Stirling”, a variant of which I’ve called my Fantasy Football team this year:
The Crystal Maze Live Experience is a great deal of fun, but if you want ten seconds *more* fun with ten seconds extra in the Dome (chances are you’ve probably won enough crystals for about a minute anyway) then you can! By purchasing a Megacrystal for the princely sum of £15.50. On top of the £400 or whatever you’re paying for a team of eight.
That’s £1.55 a second. Blimey.
Saturday 9pm-11:30pm,
Here and on Youtube
GAME NIGHT ABANDONED.
Sorry, we ran into technical issues too hard for us to get over this evening. I will sleep on it to try and work it out and try again in a week or two.
Here’s some fun, I’m on Fingers on Buzzers this week talking to the lovely Lucy and Jenny about running the Bar and that. Also this week featuring Paul Ross!
You can listen to it here, or subscribe on your podcast provider of choice.
They’ve done some good stuff lately, have been enjoying their history of quiz and interviews with prominent behind the scenes staff.
If you’ve come here from the podcast, hello! You join us in a particularly dull period of the industry. Why not join us for Game Night live tomorrow from 9pm?
And to celebrate, Jackbox have put (almost) their entire back catalogue on Humble Bundle, so you can pick up Jackboxes 1-4, Fibbage XL, Drawful 2 and nine US You Don’t Know Jack games for about £15. Steam only, but you can’t argue it isn’t good value. With thanks to the various people who have alerted me to this.
In the meantime, here’s an episode of Go For It! from 1989 which has just surfaced on Youtube from a very good archive channel.
I remember a slightly older version of it with families and bags of sugar were involved somewhere, although I’d also be about five or six at the time so probably not reliable. Amused by how arbitrary it all is. Plus! Dr Alan Marion Davies! Of “whatever happened to him” fame!
Apparently set in some sort of Land of the Giants.