It’s Halloween! And what better way to celebrate than to get some young adults to go and explore old abandoned buildings on their own and let them psyche themselves out. If they stick it out to the end they win money.
Channel 4 (I think?) showed the pilot episode of this and I really enjoyed it, two series were made for MTV in the US around 2001. Thanks to a messageboard I frequent pointing out this really interesting interview with the producers.
Here are a load of episodes on Youtube.
CBS is working on a US version of A League of Their Own….
https://deadline.com/2019/10/cbs-remake-james-corden-a-league-of-their-own-1202773343/
(Not sure about this- maybe not the right fit; though I have been surprised the US has never tried to do A Question of Sport…)
A promo pic of the u.s version of the crystal maze appears in this magazine which is free to download.
https://tbivision.com/magazine/tbi-unscripted-october-november-2019/
What’s next- Solitaire?
https://deadline.com/2019/10/minesweeper-competition-tv-series-obb-pictures-microsoft-1202773042/
Woooooooowsers. Strategy… but also atheleticism!
It’s Candy Crush all over again, basically. And here’s what we thought of that: https://www.bothersbar.co.uk/?p=10165
Don’t give them ideas
Meanwhile in Belgium- Blokken (Tetris the gameshow) aired episode 5400 today…
Fear was good. The theme song alone terrified me, as did the show as a whole.