Well I hope that went well for you. I managed to watch roughly half of the things I intended on watching, but my Christmas hero was the Stellify PR person trying to get people to switch from Gavin and Stacy to Millionaire on Twitter last night.
Tonight (Boxing Day) there’s The Big Fat Quiz of the Year which is usually acceptably entertaining.
Anyway the thing that’s mostly been amusing me the last few days is Youtube Channel Playstation Access’ The Christmas Maze. Effectively a daily series of 45 minute let’s plays with some sort of challenge element (thus far a treasure hunt in Skyrim, a Crash Bandicoot whilst eating chillis task, and trying to play Metal Gear Solid blindfolded), it’s quite neatly done with regards to the split between the people playing and reaction from team mates watching next door, intermixed with the host getting bored and hoping they hurry up because he wants his lunch. It’s a giggle.
While on the subject of online gameshows, the channel rooserteeth has started a gameshow called chump.
https://youtu.be/jdVeeoUcbfo
It’s a person is lying style with enough variety between the rounds to make it entertaining.
here’s a newer promo for US CM…
https://youtu.be/m1nK3MobuDw
Interesting find on netflix, a french gameshow called until dawn (no relation to the video game of the same name)
The netflix description says “France’s funniest comics carry out ghastly tasks as they try to outlast and outwit one another while overnighting in haunted locations”
The trailer looks interesting and it seems the contestants will try and get the others out as the trailer shows one person that found the mains to the taps to make it seem the water turned itself on by itself.
Comes on netfllix January 10th
https://www.netflix.com/title/81074060
Great spot! Really like the look of this.
How on earth did you find the link to the Cornucopia page on the Cyberdrome Crystal Maze which you Tweeted? Anyway, thank you very much for sharing it, it’s brilliant. Interesting to see the suggestion that there was at least some investigation into a counterpart Noel’s House Party attraction, and I’d be curious to know whether that interplayed with the short-lived and fairly disastrous Crinkley Bottom parks.
Thank @babbageslockup.
The link BTW http://www.cornucopia.co.uk/?page_id=777
There’s a version of Cyberdrome Noel’s House Party that writes itself fairly easily when you remember that one of the few format points that lasted was Grab A Grand, and there was an element of trying to earn extra time in which to grab the notes. It’s pretty easy to reskin The Crystal Dome to Grab A Grand (with a box rather than a dome) and then play all sorts of games, some adapted from the show and others not, to earn extra time for it.