I’m not sure how much content they’ll actually be across the next two years but it would be remiss not to have a web presence whilst Genius Game is going out and I do need to be able to say “well, I told you so” when Destination X launches, so I have renewed my package (missus), I had thought about jacking it all in earlier in the year but it turns out I don’t think I’m quite ready to retire just yet, even though literally no new shows are being made ever right now. I reserve the right to disappear in two years time and make a Stefan Raab-style comeback a decade later.
Edit: Basically expect blog content as and when I think it’s worth writing going forward, not unlike how it is currently sometimes with a week plus between posts. You’ve got TV Zone or whatever for news, and our Discord is where lots of the good up-to-the-minute discussion is. I am still on Twitter for now, but when that’s done I’m not joining Bluesky or whatever.
To celebrate here are some old shows! We will never ever ever say no to the possibility of Fred Dinenage (and Michelle Lambourne, to give her her very much overdue due) Gambit and it looks like two episodes have made themselves to Youtube recently (although thinking about it, I think that second one may have been flying about previously, but there is just so much Dinenage just saying the first thing that pops into his head in it and Peter Fenn’s organ playing I will never ever tire of watching it). I maintain Challenge are missing a trick not buying this up if the tapes still exist. Both apparently from 1981, but different series.
However I’ve recently got a new obsession and that it’s almost offensively 1980s Canadian quiz Guess What, a simple and fun enough multiple choice quiz premise hosted by actor Robin Ward who also does a line in “comments” except the Dinenage-style pointed comments come across quite aggressively rather than cheekily and really don’t sort of land very well half the time and I sort of can’t stop watching.