Oh God, if I didn’t already have too much to do and too little time, I’ve discovered that TVE have have got some interesting stuff in their archive, including A la Caza del Tesoro from 1984 (That’s Treasure Hunt). The theme tune is quite Depeche Mode.
Anyway, do have a look around and see if you can see anything interesting. I know La noche de los castillos is likely to fall into the “sort of thing we like” section.
Also if you missed Joe’s thing, the new show where the host tries to put off the contestants is called Control although it sounds like it’s been reswizzed a bit – Christine Bleakley is fronting it, but it soiunds like she’s not really the baddy, Control is. Not, presumably, the Control off of the old Fry and Laurie sketches ha ha ha HA, two pilots film in a fortnight.
I’m watching A Night At The Castle now, it’s amusingly dramatic although twenty minutes in I’ve no clue what’s happening.
OOH, IT’S THE BADDIE.
They seem to have to earn gold for some reason.
For some reason I’ve been watching Castillos and wondering how Splinter Cell would work as a gameshow. I dunno why, it’s completely the wrong theming.
Right, apparently this is the second part of the show, and the first part is actually kinda like Le piste du Xapatan with 3 teams.
If Google translate of the Wiki page is right, they have to collect gold to melt into a key to free the princess kept captive by Big Nasty Man, Torque, who comes out every so often to make the players’ games that bit trickier.
It appears to be very storyline-heavy, which is probably why I skipped that entire masquerade bit, expecting a lot of stuff I wouldn’t get.
Also the endgame appears to have the people who came 3rd in the Xapatan-bit on the 3rd level of the tower and the people who came 2nd on it on the 2nd level. Counter-intuitive, surely?
Yes I’ve seen that first part somewhere, basically three teams in jeeps trying to negotiate a sort of vehicular based obstacle course.