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The Blurb - Gaming is back on British TV.
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The Blurb from Ginx TV is returning to our screens on Monday 7th January at 11:00pm with a new presenter, Lizzie Huang.
It is on Challenge, so will be available on Freeview, Freesat, Sky and Virgin, with a repeat on Sunday morning at 10:00am.
It is on Challenge, so will be available on Freeview, Freesat, Sky and Virgin, with a repeat on Sunday morning at 10:00am.
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Having said that though, Charlie Brooker has confirmed they'll be doing more gaming related stuff on the new series of 'Wipe which starts quite soon.
It's safe to say I had some "issues" with the programme last time it was on, but happy to give it another go. Glad to see gaming back on TV and on a channel that pretty much everyone can get. It's a shame the Ginx TV channel never materialised.
I'm a big fan of Charlie so I'm looking forward to that.
Proper reviews, proper previews, proper gameplay. That's what I'd like to see.
To right mate..i sat through that computer net for 10 minutes wondering when the reveiwer would start talking!!
Bring back Dominic Diamond's Gamesmaster.
A proper budgeted Game review show with Brooker or Ian Lee or Dara O'brain would be awesome.
Disagree to an extent, there's very little more boring than watching other people play video games, but given there are now 30+ years of gaming to go back on there's more than enough mileage for a quality gaming show with reviews, previews, retrospective features, and maybe a weekly mini challenge or something..
Same applies to game ads on telly. "Not actual game footage", they say in tiny hidden writing at the bottom of the screen. Which, to anyone other than a non-gaming parent, screams THE GAME IS TOO SHIT FOR US TO ACTUALLY SHOW IT ON THIS ADVERT.
Cybernet?
Ahh I can rest now thanks for that.
I don't know if its still going but its a shame MTV never brought Game One to the UK market.
It's still going, but it seems to be more anime than games, certainly in primetime: http://www.gameone.net/programmes/grilles/gameone/
Cybernet continued to be produced until 2010 but was not shown in the UK during its final few years.
I'm already looking forward to next weeks episode as they are going to show some Aliens
Sunday at 10am
The gaming show I thought had the most potential over the last 10years or so was the thing Friendly TV ran in the afternoons, with work that could have become a really good show as the concept of the show was pretty good.
As much as I enjoyed Gamemaster at the time that sort of format would be extremely dated now and would need a major overhaul to be relevant in todays gaming world which would lead to people complaining it wasn't as good as before. You certainly couldn't have the tips and cheats section any more what with the internet already have all the answers and more.