Thankfully I have found a couple of reliable sources for my 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown obsession. A lot of the last series I could not find but I am able to watch the new episodes. So far in this series they have had a number of replacement team captains, I’m not sure if they are going to pick a permanent one, how could anyone replace Sean Lock? Anyway, since Cats is just once I week I went down the rabbit hole looking for other across the pond entertainment.
I spent a few weeks going backwards in time with David and Lee and Rob in Would I Lie to You. It was an enjoyable journey but with so many episodes in a row the Lee Mack shtick, while funny, grows a bit tiresome and predictable. So last week I found Taskmaster, and I am a big Greg Davis (the taskmaster) fan. So with football (American style) on the telly last weekend I watched the last few series of that show. I didn’t know all of the guests as well as I have come to know the Cats guests but the couple of series I watched were fun. I didn’t want to go to far back historically with Taskmaster so I went in search of another show and this time found QI. I think I tried this one once before and it didn’t click but I am into it now, just have to get into the right mindset of learning and laughing at the same time. Also love that episodes are short and has new guests every time (as far as I can tell after only a few episodes). Now I need to figure out the scoring system.
So, that is where I am now, waiting for new episodes of my new favorites and going through old episodes of QI. Incidentally I don’t know who those two guys are in the bottom right quadrant of the pic, but they are probably candidates for upcoming viewing. Always open to suggestions.