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Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - Renewed for a 2nd & 3rd Season with 10 episodes each
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 10:04 am
by Errkal
Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:Christmas Crackerrkal wrote: I swear people just watch stuff to then go bitch about it.
Did you come in here just to bitch at people for bitching?
Did you come to bitch about people bitching?
I didn't no, just bugs me when people miss the point or purpose of a show and then grumble ass about it not being something it never was meant to be,
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - Renewed for a 2nd & 3rd Season with 10 episodes each
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 10:08 am
by Moggy
Christmas Crackerrkal wrote:Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:Christmas Crackerrkal wrote: I swear people just watch stuff to then go bitch about it.
Did you come in here just to bitch at people for bitching?
Did you come to bitch about people bitching?
I didn't no, just bugs me when people miss the point or purpose of a show and then grumble ass about it not being something it never was meant to be,
I actually agree with you. I just wanted to write bitch and bitching a few times. Bitch.
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - Renewed for a 2nd & 3rd Season with 10 episodes each
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 10:09 am
by Errkal
Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:Christmas Crackerrkal wrote:Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:Christmas Crackerrkal wrote: I swear people just watch stuff to then go bitch about it.
Did you come in here just to bitch at people for bitching?
Did you come to bitch about people bitching?
I didn't no, just bugs me when people miss the point or purpose of a show and then grumble ass about it not being something it never was meant to be,
I actually agree with you. I just wanted to write bitch and bitching a few times. Bitch.
Haha fair does, bitch away
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - Renewed for a 2nd & 3rd Season with 10 episodes each
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 11:35 pm
by DML
To put things into perspective, Go 8 Bit was just voted best new gameshow of the year by gameshow fans beating Tenable, The Code, Robot Wars and The Crystal Maze to the title.
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - Renewed for a 2nd & 3rd Season with 10 episodes each
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 11:36 pm
by Pedz
Robot Wars and Crystal Maze aren't new shows though.
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - Renewed for a 2nd & 3rd Season with 10 episodes each
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 12:20 am
by DML
Pedz wrote:Robot Wars and Crystal Maze aren't new shows though.
They count reboots as new shows, so its actually a more impressive feat that its beaten out much more established shows.
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - Renewed for a 2nd & 3rd Season with 10 episodes each
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 12:28 am
by rinks
But then there's this.
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - Renewed for a 2nd & 3rd Season with 10 episodes each
Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2017 8:40 pm
by Monkey Man
Comedy video game show Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit, which premiered on Dave last year, starts its second season on Monday, 15th May, but there's more: immediately following each new episode will be a brand new games review show called Go 8 Bit DLC.
Go 8 Bit DLC is hosted by ex-Eurogamer superstar and now very much proper mainstream superstar Ellie Gibson, with team captains Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon. According to Dave, it'll feature "lively debates and reviews covering the history of video games". Guest stars include comedians Susan Calman, Jamali Maddix, writer Rhianna Pratchett, musician Scroobius Pip and Harry Potter's Weasley twins, James and Oliver Phelps, while each week Dara O Briain will also pop in to discuss one of his favourite games of all time.
Ellie Gibson is actually quoted in a press release, which I am reporting on. This feels weird.
"I am very excited to be hosting Go 8 Bit DLC," a very excited Gibson said. "I'm hoping it will offer an extended and enhanced user experience, so it's just like regular DLC, except we're not asking anyone to pay £7.99 for some new hats."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017- ... lly-coming
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - 2nd Season returns 15th May with review show afterwards
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 8:14 am
by Tragic Magic
God no, I can already imagine how awful these "debates" are going to be.
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - 2nd Season returns 15th May with review show afterwards
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 8:56 am
by Victor Mildew
Ellie Gibson
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - 2nd Season returns 15th May with review show afterwards
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 9:00 am
by rinks
Gibson was the worst thing about the show. She's like a Poundland Lauren Laverne.
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - 2nd Season returns 15th May with review show afterwards
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 9:07 am
by Victor Mildew
She used to boil my piss every time she was on video game nation. Completely unfunny quips about how LOL GEEK gaming is.
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - 2nd Season returns 15th May with review show afterwards
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 12:35 pm
by Lotus
Yeah Ellie Gibson was pretty annoying, not at all funny and didn't really need to be there. Some kind of discussion about games could be interesting, but given that line-up and the general style of the show, I wouldn't hold out much hope.
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - 2nd Season returns 15th May with review show afterwards
Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 8:32 pm
by SerialCeler
A reminder: This starts next Monday.
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - 2nd Season returns 15th May with review show afterwards
Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 8:39 pm
by rinks
At least the first guests are decent: Richard Osman and Sara Pascoe.
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - 2nd Season returns on Monday at 10pm with a review show afterwards
Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 5:11 pm
by hamm sandwich
Bit of a harsh appraisal of Ellie Gibson. I thought she was fine. The whole format needed a bit of tweaking so hopefully should be a bit better this time round. Most of her work is print based isn't it? And I imagine that a lot of what she says isn't written by her.
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - Mondays at 10pm with a review show afterwards
Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 9:27 pm
by rinks
Sounds like we're all bowled over about last night's episodes.
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - Mondays at 10pm with a review show afterwards
Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 10:38 am
by Samuel_1
rinks wrote:Sounds like we're all bowled over about last night's episodes.
I don't mind it, it's quite entertaining. They make less of a big deal about the revolving stage and have Incorporated the voting into the time it takes; I'm sure they were separate before. The DLC show obviously had a tiny production budget, it's a little bit awkward in the execution at the moment, but I'm sure it will improve over time.
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - Mondays at 10pm with a review show afterwards
Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 1:16 pm
by rinks
I was just amused that nobody had commented since it was broadcast.
Re: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit - Mondays at 10pm with a review show afterwards
Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 11:50 pm
by Lotus
I actually watched the first episode, along with the DLC bit, but didn't really feel like it was worth commenting on as it seemed exactly the same to me; annoying guests, toilet humour, and a general bottom-of-the-barrel feel. The DLC sounded like a decent premise, but again was poor. With some tweaks it could be okay, but still feels like a missed opportunity.