Summary
Susan Calman, David James, Marcus Brigstocke, Gina Yashere, Bob Mortimer, Holly Walsh, Rachel Riley, Russell Howard, Dave Gorman, Josie Long, Jason Manford and Ed Byrne dual on various video games.
Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
- Season 1
- 6 episodes
Episode 1: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
Summary
Dara O Briain hosts a gloriously geeky game show in which celebrities duel on video games. There are lots of laughs as David James and Susan Calman play Chuckie Egg and Tetris.
Review
Dara O Briain hosts this riotous video-game panel show, which sees two celebs (Susan Calman and David James this week) battling it out in a series of digital death matches with classic games like Tetris and Tekken alongside more modern challenges.
It’s a fun and appealingly tense hour of telly, but frankly it’s hard to know who this show is for – gamers will doubtless find it patronising (and inferior to actually playing the games themselves) while non-gamers probably wouldn’t have tuned in in the first place. A few touches show glimmers of promise – the spinning set is endearingly awkward, and the final round is inspired – but overall, this could be an early Game Over.
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Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
Summary
Dara O Briain hosts a gloriously geeky game show in which celebrities duel on video games. There are lots of laughs as David James and Susan Calman play Chuckie Egg and Tetris.Review
Dara O Briain hosts this riotous video-game panel show, which sees two celebs (Susan Calman and David James this week) battling it out in a series of digital death matches with classic games like Tetris and Tekken alongside more modern challenges.
It’s a fun and appealingly tense hour of telly, but frankly it’s hard to know who this show is for – gamers will doubtless find it patronising (and inferior to actually playing the games themselves) while non-gamers probably wouldn’t have tuned in in the first place. A few touches show glimmers of promise – the spinning set is endearingly awkward, and the final round is inspired – but overall, this could be an early Game Over.
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